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Hello! ⋆౨ৎ˚⟡.•

I've been digging around in my old art supplies lately and rediscovering the joys of creating with physical mediums. The majority of art I've made the past 4 years was done digitally, meaning I spent a lot of time staring at a computer screen throughout all parts of the creating process from gathering inspiration, sketching, painting, and adding details. I got into a rhythm with the digital workspace and figured it was all streamlined and convenient that way. I could keep doing things all in one place and be satisfied. As life goes, it was until it wasn't.

Making these stickers was one of my first forays back into creating traditionally. I made things as low-stakes as possible, grabbing long abandoned label paper and unsharpened color pencils to lay down sketches and play with shapes and colors. There's a satisfaction I get when working with physical art supplies that I've never been able to replicate with digital tools. And I don't even think I need to have that expectation from digital mediums, they're different and that's okay.

I've also picked up the unexpected skill of photography and photo editing now that I'm making a lot of traditional art. The first round of photos I took to share these stickers turned out so laughably bad that learning photography basics became a necessity. Taking photos is a skill I haven't had to practice for awhile again, because so much of my art was created digitally from start to finish. It's been gratifying engaging with something that I didn't have the intention of learning, but ended up exploring anyway. I love the process of making things for reasons like this, you never know what you're gonna end up doing and it's exciting~ ^_^

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Thanks for reading! ⭐

Vicki

p.s.: lol at my pipe dream of making multiple sets of handdrawn stickers only to cut out these 9 designs and feel the RSI creeping in

Files

one of favorite designs of the bunch
tools
all the designs
stuck one on the front of my journal, so cute!

Comments

Laura

your patreon is like a celebration of art!! aaaaah i feel like i'm reading an art journal that comes with cute pictures 🙈💖thank you for sharing these and for talking about the joy of creating and having fun while arting (no matter the medium we are getting into 🌷)

vickisigh

ahh i’m so happy that’s what you get from it laura! finding joy in creating is one of the things i love most in this life and i’m glad it comes across in the writing! ^^💞

Tim McGreger

I think it’s really cool that you are trying out new things like this, Vicki! Very inspiring! P.S. I got the new memo pads and they are so cute…I love them!!!

vickisigh

thank you so much tim! i've definitely been needing to change things up for awhile now. doing a ton of new things is both awkward and exciting! and omg, i'm so happy you like the memos! :D<33