Sonia Sulaiman @Pekkuvaeltaja@mastodon.art

#introduction Hi there. I'm Sonia. I'm just getting back into making art after a ~20 yr hiatus. o_O I like to work on digital paintings inspired by Palestinian folklore, studies, fan art. That's where I'm at atm :D

In my other life, I'm a speculative fiction author on my main: @SoniaSulaiman

Got a minute to do a quick portrait study today. Still keeping up my art-a-day streak!

Reference by Howard Lyon.

#MastoArt #creativetoots

I managed to keep my streak going and made a figure study today, using reference from Adorkastock.

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Woke up to find my feed full of videos from Shireen's funeral, Israeli police beating her pallbearers with batons.

Just unreal how ppl are reacting to this by saying they "don't know what started it" and surely there is some reason the Palestinians are to blame.

As a Palestinian, I'm so full of grief and pain rn. https://twitter.com/Rushdibbc/status/1525114366403743744

#curatorprompts34

Decided to do value studies for these prompts.

I didn't time them but they felt like #5MinuteSketch exercises. It was nice to focus on simplifying shapes into value.

Two pieces and a WIP! I am trying out yet another brush. Basically I'm working backwards-- finding the most basic brush that will do what I want, or making it myself.

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One last #WIPwednesday pic. I managed to set up my piece for tomorrow: another paint-over of one of the drawings I made to practice line art.

This last week was hard, and today was rough. Trauma all over the place. But I managed to stick to making something every day. I'm kinda proud about that.

#artbrave #creativetoots #tgcf #LGBTQIA

Making art was hard today. There was so much darkness.

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Hard to create today.

Every Palestinian I know is carrying around so much pain today. I know the best thing I can do is carry on, to be creative in spite of it all. I have to resist the urge to just crawl back into bed.

It's #WIPwednesday. Here is my contribution.

#tgcf

It's so strange how I can have this condition for over a decade and still be surprised by the regular course of symptoms?

Like, I know it takes a week for me to bounce back from one panic attack. But here I am, only a day or two since my last one, and I'm wondering why I'm depressed.

Sketch vs Final.

#tgcf

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More tender Queerness.

My current WIP (and I'm counting this for my #sketchaday!). I made a brush for Procreate, and I'm trying it out in this piece. I think it'll work well for me!

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They are also husbands!

#wangxian #mdzs

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Arts for today. I am still in my danmei groove, and nothing will get me out of it. This time it's "what if King: Eternal Monarch x Heaven Official's Blessing?"

Tender Queerness is definitely my coping mechanism of choice atm.

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Giving myself a little break from the line art practice with some painting.

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