have had this bookmarked forever. as a “oh I can’t draw :\” person it’s been really inspiring and helped me to develop comfort while illustrating (as rarely as i do) to go “ah! im just at step xx and that’s ok”
Jan 15, 2025
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sadly never been artistically talented with a pen (much to my disappointment) but doing small quick drawings is helping me battle against this desire for my creative outlets to be perfect or visually appealing. Not getting discouraged or hyperfixating on the look of it, rather focusing on how good it feels to put pen to paper
It’s very freeing and I will continue to draw inanimate objects poorly without shame
Aug 13, 2024
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i just draw for fun in procreate i’m not an artist or anything but i’ve learned the features and hacks/tips by following a bunch of youtube tutorials 😭 if you learn by doing i recommend that approach
i‘ve done a bunch from the channel i linked (art with flo) and then also the lazy illustrator, haze long, and bardot brush have lots of tutorials
May 26, 2025
I’ve been drawing everyday in a sketchbook everyday since 2018. Drawing is something that I’ve always wanted to be good at since I was very little.
It’s a skill that anyone can learn, just like any other skill. It’s not a walled-off talent that only comes to a certain number of people, anyone can pick it up and learn.
I love how meditative the process can be, it slows you down and forces you to see objects and perspectives for what they really are, not how you imagine them to be.
Feb 18, 2024
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Mar 23, 2024
a treatise on the attention economy - checked it out on libby and got through it over the course of a work day, a lot of really interesting social and cultural explorations about how time itself is the final frontier of hypercapitalism and what decommodification of our attention and time should look like
the book starts with a story about the oldest redwood tree in oakland and how the only reason it’s still standing is bc it’s unmillable, and how being uncommercializable is essential to our survival. it ends with an exploration of alt social media platforms (mostly p2p ones) and what keeping the good parts of the social internet and rejecting the bad ones should look like
all in all a super valuable read; my only nitpick with the book is that odell isn’t just charting the attention economy but also attempting to “solve” it and relate it back to broader concepts about labor and social organizing, but her background is in the arts which leads to some really wonderful references to drive the points home while also missing some critical racial + socioeconomic analyses that one would expect (or at least really appreciate) from the book she promises to deliver in the introduction. but this does also make the book easier to read which is good because everyone should definitely engage with what she has to say
will definitely be revisiting
Mar 25, 2024
