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    Doodles,  Mental Health,  Personal Anecdotes,  Procreate

    The GIFs of drawing, or why I like doodling so much

    It’s been ages since my last jog and I’m twitching with restlessness. I miss the feeling of my heart rate rising to match the rhythm of my legs. The initial discomfort at the start of a run, the shortness of breath as I my lungs work to overcome inertia and set my body in motion. The sensation of flying when you’ve settled into your groove, in that fleeting moment when your back foot has pushed off the ground and your front foot has yet to land. The sweaty rush of endorphins when you reach your own finish line. At times like these it’s admittedly a little difficult to disentangle my…

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    Rotational Symmetry is Pretty Trippy — More Adventures in Procreate

    Here’s a really quick post to pay tribute to Procreate’s incredible radial symmetry drawing assist. Activating the rotational symmetry option makes things go absolutely psychedelic by replicating whatever you draw in one quadrant across all the other quadrants. And since humans have such a preference for symmetrical things and faces — as an aside, not what you want to hear as a teenager in a co-ed school when you have a birthmark that runs across one side of your face in decidedly asymmetrical fashion — practically everything you add to the page looks interesting! The video below is a bit pixelated because my canvas size was too small, but watching…