Emil

I haven't been able to read all your messages you sent me, but thank you for all your emotional support, I appreciate you all. I'm really trying to get out this incredibly nonsensical depression I've been dragging these months. Something which has helped me a really lot is to go to a professional therapist, if you ever feel like lost, confused or there are some emotions you want to direct to a better place, I definitely recommend you to attend to a professional therapist; at least I feel very lucky with mine, she always knows what to tell me. It's not as magical as going to one session and suddenly everything is better and fixed, and after all it is us who are going to help ourselves, but they are a really good guide of what to do. An impartial guide from someone who is unaffiliated to every connection we already have, because of course it is good to talk with close friends and they are also an emotional support, but we also need the guide of someone who is not as close to us and it has a professional point of view of things.

I'm departing tomorrow to my trip, my first stop is in the USA, which of course this time I'm nervous for the very tense political situation that is happening right now, but I'm confident everything is going to be alright, that it will be like any other visit to the USA.

I have a lot of "homework" (or better called, "tripwork") to do from all the commissions I accepted recently on Telegram, I'm gonna be sharing here updates of those works from every so often, I also got to finish another traditional picture on acrylics that is a gift but I don't want to spoil the surprise so I'm going to schedule the post here when I know he may already saw this picture with his own eyes.

But for now, yesterday I got to finish this piece for Emil, who I'm going to see tomorrow before entering to the USA, he already saw this picture and I think he liked it. I'm not sure if tomorrow is the day I'm submitting this one to my galleries, because tomorrow will be such a busy day to me, but at least you have this premiere, as always.

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Hopes

The past can’t be rewritten, and some things will always be out of our hands. But even when the road ahead looks uncertain, something keeps us moving. A quiet push forward, a reason to keep going. Not because everything is perfect, but because something better might still be waiting.

Picture for Emil, that arctic wolf critter who looks like a YCH
Digital. Procreate.

Also there is the full time-lapse process video attached on this post that you can see. Someone just asked me if I make those videos with OBS, if it was with OBS it would look all the zoom ins, how I rotate the canvas, all the color pics from the palette.. Those videos are exported automatically with Procreate, it's a cool feature that the software records by itself, and I think those are pretty cool.

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I really love you all, thank you so much for all the support, financial and emotional.
* panda hugs *

Paco