About National Anthems and other random thoughts...

Tomorrow we're singing the anthem of Asturias, and it sounds like a love song to me. My National Anthem talks about war and I've always felt (with all due respect) that it's violent having children sing it. And even as a grown up I really wish I could instead sing something beautiful and inspiring!
I was thinking all this as I was drawing and I came up with the idea of making up my own words for the fictitious anthem of a fictitious land that says only sweet things if possible.
So I was attempting to make my version of an Etruscan horse again, except mine came out as an undefined beast. Perfect for a fictitious land!
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I think my beast looks a little Greek.
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It will need plants and waterfalls!

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And whirls of wind to sing through the water and purple sunsets, if it matches the color scheme I have in mind... Maybe I should make more than one.

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This is what I was able to do for today, I hope to be able to make many more things tomorrow before the choir sings!
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I don't really feel like writing over my drawing anymore, I will make a bookmark with it for my Etsy shop and perhaps will continue to explore the idea I had when I started. Days seem to speed by and I feel so tired right now, but that's good, it means I will be up early in the morning :)

Doodling with ink and acrylic

I love drawing, I remember it used to be so easy when I was younger, I would just listen to some music and out came so many colorful designs. Suns with stretched out hands for rays, monks meditating with cats sitting on their heads, laps and shoulders, speech bubble-like eyes, dancing feet and dancers. I never had to think what I wanted to draw, it just happened and I so loved my designs.

So today I started to doodle, thinking I might be able to use them as scrap-booking supplies or something similar. I need to find a commercial use for them so I can continue to doodle freely.

I trust eventually I'll get back to doodling at least as fluently as I used to or perhaps even better than before :)