Rukmini Poddar is an artist, designer, and educator. Her creative passion lies at the intersection of emotional wellness and creative storytelling.

Rukmini is the author of Draw Your Feelings: A Creative Journal to Help Connect with Your Emotions through Art, published by Penguin Random House.

She has found her creative voice in participating in the #100DayProject for over 9 consecutive years and has grown her instagram community to over 100,000 followers. She is best known for her drawings that give life to her emotions.

She teaches people how to draw their emotions and leads workshops with corporate teams, schools, and large gatherings of people.

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I affectionately call myself an "essence seeker" because I try to search for simple, deep truths hidden within everyday life.

I'm inspired by complexity and human emotion. I love translating things that are otherwise hard to understand into an image. I love the enneagram and understanding human personality.

I'm deeply inspired by nature and the lessons She teaches. I enjoy reading books on mindfulness and spirituality and I try take a notebook wherever I go because I never know what may inspire me.

I keep this list of 10 lessons close to my heart when creating art. I wrote this list in 2016 and these values still drive my creative process.

PS: I’ve had people e-mail me asking if #6 was a typo. I promise - it’s not!

Want to get in touch?

Reach out on my contact form or e-mail me at dearruksi@gmail.com