Sketching & Illustration

Hi there! I’m Meg and I wanted to introduce myself as your Creative Moderator for this group! I am excited to be here! (=^･ω･^=)

Some of you might recognize me from my time at Artsnacks, doing art livestreams and hosting the ink challenge for 2023, or maybe you know me from social media (toxic.moxie) or maybe we are meeting for the first time here. Either way, hello! I am happy to meet you and be here to support your creativity!

I like to create art in a lot of different ways: digital illustrations in Procreate, doodles and illustrations using pen, ink wash, and sometimes watercolor or acrylic paint markers, and I also make paintings on wood cut outs that I cut and sand myself. If I am being honest, I just create in whatever way feels inspirational at the time, and I am always open to trying new supplies and…

I have been participating in Christophe Swijsen's Drawing Earthsworld Challenge on FB. I try not to think about the fact that I am drawing faces because then I get all tight! I just have one of my littler sketchbooks and grab a drawing utensil. If I am too tight, I use a kid crayon. Lol. This one is with my favorite pink pen.

I just recently finished my current sketchbook after two years in the same one, and I definitely in the category of staring at all the blank pages and feeling pressure not to mess them up, haha. But normally I start by decorating the front and back covers with stickers, and sometimes some doodles with paint pens!

Hello everyone! Cheers to a new week from your friendly neighborhood creative moderator, haha. What are you up to creatively this week? I would love to see your works in progress or completed pieces!

Here’s a piece I did not too long ago (using Procreate) of my cat character (who’s basically me) and now she feels about working, haha. She just wants to draw, not answer work emails. :P