Gouache Paint With Me🍓Strawberries in October & thoughts on inktober

Your strawberry illustration turned out so pretty! 🍓✨

It is really frustrating when you can't participate in such a popular challenge due to life commitments. But I found the best way to feel better about it is to fully embrace my comfort paintings, no overthinking and no reference searching. Just paint whatever I'm used to and enjoy the process. Also when I started inking with a brush my hand was very shaky and I would smudge the ink all the time, so I started using my left hand as a rest for my right hand when I'm inking and it helped tremendously in stopping the shaking gradually. I adore how you painted the strawberries🥰

I have that bad habit of not starting on the left, too. Thabks for the reminder!

Your painting turned out beautiful! Thank you for sharing your thoughts and struggles, especially on the 30 day challenges. It's really difficult nowadays and has become very stressful instead of enjoyable to partake in these challenges. There is not a lot of space for imperfection and struggle. I hope one day we can finish one as well when we feel ready for it. Before then I personally don't want to risk the disappointment and will stick with other challenges. Have you thought about joining one that only has one prompt a week? I saw some of them that were intriguing and it could be a good test run :D Best wishes, Francis

I agree with your full time work and art statement - I too always want to participate in "all the challenges" but it's so difficult to fit everything in and complete things on time (inktober!) - especially having that mentality we all seem to share with "perfect work." I'm trying to care less about deadlines and just post things when I can, I find I'm struggling more now with instagram and it's terrible algorithm. Loved your video and art <3

hi! what paper do you use specifically on this video? I saw 4 different links in your info box, but they are all different. Which one is this?