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Chloé Zhao, who just won an Oscar for best director, writes fanfiction.

For the "crime" of not wanting to be tracked/have ads pissed into your eyeballs 24/7.

Even if you've paid for the "privilege" of the latter.

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https://invidious.io/

People, who show off their "good sketchbook" also have one, if not multiple of these stashed away somewhere you'll not see. But obviously they are not going to present it to you, the public. It's for THEIR and THEIR EYES ONLY.

The sketchbook they are presenting to you is a well crafted and curated mini gallery (I know artists who often tear off drawings which are not to their standards) These sketchbooks are artworks themselves, you should NEVER EVER take them as regular ones, and I have yet to come across an artist who claim them as such.

I have inktober sketchbooks, they are pristine and clean. Because the conceptualisation, thumbnailing and everything happened in A DIFFERENT SKETCHBOOK, the one I'm never goin to show you. It's not pretty, but it helped make the pretty, it's for me and me only.

When you are sketchbooking, it's supposed to be for you, it's never supposed to be for, OK, maybe I'd show it to people, and they need not to be a small well curated gallery of beautiful artworks, BUT they can be, there is no harm in having a third or fifth sketchbook that you want to.show off, but that's not gonna be your regular, it never is.

Lastly, you know we are using internet wrong if seeing other people's great work lowers our self esteem instead of inspiring us (It happens to me a lot, happens less now that I've accepted that the people I'm looking at have been mastering their crafts for years, where I'm still learning)

If you feel like that, put more effort into your work and set a goal of where you want to be at the end of a certain time period, and compare your works from.now with your own works from like two years ago. You'll see how much you've improved. Or just draw for fun, not for "I need to be as good as them".

These are pages from my Inktober 2020 sketchbook. Every page is filled with work that are somewhat close to these, in terms of detail and cleanliness

On the other hand

These are pages from my 2020-21 handheld sketchbook. These pages have everything. Ink test, coffee wash, drafts for characters and stories, comic thumbs, furniture designs, to do lists, food recipe, studies, even class lectures. It also has varying levels of details and cleanliness, ranging from "Ok, that's quite decent" to "It literally is a foreign language and only the artist will understand what they meant by it"

The second sketchbook is for my eyes only. Where the first one was clearly for showcasing.

Now, some artist's rough sketchbook might look way better than me, and to some of you even mine will look pristine. It's simply because some of us have been drawing and learning for so long that our roughs might sometimes not look too rough, it's something you develop with time. But just because another artist's two line marker drawing looks better than my pen and ink drawing, I can't be like, "yeah, that's clearly a fully rendered piece they're selling as rough" (stop that, they're not selling you anything, it's really truly a 2 minute rough drawing, I've seen people do it with my own two eyes)

Or, "Their least effort sketches look better than my full 1 hour render, I should just stop drawing"

who i am

‘eat something’

‘buckle up’

I have been losing it all evening with the Eridian Welcoming Committee comics, so I decided to try my hand at one.

Gimmie Eridians who are absolutely heartbroken to hear that humans where so desperate and so scared that they where willing to part with not just one Grace, there were three of them! Gimmie Eridians touched to find that the humans planned a way for their sacrifices to be as comfortable as possible. Gimmie Eridians who send earth a message saying “We know it must have hurt to send your heroes to die, but one made it and he’s safe here. We lost 22 good Eridians on the journey we would have lost 23 if not for your Grace.”

happy 20 year anniversary of Neil banging out the tunes!

though every rat is special, it's a wonderful and unusual thing for their accomplishments to be remembered and cherished by so many people so many years later. we're all so fortunate to know about the rat who banged out the tunes!

thank you to all the people who sent me reference photos of their beloved rats for this piece!!! credits under the cut!