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everbloomingforest.bsky.social
digital and traditional illustrator from Belgium. lvl 31 - pigeon mom recovering 🌸 rewiring my brain 🌸 https://refsheet.net/everbloomingforest
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I will create some kind of book of my stories eventually πŸ˜… I'm more motivated than ever but I work fulltime OTL. but one day

random drawings inspired by the stories my bf writes and tells me about. drawing random ideas stress free helps my creative process

our idea board 😊 mostly my drawings but also some writing from my bf of our comic idea

here I am planting an Acer Palmatum in my boyfriend's garden. recovery comes with HUGE ups and downs haha. but that's why I'm going slow with art and even quitting projects. I need to live OTL 🌸🌸🌸

my last convention. I'm quitting for now πŸ™‚ it's a 14 year dream I'm giving up and I am grieving but the past editions were bad, with losses and it's just no longer fun 🀷 onwards to healing and creating new dreams β˜€οΈ

Muffin and the strange rock armadillo creature. something my partner imagined about. my sketches are usually crap OTL but I'm gonna just draw what I envision πŸ˜… in order: pastel silhouette+sketch, watercolor, ink+brush

I'm working on my Everblooming Forest comic but also on a cyberpunk detective graphic novel with my partner. I don't consider myself good at drawing BUT I'm at that point in my life I just say: fuck it, let's draw before I disappear from this earth πŸ˜…

self care. I draw again in my studio, I treat myself again, I clean, organise, plan, brainstorm again. healing bit by bit 🌿🌿🌿

my gorgeous boy ;; ❀️❀️❀️

cute dragon nature creature my boyfriend gifted me. inspired by my Everblooming Forest. he loves hearing about my comics and brainstorming with me. he reads from books aloud to me to stimulate my fantasy and motivate me. silly little things that are healing me faster than I could ever do myself. 🀷

I remember when I dated my boyfriend the first months I was mostly mute due to trauma. but he kept asking me to talk about my pigeons bc that is my safe space and that way he could hear me talk bc he loves to hear me talk. 8 months in and I'm proud to say my muteness is almost gone πŸ₯³ #recovery

recovery 🌹 I love writing and drawing again. I'm brainstorming, sketching and imagining regularly again 😊 baby steps

nobody can stop me now πŸ‘€ (it's the heatpress my bf gifted me) I mean, pigeon tshirts πŸ‘€

he gives me his paper and pencils, he gifts me inspiration, and a place to exist. slowly but surely I am healing 🌿 I would have let myself wither but he keeps watering me

healing at my boyfriend's place in the weekend. the board is to heal my creativity. And he gave me the latest Zelda game to help me relax. at home I'm a workaholic and quite exhausted. so weekend is therapy πŸ˜‹

my studio cleaned up! a big step in saving myself. and while I still fight my demons every day and I'm super tired. at least I've saved my identity. oh and my plants, they were on the brink of death...

it's not much, but this is what recovery looks like. ever since my bf discovered the Everblooming Forest, he wants me to write about it, talks about it all the time. he's good at writing stories and he's helped me so much when I was about to trash my comics. so he gifted me this book. 😊

so not only does this man actually love me for who I am. he's also striving to heal my artistic soul and stimulate me to work on my comics. here he is reworking my World map. like give this man a nobel prize or something. how did I deserve him?? so yes expect more comic stuff in the future 😊

so I dissappeared for 5 months ☠️ long story short I broke up with my toxic ex and I ended up breaking myself in the process, including my artistic self. but I can finally say my artistic soul is healing. he (my new partner) actually is helping me heal my art in many ways πŸ˜‡

working my way through this painting πŸ˜‹ glad I discovered the Baohong paper, it holds up all my abuse πŸ‘€

in traditional there's a thing called 'ugly stage' which is where you trust the process and keep 'sculpting' the piece. digital art never gives me this vibe so it's a challenge πŸ˜…

birthday gift for myself 😊

started some painting again 😊

exercise with blocking out shapes with pastel

I try to kick art block in the rear everyday by doing exercises. some of it helps, some of it doesn't but it's better than lying around?? πŸ€”

still a wip, but I'm trying to reimagine my old comic concepts and make them visually more appealing πŸ€” also clothes πŸ‘€

reimagining my old comic OC, if I'd ever dabble in comic making again, I try to make it visually more appealing πŸ˜…

art jam piece for @halovana.bsky.social 😁 some digital art from me πŸ‘€

I don't have much art to show bc of burnout(no surprise πŸ˜…) but have my pigeon friend instead, I take care of them ❀️ (they have a permanent broken beak πŸ₯Ή)

the left side of my studio, the cleanest it has been yet! I'm glad spring cleaning is finally working out this year.