Natalie Heaman

August 2025 Hobonichi

August had a rough start – I didn’t do a single page until the 16th! But strong ending. Now to keep up the momentum!

Clearly the medium of the month was ✨ gel pens ✨

A brush pen drawing of flowers and leaves, coloured with pastel coloured gel pens.
A brush pen drawing of a face, not of anyone in particular. Loose lines follow the contours of the face and add texture to the hair. The face in coloured with bright neon gel pens. It could be a man or a woman, with long hair and multiple ear piercings.
On a pale watercolour background, there is a drawing of a hand writing in pen on paper. The words on the paper read: “I write because I don’t know what I think until I read what I say.” It’s a quote from Flannery O’Connor. Underneath is written: “Something I think about often as I see more and more people having AI write for them.
A brush pen drawing of a face, not of anyone in particular, in profile. Loose lines follow the contours of the face and add texture to the hair. The face in coloured with bright neon gel pens. It could be a man or a woman, with long hair.
A fountain pen drawing of an owl sitting in a tree. It is looking right at the viewer.
A fountain pen drawing of a big bowl filled with soup. It’s captioned “Fancy Alphagetti” “Alphabet noodles, canned tomatoes, basil, parmesan, sausage, other seasonings, sun-dried tomatoes”
A colourful drawing of a monster with three large leaves in front of a window. Where the leaves overlap with the window, the light shines through and they are brighter.
A brush pen drawing of a small dog – his face is bumpy and he has a single tear in one eye. It’s captioned: I ate a WASP and became the saddest puppy in da world. An arrow pointing to the dog says “swollen and lumpy”
A gel pen drawing of a cat, it’s face up close and a bit distorted. It’s captioned “Moose in wide angle”

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