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Nina Gonzalez
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Co-host & Business Manager - Mobile Suit Breakdown, Producer - The Disappearances of Lydia Fountayne, Master Calligrapher (EA brush-calligraphy), crafter, nerd, hobby-collector. Español / 日本語 ok!
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Latest kana assignments! that last one was a doozy.
Japanese kana calligraphy, black ink on cream-colored tissue-weight paper. Japanese kana calligraphy, black ink on cream-colored tissue-weight paper. Japanese kana calligraphy, black ink on cream-colored tissue-weight paper.
October 30, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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My first “failed“ assignment! For this school (Kyoiku Shuji), kana 8th-dan involves 4 assignments a month for 18 months. at the end of the course, I’ll redo any failed pieces until they pass. I‘m not discouraged (I expected a few fails; the grading is Particular and occasionally inscrutable)
One approximately A4-size sheet of Japanese kana calligraphy, black ink on cream-colored tissue-weight paper. Corrections in orange ink.
October 17, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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Recent calligraphy assignments. First pic, the one on the left is my teacher’s and the one on the right is mine.
Two large sheets of Japanese kana calligraphy, black ink on white paper One large sheet of “scribe script” calligraphy, black ink on white paper One approximately A4-size sheet of Japanese kana calligraphy, black ink on cream-colored tissue-weight paper. One approximately A4-size sheet of Japanese kana calligraphy, black ink on cream-colored tissue-weight paper.
October 17, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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REALLY feeling this one today.
Screenshot of Quattro Bajeena from Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam, with a speech-bubble added that reads "I love to dismiss my horrible decisions by saying 'yeah that was a weird time in my life' as if the rest of my existence hasn't been absolute clown shoes"
September 30, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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Todays’s art. Watercolors, pencil, and marker.
Landscape oriented page from a sketchbook. Spiral bound. White paper. Watercolor painting of a tree with green foliage. Lined in thin marker.
September 28, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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Did some additional work on this with my teacher, and the first of these pics is the one I entered. The second is another poem I could have entered, but I preferred the first one.
Japanese kana calligraphy. Black ink on hanshi-sized, thin, cream colored paper. The columns of writing make a sort of fan shape. Japanese kana calligraphy. Black ink on hanshi-sized, thin, cream colored paper. Written in the chirashi-gaki style
September 14, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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Working on a kana composition for a contest. It reads:
わがこころ
うらかなれば
ふじのやま
けふほがらかに
みゆるものかも
(Poem by Kitahara Hakushū)
Japanese kana calligraphy, grey ink on white, landscape-oriented paper. The lines of text are arranged in a sort of fan-shape.
September 11, 2025 at 1:02 AM
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Some recent doodles
Fully colored marker drawing of a sunflower, with the background colored in dark brown, all done on a planner page. Abstract doodle in marker, on half a planner page. Looping bright blue lines, arcing orange lines, and jagged line green lines, all layered over each other Closeup of a doodle of an angry cat, fine red marker on a planner page.
September 3, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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Well, yeah, Fortune Cookie.

Eventually I will be dead.
A slip of paper from a fortune cookie. It reads “You will be free of the heavy burdens you have been carrying”
August 22, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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A creativity exercise from my childhood (iirc from a Klutz book about watercolor): color or paint a bunch of blobs, then take a pen and turn those blobs into things:
Pink, purple, and blue shapes on a sheet of paper, drawn over in thin black marker to make drawings of things like a chubby bird, a fish with a huge dorsal fin, a flower bud, a long narrow face, a happy worm, an eggplant and a banana, a gem, a flower, a cat’s face, and an angry little guy.
August 18, 2025 at 11:26 PM
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I was trying to remember how I drew people when I was my little cousin’s age (4-5 years old). This is what I remember - potatoes with stick arms/legs, and big eyes. The first one, my cousin told me, IS me (so he added the glasses). The second is me goofily drawing Thom as a potato-person.
Rough potato shape with stick arms and legs, large eyes with eyelashes, and glasses (glasses drawn in red pen, everything else drawn in green marker) Potato person with narrowed eyes, beard, mustache, and straight, bushy eyebrows. Drawn in lime green marker
August 18, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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Vacation doodles continued ~
Geometric shapes in orange, light blue, and medium blue. Purple circles in clusters, roughly drawn yellow leaves and vines (meant to be reminiscent of grapes)
August 18, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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vacation doodles
Marker drawings of a leaf on a long stem, and stubby leaves growing out of a yellow pot An array of purple and blue circles in different shades, with flowers drawn on them in gold and silver marker or pen Leaf and flower stickers around a piece of paper with a decorate border of lily of the valley. Written on the paper in cursive: “Nothing hits like a new obsession ❤️” Marker drawing of a window and the view out of it - a tall post, power lines, trees and other greenery, white clouds in a blue sky.
August 18, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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Made another stamp ~
Closeup of a stamp, red ink on tissue weight off-white paper. The stamp is a negative of the name “Ronan” and an outline of a seal, with lines radiating out to the edges. Stamp actual size is approximately 1 inch square
August 17, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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Finished up August assignments!
Japanese kana calligraphy, blank ink on off-white, tissue-weight paper. Japanese kana calligraphy, blank ink on off-white, tissue-weight paper.
August 4, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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Incidentally, NOT the most upsetting thing I saw today…
I series of posters pasted on a plyboard construction barrier. The posters are all advertising breast-milk ice cream
August 3, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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Why….? How….!?
A tall glass full of sparkling water. A perfect half-bubble covers the top of the glass. This was not intentional.
July 31, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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I sincerely like this room though ~
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A spa-room of some kind with tiled floor, walls, and ceiling. The ceiling is arched, and columns and ceiling are in a paler color contrasting with the darker reddish brown of the floor and walls. There is a sink on the wall facing the camera, and two wooden spa benches (like those in a sauna) on the walls on either side.
July 30, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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I miss her
Calico-tabby on a dark blue towel, front paws folded in front of her. She is falling asleep - her ears are drooping, her eyes are barely open
July 29, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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Trying to get my August assignments done early…
Two long pieces of East Asian brush calligraphy, black ink on white paper, hanging on a wall. East Asian brush calligraphy. Black ink on off-white paper.
July 26, 2025 at 1:40 AM
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Decided to work my way through Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain. These are my “before” drawings:
1. Thom, drawn from memory
2. Self portrait
3. My own left hand
Pencil sketch of a man with close-cropped hair, beard, and mustache. Pencil sketch of a woman wearing glasses, hair pulled back. Pencil sketch of a left hand, palm up. The ring finger has 2 rings on it.
July 25, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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Finished this stone seal today! Here’s what the stamp looks like ~
Stamp on tissue weight paper. Red ink. A five-petaled flower outline, with letters in each petal: H, A, N, N, A.
July 16, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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July kana assignments - done!
Long sheet of white mulberry paper with two columns of kana calligraphy, in black ink. Signed. Sheet of off-white mulberry paper with kana calligraphy in black ink. Sheet of off-white mulberry paper with kana calligraphy in black ink. Sheet of off-white mulberry paper with kana calligraphy in black ink.
July 16, 2025 at 12:46 AM
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Started a new stone seal…
Wooden clamp with small stone cylinder in it. Assorted stone-carving tools. The end of the cylinder has a 5-petal flower shape carved into it, and the letters H, A, N, N, A written in black marker inside the petals.
July 15, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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To every kitchen gadget there is a season…
A colander of bright red, tart cherries, on a kitchen countertop, next to a cherry pitter.
July 12, 2025 at 5:59 PM