Arpita's Pencils
@arpitas-pencils.bsky.social
I like to draw and pet cats 🌸
Illustrator | Children's book artist | Designer
Illustrator | Children's book artist | Designer
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There's so much suffering and cruelty in the world. I know we have to acknowledge it because we have to demand justice and improve. But there's also a lot of love and joy in the world too, I'm really trying these days to remember both.
June 3, 2025 at 5:41 PM
There's so much suffering and cruelty in the world. I know we have to acknowledge it because we have to demand justice and improve. But there's also a lot of love and joy in the world too, I'm really trying these days to remember both.
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Love seeing everyone's art and art processes here on Bluesky 💙 reminds me of 2016 instagram. So glad I decided to join ☺️
May 21, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Love seeing everyone's art and art processes here on Bluesky 💙 reminds me of 2016 instagram. So glad I decided to join ☺️
Tiny doodles that answer the question - 'What type of Reader are you'
Might turn them into stickers someday 🤭
#illustration #digitalart #stickers #stickerdesign #books #readers
Might turn them into stickers someday 🤭
#illustration #digitalart #stickers #stickerdesign #books #readers
May 20, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Tiny doodles that answer the question - 'What type of Reader are you'
Might turn them into stickers someday 🤭
#illustration #digitalart #stickers #stickerdesign #books #readers
Might turn them into stickers someday 🤭
#illustration #digitalart #stickers #stickerdesign #books #readers
Peek-a-boo : WIP
Started a new illu after SOO long 🥲 (also struggling to find the time to finish it)
#illustration #art #digitalillustration #lilies
Started a new illu after SOO long 🥲 (also struggling to find the time to finish it)
#illustration #art #digitalillustration #lilies
May 14, 2025 at 4:03 AM
Peek-a-boo : WIP
Started a new illu after SOO long 🥲 (also struggling to find the time to finish it)
#illustration #art #digitalillustration #lilies
Started a new illu after SOO long 🥲 (also struggling to find the time to finish it)
#illustration #art #digitalillustration #lilies
Words to live by from here on out :
The person who makes things is a sign of hope.
- Corita Kent
The person who makes things is a sign of hope.
- Corita Kent
May 12, 2025 at 5:25 AM
Words to live by from here on out :
The person who makes things is a sign of hope.
- Corita Kent
The person who makes things is a sign of hope.
- Corita Kent
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Happy first birthday to this very silly @privateeyenews.bsky.social #cartoon #bears #wildlifeandhumans #encroachment #councilregulations
May 11, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Happy first birthday to this very silly @privateeyenews.bsky.social #cartoon #bears #wildlifeandhumans #encroachment #councilregulations
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'Save the Date' invite made for my childhood friend on her wedding 😭
She wanted me to draw her and her partner in a boat in the backwaters of Kerala because she couldn't get that traditional south Indian pre-wedding photography done 😭☺️
#weddinginvite #weddingportrait #commission #illustration
She wanted me to draw her and her partner in a boat in the backwaters of Kerala because she couldn't get that traditional south Indian pre-wedding photography done 😭☺️
#weddinginvite #weddingportrait #commission #illustration
May 9, 2025 at 6:21 PM
'Save the Date' invite made for my childhood friend on her wedding 😭
She wanted me to draw her and her partner in a boat in the backwaters of Kerala because she couldn't get that traditional south Indian pre-wedding photography done 😭☺️
#weddinginvite #weddingportrait #commission #illustration
She wanted me to draw her and her partner in a boat in the backwaters of Kerala because she couldn't get that traditional south Indian pre-wedding photography done 😭☺️
#weddinginvite #weddingportrait #commission #illustration
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Three tiny wizards I created for @lostpages.bsky.social 's Sorcery Shenanigans!
May 8, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Three tiny wizards I created for @lostpages.bsky.social 's Sorcery Shenanigans!
I GREW UP with these Barbie flip phones that played like 4 different jingles with Barbie's iconic 'hello' at the end of each 😭
(Illustrated with 🩷 on procreate)
#barbie #barbieflipphones #90skid #illustration
(Illustrated with 🩷 on procreate)
#barbie #barbieflipphones #90skid #illustration
May 7, 2025 at 1:53 PM
I GREW UP with these Barbie flip phones that played like 4 different jingles with Barbie's iconic 'hello' at the end of each 😭
(Illustrated with 🩷 on procreate)
#barbie #barbieflipphones #90skid #illustration
(Illustrated with 🩷 on procreate)
#barbie #barbieflipphones #90skid #illustration
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"Human artists are so annoying with their limits and health and their needing to be compensated and looked after by an industry that they devote countless hours and pour immense love into.
We have to be making things FASTER and CONSTANTLY in this competition I've just decided we are in!"
We have to be making things FASTER and CONSTANTLY in this competition I've just decided we are in!"
This is so, so bleak. (Source: www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/42...)
May 6, 2025 at 2:48 PM
"Human artists are so annoying with their limits and health and their needing to be compensated and looked after by an industry that they devote countless hours and pour immense love into.
