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Kellie Nicely (Side) @kellienicely.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

dandadan episode 10 - THEY MADE FOOD FOR HIM T_T THAT”S SOOO SWEET HE DESERVES ALL THE KINDNESS HE HAS SUCH A TRAGIC STORY Where did they get those wide pajamas for him BABY MUSHROOM MAN HE SO PRECIOUS WHEN HE CRY FOR COW 155/1462 #art #1462DaysofArt

Work in progress painting the wood slice of siamese cat with cherry blossoms

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Kellie Nicely (Side) @kellienicely.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

dandadan episode 10 cont. - AWWWWW LITTLE MUSHROOM ALIEN MAN SO PRECIOUS HE JUST WANNA HELP HIS SICK SON 🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺 What is that waistband thing on grandma that she keeps putting her hands in like one of those back braces? 154/1462 #art #1462DaysofArt

photo of a wood slice with more attempts to do a gradient of a siamese with acrylic which feels super hard and impossible to get the right color and there's a color comp behind it that i did on watercolor paper to try and get the color mixes right before putting the paint on the real thing.

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Kellie Nicely (Side) @kellienicely.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Dandadan episode 10 cont. - idk what caused aira to be ok with spreading rumors and then owning up to it - like obv she doesn’t love momo but maybe respect???? It’s like she has morals but also still believes she’s the hero?? Trauma bonding????? 153/1462 #art #1462DaysofArt

photo of my wood slice all sanded and a study on watercolor paper with acrylic paint trying to figure out the color mixes because i was wasting too much time on the real piece fussing with colors which made the paint cake up.

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Kellie Nicely (Side) @kellienicely.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

i wrote down live thoughts which are much more hazardous but we roll dandadan episode 10 - aira is such a drama girl XD Little nerd so cuteeeee wanting to work out 🥺 Did time really just go one and they literally disappeared and then poofed back??? 152/1462 #art #1462DaysofArt

sketch of oshawott from pokemon with a yellow leaf on its head. i started the spring allergies where the pollen screws up my contacts so i usually power through with one contact in and squint thru the day.

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Kellie Nicely (Side) @kellienicely.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

torchic vibe the brainrot wants to speed thru the episodes (which i did) - i only haven't watched ep 20 yet but also i get the feeling that "as the plot progresses" / as you eat the manga, you'll yearn for the early eps when "it was just the two of them" 151/1462 #art #1462DaysofArt

sketch drawing of a torchic from pokemon holding an alcoholic bottle cause we all need some in this alternate reality of *US chaos*

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Kellie Nicely (Side) @kellienicely.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

dandadan episode 9 cont. - THE MOMENT IS HILARIOUS oh my gosh dude no comment i do love how they handle that stuff tho and the scenes are not overly dressed up. it just be and you roll alt text has extra tidbits when i can't fit it here. i trying to come off brainrot 150/1462 #art #1462DaysofArt

photo of a work in progress of painting a wood slice. the paint was starting to cake up on itself cause I kept trying to make corrections so I took a little piece of sandpaper and sanded it down so i could make the corrections again without dealing with paint caking up.

i would also like rather recommend like dandadan over like other animes that linger and cake up those shots like .... higurashi remake, mieruko, summer pockets. like recommend to a non-anime watcher cause sometimes those shots do be jarring just cause of how they laid it out.

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Kellie Nicely (Side) @kellienicely.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

dandadan episode 9 cont. - are the contained alien scapes just a free for all like why walls become water i assume she pulled all the water down in that one scene how do you pull giant swaths of water down This was a rework cause i thought i needed to start over 149/1462 #art #1462DaysofArt

photo of a different wood slice with a digital illustration of the siamese and blossoms and cupcake rearranged because i messed up the first one so I thought maybe i need to just start all over. except i have very limited wood slices

