Issue 152

Hello!

Spent the work week dividing my time between getting this spaceships book I'm not finished and freelance work. Work-life balance is still in check though, I'm not killing myself to get this done...but I'd like to get it off my plate because there's about 100 other things I'm itching to work on.

Alright, here's 5 things I thought you'd find interesting this weekend.

Enjoy!

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1) Spaceship Splash Page

From the Art Department

I'm trying so hard to get this spaceships book out to the printer by next week, and there's a pile of coloring still to do on it. One page I've been dreading was this splash art from the foreword. I thought maybe I could just leave the sketchy version and call it good.

Then I thought that a rough sketch like what I had would be one of the first images you see in the book would just drag the overall quality down a few notches. No, the first image needed to be colored and polished a bit. So I rolled up my sleeves and 3 hours later, had this thing colored

Process art from sketch to final over on the Patreon.

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2) Dai Heiwa Kinen Tō

From the Architecture Desk

Dai Heiwa Kinen Tō (translated: The Great Peace Prayer Tower), is a cenotaph tower in Japan. It'd dedicated to "the souls of all war victims in history, regardless of race, ethnic group, sovereign state, border, region, religion, religious denomination and creed."

This is such a bizarre direction for a monument and I love that it exists.

More info here: LINK​

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3) Sleek Animal Bots

From the Office of Robots

Russian based concept artist Anton Valishin creates these stylish robot animals in 3d. It's a beautiful mix of contemporary industrial design and animal forms and I'd absolutely want one for a pet if they were real.

Behance: LINK​

Artstation: LINK​

Instagram: LINK​

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4) Five Rad Crabs

From the Flora and Fauna Unit

That's it. Just five rad lookin' crabs living their best lives that I found on pinterest or wherever.

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5) On ADHD

Nothing from the Inspirational Thought Unit this week. Instead a PSA for ADHD:

ADHD is a superpower and a weakness. The same thing that allows you to focus intently on accomplishing a task can also make you super late for important meetings. (Which happened to me more than once this week!)

​This speech on ADHD blew me away. It's by clinical psychologist Dr Russel Barkley who has devoted his life to treating people with ADHD.

Put this on and listen to it whether you have ADHD or not. It will help you understand what's going on in the head of a person who has ADHD, and might instill a little more empathy, not just for others, but also for yourself if you struggle with it.

He also outlines several solutions for working with ADHD that I think are extremely helpful and have used in my life.

Someone also took notes and timestamped them in case your attention span can't handle a 37 minute lecture right now. So look for that in the comments.

Check it out here: LINK​

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That's all for this week. Thank you for reading this newsletter and hope you have a great weekend!

-Jake

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