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Tricking yourself into creating art, one Post-It note doodle at a time

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  1. Issue · Sep 18, 2026

    Eleven Things I Learned in Art School (opens the original)

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    Always buy the big box of X-Acto knife blades, you’ll wind up using them all. Any Billy Wilder movie is probably going to be really good.Better materials, especially certain paper and paints, actually do make a big difference.However, when you find a material where a cheap version is just as good as an expensive version, TAKE FULL ADVANTAGE.The way you ruin most drawings is by getting detailed too quickly, before you get the basics down first.Will this stop you from getting to the details too qu

  2. Issue · Aug 14, 2026

    Ok Fine, Maybe I Was Wrong About My Sketchbooks Being Pieces of Crap (opens the original)

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    A few years ago I wrote about how my sketchbooks were pieces of crap. I’d like to revisit this. Granted, many, many of my sketchbook pages are aggressively unimpressive. But check out this little video I made, going through sketchbooks from 8 or so years ago. With the passing of time, I can see a lot of things I did well. For example, I kind of love these mysterious inky panels: <figu

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