I feel incredibly lucky that, even though life hasn’t been wonderful this year, my creative outlets have really blossomed into a way of managing the worst days. With time and effort I’m starting to learn more about the parts of writing, learning and illustration that I adore, and the parts I hate. That means thatContinue reading “NSUN Creative Exhibition – I’m an artist!”
Category Archives: Digital Illustration
Instagram #DTIYS Challenges
I’ve loved taking part in my Creative Coping Strategies campaign by using Weird Words, Crap Poems and Haiku Hope to show you all how silly, random and fun creativity can be. But all of these projects have focussed on writing, when sometimes I want to spend time drawing with my best friend – my iPad.Continue reading “Instagram #DTIYS Challenges”
Learning… 📚 👓
Twenty years ago I probably thought that education was finally a pastime that I could let go of. I hated school and only had negative memories of my time there. Looking back I think I had other things distracting me from what was truly important and despite my mums desperate pleas for me to keepContinue reading “Learning… 📚 👓”
Cover Girl! 💋
Art was never the primary function of this website. As time has passed it’s become more about the mental well-being of others and showing that creativity can help with stressful symptoms. It’s been a wild ride so far. But by default of the writing and drawing I do for the site and the messages IContinue reading “Cover Girl! 💋”
Hats
You’re a wearing a hat. Yes, you. You’ve got a hat on right now, even if you don’t realise it, even if you don’t like hats. I imagine you in a deerstalker with the obligatory pipe too. And now you’re frowning, creating thick lines above your eyebrows as you wonder what the fu*k I’m onContinue reading “Hats”
Wonderful People on my Writing Journey Part 1
I’ve made the decision to start a series of posts about people I’ve been lucky enough to meet on this long and winding journey into creativity and health. Through emails, research, recommendations, and websites, I’ve found people that I’d never have met outside of ‘Steph Writes and Illustrates’. They are exciting, charitable, talented, creative, inContinue reading “Wonderful People on my Writing Journey Part 1”
Treat everyone how you want to be treated…even when you’re low 🖤
It’s been a hard week. My creative juices have completely dried up at the hands of some careless people who choose to be unaccountable for their actions. I’m not a bitch, let’s just lay that on the table. I’ve spent my life trying to treat people with the same care, thought, love and attention thatContinue reading “Treat everyone how you want to be treated…even when you’re low 🖤”
Pain, creative pain and terrible ideas 😞
Just like my post with the Hello Kitty drawing, tonight I’ve found myself pained, desperate for sleep and unable to find a workable solution for either. So, once again, it’s now 3.39am and I could cry. Working hard to keep tears at arms length, I desperately needed a distraction, so I turned to drawing. Again.Continue reading “Pain, creative pain and terrible ideas 😞”
Sleepless nights and Hello Kitty
As I sit here it’s 3.56am. I’ve not slept. No, I’m not drunk. I haven’t had alcohol for years…I might even be ‘t-total’ now (is that still a thing?). No, I’m not writing all night, consumed by a flood of ideas. No, I’m not being kept awake by an unwell child or partner. I’m awakeContinue reading “Sleepless nights and Hello Kitty”
Drawings that festered part #4
Part 3 of this series caused my blood to boil at my own lack of finesse, creativity and ability to finish a job. So today I’m bringing it back with a picture that I think might have some merit. This time I’d been inspired to elaborate on a drawing I’d already created of some raindropsContinue reading “Drawings that festered part #4”
Creative Steph 