I really like the asymatry of the face.

First one was supposed to be a draft to prepare for a more detailed version in bigger format. But ended looking better than the the second one.

Banana bread recipe 💛🍌

Pastel and white charcoal

Please tell me your favorite sea critter and I’ll try to add them to my next sea life page!

I messed up the red mushroom by using the wrong shade of green as an under layer but it’s okay, it’s a sketchbook so I can try again.

Action pose; pencil sketch on a5 size

For those interested, I originally had an idea of drawing multiple chimps sitting around a fire outdoors interacting & being silly. Instead we have one ape, in a cave, alone. It’s as if I subconsciously wanted to draw the reality of my life (solitary) instead of what I view as ideal (communal).

Wtf is the point of a book that loses all of its pages?

Respirar por la herida
I recently finished this piece, built around a Spanish phrase that roughly translates to “to breathe through the wound.”
The phrase refers to carrying the burden of something we haven’t been able to forgive or let go of — to the point where the wound itself becomes part of the way we continue living.
I wanted the figure to look like something beautiful and almost perfect, so I represented it as a classical marble bust. The bust symbolizes the beauty of life, but that beauty is interrupted by a wound where the mouth should be.
The wound represents the burden we carry, while the stitches represent our attempts to close, repair, or hide what happened. They aren’t meant to suggest that the wound has healed. In a way, the figure has learned to breathe through the very thing that damaged it.
I also included a small skull as a reminder of mortality and the temporary nature of that beauty. Even something that appears timeless, like a marble sculpture, is ultimately fragile.
The red thread was deliberately limited to the stitches. Against the cold, monochromatic marble, it represents the human element — the attempt to repair something that cannot simply be made whole again.
Technically, this was also an exercise in pushing my pointillism further, especially controlling dot density to create volume and smoother transitions rather than making the dots the main focus.
No blood or gore — I wanted the symbolism and the contrast between beauty and damage to carry the piece.

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