DID I HEAR SOMEONE TALK ABOUT SKETCHBOOKS
because uh sketchbooks are kind of my life
we were given our first wonky blank-page notebooks in fifth or sixth grade to use as Drawing Books, but I think I was the only one to actively use it. Because I filled mine out and needed a new one. And another. and another. And to this day I hoard up on cheap blank notebooks because I'm still filling them up, one by one. I used to number them, too, but I think I stopped somewhere around 20. Mostly because at that point I was starting to get better sketchblocks and my art extended to other mediums and the chronology of it all kind of fell apart
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"tiny unicorn defiantly proves its existence"
and while it's a little cringeworthy it's incredibly fun to leaf through them, you can pinpoint exactly what book I was reading or what tv shows I was watching at what times. Also, you know, art evolution. It's like "and this is where I realized
collarbones exist".
it's also worthy to note I almost never drew things while at home? Drawing was something I did at school. so I've been feilling 80% of these sketchbooks during classes. non-art classes. I also keep a lot of used notebooks that weren't supposed to be sketchbooks because I kept drawing in them anyway. ACTUALLY i have hoards of papers everywhere because I can't throw them away because I drew on them and like the result. WOOPS