It's so cute about the pet plant.
Yeah, especially, since the plants normally are like a stationary thing, you put them in one place and that is where they live, but here the little plant is traveling to places with its friend who carries it around.
About the washi tape, maybe there's some alternative that will work for your type of paper? As annoying as the damage may be, I think it's a really cool effect to have such a clean line on the edge of your work.
Well, in the past I cut out a frame from carboard and glued that down with the tape on the table. But inks still messed up most of the edges by bleeding underneath the carboard.
Maybe someone's random idea generator is broken? :D
Seems it. xD
I'm so happy to see you doing art again. <3
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