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Here's a cat drawing to (hopefully) improve your evening. No matter what else happens, we all need more cute cat pics, right?
If you're interested in process, art supplies used, etc., you can see the post that goes with this sketch here:

https://www.patreon.com/posts/feline-sketch-78157448

In other news, the poetry comics chapbook is getting so close to done! I think I turned a corner with it this past week. But sometimes I just gotta draw cats, you know? There are no better teachers for how to pause, relax, and calm the hell down - and I am deeply grateful for my cats' unending patience with me. And I'm SUPER grateful for the humans who are patient with me, too - I should be sure to say that! I get wrapped around the axle a lot, but I am, nonetheless, an incredibly lucky person with much and many to be grateful for.

Hyena. I was Playing Flesh by The Creatures but you’ll have to imagine that cos my phone can’t vid and bluetooth at the same time. A lot of my back as well cos my camera work is shit.
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I had 3 minutes to draw a comic in a workshop yesterday, and this is what came out.
It wasn't what was supposed to come out - the exercise was supposed to be fiction. But I hadn't expected that. And suddenly I wasn't just caught off guard - I was triggered and in full-on panic.
I'm proud of myself for not fleeing the class, proud of myself for staying present & using the exercise to instead ask myself *why*.
The "why" matters. I know I'm not the only one with this awful screeching voice in my head sometimes. Kids are sponges. They soak up every single lesson you teach them - including the ones you don't intend. And those lessons, both good and bad, stick with us. Kinda like the Bumblebee Tuna jingle that was popular when I was a kid, and the commercial for Monchhichis. I still know every word! I'll spare you the earworms, but I'd love it if you'd read what I wrote about the messages we get as kids, and the ways they affect us still as adults. I hope you'll find the hope in it, too, that we can all do better by each other & the generations to come.
Here's the link:
https://www.patreon.com/posts/3-minute-memory-68070626
Also? I'm sending virtual hugs to anyone who needs one. ❤️
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Another speed sketch portrait from a music video. This time from Ibeyi's River.

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Had a handful of southern gothic(??) music videos playing and sketched some of the performers to try and warm up and get my art mojo back. Here's Shakey Graves, the singer from Hurray for the Riff Raff, and a couple of the fine folks of the Dead South.

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