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Welcome to my first newsletter! I've been wanting to do this for a while now and figured I'd just go ahead and try this out and see how it goes.

I’m not gonna lie, this month had some hurdles in it. But it also taught me that I need to make sure I have adequate rest. I ended up getting a bad cold halfway through the month, and it broke my streak of creating art every day, which I was very bummed about since I’d been keeping up every day since February. However, some things require more importance.

I realize that I need to prioritize my health above everything, so I took a few days to recoup, and I got back to it. In the past, I would beat myself up for missing my streak due to illness and just quit altogether, but now it felt like I just waited out a bad storm and continued forward.

Things were going very well for a while, so it was only a matter of time before things got shook up. But that’s just life, isn’t it? A constant wave that ebbs and flows. We need to learn to ride the waves instead of fighting them. At least, that’s what I learned this month.

This month, I wanted to create one of my favorite villains from the series Arcane. The adopted father of Jinx. I love how Arcane took a dark and disturbed antagonist and breathed in a form of empathy into the character when he adopted Jinx. It’s such a moving story for his character development.

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I will say that I don’t feel like this is my strongest piece, but I’m still happy with it. I tried a new painting technique. with more solid shading kind of like the style in the series. I do admit I have so much to learn still, but it was still a fun challenge. I’ll probably use this technique with more of my background studies in the future.

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Whispers in the Mind

I titled this piece “Whispers in the Mind.” I didn’t really know exactly what I wanted from it, other than to evoke a feeling and practice with a light study. I face a lot of anxiety in my life, constantly feeling like I don’t do enough or that I’m somehow behind. I tend to overthink, which can spiral into self-doubt.

I wanted to create the strands of hair emerging from the dark figure to represent that self-doubt trying to pull us back, while the light symbolizes the momentum pushing us forward.

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