Hi, I hope you're having a nice day!

I mentioned in one of my articles before that I want to share with you some of my sketches. The reason is to somehow encourage you to try to do art- if you have some time to spare.

Drawing, sketching, and the likes are my hobbies ever since I was a kid. Just some disclaimer though, I am not a pro or someone who makes it for a living. Doing art is actually just one of my stress-relievers so if you are not feeling that good today, maybe you might want to do some doodling and hopefully have some fun!

This one is a portrait sketch using colored pens. It was supposed to be Rapunzel but I made a few mistakes on the face and the color so I just let it be. Though I think it kind of became pleasing - at least for me. I will definitely practice more with using colored pens. It was really hard to manipulate those so the contrast of the colors are a little off.

Now this is probably one of my oldest sketches. This is a quick sketch using ball point. I was actually just doodling when I realized that, why not continue it to a full portrait? As you can see, even my signature looks a little rushed. I think I made this sketch four years ago or so. I was not able to write down the date along with my signature so I am not quite sure.

Here is another sketch I have done years ago using charcoal. I think it was the first time I have tried doing face sketch using that. I used charcoal before only for shading since they can be smudged easily. But now it turned out that I can also make a full sketch just by using that. A little update, the sketch is still alive and was not smudged at all!

And lastly, here's my pencil sketch of a tiger. If you noticed on my previous articles/posts, I am very fond of animals so some of my sketches are really inspired by them.

There it is guys! These are some of my sketches that I want to show you today. You can actually try it at home if you have the materials and if you have some free time. You don't really have to follow the conventional color of things. You can actually color the skin whatever you want. The hair could be pink if you fancy that. And the eyes could be colored anything too! I think that is one of the good things with doing this, you can do whatever you want!

And also, if you are not sort of a perfectionist, you can have a few mistakes on your sketches. It might turned out to be an ingredient to make the art better. Sometimes, these mistakes happened to make your art more alive and realistic.

I hope I kind of inspired you to try something new. And maybe also made you realize that you do not need to be a pro on something before you try it. Because as you can see, even if I am not as good as some artists out there I still try to do it because why not? It makes me happy and I hope it will make you feel that way too.

Have a good day and always keep safe! ❤️