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inspiration Create This Book by YouTuber Moriah Elizabeth, my least favorite produce ever (tomato) and something I find creepy (tarantula)
materials Ohuhu alcohol markers, printer paper, & copic black 0.3 & 0.05 inking pens

Part two of the comparison prompt (part one here), this one was harder to select colors for. I basically pulled out about 12 colors based on my swatching and then closed my eyes and picked four from that pile to decide on which colors to use - and they turned out to be a VERY Easter-y palette. Just like with my least favorite colors, I wanted to do a comparison within a comparison and drew two of my least favorite things. My 7-year-old gave me the tomato idea and then I was going to do a rhinoceros beetle but my dad suggested a spider instead. Regular spiders (especially the tiny ones) make my skin crawl a bit too much so I settled on a tarantula instead

One thing I was asked about was why the printer paper when I'm doing these prompts for a literal art book. Answer is rather simple and that is that the Ohuhu markers bleed through this sort of paper very easily and this is something Moriah Elizabeth herself suggests in her book instructions as well as does it herself in her own YouTube videos.

All in all...very pleased with how these came out and it was a fun little exercise. Rediscovering drawing/color it one of the few things keeping me sane at the moment, so very very grateful for this outlet.