Rotem 🐀

@rotemdraws.com

Just a ratboy in a rat world. Illustrator / Full-stack dev 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 he/him Portfolio: https://rotemdraws.com Commissions: https://artistree.io/rotemdraws My shop: https://cosmictoast.threadless.com 🚫 No AI

Slept really bad last night so I was super tired today. I couldn't draw my boxes, lines were just wobbling all over the place... So I worked on a big illustration instead.

I took a little digital watercolours for procreate class on Skillshare and this was the project. Quick painting to try out the techniques that the instructor showed. It was fun!

Digital watercolour painting of a sea turtle swimming towards the viewer and the upper left, with a blurry reef in the background and tiny fish.

A revolutionary idea: What if I was kind to myself and was okay with taking the day off instead of feeling bad that I’m not doing stuff because I'm feeling really off today? Especially since I did do stuff. (Laundry! Boxes! Even some painting!)

I knew Himi gouache was crappy, I bought it knowing that, to have something to use in my sketchbook that I wouldn’t feel too precious about, but damn. I don’t remember having this much trouble with it the previous times I used it.

I started work today on an illustration that's been rattling in my brain for a little bit. Got a bunch of the lineart done so far. I'm working in Procreate, which I haven't really used lately for painting, so that's going to be interesting. Do you have a go to 'process' for digital painting?

Trying real hard to get back to drawing, and my stamina is zero. Doing the 100 heads challenge slowly (sloooooowlllyyyy) and I feel dizzy and tired after drawing two heads. Break time I guess.

Sometimes, life literally gives you lemons. I ordered 0.5kg of them but somehow ended up with 5 kilos. Lemonade, jam, limoncello, we'll find something to do with them.