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    Doodle Evolution 2012-2017

    I was standing outside of a bar when someone said to me, "i like this wave of style you're going through with your art." This 30 second conversation ran through my mind all night. So I went home and did a little evaluation on myself. Here is my art from 2012 to 2017. Along with little thoughts of what was going on in my life behind the practice and progression.

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    by AvaLavalle

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    Summer 2012

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    The first time i ever publicly posted something i made - July 26th 2012.

    Fall 2012

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    I was no longer at an "art school" and was feeling completely uninspired. i was a transfer student at a school i didn't belong in. i tried to keep art in my life so i hid in my dorm room far away from frat parties and drew this stupid thing.

    Winter 2012

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    The end of the semester.

    Summer 2013

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    The first skateboard I ever made.

    Summer 2013

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    I started drawing more because I wanted to impress some guy who was also an artist. lame.

    Summer 2013

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    There was a day I felt like this.

    Fall 2013

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    October 2013 I decided to start painting and selling skateboards. This was my first batch.

    Winter 2013

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    Trying to find some sort of inner peace.

    Winter 2013

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    Trying to find some sort of inner peace.

    Spring 2014

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    March 2014

    Spring 2014

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    I moved back home. I got used to a school i felt alone at. I fell in love. I felt happy. I started painting everything.

    Summer 2014

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    July 2014

    Summer 2014

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    August 2014. Everything felt very good and very colorful.

    Fall 2014

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    I started to get paid for art and I did not understand why.

    Fall 2014

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    I started to get paid for art and I did not understand why.

    Winter 2015

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    January has always left me feeling empty, nostalgic and sad.

    Winter 2015

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    March 2015 - My first college art class. This is what they made us do. stupid.

    Spring 2015

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    April 2015 - I came back to what I knew best.

    Spring 2015

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    May 2015 my heart broke.

    Spring 2015

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    Spring 2015

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    May 2015 I graduated college and ran away to California and sketched this on the way there.

    Summer 2015

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    June 2015 I expanded my skateboard business to a longboard business.

    Summer 2015

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    August 2015. I was a recent graduate with a lot of debt and no job offers. So, i resorted back to art. A company in the UK started to pay me for my designs, this was the first batch.

    Fall 2015

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    September 2015 I felt very very vey lost.

    Fall 2015

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    Fall 2015

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    October 2015 i did what i do best and I ran away at a time of confusion and drew this stranger i saw at the airport.

    Winter 2015

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    November 2015 everything came back and I fell back into myself.

    Winter 2015

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    December 2015 - I stopped looking for a job in the film industry and began to focus strictly on art.

    Winter 2015

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    Draw what you know.

    Winter 2015

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    Winter 2015

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    The year ended very well.

    Winter 2016

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    January 2016 - The new year began and I was so happy that I started using color again.

    Winter 2016

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    February 2016

    Spring 2016

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    April 2016. Draw what you know.

    Spring 2016

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    May 2016. This was the exact day I got my first job offer. Strangely enough, this was also the exact time I was finally happy and actually making art my top priority. The world always does this to me.

    Summer 2016

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    I accepted my fate into the corporate world and had less time to sleep and less time to make art.

    Summer 2016

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    July 2016 I lost love and I lost art and this is how I felt

    Summer 2016

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    This summer was very hard.

    Summer 2016

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    This summer was very hard.

    Summer 2016

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    This summer was very hard.

    Summer 2016

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    This summer was very hard.

    Fall 2016

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    "are you ok?" - dad

    Fall 2016

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    October 2016 the world did me the favor by giving me a whole handful of new people who helped me survive and taught me how to heal. Along with them came new ideas and quick little doodles behind my desk at work.

    Fall 2016

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    Fall 2016

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    October 2016 I ran away again. This time to Canada. I drew this on the way there.

    Winter 2016

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    A night in November that meant nothing

    Winter 2017

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    January 1st. Always a bad month.

    Winter 2017

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    January 2017. New York City handed me some self worth.

    Winter 2017

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    January 2017 I ran away again, but this time I wasn't running from anything. I drew this on the way to Boston.

    Winter 2017

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    February 2017 I forgave someone who was never sorry.

    Winter 2017

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    Drew this at a bar while slightly drunk. Eventually fixed it up and turned it into stickers.

    Spring 2017

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    March 2015 I started practicing what has always been impossible - drawing human faces.

    Spring 2017

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    "no other guy is ever going leave you" - a guy who left me.

    Spring 2017

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    faces.

    Spring 2017

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    Still finding beauty in things that broke me.

    Spring 2017

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    Skateboard Art 2017

    Spring 2017

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    Spring 2017

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    May 2017. Everything has become dead and I have not felt like myself since 2016.

    Spring 2017

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    May 2017. Everything i draw is still dead and I still have not felt like myself since 2016.

    Spring 2017

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    And that's all folks

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