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3003. Twintails watercolour painting

I painted this late at night with a really warm light in my work space, so my perception of colour was very off. Even so, I liked how it turns out! It feels quite good looking at all those brush strokes that I left alone without tidying them up. It

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2998. New inks: Pilot Iroshizuku!

I admit it's a bit of a stretch for me to get several small bottles of ink of Pilot Iroshizuku, but I didn't regret it. Turns out, two out of the six bottles I bought were already discontinued – I didn't know about it until

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2997. New fountain pens: Pilot Kaküno!

This pen is so, so popular I couldn't help but to get myself two of them, both M nib. One was actually enough but I found it at such good price, it could be a back up when I'm experimenting inks. I wasn't thinking

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2974. Cuddling with Fei 2 (watercolour painting + timelapse video)

It took me a few days of looking at my failed watercolour painting until I had the courage to do it again... And I'm glad I did! I redrew the first painting with the light table. This time, I used medium nib instead of fine, and I love

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2971. Cuddling with Fei (watercolour painting + timelapse video)

I have both good and bad things to share about this. Bad things: I didn't enjoy this process quite much. It's probably the first time in many, many years where I can't honestly say "it was nice," which is sad, because I

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2970. Cuddling with Fei (ink lineart)

When did this feeling of wanting to draw Hai and Fei moon-watching around September or mid-autumn festival started? I can't remember, but it feels nice. 🎑 This time, I used TWSBI ECO fine nib to do the ink lineart. In summary: while it was still working fine

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2967. Ducks by the pond (watercolour painting + timelapse video)

This is my first try at using watercolour to paint on Fabriano watercolour paper. It's really nice! ✨ Specialised watercolour paper is awesome. Even when this brand is more on the affordable side, it's already a great improvement to what I usually used! I'm glad

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2966. Ducks by the pond (pencil sketch)

It's sad that the pencil sketch is barely visible in the scanned version. 😔 But that's okay! With the power of filter layer, I can increase its colour digitally.

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2963. Sky and Yumiel's school portraits (ink lineart + marker accent + timelapse video)

The most fun part of analog drawing is always lining it. Having found the perfect paper for it gives me more fun in doing this, way more than a lot of analog doodles I did last year. Yay! ^^

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2962. Sky and Yumiel's school portraits (pencil sketch)

A refreshing pencil sketch of Sky and Yumiel in their summer uniform! I like drawing school uniforms, but they end up being very similar with each other. I should diversify them...

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2955. I've been waiting for you (ink lineart + marker accent + timelapse video)

Inking is my favourite part of analog drawing; so I rationalised buying fountain pens and inks because of this. But really – fountain pen drawing is really, really fun. Gliding pen nib is a tactile feeling no digital tools can replicate.

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2954. I've been waiting for you (pencil sketch)

I drew a tiny pencil sketch of a few comic panels of Cali and Maple on one of my mini sketchbooks. Pencil drawing in Canson Graduate Manga felt so good! ✏️

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2948. Assorted doodle 24: mini sketchbook spread

On the first page of my mini sketchbook, I tested a few drawing tools: ink, marker, watercolour.

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2946. Pippa's best friend watercolour doodle

Another watercolour doodle I did within a day! ✨ This time, let's draw Pippa again~ It was lucky that I remembered to take some photographs when I was inking. Looking at these reminds me how much fun I had. Hong Dian nib handles cold pressed watercolour paper very, very

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2945. Summer uniform Bell watercolour doodle

A tiny, refreshing watercolour doodle I did of Bell! I used watercolour paper this time. It does a lot of nice things! #papermatters

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2943. Homemade mini sketchbooks

I just made even more homemade sketchbooks just like before! This is a perfect balance of experimenting paper to find which ones work best with my drawing tools and habit. It's also a great, fun way of finding My Favourite Paper without committing to pricey sketchbooks which feels

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2920. Another Yumiel and Sky watercolour doodle

Another doodle of Yumiel and Sky. It's actually quite wholesome.

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2919. Yumiel and Sky watercolour doodle

This is one of Yumiel and Sky's doodle I did in my sketchbook. This piece helped me practice watercolour painting and colour picking as well.

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2915. Assorted doodle 22

Multiple objects I've been doodling in my sketchbook. A chance to test painting in some ways. Analog medium is really fun!!!!!

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2907. Peace watercolor doodle

One more watercolour doodle in my handmade sketchbook!

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2905. Purple hair doodle

Another watercolour doodle in my homemade sketchbook. I've been using regular paper for so long, that it always surprised me when I tried to paint in better paper. The paint behaved too nicely, I panicked(?) to see such pleasant effect.

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2903. At the cherry blossom park with you watercolour doodle

This was done quite impulsively in the middle of the night. I didn't know how the colour would turn because I was painting this under a very warm light. It actually turned out quite pretty! I like it so much. Having hopped on watercolour since 2024, I think

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2902. Gradient purple doodle

This piece was an experiment! I learnt how to play with watercolour opacity and doing gradient with it.

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2901. Homemade sketchbook first page + assorted doodle 22

Remember this homemade sketchbook I did a while ago? I've since doodled on it a little bit, and only then I realised: I prefer sketchbooks in A5 to A6! I thought I'd love smaller pages, but it took me a while to enjoy drawing in A6