Mimi's Newsletter - New Projects 🎨🖌️✨ (Patreon)

Hello everyone,

I hope that you've been having a wonderful July, whether you're in the middle of summer or middle of winter right now!

I had a bit of time off earlier in the month because I was studying some beginner Italian at a school which was so interesting because I haven't studied in a classroom setting for about a decade 😅 It was honestly so fun and refreshing to learn something new though so I really enjoyed it (and all of the gelato obviously)!

For the past couple of weeks though I've been a busy bee working on lots of nice projects:

I've been writing my first proper video class about Starting A Successful Art Business that I'll be hosting independently (not on Skillshare), and I'm very excited to share it in September!

I'm also in the middle of illustrating another picture book for one of my Australian publishers and it has lots of sweet animals in it. I much prefer drawing books with animals rather than humans because people are so much harder to draw for me! When I have a lot of illustrating to do I often put on some TV or listen to a podcast, so at the moment I'm finally watching the latest season of Bridgerton.

And then as always I've been enjoying making things here on Patreon and for YouTube as well!

My partner Dan is away on a hike at the moment and he usually edits all of the videos, so I've been doing the video editing for the last couple 🙈 I'll be editing the Beautiful Bluebell lesson video today as well so hopefully it turns out ok!

I got back into drawing with coloured pencils this month, which I normally only do as part of our illustration club these days and everything else I draw digitally, but this month I really enjoyed doing some little sketches in pencil that maybe I'll turn into digital drawings later.

Do you use a mix of traditional and digital media or do you just stick with one?

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