to edit or not to edit?

What do you think, is it worth cropping the background out?

Should I play around with digital coloring or leave it black-n-white?

I have no creativity lately, so nearly everything I'm drawing in this sketchbook is copied by one or another of my favorite "how to draw" YouTube channels aimed at kids. (Draw So Cute and Art for Kids Hub) If you call them "studies" it's not plagiarism, right?

So these are my "children's illustration studies". (Or if I'm being honest, this is my art therapy. Sometimes I just want to make pretty pictures without having to think too much about it.)

my nutritional choices lately

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Draw So Cute has this whole thing with adorable anthropomorphic food and I have no idea why drawing eyes on food is so cute, but it is.

This was about the time I was deciding I don't like this sketchbook though. It's advertised as being for markers, but all the marker drawings have come out streaky and uneven.

Does anyone have a preference for whether I post thumbnails or larger images? Part of me thinks small thumbnails look cleaner on the page, but also that having to click on them is one step too much work to ask people to do. :-)

only two months behind schedule

I have this list of things I want to draw and I don't always get to them in a timely manner.