Zander and Skylar building a pillow fort, not even realizing this is part of the journey of building a life together. Pillows and blankets representing moments, memories, and challenges. The fort becomes their own sanctuary, a symbol of protection and unity in the middle of the chaos of the world. Some parts of the forts are unstable and weak, obstacles that will make them search for creative solutions.
Originally, this piece was going to be completely in watercolors, but when I sketched the concept, I imagined the characters in pencils, something that I thought I was not willing to achieve, since I still have an issue with the arm, and I've avoided to work totally with colored pencils because that technique demands to use many different levels of pressure with the arm and wrist, which would make the problem worse again. But at some point I needed to try again, colored pencils are my favorite traditional technique and I didn't want to lose it forever. Using a wrist brace, with the help of my left hand for adding more pressure to some parts, and being very careful with it. It hurt a little, I had to make many breaks and stops, and definitely I can't do this very often, but I'm so happy it worked.
I recorded the process with the time-lapse option of the phone.
