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> I hand-lettered every single word in every illustration separately so that it would be as imperfect as it appeared.

Good lord, I'm going to think about this every time I consider dedication to craft.

Seriously, wow. That's impressive. I'm sorry this isn't more substantive of a comment, but I really wanted you to know how amazing that is (as you probably already do).



There is almost certainly a pathological component to how much effort I sunk into the book but once I started... I kinda just kept doing it.

Also, lettering was sort a of a nice peaceful zen break from the harder work of writing prose.


You'll probably enjoy his writeup (and a video) on his process: http://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2020/04/05/crafting-crafti...




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