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Don’t forget to bring your sketchbook!

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I didn’t get my business license until I was THIRTY. And even then, with a fully formed frontal lobe, I had to take a couple years to hash out what an art business was going to look like for me.

I tried the “hustling merch via social media” route for a while and it was genuinely one of the most soul sucking things that I’ve done in this process. AND it was bleeding my finances dry!

This year I’ve focused on things I enjoy, things within my community. I barely use social media anymore and I was shocked that it didn’t affect my business at all really. I focused on making art and maintaining good irl relationships, and I genuinely believe that’s paid off for my creativity and my sanity.

also we fucked up as a society the moment we started telling teens and aspiring artists to conflate being an artist with building a brand as if the two things are inextricable. the name of the game if you want to share your art is to work a job and sell yourself as aesthetizied content. back in my day we could just POST SHIT. to deviantart! what the fuck!

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Strawberry Moon

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Who knew the Flatwoods Monster was a bookworm?

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RoyalPrincessAlice様とのコラボで描かせていただきました。 「🌳森のシンフォニー」 https://royalprincessa.shop-pro.jp

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Met this guy a couple years back. He rigged up this sick ass bicycle trailer out of some old baby strollers, which I think about often. Hope he’s doing well.

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Werewolf kids

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Career planning

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If I had a cup of coffee for every time I think about this episode, i’d have 100 cups of coffee.

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I often think about that study that says cats probably think we’re cute too.

Bonus panel on Patreon for all subscribers (even the free ones!)

https://www.patreon.com/SpringFoxStudios

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Tea time 🫖🌼

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Mario is very proud of his fursona

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Stay focused, stay present and create from all the good that has come before you.

These days I have been working on a picture book that reflects on the question Who are you? The drawings revisit the canyons behind my childhood home. It has been deeply satisfying immersing myself in that innocent world of childhood and seems to heal the anxiety of my doom scrolling. What are you creating these days?

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So earlier in art class today, someone drew a characters hands in their pockets and mentioned that hands are really like the ultimate end boss of art, and most of us wholeheartedly agreed. So then, our teacher went ahead and free handed like a handful of hands on the board, earning a woah from a couple of students. So the one from earlier mentioned how it barely took the teacher ten seconds to do what I can’t do in three hours. And you know what he responded?

“It didn’t take me ten seconds, it took me forty years.”

And you know, that stuck with me somehow. Because yeah. Drawing a hand didn’t take him fourth years. But learning and practicing to draw a hand in ten seconds did. And I think there’s something to learn there but it’s so warm and my brain is fried so I can’t formulate the actual morale of the lesson.

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Exciting news downtown.

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Ginger and her friends would be in their 30s now.

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Happy Lunar New Year! ✨