life's so hard for everyone right now, it breaks my heart, truly.
There is peace to be found everyday, even if we have to fight and claw our way to it.

a life without art and creation feels hopeless this past year, so please, at long last, look forward to new posts from me soon 🙏🩷

I'm surprised I even have the mental capacity to write this out rn, but in an online sphere of only posting the success, I wanted to share my struggles so maybe others like me know they're not alone in feeling like every day is exhausting. Our dreams still matter, even if the timeline has changed

reclaim the carefree whimsy I had as a child! Is such a thing possible yet?

getting to the bottom of my many mysterious health issues as previously mentioned, finally going to therapy, and giving my routines an overhaul is bound to give me a breakthrough, right?

learning to be a functioning artist without deadlines or a strict professor, and a foggy head weighed down by anxiety, depression, and executive dysfunction is about as difficult as I had imagined, but I don't intend to stay stuck here much longer.
I must relearn how to create with joy!!!

hmmmm perhaps I should make something new this year 👀🧡

Cyrus, Louka, and a mysterious shadowy monster star in this past scene assignment, reworked from an even older unfinished concept!
I hope you enjoy the closeups, color WIPs and initial concept sketches as well.

here are some color hue variations, and initial sketch studies (also referenced from the same cosplayer! please go check out their page 💞 www.instagram.com/jackie_kyle)

nevermind, figured it out