July Art Journal!

Phew! Time is no on my side. This summer has a been a stressful, wonderful whirl wind! I'm surprised that I've kept up on my art journal and I'm not quite sure if I'll be able to make it though August. BUT I'll find away! I've been doing monthly art journals for 3 years now I'm going to let this summer get the best of me! I was trying to draw a lot more this month but near the end just got word-y. I ended up having a lot to write about! I'm hoping once everything is settle I can have more time to draw and practice some illustrations. 

Lot of little flippy fold outs cause I was running out of pages!

I finished up this little hand made book! I'm shocked how many months I packed into this little thing!

I hope the summer is treating you well! 

Franny Zine!

Now that things that settled down I'm getting around to taking some photos of the new zines I made! I'm going to slowly be sharing them just so editing the photos isn't so daunting. THEN after I get all my photos all nice a pretty then I'll post them on my Etsy! BUT until then if you see a zine you want let me know and I'll send you one!

This is number one of a new series I've been thinking up. Its all based around this older lady named Franny! It basically is a way for me to work out all my concerns about never marrying and living alone when I'm old. I'm creating this to help me realize that taking the path of growing old alone is kinda wonderful in its own special way. Life is so beautiful and different for everyone, their isn't one right way to do. Making this zine is helping me see all those wonderful things!

Here is the middle spread! Number one is all about introducing Franny. The next ones will be more about specific adventures she gets herself into. I'm actually really proud of these illustrations. Doing a lot of faces and figures is always really challenging for me. The practice has been amazing!

Outgoing Mail!

I had a lot of leftover zines that I'm sending out to pen pals! Which means large envelopes to decorate! I've been doing well on keeping on top of my mail considering how lazy and busy I've been! I made a bunch of envelopes out of misprinted zines so I've been having fun adding illustrations to them before sending them out!

I keep meaning to buy more stamps! There are THESE heat sensitive ones that are awesome!! I'm jealous seeing all my instagram friends have them!

Index Card Challenge 10-20

I'm pretty surprised that I've kept up with this challenge for so long! I've found that I love working on one of these little cards before diving into projects and what nots. Also I love using these as "clean up cards" so I'm not wasting any supplies! I haven't kept track if I've done one for every day, but I didn't want to put too much pressure on myself so thats probably a good thing. 

I told myself I needed to practice faces more often so a lot of these have been good practice!