drawriot asked: Your work is amazingly beautiful and inspirational! I feel like I am looking at another world. Your characters look so intelligent it makes me wonder what they would say if they could come to life. How long does a piece take you to illustrate and paint? Do you keep a sketchbook for ideas?

Answer:

Thank you, thank you, thank you!  I don’t know if those characters can talk, though.  

The fastest I’ve ever done a painting was in 3 days, and the longest was probably 2 weeks?  Not counting the ones that are terrible and have to be started over.  

I’m jealous of people with beautiful sketchbooks.  I do own lots of them, but they make me feel uptight, so I just tear out the pages and use the paper.  I also draw on printer paper.  And napkins and stuff.