Hello, friends.
The truth is the lockdown really wasn’t that easy on me. I have to renew this site’s subscription at the end of this month and I don’t know if I can.
Contribute by buying me Ko-fi (if you can) so http://www.ezrawsmith.com stays on!
First of all, a few updates:
Not to the goo news! Now you can support me by buying me a
I created new coloring page based on this illustration of mine. What do you guys thing?
Hello friends, please visit my new donation page! You can get these two illustrations of mine or a coloring page if you donate to organisations of my choice. All details here.
P.S. I am working toward having printed art for donation available as well!
I made coloring page out of one of my most popular illustration, “LGBTEA”. You can buy it as a set with the print or only coloring page from my store on Gumroad. Don’t forget to send me the results I am really curious! Tag me on facebook or instagram!
Hello, friends!
Next week is my birthday. If you want to give me a gift I have an idea for you! Today I put this illustration and also coloring page based on it to my Gumroad store. You can buy them there in a set, or separately. So you can choose the amount of money you are willing to spent.
You can buy A4 coloring page for as little as $1. And then please color it however you want, write some nice wishes on the cake for me and send it to me, or simply tag me in a post or story on Facebook or Instagram. I will really appreciate it!
In this uncertain times I really need some good thoughts send my way and feel support of the community!
Have a nice day!
In my brand new ART WOW store!
I am still working on it.
There is quite a few products there already but you can totally request certain print on certain product you wanna buy by contacting me and i’ll put it in store ASAP.
It’s called
What a month, huh?
As a person who is overwhelmed easily, I tried to stay offline as much as I could. I was never really reading the news that much, but eventually I stopped going to my usual information sources as well, because… guess what! Even blogs about art and crafts eventually started to only talk about COVID-19. Even lesbian podcasts, even sustainable fashion brands… I couldn’t take it anymore. So I replaced podcasts with audiobooks, and decided to only check the official recommendations of the country of my residence once per two days to know what is going on.
Another hard thing was that the majority of people (at least on social media) seemed to mostly be dealing with boredom and isolation. While I was still working as usual from home plus trying to homeschool my seven-year-old. For the last 3 weeks I was doing two full time jobs at the same time, keeping my home clean and preparing food, and taking care of 2 pets (one with chronic health issues). I wasn’t bored. I was scared and overwhelmed and stressed and under so much pressure. I wanted to yell at people— “what is wrong with you! How can you be tired of doing nothing! What the hell! Your only job is keeping yourselves entertained! This is not a real struggle!”
However I didn’t yell at anyone, even on the internet. In fact I didn’t even complain to any of my friends or anyone else about my situation. I decided that devaluing other people’s struggle in these difficult times is cruel and unproductive. Also I happened to have a child reasonably early in life, so now I find myself in a situation where I have a primary-schooler, but none of my friends have any kids at all and are maybe just starting to think about it now. So I knew nobody would relate. People would feel bad for me, but would not know what to say. Awkward. So I didn’t talk to anyone. Instead I stopped checking my Instagram, stopped listening to podcasts, stopped texting people and focused on actually doing my 2 jobs. Long story short, I survived. And this weekend spring break started so I no longer have to homeschool my child. For the whole week! What a lucky girl I am.
After this quick update on my life, let me finally get to the point. In this column I meant to talk not about myself (for once), but about a friend of mine. Let’s call her Magda.
Magda is the head of an animal shelter. She collects cats and dogs from the streets, takes care of their health, spays or neuters them at the vet clinic, and finds lovely new homes for these animals. The shelter can only function because of the volunteers – people who choose to spend their free time helping this animals, feeding them, socializing with them, giving them the love and attention they need. However, in this difficult situation we all found ourselves in, the government has decided to forbid for now any volunteering that is not connected to COVID-19. And so the shelter had to be closed for the time being. This is how Magda ended up with 6 dogs in a two-bedroom apartment…
Also illustrated by me of course.
I have a piece of amazing news to share.
Since I was a little girl I only wanted to be 2 things: illustrator and writer. Clearly, I chose art as a career after all but my urge to write didn’t really go anywhere. So this year I decided – f*ck that, I don’t have to choose, I can do both.
So starting this week I am not only an illustrator but also a columnist for EmpowherNY!
Let me present to you my first ever column “More Time & Less Stuff”:
By no means am I this fancy person who loves shopping. Until recently when thinking of the person who might have too many things, I was imagining Cher from the movie “Clueless”. I love Cher dearly, but she is not someone I can easily identify with. She is young, I am 30. She has money, I have rent that eats 60% of everything I make every month. I shop in vintage and secondhand stores (mostly due to lack of funds), I watched “True Cost” four times, I live in a small apartment with two other people, and I don’t have a separate room for my clothes like Carrie Bradshaw. And still, somehow, I have too many things. Not just clothes. But also clothes.
I have moved four times to another country in the last decade, and every time there were a few boxes of clothes I donated or threw away. Clothes accumulate wherever I live. Just like dust, appearing slowly but undeniably until you can’t breathe anymore.
And 80% of the clothes are that annoying “not quite right” type. Pants that are comfortable but only if you don’t sit in them for two hours. A blouse that is just slightly too small, so it unbuttons itself right where my breasts are. Not often. But often enough that you are anxious the whole time you are wearing it. Shoes that leave your feet bleeding, but only if you walk for more than 2 bus stops. And you know that. But somehow you still end up walking for quite a bit.
I believe that the problem is…
Fy are running a site-wide 20% discount+ free shipping for their customers beginning this Sunday, February 23rd. This is a great time to support me by buying my awesome art from Fy! .
Thank you for for supporting me, that means a lot! Let me know if you bought anything or even better send me a photo of your interior with my art! I’ll appreciate it!
