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And don’t underestimate the importance of BODY LANGUAGE 💄🐙👑 #Inktober 10.23: #Ursula! . I was p excited to see @ladykbuzz include #UrsulaTheSeaWitch in her #witchesarewe #Inktober2018 prompt list... because, Ursula. . We stan. . . . . . (Image description: miniature drawing of a stylized version of Ursula from the Disney film The Little Mermaid. In the illustration she is singing and the golden shell necklace she wears is radiating yellow light around her face, creating a lozenge shaped image. The drawing is held by a Caucasian hand with blue nail polish & the desktop in the background is yellow with a selection of copic markers and washi tape and glass circles decorating it.) . . . . . . #inky#illo#copicmarkers#disneyvillain#thelittlemermaid#villain#mightypigeonart#mightypigeoninktober2018#singing#poorunfortunatesouls#witch#seawitch#drawtober#inktober2k18#witchtober#lifesfulloftoughchoicesinnit
hi frens! long day of pet portraits on tap today (I’ll be sharing peeks in my stories all day long if you want to see em!)... so here’s a color re-do of an older piece. I might need to order cards of this fren. . Hope everyone is having a warm & luminous day 💛 . . . . . . (Image description: illustration of a character in a field of yellow, pink and purple flowers. They’re holding a golden colored bird with a blissful look on its face. The character is based on the dolls I make— Folkies— which have wide faces and small round black eyes, an open expression and a large rounded nose. Around the character’s face are flower petals. It is wearing red-purple pajamas and a gold crown.) . . . . . . #mightypigeonart#illustration_best#artistsoninstagram#illo#illustrationdaily#illustration#illustrationgram#womenwhodraw#visiblewomen#crown#king#flowers#floral#kidlitart#childrensbook#childrensbookillustration#ilovecolor#ihavethisthingwithcolor#originalcharacter#characterdesign
🎵Here comes the sloth (doodoo-doodoo) Here comes the sloth, and I say Its all right🎵. . Doing some seeeeerious fake it til you make it with tonight’s #Inktober piece (prompt courtesy of @raqueltraveillustration) #sloth! . . Thankful for this little gal tonight because the yummy yellows are kicking some vitamin D into my eyeballs or something science-y like that. I would very much like to go be wherever she’s hanging out & soak up some of that bright, all encompassing, joyful warmth. . Anyone else deal with SAD? The weather/the greyness itself doesn’t bother me but this time of year, in general, is always so challenging for me. My body gets achier & my stress levels rise and my brain & bones just want to snuggle up and go full on hibernation mode. It’s exacerbated by nine thousand external stressors this year too, and I’m definitely feeling like it’s time to slow down and sloth it up a bit. . Alas, not really an option. But I can look at this drawing and feel kinda better, so there’s that. . . Love and big warm yellow Light, friends! . . . . . (Image description: miniature marker drawing of a sloth hiding amongst golden plants. She’s got a sun halo behind her head to the left. Next to the drawing is a row of copic markers in shades of yellow and all of it is resting on a yellow desktop.) . . . . . #mightypigeonart#artistsoninstagram#illustration_best#mightypigeoninktober2018#sloths#drawing#drawtober#socute#illo#illustration#illustragram#visiblewomen#anxiety#mentalhealth#7deadlysins#inktober2018#inktoberart#yellow#sunny#sunshine#bright#happy#kidlitart#childrensbooks
these blooms are everything today.
Something of a meditation on duality today as I moved through my #Inktober piece for 10.21 (#bunnies from @alefvernonart’s prompt list). . I’m not entirely sure what it means but I know it helped to tune everything else out for a bit and allow myself some quiet time with these buns. . . . . . (Image description: photo of a Caucasian hand holding a miniature drawing by the bottom left corner. The drawing shows two stylized leaping bunnies, facing opposite directions and up & down, and left to right. They’re grey with yellow “saddles” with varying patterns on them. Behind them are organic shapes in shades of yellow and orange and green with patterns inside. To the right of the drawing is a collection of yellow copic markers.) . . . . . . . #illustration_best#illo#illustrator#illustration#visiblewomen#drawing#artistsoninstagram#artist#yellow#bunnies#rabbits#deawtober#mightypigeoninktober2018#surfacedesign#copicmarkers#mightypigeonart#inktober2018
Some soulful doxie eyes for your Sunday... . . . (thank you all for your kind words on my post yesterday. happy to report an as-yet untoppled tower, but realistically also, I’m still feeling the same way. Just slightly less alone in it. So thank you 💛 this time of year is always very challenging for me for a whole host of reasons, very few of which are controllable so it’s particularly hard for my control-craving anxious self. And this year there are additional stressors, also out of my control. So there’s new stuff to navigate and no energy to navigate it... you know? Anyway. I’ll keep being here & you keep being there & we’ll keep being here and there for each other.) . . . . (Image description: marker ink portrait drawing of a black and brown dachshund with a light blue floral crown and wreath. The name CHARLIE is written on a yellow banner below it’s head. Next to the drawing, on the white desktop are orange and yellow copic markers.) . . . . . . . . #illustration_best#illo#illustration#illustrator#dog#doxie#dachshund#dachshundsofinstagram#dogmom#dogdad#ilovemydog#crazydoglady#rescuepet#adoptdontshop#mightypigeonart#mpapetportraits#mpapetportrait#thempapetportrait#doggo#pupper
