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Part of my Creative Journey

Kawaii Stegosaurus on a Skateboard

Kawaii Stegosaurus on a Skateboard

What happens when a 4year old gets to ask for a t-shirt design? Actually she requested two designs…. The first request was a stegosaurus riding a skateboard and the second is a shark riding a skateboard. The next requirement was that there would be no pink in the design. I am trying to improve my vector illustration work and am quite happy with how skatosaurus turned out. He was drawn in Adobe illustrator and I used for the very first time my new XP-pen 13.3 Pro display tablet. I will write a separate review of this tablet soon, but so far I am very happy with it. I ordered here one in blue and will update with shots of Astrid wearing it when it arrives next week. Surprisingly enough, she preferred the blue t-shirt to the black one :). Here are some more images of the illustration of the cute dinosaur on a skateboard on some other products. These are available at my redbubble store. Share some Qski love

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Kawaii Printable Pokemon Colouring Page

Free Pokemon Colouring Page - Coloured in Pencil

Pokemon Doodle Drawing I’ve been drawing a lot of pokemon lately, for the longest time I was totally obsessed with the Niantic Pokemon Go game on my phone. I played so much that the last 2 android handsets that I have owned have screen burn with the pokemon ball at the bottom of the screen from having the game open so much. For christmas 2019 my team bought me a Gotcha Evolve which upped my obsession quite a bit and I was up to level 38 in the game (at the time the maximum level was 40, but I think it has changed now). Then around September 2020 I lost the Gotcha and stopped playing for quite a while. I keep getting we miss you trainer messages from Niantic and just recently clicked on it and caught some new cuties that were not in my pokedex. Then I started doing my usual kawaii doodle illustrations and decided to do one with grass type pokemon. I’ve been reading lots of bad dad puns lately so I decided to add “we’re unbealeafable” to the top of the kawaii illustration. I sketched using one of my uni kuru toga pencils (I have two one with HB graphite and one with H7 graphite). I inked using my uni pin fineliner 0.2 and a copic multiliner 0.5 for the thicker lines. My Kawaii pokemon colouring page features: I’m linking to the pokedex entry for each of the cute pokemon featured in the image below, so…

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Kawaii Q Doodle

Kawaii Monogrammed Q Doodle Coloured with Colour Pencils

In a recent post, I described my creative journey and showed some kawaii doodles that I did around 2015 What have I been doing lately? I wanted to do another one with the doodles as an illuminated letter. Naturally, I chose to use a Q. If you didn’t know my name is Quanita, everyone just calls me Q. It’s not as unusual as even I thought; one place I worked at they had to call me Q2 because there was already a Q that worked there; and this also happened in a social circle I joined a while back because they also already had a Q. With me this started because nobody would say my name correctly, eventually someone called me Q and it stuck. Here is the pencil sketch, with some of the inking commenced and the completed inked doodle. I use uni pin fine liners (usually 0.2) and ironlak fine liners for inking and my favourite pencil (I have 1 using HB and one using 4H graphite) is the Uni Kuru Toga I thought it would be fun if I used 3 different methods to colour in the Kawaii doodle monogram. Doodle Coloured Digitally I used Adobe Photoshop CS6 to do the colouring for the version below. Doodle Coloured in Coloured Pencils The materials I used for colouring this version are listed below. I love the Qili coloured pencils, I bought them from someone who orders Chinese products online and sells them locally here on Facebook marketplace, I…

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Journey to Kawaii

Lots of Cats Kawaii Doodle

Childhood Academic prowess was highly valued in my family. Showing an interest in anything that didn’t end in achieving a good grade in the ‘pure science’ stream in our education system was actively discouraged. Even though I was always trying to be creative I was never allowed to even entertain that side of me let alone indulge it. I’m amused by this now because there is so much research around how intellectual growth needs to be balanced and that children who learn both science and arts experience more growth than those, (like me), who did not. Later on A lot of that is very painful and it’s difficult not to be resentful about it. It was also difficult to, as an adult, give myself permission to feed my creative side. Sub-consciously I was prohibiting it just as much as it was prohibited when I was growing up. As a consequence, I had waves of dabbling in creative pursuits here and there. Other emotional hang-ups also stopped me from making this a high priority in my life. Over the years I ‘played’ with art, drawing, quilting, miniatures, painting, digital scrapbooking and lots of similar hobbies. Circa 2015 Around 2015 I started drawing again. It was then I started to really be drawn to kawaii and cute illustrations as well as doodling of all kinds. I play around a lot with zentangle and probably did every kawaii and chibi tutorial available on Youtube.I also wanted to be able to colour my illustrations…

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