An illustrated guidebook to your emotions.
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Hi! I'm Rukmini and I draw emotions.
For the last five years I've drawn over 500 original illustrations. I drew one hundred of my own emotions into a book, I started an illustrated advice column, and now I focus on creating art that inspires thoughtfulness, introspection, and emotional wellbeing.
100 Obscure Emotions is a collection of illustrations that explore all kinds of complex emotions. The whimsical style invites readers to reflect on their own unseen emotions.
The book is divided into 10 chapters that take the reader through topics of communication, relationships, introspection, vulnerability, and eventually acceptance.
💌 Dear Ruksi 💌 I feel nothing sometimes. Like everything and everyone around me is weary, lowly buzzing background noise to my numbness. I feel everything sometimes. Like everything and everyone around me is unobscurable, relentlessly loud ringing, not in my ears, but deep within.
💌 Dear Ruksi 💌 I feel broken, upset, blame myself for why he left me. I can’t move on with my life because I didn’t receive closure from the man I loved. He left me without saying anything and here I am, day in day out sitting in hope that he’ll come back to me.
💌 Dear Ruksi 💌 There's a feeling of a billion expectations being put onto you and you trying your hardest but not being able to fulfill them.. some expectations are put on my yourself and some by others. Y
