E257: TOMORROW I’LL BE HAPPY by Jessica Hische

Do you ever just break out the markers and a notebook paper and doodle still or is it? Oh, yeah.

Yeah,

absolutely.

I'm always looking for excuses to just be entirely analog because I actually like I have not been using my iPad very much lately.

Like I used to do all of my sketches on my iPad and I just got kind of bummed out recently that like all of the.

evidence of me as an artist in the world is all just digital files.

And

it made me just want to jump back into a physical sketchbook.

So I started doing physical sketches again.

And like, you know, and this is like a whole other conversation, but I feel like in this world of like AI infiltrating everything, there really is now like a focus on hand done work.

And I think that it's a much more defensible space to stay within if you can make work by hand.

And it's a premium that people are willing to and want to pay for because they want the experience of having that thing being real in the world.

I was actually thinking about... like giving my clients like a choose your own adventure of like, I can do the sketches digitally, and then they'll be colorful and done faster.

Or I can do them as pencil, and you can choose which direction that you would like the most based on what experience you would like to have.

Yeah.

Oh, that's wonderful.

Because you're right, like, many of us are craving for something analog and old school and maybe personally but also business anybody who who there's also there's nothing

like looking through someone's sketchbook like someone's physical sketchbook

yeah

and there's just a magic to like feeling and i don't know that this is also kind of an adhd thing too like i read recently that like objects become really important to people with ADHD because they like imbue parts of memories into objects.

So like, you'll actually like the object will hold a part of a memory for you.

And so when you lose the object, it's almost like you're losing part of your memory, which why we like end up having like emotional attachments to our dolls and emotion and like thinking that everything has souls and like whatever, you know? And yeah, The thing that I feel about physical work is that it's so easy for me to just like transport myself into that moment with the physical work that I can't do with the digital one.

You know, like when I look at the mark on the paper, I can feel what it felt like to make that mark.

And when you look at the digital work, I can still get there, but it's just much harder to get there.

It's harder to place myself in it because it feels like a thing that was created without place, you know?