Like the title says! Happy 4th to my American friends here :) We went to  robertvarulfur's home this year. He has always loved fireworks while I've always been terrified of them, and I got my I-told-you-sos in this time when the biggest multi-shot firework started launching out the bottom and hitting our cars/flying at people. It was all in good sport, though, and I'll still go next year :B I'll just bring a shield and keep a bucket of water on my person haha.

I was doodling a lot over the past month or two, but most of it is stuff I don't really want to post yet because of the subject matter. Now I'm kind of to a point where I have energy I want to expend drawing, but I don't have much inspiration. I'm going to hold off on commissions for a while because I don't want to force myself to put out anything I can't put all my energy towards.

So, I thought I'd put this question out there:

What are some of your favorite things to draw/ what always inspires you to want to draw? I always love reading when people write about what they are passionate about. Links to pictures, song/artist/tv/movie suggestions, artsy memes, etc. are all welcome :D

Personally, my inspiration usually comes from relationships, as you can probably tell from my gallery haha! I definitely do have doodles that were just "for fun" or based on media, but most of my most popular and personal favorite drawings stem from a particular conversation with my husband/friend/ex/family. I both love and hate it because, looking through my gallery, I can see a drawing and remember the exact place in life I was at when I drew it -- sometimes even the exact conversation and the feelings behind it. It's like a little window into my past and they help me to not only express emotions when I'm going through them, but also to remember things I'd probably otherwise forget.

For instance, I can look back at This picture and remember the time I was texting  robertvarulfur before we were even dating, and we were talking about how much we hated dancing. That was just before he offered to take me to my senior prom as friends because I had just broken up with my then-boyfriend :)

This is also annoying when some of my most popular drawings come from an old relationship that didn't end particularly well. Nothing like getting a "cute couple!" comment on a drawing of you and your ex from seven years ago, haha! But I try to keep those drawings out there and on my hard drive because I can still appreciate the memories and, if not the memories, the art and the effort I put into it.

To help this, I moved from my oooold account  silvermoon93 to here. So if you want a laugh, look through my art there xD

At the same time, I sometimes feel like some of my best pieces are very personal and worry about putting too much "out there" when I share them. I always love seeing those pieces from other artists, though, and I feel silly just leaving the art sitting in a folder, so I usually end up sharing them anyway.

Because of this, I'll probably eventually end up sharing the other drawings I've done in the past few months, but IDK when the right time will be. We'll see :B