This is when I ended up liking the sketch better than than the line art.

I did this way back on inktober. Using ink pen on traditional drawing is hard for me because I can not erase it once the ink is on the paper.

I really want to post, but I getting slower on drawing and I have been getting burnouts that I did not draw anything good.

2021 has been a sad year for me. There are happy times, but most are sad. I am not expecting anything good in 2022 because I am not optimistic. I will just to do things that I like to do to keep me happy.

Cat Sketch

A pencil sketch of our pet cat. We have him with us since he was a kitten. His mother is also our pet and he have a brother, a sister, and a half brother (the kitten from my painting, “The Kitten at Home” was his half brother). And also the mother of his mother used to be our pet. I’m sad to say that his mother had passed away due to what we think was caused by snape bite and his brother move away because they don’t get along. They did get a new pet, which was a dog, and I hope he will get along with cats, become friends and playmates. We also have a dozen of chickens.

There are more animals in this place. I live near a forest, a tropical forest, where I could heard and see a lot of birds. And sometimes there are civets coming into our yard and eat our papayas during the night and sometimes I could hear owls. There are also those times there is this iguana that sometimes come to our yard. Well I do love animals.

Skidmark Fan Art

This is my fan art of Skidmark from the Dreamwork movie, Turbo, and its TV series, Turbo FAST. I used colored pens, black ink pen, poster paint and colored pencils.I thought the movie was okay, but the series was greater than the movie. In the series, the characters, Whiphlash, Skidmark, White Shadow, Burn and Smoove Moove get more character development and they are lovable.

My favorite character is Skidmark, the blue snail who was Whiphlash’s feisty number two and the one with propellers on his racing shells because he is so smart and had a good sense of humor. The fact that he is a conspiracy theorist only made him more lovable.

I will tell more informations about him than wikipedia did, though I am getting ideas from wikipedia and add my thoughts about him and I’m sorry that I will not talk about the other characters. But don’t take this so seriously because I may have said something wrong.

He is very talented at mechanics as he builds racing shells that give him and his teammates speed and his racing shell has mechanical arms inside it, which he often use to build his invention quickly and used like hands. Skid is one of the funniest characters in the series and is shown to be enthusiatic. He the most intelligent and wisecraking of the crew as he come up with plans and ideas and can tell a pretty good joke. He is studious and an absolute genuis, but insane. His teammates often get annoyed with his fondness to conspiracy theories, despite most of them are true. He has the ability to see other people’s thoughts and knows that he is in a show as he sometimes breaks the fourth wall. Although he have an unusual behavior and slacks off at times, he is a devoted member of the crew and he proved that he have compassion such as saving innocent snails and insects from dangerous creatures, helping others and sacrificing himself to save his friends.

The series did not reveal his past life. I know that his real name is Skip Markovitch, but where does he come from? It said that he is an immigrant from a place called Shellis Island and his last name was changed. It was never mentioned in the series that he has any parents or relatives. Maybe he was found by Whiphlash and was the first one to be recruited to the crew and that’s why he’s the second-in-command. Maybe Whiphlash was his adopted father or guardian after he moved to him.

Some people say that ordinary snails can smart, but a snail literally has no brain. Does the makers of the series even know that snail don’t have brains? Skidmark said that he have a brain and keeps saying things about it like “it’s messing with my brain.” Maybe Skidmark didn’t mean an actual brain, but another organ that controls. Maybe he is the only snail that has a brain. I know that the snails in Turbo are anthropomorphic, but Skidmark is rather unique. Maybe the reason why he is a genuis was because he has a brain. This is not making any sense, but I just saying.

There is something good happened when watching Turbo FAST and Skidmark as my favorite character. Skidmark inspired me to study harder and to be smart. It really help me in school. I’ve been getting good grades because I’ve been studying really hard and I became smarter. I’m very thankful.

Pencil Poem

My favorite brand of pencils is Faber-Castell for me the graphites are really good. I do still use other brand. I love to sketch, especially portrait, because it was really fun. A pencil can be used to sketch out what you are going to paint or color so you will know where to add color. I also use a mechanical pencil and it also good because its graphite is so thin that you can easily do details and small drawings. Have you read The Parables of the Pencil or the Story of the Pencil? Last year, my English teacher made us read that and ask us to make a drawing, painting, poem or anything we want to make on paper that is related to that and I decided to make a painting with a poem. I don’t have a picture of that painting and I passed it to my teacher, but I have a copy of the poem.

A pencil is life
You make me creative
Whether to write or draw
No matter how hard is it

I have been worried
But you give me hope
You never give up on me
Your life is just like mine