The fact that a painting took painstaking labour and a lifetime of practice to make, is part of the artistic expression. It carries an innate optimism, no matter how heavy the subject, it was worth it to struggle, for years, to do this. You can turn your suffering into beauty.


Beginnings of something. I'm trying to write the comic freaked out existential teenage me would have enjoyed.





Sketch fast and draw slow. 15 mins vs 50 hours.

Came from a very sentimental place, thinking of the inevitable erasure of even our most precious moments by time, fading memory. Strange to think in these intimate moments that one day no one will know of this specific relationship, that information will be gone. (1/2)

Couple mins in sketchbook ----> month spent on the final

Finally finished this pupp! Very happy with how it turned out.

This painting started from a sketching session with the theme "odd one out". You can trace how the idea evolved from sketch to sketch. That's why you have to just sit down and draw, I basically never have the whole idea in my head before I start, its a process

Weird one from my sketchbook

Burning up

15 mins + tens and tens of hours, countless headaches, near mental breakdown & tons of fun = this

Daydreamin

Chained 🔗

Sat by the Shoreline. Final and early sketch. Zoom in for crab

Bunch of inks that goes together. I'm hindsight I think it's right to call them self portraits.