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Kellie Nicely (Side) @kellienicely.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

dandadan episode 9 cont. - They do so good with balancing out the funny faces during the serious moments uvu The squabble was so good with the extra water movements and splashing with the water spraying back real animation moments 148/1462 #art #1462DaysofArt

photo of wood slice and painting of siamese cat and blossoms and cupcake still being worked on

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Kellie Nicely (Side) @kellienicely.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

dandadan episode 9 cont. - I feel for poor mushroom alien man he just trying to earn a living 🥺 How can they stomach all those punches as humans 147/1462 #art #1462DaysofArt

sketch drawing of our siamese cat laying down

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Kellie Nicely (Side) @kellienicely.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

dandadan episode 9 - so much good animation and so much happens that you have hardly any time to appreciate business man mantis shrimp i have to like watch this without the subs just so i can appreciate the animation 146/1462 #art #1462DaysofArt

continued painting of wood slice of siamese with cupcake and blossoms.

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Kellie Nicely (Side) @kellienicely.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

dandadan episode 8 & 9 - so the aliens can make their own turf and anything that happens in stays there so what happens in outside world, do they just disappear from their classroom or does time stop??? how did the walls become jello 145/1462 #art #1462DaysofArt

Work in process painting of our siamese cat on wood slice.

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Kellie Nicely (Side) @kellienicely.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

dandadan episode 8 (1/2) - oh my gosh the girlfight is hilarious although i still think the pink hair one is delusional and 8th grader not too far off. her VA elevates that so much more 😂 little nerd so cute for training behind the scenes altho he could've just said so 144/1462 #art #1462DaysofArt

photo of my wood slice painting fleshing out the gradients on the blossoms and trying to figure out how to gradient a siamese which is failing

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Kellie Nicely (Side) @kellienicely.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

dandadan episode 7 (2/2) - the story was so tragic but the dance animation was so gorgeous not sure if pink hair girl was just vain (i'm doing this cause i'm the heroine) or if she genuinely did what she did 143/1462 #art #1462DaysofArt

process painting of painting on a real wood slice. I blocked out all the flowers and cat and all but the painting is still messy

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Kellie Nicely (Side) @kellienicely.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

so i just learned the studio doing dandadan is the same that did eizouken so now everything makes sense dandadan episode 7 (1/2) - that transformation sequence was soooo smooth but he reminds me of a pokemon and a running ostrich xd 142/1462 #art #1462DaysofArt

digital sketch layout of a wood slice painting - to prepare what i want to paint on it even though it came out a dud

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Kellie Nicely (Side) @kellienicely.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

nooooooooo my laptop decided to restart overnight so i lost my thoughts T-T i try to rewrite and remember via rewatching evil windows trying to make me upgrade to 11 dandadan episode 6 - oh my gosh she's such a self insert heroine humans built different in this world 141/1462 #art #1462DaysofArt

sketch drawings of our lilac point siamese

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Kellie Nicely (Side) @kellienicely.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

kitty babies i so weak i ate up 7 episodes today TvT i jotted down live posts as i watched but now i gotta glaze these up. i assumed "season 2" meant "all the characters are established and they be rolling but uh yeah no. XD commentary soon tm 140/1462 #art #1462DaysofArt

digital sketches of my gray cat and lilac point siamese being cute

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Kellie Nicely (Side) @kellienicely.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

finally switching it up 😂 if i had known that i could play a switch 2 compatible game on switch 1, then i would've preordered Pokemon Z-A in that first wave with the plushie 😭 i assumed if it was a red cartridge, then it would only play on 2 even if it had a 1 version 139/1462 #art #1462DaysofArt

digital sketches of cats and thumbnails of planning a panting on a wood slice

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Kellie Nicely (Side) @kellienicely.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

dandadan episode 5 - i weak and watched XD it be worth to get superpowers for that tradeoff. i rewatched ep 16 & the name actually meant something so i knew the cat was gonna get there soon so far i'm still predicting everyone else be aliens. i feel for the nerd 138/1462 #art #1462DaysofArt