We have to be making things FASTER and CONSTANTLY in this competition I've just decided we are in!"
We have to be making things FASTER and CONSTANTLY in this competition I've just decided we are in!"
Part 2 of painting cool looking trees from Cubbon Park (Bangalore) in my sketchbook ☺️🩷
#sketchbook #watercolor #cubbonpark
#sketchbook #watercolor #cubbonpark
May 6, 2025 at 5:23 AM
Part 2 of painting cool looking trees from Cubbon Park (Bangalore) in my sketchbook ☺️🩷
#sketchbook #watercolor #cubbonpark
#sketchbook #watercolor #cubbonpark
I love painting outside. I took my friend on a painting date the last time I was visiting him in Bangalore and we painted some cool trees at Cubbon Park. Painting live is a privilege and joy that I do not get to experience often, and I should do more of it.
#watercolor #sketchbook #cubbonpark
#watercolor #sketchbook #cubbonpark
May 4, 2025 at 11:00 AM
I love painting outside. I took my friend on a painting date the last time I was visiting him in Bangalore and we painted some cool trees at Cubbon Park. Painting live is a privilege and joy that I do not get to experience often, and I should do more of it.
#watercolor #sketchbook #cubbonpark
#watercolor #sketchbook #cubbonpark
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More spot illustrations inspired by my 2023 trip to Bali 🩷
#illustration #digitalillustration #travel #travelillustration #bali #spotillustrations #editorialillustration
#illustration #digitalillustration #travel #travelillustration #bali #spotillustrations #editorialillustration
April 30, 2025 at 7:01 AM
More spot illustrations inspired by my 2023 trip to Bali 🩷
#illustration #digitalillustration #travel #travelillustration #bali #spotillustrations #editorialillustration
#illustration #digitalillustration #travel #travelillustration #bali #spotillustrations #editorialillustration
Quick spot illustrations inspired by my 2023 trip to Bali 🩷
#illustration #digitalillustration #travel #travelillustration #bali #spotillustrations #editorialillustration
#illustration #digitalillustration #travel #travelillustration #bali #spotillustrations #editorialillustration
April 19, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Quick spot illustrations inspired by my 2023 trip to Bali 🩷
#illustration #digitalillustration #travel #travelillustration #bali #spotillustrations #editorialillustration
#illustration #digitalillustration #travel #travelillustration #bali #spotillustrations #editorialillustration
Resonate so deeply with this 🩷
One bright side to being forced to live in an AI slop tornado is now I see my artistic mistakes as incredibly endearing. The human machine of my body made that weird line. My worst day of drawing is completely untouchably better than anything AI will ever produce until the heat death of the universe
April 19, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Resonate so deeply with this 🩷
GORGEOUS
April 17, 2025 at 2:32 PM
GORGEOUS
Started anatomy studies again today after putting it off for ages. Felt very uncomfortable making bad work but ego must be sacrificed for the sake of art. Ugh, cringing so much it hurts.
April 17, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Started anatomy studies again today after putting it off for ages. Felt very uncomfortable making bad work but ego must be sacrificed for the sake of art. Ugh, cringing so much it hurts.
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Is there a very rich person out there who wants to become my patron like in olden times and just give me money and fund my expenses just so I don’t have to do anything but make art
April 16, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Is there a very rich person out there who wants to become my patron like in olden times and just give me money and fund my expenses just so I don’t have to do anything but make art
Loving how artists are claiming this trend 🩷 this is my take. Instead of ai, commission a human artist #starterpack #starterpacknoai #noaistarterpack
April 16, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Loving how artists are claiming this trend 🩷 this is my take. Instead of ai, commission a human artist #starterpack #starterpacknoai #noaistarterpack
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Art through the lens of historical time/place can lead some critics to view artistic works that celebrate joy and beauty as insensitive and tonedeaf, instead of what they truly are: works of radical resistance. Pleasure doesn’t hinder awareness. It co-regulates it.
April 10, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Art through the lens of historical time/place can lead some critics to view artistic works that celebrate joy and beauty as insensitive and tonedeaf, instead of what they truly are: works of radical resistance. Pleasure doesn’t hinder awareness. It co-regulates it.
Waterlilies 🌸
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Waterlilies was painted by a much younger Arpita, but it remains one of my favourite pieces till date. So starting my bluesky journey with it 🩷
#digitalpainting #illustration
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Waterlilies was painted by a much younger Arpita, but it remains one of my favourite pieces till date. So starting my bluesky journey with it 🩷
#digitalpainting #illustration
April 8, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Waterlilies 🌸
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Waterlilies was painted by a much younger Arpita, but it remains one of my favourite pieces till date. So starting my bluesky journey with it 🩷
#digitalpainting #illustration
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Waterlilies was painted by a much younger Arpita, but it remains one of my favourite pieces till date. So starting my bluesky journey with it 🩷
#digitalpainting #illustration