Hi. I'm your friendly neighborhood doodler. You can find me sketching away in the crowd at CreativeMornings MIA, much like Waldo. I'm shy, but friendly.
My hobbies include: sketching, playing my ukulele, photo editing, impersonating Jack Skellington, puns.
Photo retouching/ Photoshop, analogue Photoshop, bunnies, Tim Burton's filmography, dreams, and music.
I'm always learning, so my favorite answer is everything.
Inspiration is for amateurs; the rest of us just show up and get to work. -Chuck Close
Vincent Van Gogh. Despite bleak outlooks and rough times, he always had a great eye for beauty and lived with that positive outlook as best as he could.
Mind reading, intuition, and the ability to measure/scale things by the pixel.
I would teach, but I think I do that anyway.
Can you really be aware of something that requires no effort? Symmetry is something I do unsolicited.
How to play the ukulele, or speed photoshop.

Melly’s CreativeMornings activity
While commercialism may be ugly, making a living off your art without compromise is simply gorgeous.
The human body is made of 72% water and the rest is pure will.
Profitability is absolutely brilliant for artistic integrity
Marie Louise Kold The art of making a living off your art
If you have a thing you wanna do, don't be lazy and wait.
That desire to learn is really the only thing that you should have picked up in college.
If you have a thing that you want to do ... just grab the reins and fuckin' do it.
Do what makes you happy is bullsh*t advice.
Confusion is the beginning of knowledge.
Max Temkin Cards Against Humanity
Giovanna Carrasquel MorningRitual
We think of our laptops as punk rock instruments... they are only as valuable as the feelings and the people using them.
YACHT Work is Play
The more unqualified you are to take something on, the more you'll benefit from it.
Bite off more than you can chew and figure it out later.
Mike Monteiro F*ck You, Pay Me
Our fear is a creative ally that we should treasure and befriend.
Every work we make makes us
The most meaningful and memorable moments of my life were brought on by moments of full body terror, so maybe I should start paying attention to them.
It's unsafe to play it safe— and I've got a chart proving that!