You Should Draw Again

Pretty much all children draw at some point, and then one way or another, most of us stop. I think a lot of us stop because we just got old enough to look around us and feel self conscious about not being one of the kids who was "good at art", or if you had a past like mine, for worse reasons. But whatever the reason, it's a bad reason.

And overcoming it will help. Maybe your art won't be very good (and it certainly won't be at first), but you'll get practice in one of the most important things you can do: rebelling against the lie that you can't start what you're not already good at.

hi neil !

i have to write a short story for the final assignment worth 90% of my creative writing uni module, it has to be 4k words. i’ve been putting it off for months because 1) i’ve been depressed and can’t find the motivation to do anything, 2) im deathly scared of it being bad because 3) graduating my course counts on the grade i’ll get for it. writing and reading has been a huge motivator to not give up on a future for myself. i am basically terrified of writing and submitting it. all the ideas i have feel bad, or i can’t execute them, or it’s not what the marker would be looking for. i’ve had the deadline extended into summer but i just can’t bring myself to write anything. how do you make yourself write when it matters so much? when something big rests on its quality, and it scares you?

thank you so much :)

There was a colourist I knew who wanted more than anything to colour a comic book I was writing. I got him pages early to start colouring, talked to him about what we were trying to achieve. He was really smart and brilliant and I knew he'd do a great job. The editor was waiting for his work to come in.

He may have started. He may not. I don't know. All I know is he was so obsessed with it being perfect that he never sent the pages in. The person who wound up colouring the comic got the job because we were out of time and our first choice had never sent anything to the editor.

The moral I took from this is that any work, no matter how bad, is better than no work, no matter how brilliant.

I pass this along to you, in the hope that it helps. Divide 4000 by how many days you have to go, and then double that. That's what you have to write each day to get 4K written, with enough time to revise it thoroughly on the other side. Get anything down in the first half of the time. Make it brilliant in the second half of the time.

Good luck.

Issey Miyake: Making Things, Paris (1998)

The Secret Ingredient is Cat Hair

I’m thinking of hanging this one in the kitchen!

Pattern time!

wish me luck dear tumblerdarlings, as i got forth and take everything i learned and test run screenprinting Caro's FREAK shirt...

Solarpunk Action Week GOOOOOO

Y'all it is Solarpunk Action Week and we are STOKED for it! Christina's already been posting videos (unfair; she totally has a six-hour headstart lol), she's got the writing group meeting on Friday, and I'm looking forward to skilling UP when it comes to gardening, landscaping, building, and all-around 'round-the-house solarpunky improvements.

Who knows, I might knock together my courage and try to patch up those pairs of jeans using the sewing machine, of which I am very afraid for some reason.

Anyway. What are you fine folks up to for SPAW?

Can definitely improve on some things, but not bad for a first attempt! Made myself a little monster friend following a @tj-crochets pattern <3

I made a Robotman-style grungy t-shirt if anyone cares. Hopefully the cheap fabric marker doesn't fly off of it the second I put it in the wash

Issey Miyake 'Starburst' Autumn/Winter Collection (1998)

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A little something I made for myself. It occurred to me that I don’t own a proper tote bag and how else am I supposed to carry multiple books to the cemetery?! So I made one :)

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Tiny foil stamping/lettering/penning? 🤔 Got a foil pen thing and decided I’m gunna try to make Stolas’s grimoire. But doing a tiny test first. Detail isn’t easy with a fat nubbed pen.

"This isn't just a thing, right? This isn't a thing. This is time, it's time, which is all that any of us have. When you pour it into something like this, what an act of giving. . . what a moment of love." ~Logran Soulforger, in ep 9 of The Seven

Issey Miyake: Making Things (1998)

Skeleton Lady

Pattern Time!

I just..like making things, I guess.

(Green Lantern: War Journal #2)