Heather Lindsaychen @oceana1009@mastodon.art

I'm buying a new 9.7 inch iPad that can use the Apple pencil and I'm excited for when it arrives! Interesting there is no big difference between the ipad pros and the regular iPads now. I hope I can use it to sketch outside, even though the surface 3 is fairly light it's too heavy for me to hold with one hand and draw with the other, my hands are too fragile for that

Feeling better, I rested a lot and watched most of Coco. Beautiful movie even if part of the plot twist makes me unhappy for reasons that would require explaining a lot of the plot. Still 1/3 movie left so maybe there's another twist left that could change my mind.

back pain for the last two days. no painting for now while I rest my back 😣 I'd much rather be making something.

Leah's podcast https://talesofinsecurity.com/ is starting up again soon so I made a header for her website. I wanted it to be very simple but it ended up with more detail than it needed probably. The logo is a snail, so here the snail has the curious predicament of hatching in a bird's nest !

I started on the illustrator factory print file for the first pin design, vectors are so different than pixels and I can't sketch freely in illustrator for shit. When I really want to change stuff I have to load it in Photoshop then pull it back into illustrator. I'll going to start my T-shirt/ poster design in illustrator any day now, when I have brain

I had such a variety of bad dreams last night, gotta shake off this caught in a web feeling

Fish painting in Photoshop from March that I finished today, about 4 hours total. Just a painting to try not stressing about painting techniques, just get the shape and color right and everything looks so much more detailed than it really is, maybe

@oceana1009 so tired today but I refined two designs a little and started thinking about colors (screenshot of multiple screenshots arranged in Google photos)

I haven't used Adobe illustrator in forever, so the next step is to fiddle with shape placement, color scheme and line width, maybe add small details if size supports it. I've never designed a pin before 😵

I felt like not bad today?? So I spent all day thinking about enamel pin designs and looking at other peoples pins while drawing these. Some people on bird site really liked them? I'm still not 100% sure on actual design specs for pins yet

I did a painting today with no prep work, no pre-planning, no pressure, and tried to let the painting look however it wanted to look and this was the result. Two dolphins jumping out of a big surfing wave. 2 hours. it has a mood to it.

@oceana1009 here it is, the little bird business card design I made for my sweetie. Leah wanted a bird holding a pen, because then it's like the bird is the writer. it's so cute. She liked it a ton, too 😇

my sweetie loves my business card design so I'm working on a design for her and it looks really nice so far. post tomorrow. maybe other people will want business cards too :3 haha

@oceana1009 I finished adding all my recent work. After some thought I decided to make a different portfolio site for old work, which I still like, it's just very different stuff. Still need to write captions describing each illustration but I've got a headache, so it's break time. https://www.behance.net/hmchen