almost drawing finished of axolotl and sakura and lunar eclipse

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Kellie Nicely (Side) @kellienicely.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

dandadan episode 4 - crazy mad animation and classical music in the background yesssss this watch pace isn't sustainable though so i tried reading up to the anime and i gotta restrain from diving into episode 5 😂 137/1462 #art #1462DaysofArt

almost final drawing of the axolotl with sakura and lunar eclipse

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Kellie Nicely (Side) @kellienicely.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

dandadan episode 3 - it nice that there seems to be at least an episode for a breather and lore logic the thing that's charming to me about asian lore is there's mythology and deep rooted stuff and then america be like....meh 136/1462 #art #1462DaysofArt

work in progress drawing of axolotl with cherry blossoms and lunar eclipse

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Kellie Nicely (Side) @kellienicely.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

dandadan episode 2- wait that's the end of the episode????!!?? =v= the selective coloring animation and logic be amazing this thing keeps looking the same cause i keep noodling the details cause i still don't know how to color in CSP 135/1462 #art #1462DaysofArt

another wip of the axolotl and blood moon and sakura

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Kellie Nicely (Side) @kellienicely.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

dan da dan episode 1 - I only subconsciously verbally screamed when he did the name drop XD animation reminds me of studio trigger + keep your hands off eizouken. it do be nice to watch anything you want 134/1462 #art #1462DaysofArt

Work in progress drawing of axolotl and sakura and lunar eclipse; the moon has been fleshed out

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Kellie Nicely (Side) @kellienicely.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

dan da dan predictions - based on the random episode 16 i watched, everyone is an alien, they go to school but not really, there's no big bad guy but just randos, and its slice of life action. everyone knows they're aliens. and the cliche obvious girl loves boy 133/1462 #art #1462DaysofArt

first color pass of axolotl with blood moon. the color palette is soft muted pinks and a deeper muted strawberry blood moon

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Kellie Nicely (Side) @kellienicely.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

i still doing these i finally got the motivation to label and date everything 😂 now to pass them through the honey glaze my brain said that i can do dan da dan commentary as i watch thru it so i can catch up. all i know is animation good, it crazy, and it popular. 132/1462 #art #1462DaysofArt

work in progress drawing of an axolotl on top of the blood moon and sakura

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Kellie Nicely (Side) @kellienicely.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

still doing these everyday, i was doing traditional for like a week+ and I thought I took pics every day but I think not so the brain needs to do the thing i tried to chunk these into separate files so they don't get big but i think i have uhh..271 layers on a file xd 131/1462 #art #1462DaysofArt

continued progress on the axolotl and sakura and blood moon sticker. The moon is being worked on while the axolotl and sakura are in a plainish pink color as placeholder

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Kellie Nicely (Side) @kellienicely.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

lil chikorita pikmin =w= i learned that i have the cheap 69 cent yellow paint instead of the $1.55 multi-surface paint so now my brain is like "you can't paint till you get the right yellow..." and do i want to travel to wally world for a yellow tube when i went today 130/1462 #art #1462DaysofArt

digital sketch of a chikorita with a pikmin flower on its head instead of the leaf

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Kellie Nicely (Side) @kellienicely.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

the flats finallyyyyy i'm working on this wood slice and i'm like "i'm getting used to acrylics maybe i can go back to them" and then i drop the wood slice and smear the paint brush on it and it leaves a giant mark on an open wood area so it stained and i'm like wehh 😩 129/1462 #art #1462DaysofArt

final linework and flats done for the axolotl and sakura blossoms and blood moon

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Kellie Nicely (Side) @kellienicely.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

i kinda wanna already redraw this. i hate how you spend so much time and be slow and steady and then it's OK but it's super stiff so RIP pokemon liko poor girl being having to closet because the villains did the trump thing of "they're the bad guys" but she be freed 🥺 128/1462 #art #1462DaysofArt

flats and linework done for the sakura blossoms and axolotl is still being worked on

