Stasis Blocked

I don't draw anymore. Just doomscroll

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[bogleech]

Yeah so today I learned that a ton of people on the internet or at least on tumblr believe that “office workers” are some pampered and privileged upper class who have no right to complain about their “cozy” indoor computer jobs, like those jobs are all just Dilbert raking in free money to chill in a little chair on the internet. How about y’all look up the physical health problems, let alone mental ones, that come from cubicle work? A 10 hour work day scrambling to crunch numbers, manage accounts, repair code and slam together a college final’s worth of presentable information just to eat for another week is not the same as your 10 hours on discord arguing about the sex lives of cartoon network characters.

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Going from retail and warehousing to an office job was honestly the closest in my life I felt to imposter syndrome.

I was getting paid $6 more an hour than my previous job to do the easiest glorified customer service job ever. The customers can't even spit on you over the phone. They had free tea even in the breakroom, along with AC.

All the other people there that had retail experience would also admit how privileged office work was comparatively.

11 hour days at Amazon, 5 days a week is far worse physically, and stress-wise in a lot of cases too.

Idk, not everyone can do manual labor, but it deserves just as much pay as most office work.

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Just watched the new Godzilla movie and was reminded of the time I drew Shin Godzilla.

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Redid another old drawing. Honestly, I still like the original more but this looks a lot cleaner.

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Vampire girl I've drawn a few times. She would be a really minor character in a comic I'll probably never get to. She's an office worker than volunteers as a medic for underground fighting tournaments.

Added a wooden stake gauge to her design from the last time I drew her.

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Joined an art collab on Twitter and was picked to draw Hypno!

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Videogame Cacti.

Dude, I struggled to think of some of the last few. Mostly just wanted to avoid drawing the Plants vs. Zombies cactus.

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Made for a work art club thing. Which I think is canceled. It's down to just me and one other member now, lol.

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Cofagrigus made with a cheap $3 wood coffin I got at Michael’s around Halloween.

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Hard to pick one thing to repost for pokemon day.

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Ham Ham Heartbreak is one of the greatest GBA games ever made.

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Scorgipion

I actually watched tutorials for procreate and realized I made things so much more difficult for myself. I had no idea what a masking layer even was.

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Manticornicopia

Wish the photo I had taken of the drawing was bigger/better. I would of liked to edit out the bg/hideous pear and make a sticker.

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Tried to make a self portrait but didn't really look like me in the end.

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Another older drawing. Redid it awhile ago so it would be clean enough to post as a sticker on Red Bubble.

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Some highlighter doodles I made ages ago.

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Piereep.

If I made simple drawings like this in exchange for ingame items and materials, what do you think would be a fair price?

I'm out of practice, so I usually have to spend at least an hour or two a pic. But I need the motivation and want more star pieces and other nice things.

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Agreed to do secret santa at work but the rules were awful. They told us who to buy for only a week before the exchange and they want $20 split amongst three gifts for the same person.