Letting go of more than stuff.
Done Enough
Small, Fresh Restarts
Scared and unprepared. With no regrets.
Never Say Never
Embrace specificity to regain your own agency.
Feel the Learn 2021
I haven't gotten ahead at all in planning or prepping anything for Learnuary, so let me just share a few videos that have struck a chord with me lately, concerning learning to draw and improving at it. Sycra has a whole series of videos called "What I Wish I Knew About" which is wonderful because... Continue Reading →
Living
The summer of 2020 was supposed to have allowed us more time to create and work on things. But like so many, I felt like I was mostly walking around in a fugue. Our household activities contracted into a bubble of a few contacts, but remained fairly active and in need of our parental involvement.... Continue Reading →
Writing Advice: I’d like to Introduce You to Fred (Learnuary 2020)
I want to share one little epiphany from this manual called Creating Short Fiction by Damon Knight. It's about you and Fred.
Writing Advice: How to Cultivate Wise Readers (Learnuary 2020)
Learnuary 2020: How to Cultivate a Wise Reader (advice I gleaned from Orson Scott Card's book)
Learnuary is Here
I've tried NaNoWriMo and I've tried Inktober. I've even tried a fun one called Story-a-day-in-May (which I might give another chance, actually). And even after a few attempts over the years, I've never gotten much out of them. I sort of look over the lovely things others make and remind myself that the trend of... Continue Reading →
Etherington Brothers Cool resource for artists!
The Etherington Brothers put out some wonderful FREE resources! They're really fun to look at and they're very compact and too the point, aiming to show you visually what they are thinking while they construct or represent things. The link below goes to a page of two hundred easy tutorial pages. Make sure when you... Continue Reading →
photosynthetic
A sketch for a little artist's challenge:
DagBeleGardian Painted Logo
completed 4-10-19 I don't have recent experience with vector art, or any interest in developing vector program skills at this time, but I'm up for painted logos! I will paint them at a high res so they can be reduced for different applications. Logo painting is charged by the hour ($15 per as of this... Continue Reading →
Nikki Dreamer Illustration 