Nazia Fatima

hi, I'm

Nazia Fatima

I paint in oil pastels, watercolours and ink, only when I feel like it. This is my sketchbook, the pretty pages and the messy ones.

See the art Why I paint

Lately

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A note on letting a hobby be a hobby

I started making art in my holidays and then started posting it. Somewhere along the way it stopped being fun. This is what I learnt getting the spark back.

Most of the newer pages came from my long-term year, after inter and before MBBS, when art was the one thing in my day that wasn't a test.

Nazia Fatima
the one behind the pastels

I started making art during my holidays, then I decided to post it. I didn't even realise when I started chasing the algorithm and performing.

I felt extremely disconnected from the art I made, and frustrated. Eventually I burnt out.

Some time later I started making art again, but I still wasn't able to enjoy it. I thought if I let go of the result, I'd get my spark back. But I felt confused, because at the time letting go of it meant wanting to make only messy, childish art. Some days I wanted my art to look pretty and detailed, but I thought maybe I shouldn't feel that way.

1.Now I've understood: it's okay to want to make pretty, detailed art. You just need to stop letting it define you.

2.I kept treating my art like an obligation, something that defined my value, instead of a hobby. We don't have to make art every single day. We don't have to bring self-help into every part of our lives. Let your hobby stay a hobby. It's okay to not do it consistently, or to be terrible at it.

Now I make art much less than I used to, because I do it only when I want to.

Nazia

From the old sketchbook

the detailed, pretty phase

Pages from when I was posting all the time. I still like them. I just don't need every page to look like this any more.

then: careful, every vein

→same leaf

now: whatever I felt like

Notes for Nazia

say something kind, it really helps

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Made for fun, not for the algorithm.

new pages turn up whenever they turn up

Like a page enough to want it on your wall? Every page on this site is for sale, as the one-and-only original.

1.Tap any page you like and press "Buy this one".
2.I'll reply within 2 to 3 days and send my UPI details.
3.Free delivery in Hyderabad. Outside Hyderabad, courier at actual cost.

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