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I'm an independent illustrator and artist. Here is the archive of my Weekly Wednesday Newsletters starting in September 2022

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Bi-Weekly Wednesday Newsletter no. 143 [GREETING GOES HERE] I like how the sun hit this wall What's Going On Random Drawings What I've been thinking about I spectated my friend run a half marathon; fortunately it did not inspire me to start running again I was painting someone's house and it's actually kind of hard work.... Applying for jobs rn lol. That's bonkers! Thank you! watched some awesome friends perform music stuff! found this on my camera roll Next Newsletter on Feb 18th or March...

Bi-Weekly Wednesday Newsletter no. 142 [GREETING GOES HERE] What's Going On Random Drawings Some grey hands lol What I've been thinking about I've been trying to improve my handwriting lol I put up some art posters in my room This week I've been thinking about how trials and uncertainty are a gift. I trust God's wisdom and goodness for my life even when it doesn't seem very pleasant Thank you! Next Newsletter on February 4th! Congrats Kyelbs on the engagement Previous posts | Main website

Bi-Weekly Wednesday Newsletter no. 141 [GREETING GOES HERE] new zealnd What's Going On An Update Last year, I switched to doing bi-weekly newsletters after over 2 years of doing it weekly. I think that was a really great change. Accountability is valuable, and the weekly newsletter forced me to be accountable and stay in motion. But as of last year, that mindset of simply needing to just push out content no longer served me. So slowing down the cadence made sense. It was helpful to have more...

Bi-Weekly Wednesday Newsletter no. 140 [GREETING GOES HERE] we had a blackout for 22 hrs....so I had to like read a book This year was kind of wild. Here's some things I've been thinking about: Thoughts on Failure These past 3 years I’ve grown so much from having the opportunity to do things like hike and getting paid to draw. But I also realize that I need to be more thoughtful about my decisions if I also wanted to support a family or buy dino nuggets. So I decided to take a door to door...

Bi-Weekly Wednesday Newsletter no. 139 [GREETING GOES HERE] thanks civi What's Going On Some Drawings Sketches for like a woodpecker sort of thing I did this logo thingy, but then I never followed up with the person.....er whoops Someone stranger asked me to do this in the middle of the night Camera Roll We'll see how much content I can pull out of the archives arf! What I've been thinking about I started wearing sunscreen...we'll see how it goes. Might be a scam. I'll let you know I've been...

Bi-Weekly Wednesday Newsletter no. 137 [GREETING GOES HERE] old building in berkley What's Going On Started drawing in pen. Stretching my skillset because I really have to think about the line quality and where I'm going. Meeting notes: Quail Thanks guys for the androids lollll What I've been thinking about I'm finding that ice cream is still really good My brother made soup yesterday and I think I'll have that for lunch today, even though I already defrosted some salmon. Chai Tea Baby Good...

Bi-Weekly Wednesday Newsletter no. 136 [GREETING GOES HERE] What's Going On Mudboard I wish I had a color picker and a image converter, so I threw one together over the weekend https://www.mudboard.com/colors this gradient is so pretty lol https://www.mudboard.com/processing Probably not perfect, but I quite like it. Wood Thing A while back I was accepted into an art fellowship for Asian American Christian artists, and I got to take part in a tour + retreat to learn about the history of SF....

Bi-Weekly Wednesday Newsletter no. 135 [GREETING GOES HERE] What's Going On Some Drawings Coding Here's the website: https://www.readquail.com/ click on this! Made a business card. I guess you can call me.... (the title/role doesn't mean anything) What I've been thinking about I feel good about this direction I'm going in, but unfortunately it appears that it is a life of poverty and hard work for another few years ooffff I'm supposed to be engraving some wood blocks with designs....but I...

Bi-Weekly Wednesday Newsletter no. 134 [GREETING GOES HERE] What's Going On Random Drawings Drew some icons for a friend's website Mudboard Surprisingly, I still have regular users, and one of them asked for a better text editor. So I threw that together It made me very happy to do this actually. Glad it's still helpful for people. Coming back to this codebase after a month or so, I'm pleasantly surprised how complex this app is but also how fun it is to use. Good job past Andrw Quail Ok so...

Bi-Weekly Wednesday Newsletter no. 133 [GREETING GOES HERE] What's Going On Drew some dude holding an orange Quail We pushed out a version and got people trying it. Things are moving way faster than I had in the past, which is very nice (I really didn't know what I was doing earlier), but also kind of scary....like people are paying for what I built? That's a lot of pressure.... It's very nice to be working with someone else though. Old Stuff What I've been thinking about Thinking a lot about...