#i like testing layouts and adding color to graphite sketches

[sleeepydraws]

There's a huge amount of pressure to make perfect art.

You're supposed to know and have such a good handle on all of the fundamentals because, if you don't, the algos won't show your work to anyone.

We have to simultaneously be (usually) multimedia experts and infinitely relatable.

There isn't room in the Algo to experiment and try new things... Because it actively sabotages you if you do. Use a different media? Stop working in the same style? Bye bye, followers. Goodbye, reach.

It's heartbreaking! Experimentation is the crux that's kept me doing art consistently for almost a year now.

I used to go *months* without drawing. And now I feel weird if I haven't drawn that day; it's such a comfort to me. To give myself time to decompress.

And to think that the space I use for playing and messing up and thumbnailing and trying new things and GROWING is a thing that could actively sabotage a career as an artist is ...

Honestly fuck it.

FUCK the algorithms. FUCK the nonsense that means I have to """""niche down"""" and never change.

No. We're human. We change. We grow. We evolve. We EXPERIMENT.

Anyways long winded way of saying just share it. You don't need a perfect sketchbook.

So many folks have told me that my pages where I actively add silly notes or go (OH NO) when I realized I made a mistake? They love it.

Do it. Remind each other that imperfections are necessary. It brings community. It relieves others (and yourself) of that pressure. Even if just for a bit. Even if just for a little.

i don't like to yuck people's yum but i have to say that my least favorite thing to come from the current state of Artists on the Internet is the idea of a sketchbook as something nice and pretty and shareable. like i love me a notebook full of gorgeous art don't get me wrong but that is NOT what a sketchbook is. a sketchbook is my friend who i carry around everywhere like a purse chihuahua. it is the physical manifestation of my notes app. it is the container into which i wring my brain out. it is my therapist. and most of all it is filled with absolutely terrible sketches that should never see the light of day.

[sleeepydraws]

Anyways here's my latest sketchbook check..

i don't like to yuck people's yum but i have to say that my least favorite thing to come from the current state of Artists on the Internet is the idea of a sketchbook as something nice and pretty and shareable. like i love me a notebook full of gorgeous art don't get me wrong but that is NOT what a sketchbook is. a sketchbook is my friend who i carry around everywhere like a purse chihuahua. it is the physical manifestation of my notes app. it is the container into which i wring my brain out. it is my therapist. and most of all it is filled with absolutely terrible sketches that should never see the light of day.