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Olsay Illustration I am sharing my sketching journey and creative practices that help to connect with ourselves and live a more mindful life.

I wrote a blog post about how I make time for art with a 9 to 5 job – without 5am alarms or forcing daily drawing.📌 Read...
20/11/2025

I wrote a blog post about how I make time for art with a 9 to 5 job – without 5am alarms or forcing daily drawing.

📌 Read it here: https://www.olsayillustration.com/post/how-to-make-time-for-art-with-a-9-to-5-job

If this sounds familiar, tell me in the comments when you actually have energy to draw and share this with a friend who is in the same boat.

Lately, I’ve been feeling completely drained trying to figure out how to make time for art with a 9 to 5 job. I work full-time as a UX (User Experience) designer in an IT company, and alongside that, I am trying to grow my art practice, share my drawings online, and slowly build something of my ow...

20/11/2025

Socks as a gift again?
There isa more creative gift to give for the socks lovers - I draw custom portraits of socks from photos.
You send me a picture of a favourite pair, I turn it into a small original drawing on paper.

A bit weird but very personal. 🧦

We don’t show the messy stuff.In social media, it’s so easy to make life (and art) look perfect and romantic. Like it’s ...
12/08/2025

We don’t show the messy stuff.
In social media, it’s so easy to make life (and art) look perfect and romantic. Like it’s always going right.
I do it too. I share only those sketches that feel “Instagram-ready.” But most of my daily sketching is: scribbles, unfinished ideas, random lines, and failed colour experiments. Things I never post and most artists do not post🙈
I admire artists who share their raw process and drawings with ugly pages. Yes, it’s less exciting to look at someone’s doodles than a polished drawing. But it’s a healthy reminder that we are all regular people: we make mistakes, we experiment, we learn, and we are far from perfect.
Sketching is about the process, expressing ourselves, and sometimes even therapy for our minds. It helps with stress, focus, and joy… especially when the page is far from perfect and we are not focused on the results.
So I do encourage you to post your daily sketches, no matter how they look

5 min sketching exercise for self-reflection
29/07/2025

5 min sketching exercise for self-reflection

5 min sketching exercise for self-reflection

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