@TokeninAC

aimee cairns! they/them 35yrs old, NZ 🇳🇿☁️ Take a rest, then help others ☁️ 🌱 Follow my patreon for FREE behind-the-scenes ramblings:

 Wellington, New Zealand
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Joined December 2014
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antidepressants do seem to reduce SOME people’s creativity, but this was not the case for me. Art became more enjoyable abd my imagination did not become dull If you are suffering, anti-depressants may be an option. You don’t know how/if it will effect your art until you try.
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fairies with their wands
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wishing for the sky .
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Had a thought today that the pursuit of productivity doesn’t align with what I want to get out of art right now. I’m trying to see a reality where a productive result isn’t the goal, and feeling recharged and restful is.
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i re-drew my brother @mordiggin ‘s character Adlen! I wanted to demonstrate some techniques he might want to encorperate in his style (also after he coloured his image, we realized he forgot to do the occlusion line-art pass that he usually does with his art).
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A long time ago, I decided I would make finished illustrations that weren't just practice, even though I had no where near mastered fundamentals. So all my art is my practice, successes, and failed attempts, that I share with you :)
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Sharing the Harvest ~ 🌾🌸
dancing fairy holding wheat ane flowers, other smaller fairies excited by the harvest

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Time in the Garden 🌼🌺🌸
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New free post on my patreon (all my posts are free) about “Restful Drawing”. A kind of drawing that i have been doing that is low stakes and fits in to a busy life! patreon.com/posts/158905333?…

“Restful” Drawing Practice | Tokenin

On my journey of getting through artblock, I have explored a number of avenues on how to get through the “resistances” i’ve built up about a

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thanks for liking my latest artwork :)
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a small celebration.
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struggling to remember what year a lot of this stuff is from.. 2018 maybe? ink & alcohol marker works.
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2017? - building the hutch
one lady looks delightedly at a newly made fairy kennel, with a fairy dog in it, while the other lady looks proudly at her handiwork

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2017 - Fairies in the Petals
pink fairy creatures dance among a flower bush

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2019? - Travelling through
various mushroom creatures walk along a tree im different directions, heading to their destinations

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a knight of blue and yellow … ready.
a squat knight with a blue and yellow tabbard stands with a sword

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2019 - Pupbees 🐝
a bunch of puppies hanging out in the pods of their hive

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2019? Gumbly Bears
three strange gummy bears wander through nature debris.

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2019 - through the heart
a group of tourists walking through a stone sculpture of a person in a forest

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2025 - small feasts 🍗🌰🥜
a group of creatures in a hollowed out chestnut enjoy their foraged food

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a chestnut shaped caterpillar looks excitedly at an unopened nut it is about to eat

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