lydia | thoughtful wanders studio | experimental art & play

i feel an urge to get more into abstract shapes of plants nowadays 🌱

create everyday 69/365 (lol not continuously everyday but trying my best!)

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back to drawing and it feels so good! i had a lot of fun just making this up as i went today. had so much life stuff going on i took a break from drawing my own things that somehow that gave it a lot of room to breathe and i am coming back feeling more inspired :)

played with the new procreate brushes, creating random shapes and tada!

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i decided not to continue with peachtober because i feel my gut wanting to draw/work on other things that i am itching to do! todays piece was relatively fast but somehow this girl stepping into water came to mind

drawn in procreate

there is something grounding about drawing, but especially grounding when i get to doodle and draw whatever comes to mind or i feel like in the moment.

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sluggg

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peachtober 03 slug
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the thought of kite like the flying kite but also the bird kite and somehow this formed

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peachtober 02 kite
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yay, peachtober begins! doing this challenge last year is what got me back into art. i love the cozy vibes of the prompts and seeing the work of other illustrators

for acorn, designed a lil house and am curious… who lives here?

#peachtober #peachtober25 #peachtober25acorn

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a sketch and coloring sesh from imagination today ~ i love how taking a break from doing something then coming back to it can bring many new and unexpected changes

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taipei main station urban sketching

drawing also allowed me to pay attention to the emotions and expressions on stage and had me in awe seeing how much fun the musicians were having too 🎷

it was so much fun and so much play, the music was mesmerizing and the energy both on and off stage was so in flow. i had not really been a jazz listener before but todays show put it all in a whole new perspective for me.

then later while the tokyo blue notes orchestra group played (absolutely phenomenal btw), i did some gestural sketches and played with color along with the music.

a whole day spent urban/life sketching! the portion i am sharing today is from an evening spent at the taipei jazz festival. i had prepped some sketchbook pages ahead of time blue and yellow and it fit the flashing yellow blue lights perfectly

#urbansketching #livesketching #jazz

grateful for how close to nature taipei is, and a bus ride up, could hear all the birds, insects, and water sounds. i also saw some giant butterflies, ants, and a centipede.

spent today doing life drawing in the mountains, it was really cool! perhaps that art will be shown another time. afterwards, painted a little bit at a cafe before the sun set.

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but i think im starting to feel more comfortable playing with paints now. its late so i did something simple for the inside of my sketchbook and also did some prepping for more drawing this weekend ~

finally finally after thinking about it for ages i am starting to use my bigger sketchbook. i have been itching to paint for a long time but kept putting it off because i felt like my skills werent at a point yet where i was comfortable using up paints (theyre not cheap!)
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its gotten me thinking to draw more asian women in a way that appeals to me, maybe more magical, wacky and powerful than any i’ve seen depicted in art

i wonder how my women/femme/queer ancestors lived their lives, and how they would have liked to live their lives if they could have chosen.

mindless doodling led to this funky portrait. anyway, asian women are often on my mind. i am one. and the experience of being one pervades my mind. how often we are conflated and stereotyped and assumptions be made.

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timelapse!

first doodled in the sketchbook with some posca markers and color pencils. after some abstract patterns and a page formed, i decided to keep building on it via the ipad. looking into the shapes for what was there but also making it up as i went, a face came to be.

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drawing a feeling. is it a person in a sleeping bag? or a worm with a humane face. either way, its a feeling of my scalp being pulled back, tight and snug. cozy and yet, somethings not quite right

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rest is always important! todays piece is mixed media done at a vietnamese cafe in taipei. not a lot of people but managed to see a lady eating pho and a man using his phone!

wow i unintentionally took like a week break. a lot of life happened but a break was good! i feel ready to draw regularly again and its amazing how a week of not drawing can actually inform the drawing process.

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a quick abstract piece today while taking a moment of calm to release and process all thats been going on externally and internally. i am loving the close up shots

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for my make art everyday project i just recolored the continuous motion page. its a challenging activity as i try to mark the moves down to paper but its fun to grab the essence of movement the best that i can

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it was really fun because i enjoyed the music selection, the poses, and coming up with the set up in the basement of daybreak. it’s a cozy circle with some nice warm lighting. looking forward to co-host on tuesday and do more drawing. just gotta make sure i understand how to control the timer!

today we did a trial run to practice some poses and ideas for improv life drawing night! we came up with words based on the alphabet and then our model did some poses while i drew on my ipad, not looking down at the page but focusing on the model.