Hi all, how is everyone? I didn’t post anything for a couple of days because I had a stressful weekend that involved a trip to the ER, again. A couple of times this month, in fact, once when my daughter was sick with flu and now because my husband was unwell.

I am very tired of all kinds of sickness and this year has been the worse. I do not wish to talk about it, though. It has been a very discouraging month, and year, to be honest, I do hope God shows me some mercy and give us some rest from the awful challenges we have been going through.

I am trying not to complain. Been trying to tell myself there are others in worse situations out there but it has been hard.

Anyway, in good times or bad times, the one thing that has been constant is art. I have never stopped ‘arting’ even when I am pretty much deep within the pit. It’s truly an outlet to calm myself, perhaps the only thing that does not judge me, my situations, or the choices I made, well, apart from God.

So, here are some simple pattern doodles I did throughout the weekend. Nothing outstanding but enough to help me breathed and be “at the moment” when it was so difficult not to focus on the dreadful things.

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Hi all, no new art from me today. I have been working on my online shops a lot more these days and I apologize if it seems that’s all I posted about now. If you are someone who is making a living online as a marketer you would probably understand that now is the right time to get your online stores ready for the holiday shopping rush. So yeah, that is exactly what I have been doing these days. End of the year is usually the time I make sales the most.

Today, I uploaded a couple of new designs to my shop. The cat doodle and the ballerina doodle. I completed these art pieces sometime in September but have not done anything about it yet, until today. Both of the designs are available in my Redbubble and Creative United online stores.

Cat Doodle

Ballerina Doodle

Hi all, the weekend is almost over in my part of the world and it’s half an hour before midnight. How is your weekend so far? I hope you have a great day. Weekends are the busiest times in the week for me, unlike weekdays where the daily routine is predictable. Yesterday I talked a bit about celebrating my daughter’s birthday. It was a fun but an exhausting day for our family and today is no exception. Like many people, we do our grocery shopping on weekends. After church in the morning, we went to the hypermarket to shop for our essentials. As you can see, we hardly have time to rest. Resting on weekends is a myth LOL.

Anyway, despite my busy day, I managed to squeeze some time to complete this doodle. It is my third day drawing for Inktober2018. I started to draw this a couple of days ago but only managed to complete it today.

Here are the progress photos:

And of course, I used it in my Redbubble shop. It turned out pretty 🙂

It will be available on my CreativeUnited shop sometime soon. Hopefully tomorrow =)

Here’s my Inktober 2018 Day 2 entry. I know I am several days behind but I am going to do this challenge on my own pace. I am not using the official prompts but I just enjoy doing my own stuff. A well-known local illustrator advised me to make full use of this drawing challenge. She said instead of just doodling aimlessly, set a goal. Say what do I want to achieve by the end of this month? Say if my goal is to fill up my online store with more products, I need to have more designs. What kind of design? Well, I have set to design patterns. So, make a goal to draw or paint one design a day, and do it the best way I can. If it’s good, use it in my shop. If not, that’s okay. It’s a learning process. By the end of the month, I hope to have at least 25 new artworks to upload to my shop. What she said makes perfect sense!

So here are the progress photos for today’s entry. A simple floral/spiral doodle.

I love the bold lines. They add contrast and dimension to the drawing.

Also, I decided to resurrect my Creative United shop after a friend commented she hopes to buy some of my stuff locally because they are cheaper than overseas POD companies. Initially, I hesitated because uploading designs to CU involve a lot of work (different products require different image sizes and dimensions). However, I give it a go for the benefits of my local fans. So here are some samples of the products with this drawing on them 🙂

Hi all,

For the past couple of days, I have been seeing Steemians posting their Inktober 2018 drawings. And today I want to share with you my first Inktober 2018 doodle. You can find more details about Inktober on this website: Inktober. I tried to participate in this challenge several times but I couldn’t keep up and wasn’t consistent. I hope I can be more productive this year.

So for this first drawing, I didn’t stick to the official prompt but decided to do my own thing. I mentioned in my previous post that I wanted to try my hand on pattern designing. Therefore throughout the month, I will draw mostly pattern stuff. However, I can’t promise if I will use ink as my main medium though 🙂

Here are the progress photos:

And here are the products with this doodle on them.