Everything is Alright (Finished) / Izzy Stickers / WIPs

These weeks that I was at home I thought I was very productive and that I could finish so many things, but now that I'm sharing this new post I realized I was not really, I've taken ages on those sketches on the WIPs that I'm showing you this time.

I could finish this piece that was auctioned for the characters placement, at first I wanted to make that scene my own since it was very personal, but I needed some money (It's not that I'm in a bad financial situation, it is more that money that I was expecting to arrive sooner, it hasn't arrived (Anthrocon's art show payment) ).

If I'm very honest, I'm not in the best mood, I've felt lately like a nuisance, like I've been the cause of many problems for my friends, and I can't tell anyone how exactly I feel or why about this thought. And then I try to tell someone how I feel and I ended up feeling overwhelmed, and it's kind of hard for me to tell why I feel overwhelmed because people would think "that lucky bastard, he has so many friends! why is he talking about?" . I guess it's just a phase, it will fade away, it is just hard to work like this, if I open my eyes, yes, indeed I have many people around me, most of them like me mainly because I draw cute funny animals, but there have been some authentic amazing people that I should feel so grateful they exist, and I should accept that there is always a reason why someone comes to our lives; mine is mainly because I draw, otherwise I think I would be a person completely potato. Sorry I don't even know how to organize my thoughts... I just wanted to share this here. I'm sorry if I always take days to reply on Telegram.

Better I should share what the drawings I'm sharing this time are about, at least it is something I should feel proud of.

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Everything is Alright

I keep repeating that in my head over and over again.

This is Adam (the fox) with his friend Tony (the wolf) when they were younger, back when life was stress-free for the two of them. They both went to a place called "Sixteen Mile Creek". It was a long hike to get there, requiring them to walk open fields with green hills visible in the distance. As they walked through the fields, they passed by a few electric pylons, something Adam had never been so close to in-person until that day.

Eventually, they reached a wooded area at the opposite end of the field from where they had started. They spent nearly the entire day there, having fun and not worrying about anything. However, when Adam returned home, his parents were extremely upset with him for being gone so long without telling them. Despite the scolding, the experience remained a nice memory for Adam.

Adulthood reached us, and we are surviving it in our own way, leading with our anxiety and daily stress. It's healthy to escape a little bit from what we think is our reality, and see the real world. Why not to keep sharing those cheering memories, even now, and go to walk to places like this with a friend, to the point that there is nothing else more to talk about and you just enjoy that moment with them, and to see that all the stress and anxieties are things that only live in our heads, they are not real. The cold wind in our face is real.

Time is insignificant and we must accept it. Spending time with our friends doing nothing is not wasting time, it is enjoying our life.

Digital. Procreate.

See on the attached files the full time-lapse process video of this illustration.

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Izzy Stickers

As I'm advancing on completing the Patreon rewards, despite I'm very slow with it, I haven't ceased to advance on them. I've been kind of stuck with working with stickers, I really take ages working on stickers X__X That's why it is very complicated for me to accept stickers commission, also it is more enjoyable for me to work in illustrations, are more inspiring and I can tell so many things with them. I always compare them with a baker wanting to make cakes but he is requested to make bread. Bread is always in high demand and people find them more useful than ordering a cake, that it is only for special occasions. Even that way I'm trying to lead my way to mainly make cakes.

But here you can see all the stickers done for Izzy, now he has 30 stickers in his sticker pack, which has been worked over the years. I've noticed that his stickers pack shows the evolution of my style (at least noticeable to me), it has been around a decade that I started working on that stickers pack, very slowly. You can see it here:

https://t.me/addstickers/Izzy_Otter

And also I attached on this post the process video for these last stickers, I think I had never shown before how I work on stickers.

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WIPs

I've been working on a sketch for a surprise for someone, please don't share around this sketch, since I really love surprises and I wouldn't like someone gets spoiled with this future gift.

And also I've been working at the same time on more and more stickers, by this point I've only done the sketches, but it seems it will take forever since that pack needs to have 15 stickers, it will really take a while so I will be a little bit stuck working on that sticker pack before I can advance on more promised patreon rewards.

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This next week (from tomorrow to Friday next week) I will visit a friend (I really need this), I may keep working because that's usually what I do, but my replies on Telegram will be again specially slower.

Once again, thank you so much for the support, it really means the world to me.

I'm sorry if this time my post was a little bit emo. Nothing is really going wrong, all the demons are only in my head, and I'm doing my best to help myself. Everything is alright!

I love you all!

Paco