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1. Bright-Needle 🧵 (brightneedle@tootplanet.space)'s status on Friday, 20-Sep-2019 15:28:06 EDT Bright-Needle 🧵

   Seeing a couple people post about #inktober and I’ll throw in my two cents about such events.

   I love finding ways to challenge myself to do things I haven’t done before.

   I do better with breaks.

   I do better with repetition a few times.

   Daily things don’t fit everyone, including me. There’s no particular merit to it! I’d recc just following up on things you find interesting or challenging. Stretching and forgiving yourself.

   You’re not a brand. You don’t owe people a WAY of doing art.

   1. Lord Guysbert de Fieri (inspectorcaracal@tootplanet.space)'s status on Friday, 20-Sep-2019 15:31:30 EDT Lord Guysbert de Fieri

      in reply to

      @brightneedle it's been really disheartening that like the vast majority of artists I've seen prepping for inktober over the past, like... three years, have all been "ack oh no inktober is coming", very little "oh yay! inktober is coming!" and I'm like

      if you're freaking out over it, don't do it, be nice to yourself 🙃