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Kellie Nicely (Side) @kellienicely.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

lining up the rest of the things i hear yellow jackets in the ceiling and then i remembered i bought some powder and it was TWELVE DOLLARS in January and now it is FIVE DOLLARS I HAVE NEVER HEARD OF A PRICE DECREASING BY 50% IN THESE SCREWED UP TIMES 127/1462 #art #1462DaysofArt

lined drawing of the sakura blossoms of the axolotl blood moon piece

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Kellie Nicely (Side) @kellienicely.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

initiate the flatting the clouds parted and my brain decided to work and i got the paint to do the thing and then i learned all i needed was a flat brush rip me i need to invest in like 11 flat brushes for all my needs. round brushes can't blend for my needs 126/1462 #art #1462DaysofArt

line drawing of axolotl, moon and sakura with some of the blossoms being colored in with flat color

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Kellie Nicely (Side) @kellienicely.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

i was all caught up and then i'm painting on this wood slice and the colors are all wrong and the paint is caking up so i sanded it down at least 3 times and now i'm behind again on glazing these posts 125/1462 #art #1462DaysofArt

color comp of axolotl and moon and sakura blossoms that are pastel pink and the moon has a sliver of soft moonlight blue

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Kellie Nicely (Side) @kellienicely.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

first color pass allergies kill frfr the Benadryl works but now my eyes dry and no productive i wanna do some art for the tariff'd 10% penguins and then some plein airs but eyes say no 124/1462 #art #1462DaysofArt

color comp of axolotl and blood moon and sakura. it is a soft pink palette and the moon is a deeper pink

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Kellie Nicely (Side) @kellienicely.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

someone on my rep's (R) staff must be on fire cause they've sent me like 3 emails this week and i've been tallying what my calls were and these are like addressing issues i called on like weeks ago i guess good for them tho i wanna make them work DAY ONE TWO THREE 123/1462 #art #1462DaysofArt

lined tightened drawing of axolotl and moon and sakura blossoms

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Kellie Nicely (Side) @kellienicely.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

ok so i wanted to do pleinair april but i also want to get this wood slice painted and also i don't have to do it on an april schedule i can do it when i want so too bad lodslfe color mixing is just so feelsgood when you mix the color you wanted 122/1462 #art #1462DaysofArt

cleaned up drawing of axolotl moon sakura sticker

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Kellie Nicely (Side) @kellienicely.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

trying to paint gradients with acrylics is probably the most painful thing with acrylics 121/1462 #art #1462DaysofArt

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Kellie Nicely (Side) @kellienicely.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

i learned today that you can re-record voicemails you leave to your reps cause i suddenly couldn't pronounce a word and made garbles and then it took like 2 retrys to not crack up lol remember to press 4 ahhsahdsajdk 120/1462 #art #1462DaysofArt

drawing sketch studies of axolotls and cherry blossoms

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Kellie Nicely (Side) @kellienicely.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

i'm more convinced than ever that my brain has to do studies all the time and even if i had drawn the animal moons ago i still have to do them -like that has to be the aphantasia thing or is that just a crutch for my apparent sucky ability to remember how to draw animal 119/1462 #art #1462DaysofArt

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Kellie Nicely (Side) @kellienicely.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

i finally ordered it and then i looked at the 1st color comp and then i'm like i made it much darker again. like i want soft aesthetic pastels but also for a sticker design similar values don't read too well but also like other people's art looks fine so what u doin 😩 118/1462 #art #1462DaysofArt

Sketches of axolotls and some thumbnails for he initial concept and some studies of cherry blossoms on how they clump up

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Kellie Nicely (Side) @kellienicely.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

the start of the axolotling one thing i learned while drawing is "wait i'm drawing them and they have 5 toes & 4 fingers" & then i google & that's typically the standard so now i judge axolotl art by checking if they have 5 toes & if not they are theoretically wrong xd 117/1462 #art #1462DaysofArt