#Inktober 10.20: #sisters... . . . . . . from @odnatamyara’s #apollowitches prompt list. . (Image description: miniature illustration of a double petaled yellow flower. The flower is also the intertwined bodies of two brown skinned sisters with their eyes closed in a warm embrace. The bottom of the flower is decorated in orange and brown leaf motif. The drawing is on an apple green surface surrounded by green and yellow copic markers.) . . . . . . #childrensbooks#illustration_daily#illustration_best#childrensbookillustration#illo#inktober2018#inktober2k18#copicmarker#copicmarkers#yellow#green#colorcolourgreen#colortheory#twins#twinsisters#drawtober#drawtober2018#mightypigeoninktober2018#mightypigeonart
Not having the best day today & I’ll cry if I type out why (you know the feeling? when it’s not even one huge upsetting thing but like, dozens of them and there just seems to be a swell of awful and every task, text, email, question, suggestion, news alert, expectation feels like another jenga piece being pulled out carelessly & you wait and cross your fingers and hold your breath and whisper “please oh please don’t let this one topple my tower”, not because your tower is even all that important right now but because you simply do not have the time or strength to build it again and you’d honestly be ok with not having a tower for a while except for the fact that you know you’re just going to have to explain where your tower went and that in and of itself is going to be exhausting and you really just can’t right now... that feeling.) . . I already did today’s Inktober but I hate it. So I’m going to do it over again. But while I was waiting for my heating pad & meds to do their thing, I played with the color balance on this old piece and gave her a nice green background instead of her old melon one and I think it’s pretty, so I’m going to post it and maybe if your tower is about to collapse, this will be a moment of calm before the clatter... . . . . . (Image description: digital illustration of a Caucasian character with long grey-blue hair and a coral colored shirt and hair barrette. She has protruding color colored ears and a gentle smile. Behind her are rows of hanging green leaves and green patterning. In front of her is a row of yellow & orange toned flowers.) . . . . . . #mightypigeonart#illustratorsoninstagram#originalcharacter#procreate#procreateapp#green#shadesofgreen#colortheory#leaves#flowers#kidlitart#childrensbooks#childrensbookillustration#illo#visiblewomen#illustration_best#illustration_daily#bluehairdontcare#cute#sweet#womenwhodraw#baltimoreladiesdraw#mentalhealth#chronicpain#fibromyalgia#rheumatoidarthritiswarrior#spoonie#spoonielife#anxiety#mentalhealth#youarenotalone
#Inktober 10.19: #space! . . . . . . From @odnatamyara’s #apollowitches prompt list. . . . . (Image description: miniature illustration of a green suited space creature with a pink nose, standing on a mustard yellow planet with a shades of green night sky behind him. In the sky are white stars hanging from strings. The drawing is done in maker and sits on a lime green surface. Surrounding the drawing are metal rings and pieces of glass in various shapes, clear and yellow or green.) . . . . . . . #illustrationartists#illustratorsoninstagram#childrensbookillustration#inktober2018#inktober2k18#alien#littlegreenmen#littlegreenman#shadesofgreen#drawing#copicmarker#marker#inkdrawing#womenwhodraw#visiblewomen#bmoreartist#bmoreart#illo#ink#sketch#atc#sketchcard#originalcharacter#mightypigeonart
And then there’s this baby... . The memorial pieces always make me happysad. I hope they bring their caregivers a sense of peace and a reminder of joy... 🐾 . . . . . (Image description: photo of a marker drawing of a brown and white chihuahua with a flower crown and wreath of white flowers & lots of greenery. Next to the drawing are 3 green toned copic markers.) . . . . . . #thempapetportrait#mpapetportrait#chihuahua#chihuahuasofinstagram#adoptdontshop#rainbowbridge#petmemorial#dog#dogmom#dogdad#illustration#illo#copicmarker#portraiture#doggo#pupper#mightypigeonart#drawings#illustratorsoninstagram
Catch me (very much inside) drawing family portraits during the day any time my kids will allow & pet portraits all night until my hand cramps up... so thankful for you beautiful people keeping me so very busy. My mind has been all 😰🌀🤯 for a while now, distracted by a lot of personal stuffs but having your smiling faces and a millionty pictures of your fluffy pups in my inbox has been a nice, light respite. . So thank you. . Here’s anything another #mpafamilyportraits I finished recently. . . . . (Image description: photo of a white desktop with an illustration in the center of it, on an angle, surrounded by various supplies— scissors, washi tape, markers. The illustration is a stylized portrait of two people and their two dogs.) . . . . . . #illustrationartists#illustratorsoninstagram#childrensbookillustration#illustration#illustrator#illo#womenwhodraw#visiblewomen#art#bmoreart#familyportrait#commissions#customart#drawing#procreateapp#digitaldrawing#weddingportrait#baltimoreladiesdraw#thebmorecreatives#mightypigeonart
#Inktober 10.18: #wolpertinger from @joyfulshadeofblack’s #ofmonstersandmyths prompt list. . . . . . . (Image description: miniature illustration of a mythical creature with a squirrel body, rabbit head, antlers and wings, sitting behind some green foliage & in front of a golden glow with trees in the background. Behind the drawing is a selection of green copic markers.) . . . . . . . #illustrationartists#inktober2018#mythicalcreatures#drawing#copic#copicmarkers#creature#rabbit#monster#illo#illustration#illustrator#childrensbookillustration#artistsoninstagram#mightypigeonart#folklore