Wow, how much I miss to write on this blog :)

I know I was “missing”, but because of so many things to solve and think about, it became necessary. For those who don't know, this year started out complicated for me, even before the coronavirus: the death of my dog, problems to solve at home, my grandmother who died on May 27... and, of course, the coronavirus situation.

It's no surprise to anyone that this coronavirus crisis hit everyone and the quarantine, while necessary, also affected our work in a unique way. I keep drawing here and there, of course, but there's so much going on in my head that it's been difficult to draw more often than I would like.

Right now I'm focusing on my main job (design) and the things to solve. I must resume the blog updates and the drawings as soon as possible - because I haven't given up on my dream and my faith in God is what keeps me and has always kept me firm in any situation in my life.

Resuming a more fixed routine for drawing as in the past has been difficult for me at the time. Everyday stress and anxiety hasn't been easy either. Ironically, it's not even a problem in itself to be locked up at home because of the quarantine, but the whole surrounding situation. Staying firm at these times is, indeed, difficult, but I have done the best I could. In spite of everything, the advantage of being a freelancer helps a bit, since it's as if I had already been living in quarantine for years before the Covid-19 pandemic, haha.

Those who know me know that I'm not a big fan of shouting about my personal problems in the open air - and I don't even want to do that, after all, we all have our burdens to carry. We all have our daily struggles and what we must do is always seek opportunities in them to develop, to be better and stronger every day, no matter how difficult the situation is.

Anyway, I apologize for the outburst and the disappearance, but I felt that there was a need to make a Update regarding what has been happening in my life, even for those who usually follow the blog or my drawings.

I leave you now with the drawings I made in recent months and the hope of being able to return as soon as possible to the usual routine, I hope very soon <3

A hug to you who are reading this post and my sincere wishes for strength at this difficult time for all of us. May God give us the courage to face every problem! :)

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List of materials used in the drawings above:

• Paper: 200g/m² A4 plain kraft and 180g/m² (24x32cm) Canson white paper.
• First generation iPad Air, Procreate app, and Intuos Creative Stylus 2 - for digital painting. The brush I use to paint is standard in the Procreate app. It's textured and the name is Nikko Rull. Intuos stylus are very good if you can't afford an Apple Pencil. They are not usually cheap, depending on the model, but they are much cheaper than an Apple Pencil.
• Faber-Castell Polychromos pastel pencils - they are quite expensive but wonderful. It has great pigmentation and is very good at blending colors with them. I only recommend buying it even when you are more familiar with colored pencil paints. Before buying them I used those common Faber-Castell crayons that you can find everywhere. After I learned how to use it well, after about 4.5 years of training, then I purchased these professional pencils.
• Mechanical pencil - I usually use it to make initial sketches and soft shading.
• 4B, 6B and/or 8B pencils - for stronger shading, darker areas.
• Blood pencil (Sanguine oil) - I use it for initial sketches in drawings that I plan to paint later, in addition to using for some areas of soft shading as well. They are also very cool to use for skin in conjunction with pencils of different shades of brown, pink, yellow, etc.