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sketchdump & life recently ๐ถ๐ปโโ๏ธ๐
🕑 Added 2025-07-27 00:47:37 +0000 UTChello!
these are some recent sketches and explorations from my sketchbook. I've been using pen a lot lately to draw, it helps me practice line confidence and keeps me thinking forward. drew a line I didn't mean to? that's okay, it's already on the page so let's find a way to make it work instead of agonizing over a misplaced mark. I've found that it encourages me to think on my toes and engage more with creative problem solving. maybe it didn't go as planned, but what is a plan besides one idea out of many?
life has mirrored this process as well, art imitating life and vice versa. you may remember I injured my back in May. immense pain and limited mobility ensued. I was recovering, then reinjured it in June. turns out it was a slipped disc causing a pinched nerve. I've been in physical therapy for a month now and have improved a lot. even as I regain ability and strength, my relationship with time and energy has been fundamentally altered. recovery left me with a lot of time to sit and think, to reevaluate and clarify my priorities. with limited energy, I became choosy about what I'd engage with. only activities that were absolutely necessary passed through the filter. things I saw a million times before took on a new shape and dimension. nothing about my surroundings had changed, but I was learning to see from a new vantage. beauty emerged everywhere I looked, I could hardly believe it.
this change in perspective has also affected the art I make. I used to throw my energy around, trying to do everything at once, busyness with no focus. I begged for an answer to my indecision, not knowing it would come to me through such a physical channel. I'll go on another walk after this, move my body and remember that life is a perpetual state of change, even when I can't see it.
hope you have a nice weekend,
vicki
Comments
Vicki Tsai
omg thatโs so interesting! yeah, reminds me of bob rossโs happy accidents as well, like there really is no set or โrightโ way to do things, weโre all just kinda living life in our own way. i think in being careful we can forget that creativity comes out of the need for adaptation. if everything was the same all the time nothing would ever evolve or change! xD
wren
I love hearing you talk about drawing in pen cause as an audience i cant see any mistakes! To me all the drawings seem so well done but as the creator you see all odd lines you needed to work around, reminds of film bts where directors talk about how stuff breaking on set lead to changing scenes entirely, feel like adapting on the fly is key to success in all art, and if done well no one viewing will ever know! Happy to hear youre on the road to recovery too! Love these posts ๐
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happy to hear ur in therapy, wishing u a swift recovery ๐ฉท๐ฉท๐ฉท
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your life updates feel like im being sent a letter in the mail by an animal crossing villager
