I'm a little obsessed with riso prints to an extent that is Quite Odd, having never made one.
https://www.paperpresspunch.com/
This is a local press that doesn't mention they can do heavy enough paper to do as postcards, but wouldn't a set of burgundy and green postcards be cute?
I have this aspiration to develop A Color Palette that will unify all the different nonsense I do.
This is what I started with because of different art supplies I had in these colors - but I think I want a warmer and more vivid cobalt blue for digital work, where no physical pigment limitations are relevant. That in turn suggests I should work with a cooler version of one of these colors, and I'm thinking the yellow...
I love the look of landscapes in the Pacific Northwest but I haven't figured out how to boil them down into simple illustrative shape language. I look at Leigh Ellexson's nice little landscapes and I think, damn, I want to be able to do that for here...
Another thing I want to get better at are abstract ornamental vignettes to give flavor to a central subject portrayed without a background.
My dog is very sick. She's going to die, which means she is the sole tenant of my emotional space right now, and she requires a lot of care, which means she is a main object of my time. So lots of Heloise drawings.
https://maya.land/heloise/
I miss having chickens. They're weird little fluffy aliens. You can't call them smart or stupid because their whole being is .... well, alien to us.