he really really really wants to have a source of knowing that people want to see his art, even if it's just a few people. so, since I still haven't quite figured out twitter (lord help me) I set up an instagram instead

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so, if anyone wants to help out, pretty sure the algorithms like it if people sign on to follow accounts early on

I'm really hopeful that having even a few followers will help him a lot. he's basically trying to trade big destructive habits for constructive ones, hoping that the boost of knowing that there are people who want to see his art will like

help him stay motivated, help rewire his brain, and keep him accountable

him talking about his counselor saying that a lot of people with addictive behavior become gym rats because they've shifted that focus to something else, and him hoping that's what art becomes for him

also talking about how when he starts to spiral, he starts pushing people away and isolating himself, so he's hoping that knowing that there are people online "waiting" to see his art will help him stay connected

so

hoping this will turn out to be a cool thing!!

(and if you want to spread this around anywhere, go for it)

/throws a follow his way

I don't comment or check on insta regularly but I can do this!

that eye is dope!

isn't it cool?? 95% sure he wasn't working from a reference

YAH and with a ballpoint pen? hot damn!

it's from a page of all kinds of doodled eyes, and that was my favorite

it's with a shitty bendy flex ballpoint pen!!

I wish I could convey the fuckin insane things he does with peanut butter labels and string pulled out of his clothes, wrapped around parts of the pen to stabilize it

and he has gone through so many pens to find one "good" nib that he now prizes more than anything else and bites the pens apart to put this nib on other pens with the ink runs out etc.

*when the ink runs out

also Teeff: THANK YOU for a follow, even if you don't actually check in much on there. ♥

yw yw! happy to help boost him along!

I'm going to talk to him later this week and I'm hoping he'll be stoked about this

he hasn't drawn much lately, still trying to shake a biiiig bout of depression that hit in feb, so I'm hoping maybe this perks him up

yeah!

He's got a follow from me.

followed!

Added!

yaaaay thank you friends! 8D