haha good luck, I hope you get the gift you're looking for :) I'm going to have to check out the one that clicks into different colours! Seems like a great pen to own. The ink does smudge but it dries very fast, especially with the smaller nibs. I love using my 0.1mm nib for detail and have never smudged any ink using it. The 0.5mm on the other hand releases more ink with every drag so you have to be a bit careful but you'll get the hang of it quickly I'm sure :)
Thank you so much I don't do really detailed work. More sloppy in my application of lines. Your are so precise and fine. True talent.
Your work doesn't have to be detailed, we all have our own ways to express ourselves... ;) I absolutely love working with a pallet knife and acrylic just experimenting with the colours mixing together to create an abstraction of some sorts. In my opinion talent is acquired so essentially we're all talented. Some of us just tap into it later or completely at random :)
My came from the psych ward! Literally, there isn't much they let you do there but they had a box of crayons and coloring sheets. I don't watch tv and couldn't really talk in coherent sentences at that point so I just colored most of the days.
Ohh I'm sorry to hear that and hope all is looking better for you now :) I've always felt that drawing, whatever it may be, bring serenity and joy to my life. Regardless of if my mood is ridiculous at the time. I always manage to ground myself with art and its one of the things that I love the most about creativity in general.
I can tell you have done art for a long period of time. I am doing better. The illness is lifelong being indifferianted schizophrenia but I am learning to manage it and accept my life will be different than originally planned. Art does soothe my brain in a way and then I also like to draw some of the things I see and hear to share them with others because some of it is beautiful, interesting, or so different from what I normally see the world as that I am like wow. Maybe we should look into that or just offer a glimpse of what goes on through a psychotic mind that isn't violent. I am not a violent mentally ill person so there's not much research or data into the nonviolent psychotic illness. I would like there to be more awareness of the illness too. People hear the word schizophrenic and instantly fear or panic on some level. But I find it's more like dementia on most days. My husband and children have been my rocks through the illness and I have a pretty fulfillling life. Lots of children to love, middle class in America, s nice home, good transportation, medical care if needed, I have lots to be thankful for and to cherish. I noticed you draw seashells a lot in your patterns... do they represent something like the triangles did?
@kristy1 I find it extremely powerful (in a good way) that the universe has its way of throwing us into situations whether uncomfortable or not. I'm currently still trying to change the way I feel about things happening to me or anyone else. This goes back to an accident I was involved in last year, that I may talk about at some point but don't feel ready yet. Do say the least it really changed my perspective and as you have wonderful children and a loving husband be you rocks, I had friends and family help guide me too :) I really feel the connection to the people we deem most important underlines our life more than most other. I have high hopes for the end of the first quarter of the 21st century in terms of medical advancements and feel its our duty to look past the western way of thinking about health and include the eastern traditional ways. Another often overlooked aid that has helped me gain a more peaceful mind is meditation even if just for 15 minutes. The work on my self is so important I more often than not feel like creating is a meditative process. Yeah I just love drawing lines :)