Inspiration behind what I draw

Hi (≧∇≦)ﾉ!

I hope you are having a good start to the month, today I want to tell you about the process of my drawing:

"Between Books and Plants"

During the last few months I have drawn mice more and more often and this is because:

1. I like them (´ ･ ω ･ `)

2. They are fun to draw and help me release stress

3. The possibilities of expressing emotions with them is very wide.

When I first started drawing them, I felt somewhat uncomfortable because I couldn't separate them from their "realistic" representation. These are some drawings that I made of references to learn from them:

These are some drawings I made by studying photo references on the internet.

But when I began to understand their anatomy I was able to play more with the poses and ended up enjoying drawing them a lot.

At some point I began to deform the mice more and more until they became somewhat simple and over time I could start to put personality in the little rodents.

In the last few months I noticed that I was drawing more mice than humans, even when humans were my comfort zone to some extent before, but the mice were somehow helping me relieve the stress I was feeling at that moment. So I started making small scenes with mice in my illustrations.

And this is the sketch with which I started to make the illustration in question.

So we got to "Between books and plants" a watercolor drawing of which I shared its process on YouTube and although I have no intention of uploading videos in the short term in the channel, it would be a shame not to show you the video now that I already have it on the platform (￣ ▽ ￣ ；). I hope you like it!

By the way, here are some artists that I like how they draw mice and that have inspired me! Just click on their name to go to their websites:

David Petersen (Mouse Guard Comic Artist)

Carter Goodrich (Ratatouille Character Designer)

See ya!