Just a simple doodle for today. Girl with the red umbrella. I am working on a couple of simple doodle/paintings but I am just posting this one and will post the other one tomorrow. Here’s a beautiful poem by Stacey Renshaw that inspires this drawing 🙂

Here are the progress photos:

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Inktober is coming. First time reading that term? Well, what is Inktober?

Inktober is a month long art challenge created by artist Jake Parker that is focused on improving skill and developing positive drawing habits. Every day for the month of October anyone participating in the Inktober challenge creates an ink drawing and posts it online. ~ FAQ Inktober.com

Someone mentioned to me that I am way ahead of others in posting my doodle drawings! It’s not October yet, but I have posted several of my black and white doodles for the past couple of weeks. To be honest, I didn’t do these drawings for Inktober 2019 challenge. I never participated before. Inktober or not I will continue to draw my doodles and post them here 🙂

Today’s piece is a doodle tree. Looks more like an alien tree though LOL.

The idea for this piece came from a book I am currently reading – The Root of Rejection by Joyce Meyer. One of the interesting facts I learned from this book came from a leading Christian physician and counselor, Paul Tournier. Tournier made a surprising observation that a large number of prominent world leaders had one thing in common: they were orphans. And many of these leaders suffered from some form of abuse – emotional, sexual, or physical abuse. This is what Tournier wrote in regards to his observation:

“This is confirmed in numerous studies of high performers. As many as three-fourths of those who become celebrated achievers are estimated to have suffered serious emotional deprivation or hardship in childhood. Because they feel so worthless inside, they will work themselves practically to death trying to have some value. And as a result of that, many of them become successful.”

REJECTION. These people felt rejected. And that sense of rejection is so deeply rooted in them and becomes the fuel that fires their drive and determination to succeed, to prove to the world and themselves that they worth something…

Rejection starts as a single seed that is planted in our lives through different experiences. The seed grows into a tree with roots that are deep. If we are rooted in rejection, what kind of fruits will we bear? Depression, insecurity, a sense of inferiority, self-pity, judgmentalism, negativity and so on.

So hence the doodle of the tree. It makes me question myself what kind of “fruits” do I bear since in humility I do admit I have a root of rejection that grows deep within my soul.

Here are the progress photos:

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I had a bit of lousy day today. I had a migraine. It doesn’t happen frequently these days unlike before I fell sick and had to go through a surgery earlier this year. However, when it happens, it can be very uncomfortable. I try not to complain because my migraine is nothing compares to what one of my dear friends is going through. She has a severe migraine/chronic pain that affects her ability to work as normal people do. Anyway, such is life. It is always unfair but we have to face whatever challenges we have with courage and strength.

I didn’t manage to be online much but when I did have a bit of time, I used it to upload more designs to my Redbubble store. I started to be more active there these days because I decided to close a couple of my local stores (yes, I have several online shops :). I felt like I am stretching myself too thin and I thought it’s better to focus on one store rather than trying to manage several shops. I even research for ways to make my designs better and I am considering to enroll in an online marketing course to better promote myself as an artist.

Here is one of the designs I uploaded to my shop today. I made this doodle several months ago for a doodle tutorial post.

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I made this doodle about 6 months ago after losing a couple of relatives to intense illnesses. They died within a week from one another. Their loss shook me to the core simply because I was (and still is) dealing with the trauma of my own illness. I was suffering from mild anxiety right after receiving the news of their passing.

Life is very fragile and nothing is certain or guaranteed in this world.

To cope with my pain and anxiety, I turned to art. Art is the only thing that could calm my nerves other than spending time with God in prayers and reading the Bible. This doodle was one of the artwork I was producing at that time. I wrote about it here in this post, Grieving And Doodling To Cope. I even offered this doodle as a free downloadable coloring page. If you are keen, you can download it from this link: free coloring page (personal use). 

So today I was going through my files and I found the original copy of the doodle and I decided to upload it to my Redbubble store. In fact, I found quite a number of past work that I could use in my store. For the past couple of years I have been working almost daily on new art, I have quite a nice collection =).

I really love this new addition to my store and here are some of the products:

Prints

Phone/table cases

Stickers

Sling backpack

Greeting cards

These are just 6 out of 50 of this particular design. Check out my Redbubble store to find out more 🙂

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Another “quick” doodle from me today. It’s a silhouette of a cat! Have I ever told you that I love cats? I am a cat person but I down own one. I prefer not to keep pets, at least not for now. One reason is my son has asthma and cat’s fur may trigger it. Another reason is I can’t afford to provide the best care for it – food, vaccinations etc. In my opinion, it is **better** not have a pet if I can’t provide all the basic needs it deserves. I have seen people who **”hoard”** pets and don’t provide the best care to them and the pets are suffering from sickness and malnourishment. Most never bother to spay them and they breed and breed and end up as strays. That’s not LOVE. That’s cruelty and selfishness!

Back to the doodle, here are the progress photos:

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Today I am taking a break from doodle painting and I decided to make something simpler (if you can call it that LOL). A small, A5 size, doodle art with a silhouette of a ballerina. My inspiration comes from a Pinterest pin, here.

The doodle, though it looks intricate, it wasn’t hard to draw. It just consists of a flower pattern that was repeated several times. It took me a couple of hours to complete this from start to finish.

The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit of being human and palpable. Dancing is poetry with arms and legs. ~ Charles Baudelaire

Here are the progress photos:

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I have not updated my Redbubble store for several months due to some technical issues related to my images. For some unknown causes, my images were not accepted by the site. I didn’t pay much attention to it because I thought it was due to a glitch on the site. However, after trying again several times I decided to send a bug ticket to inquire. Apparently, it was caused by the EXIF data of my images. I was using GIMP to clean my scanned drawings and the software attached some data to my images that weren’t recognized by Redbubble. The tech assistant taught me to strip those data and voila! the problem is solved. And today, I managed to upload four new designs to my store.

I drew these doodles several months ago and they were meant for my Steemit stickers! However, since I owned the designs I can reuse them for whatever I like =). What do you think of these doodles? I really love intricate doodles like these but the problem is creating them make my fingers suffer 🙁

Head out to my Redbubble store to check out these products. I have many more designs already at the store and I will continue to upload new designs every week 🙂

 

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Thank you!