QCRE8

An Aspiring Artist,
Come Along as i Learn and Grow.

I am Qailah Seedat, Aged 12, Learning and Mastering my skills in Art, Join me on my Journey from begining to present…

A drawing diary
2019 → 2026 · South Africa

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Charcoal Butterfly

The diary

15 drawings · newest first

2026

age 12

Drawing dinner, and whatever is playing.

Pencil study of a shaded sphere resting on a plane, with a soft cast shadow.

Study for a Sphere, I

Pencil on paper · 420 × 525 mm · 2026

Colour pencil drawing of seven kimbap slices on a plate, each showing egg, carrot, spinach and ham in the middle.

Kimbap, Sliced

Colour pencil on paper · 420 × 300 mm · 2026

Pencil drawing of over-ear headphones with a red cable, three blue music notes floating beside them.

Headphones, Volume Up

Pencil and colour pencil · 380 × 350 mm · 2026

2025

age 11

Ink does not forgive. Neither does tteokbokki sauce.

Sepia ink still life of a tall jug and a smaller bowl on a table, cross-hatched.

Two Vessels

Sepia ink on paper · 540 × 420 mm · 2025

Colour pencil drawing of a bowl of tteokbokki — rice cakes in red sauce with sesame seeds, steam rising and chopsticks resting across the bowl.

Tteokbokki, Saturday

Colour pencil and marker · 400 × 320 mm · 2025

2024

age 10

Crayons went in the drawer. Mostly.

Pencil landscape of four receding hill ridges under a pale sky.

Ridge Line

Pencil on paper · 594 × 385 mm · 2024

Pencil study of a branch with leaf clusters, drawn lightly.

Branch, Study

Pencil on paper · 528 × 396 mm · 2024

2023

age 9

Noticed that things cast shadows.

Pencil still life of a cup and an apple on a table, with shadows drawn in for the first time.

A Cup and an Apple

Pencil on paper · A4 · 2023

2022

age 8

Legs stopped coming out of heads.

Colour pencil drawing of a green dragon in flight with wings spread, between two clouds.

Dragon, Flying

Colour pencil on paper · A4 · 2022

Colour pencil drawing of a brown dog standing in profile with pointed ears.

Our Dog

Colour pencil on paper · A4 · 2022

2021

age 7

Dragons arrived. They stayed for two years.

Crayon drawing of a round green dragon with yellow spikes, breathing a puff of orange fire.

My Dragon

Wax crayon and koki · A4 · 2021

Koki pen and crayon butterfly with purple upper wings and pink lower wings, drawn symmetrically.

Butterfly, Both Wings the Same

Koki pen and crayon · A4 · 2021

2020

age 6

The year of the cat. And the rainbow.

Crayon drawing of an orange cat with whiskers sitting in front of a rainbow.

Skattie the Cat

Wax crayon and koki · A4 · 2020

2019

age 5

Everything had a sun in the top-right corner.

Wax crayon drawing of a red house with a brown roof, a yellow sun in the corner and flowers along a strip of grass.

My House

Wax crayon on paper · A4 · 2019

Wax crayon drawing of two smiling figures holding hands on a green strip of grass.

Mom and Me

Wax crayon on paper · A4 · 2019

What’s in the pencil case

It started with a box of wax crayons and a great many houses with the sun in the top-right corner. Nothing was thrown away, which turned out to be the clever bit — the whole lot is here, in order, from the very first sheet.

Then the dragons showed up and stayed two years. Around nine the shadows arrived, the crayons went in a drawer, and the drawings slowed down.

Now it is mostly Korean food and whatever is playing — steam coming off a bowl of tteokbokki, kimbap in slices, a pair of headphones.

Age five to eight

  • A 24-pack of wax crayons, mostly the red one
  • Koki pens, lids optional
  • Printer paper, both sides
  • A great many dragons

Age twelve

  • Pencils 2H through 8B, plus powdered graphite
  • Compressed charcoal and a kneaded eraser
  • Sepia ink, a dip pen, silver wire
  • A playlist, loud, and something to eat in the photo

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Qcre8 — a drawing diary, South Africa

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