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I am Claudia and I love to write and draw for myself. But every now and then I have the need to share my ideas with the world. Read more…

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I just really like making rough portrait sketches

I just really like making rough portrait sketches of random people, okey?!

When times are rough remember you are not alone. D

When times are rough remember you are not alone. Don't forget that we are in a pandemic and it influences your life a lot more than you would think. Not just externally but also emotionally. ⁣
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No more fun evenings to catch up with your friends and laugh about stupid things combined with a glass of wine.⁣
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No more pre excitement for a holiday you are planning cause you don't know when your next trip will happen.⁣
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No more hugging with you family and friends whenever you want to.⁣
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All these small and big things matter and influences your emotional state. So it's oke when you are not feeling it today. The world is in a weird situation right now. Have patience and don't beat yourself up about it.⁣
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Right before the first lockdown I planned my weekends way to busy. I promised myself to plan weekends off for more me time and than corona happened. In a way it was right what I needed but a 'tiny' bit to much 😅, karma is a bitch. ⁣
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I made these art journal pages such a lot time ago, November last year. An oldy but not forgotten.

Something completely random: a story about my hair

Something completely random: a story about my haircut. Yesterday I received an complement of an customer at work about my hair. I was surprised and grateful for her taking the effort of mentioning it. But you have to know the background of my current haircut 😵. ⁣
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I go to the hairdresser maybe once a year and then cut it quite short. So I can just let it grow out till the next haircut. I went to the hairdresser last July and it went completely wrong. It just wasn't cut straight and I tried to explain it to the hairdresser but she told me all kinds of reasons I found nonsense. She tried to fix it but couldn't really cause my hair was already really short. So I decided to just let it be and grow it out and head to the hairdresser in a couple months instead of one year.⁣
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Currently my hair tends to look a bit off but you don't really notice it. You mainly see it when I haven't washed my hair at the third day. The best hairday is on the day I showered and I just let it air dry. After this day it just gets worse. The day I received my complement was the day I had a shower in the morning.⁣
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Next time you see me and you find my hair looking nice and fab, you know I am clean 😂. On all other days I am just annoyed by my hair.⁣
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Also on the lookout for a new hairdresser.⁣
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The end of my super random hair story....

I have this love and hate relationship with social

I have this love and hate relationship with socialmedia I don't really understand. I miss being connected with you and my online art friends but it's also so easy to use it without intention. Which means consuming instead of creating art.

On one side you want to be connected with other artists, help and share words and drawings.
On the other side when you use to much of it you dissolving in the algorithm lossing your inner artist. Mindlessly scrolling and asking yourself why you can't find the courage of making the first line. You get stuk in the act of consuming to much.

I think so many people are addicted to social media and I have my days to. When I am hanging out with friend it is easy for me to just forget about it. But when I am by myself it can get a problem. When I notice this I have to consciously put my phone away and do something entirely different. Something that works really well is to use this timer of 1 or 2 hours. No phone checking during this time. Then I notice that I can be productive and after that it's a lot easier to let go of the addiction.

Is it the fomo effect? Definitely the dopamine.

A yummy close up of a drawing I made yesterday. I

A yummy close up of a drawing I made yesterday. I forget to share close ups of my drawing but they are the most interesting parts. Where rough lines come together and a variety of colors come to life.

A drawing of a random reference picture I found on

A drawing of a random reference picture I found on Pinterest, who can relate on this?

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