I never could figure out how people had time to make all these completed drawings (cause that's what they are) in their sketchbooks every day! My sketchbooks are so messy and random because I'm trying to figure stuff out and see if things will work, or I just want to draw something silly! Which is how it should be! Good on you for taking back your sketchbook for you and breaking out of the system! Also, I would love to normalize the idea of releasing art books on some sort of scheduled basis because I love to collect them from artists I like, and sometimes I just want to look at a bunch of their stuff all at once but can't find it in the social feed! Thankfully I have your "Some Fancy Shit" to satisfying my cravings!
Thank you for your kind words! You totally made my day as I've been feeling kind of blehhh. I can't promise an art book on a schedule because the more I put pressure on myself, the more bad feels I have but there will definitely be something at a future time <3
I've been trying to understand how people have time to make all the super complex drawings and film and edit and make a billion posts every day and the conclusion I came to is that they have someone else to "take care" of them. Supportive parents/spouse that fully support them while they keep cranking out art until they "make it", which a lot have, because they have the privilege to do so and honestly, there's nothing wrong with that.
But that shouldn't be the expected standard for all artists. I felt like, as someone who's doing everything alone, barely scraping by AND is a caretaker for disabled parents AND also chronically ill myself, I can't keep up with that kind of life. And I don't feel "guilty" or like a failure for giving it up. I tried the lifestyle on, it didn't fit and I returned it to the store.
I never could figure out how people had time to make all these completed drawings (cause that's what they are) in their sketchbooks every day! My sketchbooks are so messy and random because I'm trying to figure stuff out and see if things will work, or I just want to draw something silly! Which is how it should be! Good on you for taking back your sketchbook for you and breaking out of the system! Also, I would love to normalize the idea of releasing art books on some sort of scheduled basis because I love to collect them from artists I like, and sometimes I just want to look at a bunch of their stuff all at once but can't find it in the social feed! Thankfully I have your "Some Fancy Shit" to satisfying my cravings!
Thank you for your kind words! You totally made my day as I've been feeling kind of blehhh. I can't promise an art book on a schedule because the more I put pressure on myself, the more bad feels I have but there will definitely be something at a future time <3
I've been trying to understand how people have time to make all the super complex drawings and film and edit and make a billion posts every day and the conclusion I came to is that they have someone else to "take care" of them. Supportive parents/spouse that fully support them while they keep cranking out art until they "make it", which a lot have, because they have the privilege to do so and honestly, there's nothing wrong with that.
But that shouldn't be the expected standard for all artists. I felt like, as someone who's doing everything alone, barely scraping by AND is a caretaker for disabled parents AND also chronically ill myself, I can't keep up with that kind of life. And I don't feel "guilty" or like a failure for giving it up. I tried the lifestyle on, it didn't fit and I returned it to the store.