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Kellie Nicely (Side) @kellienicely.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

oh my gosdhflskelsj the finale was so gooood stuff happened but not like you expected and then HUGE TWIST NEVER WOULDHAVE THUNK THEY WOULD DO THAT IN MY POKEMON ANIME and i'm soodsfofsef ready for the next arc 😆😍 116/1462 #art #1462DaysofArt

really rough sketches of liko from pokemon horizons

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Kellie Nicely (Side) @kellienicely.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

ice skating poses translated to liko oh my goshdfsjfejskjs i keep seeing spoilers and it's like i wanna see the final episode but also i wanna feel it all at once and not snippets i always prefer hair down but i so ready to see new design too 115/1462 #art #1462DaysfArt

sketches of figure skaters on the left side and on the right is the same pose but it's liko from pokemon horizons

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Kellie Nicely (Side) @kellienicely.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Almost finished but it's not done i have to say i really hate websites that have a frozen header that takes up 1/3 of the screen and never goes away when i start scrolling. it's wasted space and ugly and i thought artists knew better 114/1462 #art #1462DaysofArt

colored pass of the ukraine art piece featuring a sunflower flower crown, a sunflower seedling and the ukraine flag

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Kellie Nicely (Side) @kellienicely.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

it is a true crime that i cannot have her as my rival if i pick the female character my brain is finally clicking in the direction of "i'd rather make art that's like longevity rather than fast food" 113/1462 #art #1462DaysofArt

drawing of taunie from pokemon legends z-a with her hands in her pockets

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Kellie Nicely (Side) @kellienicely.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

uber fast sketch there's some sort of charm magic to straight up lines and slapped down watercolor brush. blood moon funny when i went outside to get a pic i had trouble finding it then came back in and realized i didn't have glasses on no wonder xd 112/1462 #art #1462DaysofArt

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Kellie Nicely (Side) @kellienicely.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

111111111 my fav numbers i'm eating homemade purple popcorn as i watch the babish popcorn video talking about plain popcorn being boring and bland and i be here eating about 40ml of the plainest popcorn ever with no butter and just 4 small fingerfulls of garlic salt lol 111/1462 #art #1462DaysofArt

cleaner sketch of the flower crown and sunflower seedling and ukraine flag drawing

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Kellie Nicely (Side) @kellienicely.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

i got my days wrong so i had to go back & relabel them & i already glazed them so now i have to reglaze ToT i love how whenever i tighten up sketches & color them properly, they look worse than a sketch with messy thin watercolor brushwork maybe being lazy is the play 110/1462 #art #1462DaysofArt

sketch thumbnails of a ukraine piece of a flower crown of sunflowers placed around a little sunflower seedling and ukraine flag.

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Kellie Nicely (Side) @kellienicely.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

So i have to number and date all of these and i got lazy so I managed to catch up yesterday and they're all getting glazed up so playing catch up on the posts. soft metallic pinks aesthetic bring back rose gold 109/1462 #art #1462DaysofArt

drawing of fairy with a pastel pink color palette

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Kellie Nicely (Side) @kellienicely.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

i'm gonna try and timer and wake myself up for blood moon. i finally got glasses for this moment but they have this weird fisheye effect when you look thru them and it's really cool for art purposes but i can't stand wearing them for more than 1 minute lol 108/1462 #art #1462DaysofArt

drawing of a fairy with the colored flats.

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Kellie Nicely (Side) @kellienicely.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

one day i'll figure out how to color i got my tripod and stuff and now i gotta figure out why it came in such a long 4' box 107/1462 #art #1462DaysofArt

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Kellie Nicely (Side) @kellienicely.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

i realized i probably need to do more colored finished pieces but then that requires me to actually flesh something out, line it, and then actually color it allergy season is so real. chugging Benadryl 106/1462 #art #1462DaysofArt

sketch illustration of a fairy with a cute asian-modern dress on

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