Circa 2024

Smile

✦ Meaning & Symbolism: The twitching eye, the grinding teeth, the forced smile…this is what “my mask is about to fall” looks like. Sometimes we have to force smiles to get through the day and it sucks.

Also there’s a bunch of hidden messages in the piece.

✦ Why I Love This Piece: It represents an experience I am all to familiar with and the teeth look sick.

✦ Materials: Uni Pin Fine Liner and colored pencils (Prismacolor Premier and Faber-Castell Polychromos) on Bee Paper Super Deluxe Paper.

Mantis Heels

✦ Meaning & Symbolism: I was combining random things. Mantis and boots.

✦ Why I Love This Piece: It’s silly.

✦ Materials: Pentel GraphGear 1000 - 0.5 using Pentel 0.5 Lead (F) on Ohuhu Marker Paper.

Window Box Flowers

✦ Meaning & Symbolism: Pretty flowers on a windowsill. Peace and calm and pretty things. What’s that saying about an open window?

✦ Why I Love This Piece: I like the contrast of modern with floral. The colors are pretty and I really love how “sketchy” the ink on the plants look.

✦ Materials: Uni Pin Fine Liner and Ohuhu Honolulu Alcohol Markers on Ohuhu Marker Paper.

Betta Sketch

✦ Meaning & Symbolism: I really like drawing fish.

✦ Why I Love This Piece: This betta has some great angles and lines and I really enjoy looking at it.

✦ Materials: Pentel GraphGear 1000 - 0.5 using Pentel 0.5 Lead (F) in a Mifuner Pocket Sketchbook.

Alien Tech

✦ Meaning & Symbolism: Movement, technology, and aliens. Also ancient aztects.

✦ Why I Love This Piece: It looks really cool and was really fun to draw. It was the first of the webbing style of doodles.

✦ Materials: Uni Pin Fine Liner on Bee Paper Super Deluxe Paper.

Circa 2023

Hell Mushroom

✦ Meaning & Symbolism: The mushroom looks like it’s internally glowing and it’s very intense. Do you think this mushroom would make you high or just make you sick?

✦ Why I Love This Piece: One of the first real pieces I made in the Realism Renaissance.

✦ Materials: Uni Pin Fine Liner and Ohuhu Honolulu Alcohol Markers on Ohuhu Marker Paper.

Follow the Dopamine

✦ Meaning & Symbolism: ADHD causes terrible executive function due to lack of dopamine management/production and it’s very annoying. I wanted this piece to be confusing.

✦ Why I Love This Piece: It is confusing.

✦ Materials: Uni Pin Fine Liner and Ohuhu Honolulu Alcohol Markers on Ohuhu Marker Paper. Highlights by white gel pens.

Doodles Are Lit

✦ Meaning & Symbolism: Doodles light the way. Almost like a doodle enlightenment.

✦ Why I Love This Piece: I love the way it came out, how it looks, the x-ray effect, the symbolism. All around just a nice piece.

✦ Materials: Uni Pin Fine Liner on Bee Paper Super Deluxe Paper.

Doodle Doorway

✦ Meaning & Symbolism: The doodle path is an arduous one but it is well worth it in the end. Jump in.

✦ Why I Love This Piece: The symbolism is nice and the piece came out looking very rad.

✦ Materials: Uni Pin Fine Liner on Bee Paper Super Deluxe Paper.

I Just Wanna Draw

✦ Meaning & Symbolism: I just wanna draw.

✦ Why I Love This Piece: This was during a time I was going through a big art block due to posting a lot on Instagram. So I just started doodling until this piece came out.

✦ Materials: Sakura Pigma Micron on Canson XL Mixed Media Paper. Faber-Castell matte pencils used for shading.

Moon Castle

✦ Meaning & Symbolism: Aesthetics.

✦ Why I Love This Piece: I like how this looks. I wanted to test drawing castles too. The bold outlining was a bold choice but I think it worked. I need to practice castles/buildings/cities more though.

✦ Materials: Uni Pin Fine Liner on Bee Paper Super Deluxe Paper.

I See Doodles

✦ Meaning & Symbolism: Doodles are in the eye of the beholder. I see in doodles. I dream in doodles.

✦ Why I Love This Piece: It’s a striking piece that feels more like a mirror than artwork.

✦ Materials:✦ Materials: Uni Pin Fine Liner on Bee Paper Super Deluxe Paper.

Doodle Spider

✦ Meaning & Symbolism: SPIDER! 🕷️

✦ Why I Love This Piece: Came out looking REALLY cool. I worked hard on the proportions and shading and that effort paid off. I haven’t done a lot more than this but I should.

✦ Materials: Uni Pin Fine Liner on Bee Paper Super Deluxe Paper.

Doodle Swirl

✦ Meaning & Symbolism: Spiraling into anxiety, spiraling into joy, life is just spiraling.

✦ Why I Love This Piece: I like spirals. I like how they can represent either spiraling into a negative or trying to breath out into a positive.

✦ Materials: Uni Pin Fine Liner on Bee Paper Super Deluxe Paper.

Finished Piece

With watercolor.

Incense Doodles

✦ Meaning & Symbolism: Aesthetics.

✦ Why I Love This Piece: I use incense almost daily. Decided to do an aesthetic thing utilizing both doodle confetti andseparated confetti.

✦ Materials: Uni Pin Fine Liner on Bee Paper Super Deluxe Paper.

Witch Shelf

✦ Meaning & Symbolism: Aesthetics. Dipping my toes into realism.

✦ Why I Love This Piece: I was really into this style and enjoyed drawing it, though it was a little frustrating. It was really pretty and I like all the little details in it. Though the perspective is WAY off.

✦ Materials: Uni Pin Fine Liner on Bee Paper Super Deluxe Paper.