Mimi's Newsletter - Sketching Up A Storm (Patreon)

Hello everyone,

I've traded the sunny skies of the mediterranean for the windy coastline of Scotland, but I am ready for some cosy, rainy days of illustrating! I had such a lovely summer exploring Italy but now that I'm back in the UK I've settled into a quiet Airbnb for all of September so that I can focus on drawing and on creating my new class about starting a creative business.

I've already been doing lots of sketching since I got here last week and am feeling inspired to create lots of lovely things.

It really feels like autumn is around the corner up here with the windy, rainy weather and some of the trees are already starting to change colour so I'll definitely be drawing some autumn illustrations soon!

Something that I would really love to do is make a little fictional world to base my illustrations in, something that feels quaint and wholesome and maybe a little bit magical. There would be lots of animals living there in beautiful dens and burrows, spending their time gardening and baking and doing all of the things we wish we could spend our time on!

I've started sketching out some ideas for it, and I think it would just help give a bit of a 'theme' to my art and make it feel a bit more cohesive. I can still draw other things, but I think that building a fictional world would be so lovely and maybe I could write a children's book based on it some day.

What have you been working on? Are you looking forward to a change of seasons or were you enjoying the summer/winter?

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