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MATS Bootcamp Assignment 4 - Nautical Wall Art

June's MATS Bootcamp assignment was Nautical wall art. Unfortunately I did not meet the deadline but I am still working on it.

I really enjoyed this theme. I did a lot of sketches of ships in bottles, sailors and mermaids, pirates, boats and sea creatures. I think the hardest part was deciding which elements to use but no worries, I will eventually flesh out the ones I like and save them for a rainy day.

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Tea Time!

I really loved the first theme of cuckoo clocks for the MATS Bootcamp assignment for February. In a few of my doodles I explored teapot clocks inspired by the dormouse from Alice in Wonderland. I decided to flesh out some of my sketches after joining a Facebook group spinoff that posed "assignments" every month or so. It's more of a way to stay self motivated without actually committing to another class. I've found it very inspiring networking with so many other talented people who are in a similar boat as I am (wanting to do more creative work but are either too busy with family life or have a full time job that is not illustration). I've probably done more personal work and sketching in the past couple months than I did all last year!

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