Tina and the Pencil is coming!

Hi, welcome, saludos. What is this about? you might be wondering🤔…

Hello friend, first of all, I want to thank you for those clicks to arrive here and for taking the time to read this. Second of all, the big news… I am starting a blog: “Tina and the Pencil” HURRAAY, FINALLY! 🥳 I know you´ve been waiting for it (blink blink).

What most people know me for is drawing and animation, but a little secret of mine is that I also love to write✍️. I´ve been writing journals and documenting my life since I was probably 8 years old; Back then I would write about things 8 years old write about: what I ate that day, my crushes from school, smoking cigarettes for the first time 🙈, the arguments from my parents, what color my poop was and a lot of pages dedicated to all the dogs I wanted to have, their names, activities schedule and the design of their clothes 💁‍♂️. With time, writing became my truthful companion, like drawing, hand by hand, they help me to understand myself, my life and my changes📖.

Here are some of my journals and sketches. Be hold, these are “never seen before”👀.

So you might be wondering…

Ok you write, but why make it PUBLIC?

Somehow, we humans need to arrive at a point where we feel so bad that we can´t go on if we don´t make a change.

My 2023 was a beautiful year but also a series of uncomfortable events: a breakup, moving to a new city, a new job in coorporate, the death of my granny, my mom getting sick and to close the year, I got fired🫠. Not sharing that for you to feel pity for me, but all of that shook me from head to toe, and until the stratosphere; The phrase “life is too short” stopped being a cliché. Those events taught me so many things in such a short time about what was really important🌠, and despite them seeming terrible, I felt happy, relief, motivated, and one way or another confident, because I knew the time had come, I had enough of doing what it was “safe”🙅‍♀️. I could finally bet for myself and do what I desire, even if it is uncertain.

Who would be interested enough to read my mumbling? instead of reading something more “important”, or “necessary” —I thought—; But the feeling of letting myself down, chased me long enough to get jaded🥲. This big ball of information that desperately wants to go out won´t leave me alone until I put it out there.

There’s a time for certain ideas to arrive, and they find a way to express themselves through us.

Rick Rubens

Even if only my mom reads this blog (she probably won’t) I am happy that I finally dared to start and to put myself out there as a vulnerable puppy left alone under the rain in a dark and cold alley💪.

What will I be sharing?

Ehem, basically, everything I feel like sharing —mostly art-related—. Once a month (or two or three), you can expect a variety of:

🎨 Art processes and tutorials on drawings, comics, and animations.

📄Stories, photos, poems, essays, odes to food and animals.

🔎Discoveries on books, music, films, art, gastronomy.

✅Life updates, emotions, feelings, revelations, philosophies.

🤓Things I´ve learned or that I find interesting and that you definitely should also know, like the fact that pigeons can´t fly higher than 1830 meters.

Note: I will write the blog in English because English happens to be the common language in the world (thanks to colonizers), but y´all know I am a Latin mami💅, so excuse my grammar errors here and there, and hope for some Spanish expressions (even German ones).

If you made it so far, I sincerely thank you with my whole heart💗.

Until next time,

Tina.

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