In My World, I'm a Fairy Who Can Ride a Horse

Okay so the title is exactly what it sounds like.

This one started as a quick sketch during a bit of a rut, honestly. About two months ago I'd completely stopped posting. I was frustrated, because no matter what I create on Procreate, AI can do it quicker and probably a hundred times better, and I started feeling like I was losing my artistic skills altogether. So I thought, right, go back to basics. No pressure, no audience, just imagination.

And my imagination took me straight back to being a kid.

I used to dream about horse riding. Genuinely. But I grew up in London, I'm the oldest Pakistani daughter, so horse riding was not exactly top of my parents' extracurricular list, let's be honest. And the whole fairy thing- I was fully convinced fairies had their wings on their heads. Like a helicopter. That's how they flew. Looking back at my five-to-nine-year-old brain, I find it so endearing. The confidence of that imagination. lol.

This sketch is me trying to get some of that back. To make things a bit more whimsical, to find little nuggets of joy in the everyday because I'm approaching my mid-to-late twenties and if I don't start now, I don't know how far I'll get.

Print Details:

• A5 — 210mm × 148mm
• 250gsm elephant chunky paper
• CMYK single-sided print
• Matte finish