Completely forgot to try to scan all the little talking comics in my sketchbook today, but I do want to mention in general that I love having just decided that no one will see anything in my sketchbook unless I decide it.

Kind of took the pandemic to reset my head in this way. It’s not like I was making a giant habit of showing everybody everything in my sketchbook anyway, but I think the mentality was just left over from art school where it was like you should always have your Sketchbook and you should always be prepared to open it to the best page for anyone you might happen to meet who needs an artist. And I started feeling like I needed to make sure I never do anything embarrassing and maybe I want to have like a backup sketchbook for my Sketchbook and then like a backup sketchbook for the backup SketchBook.

But now I never see people so all of my sketchbooks are just freedom town. I have a bunch of internalized things that make it difficult for me to draw shit that feels embarrassing (thanks to Some People) but it is getting better! It is definitely better from when I first started trying to actively counteract it like 10 years ago and it’s better than it was five and even two years ago so we are going somewhere!