Appreciation post: that moment I hit 100 pattern drafts in my sketchbook

I was flipping through my old sketchbook last night and counted up all the pattern drafts I've done in the last 2 years. Hit exactly 103. That blew my mind because I never thought I'd stick with designing this long. Most of them are garbage honestly, but seeing that number made me realize how much I've improved just by doing it over and over. My first 10 looked like a kid drew them, but around draft 50 things started clicking with how fabric drapes and seams line up. Now I can spot a bad curve from across the room. Anyone else keep a physical count of your designs or do you just wing it and hope for the best?

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charlie3711d ago

103 patterns is wild. I've never counted my drawings but I once kept track of every single burrito I ate in a year. Came out to 87. Most of them were garbage too but around burrito 50 I really figured out the perfect rice to meat ratio.

adams.taylor11d ago

Wait, 87 burritos in one year? That's like one every four days, and I'm sitting here trying to figure out how you even found 87 different burrito places that weren't total garbage. You must have a cast iron stomach (or maybe that's just the rice-to-meat ratio working overtime). Honestly, hitting that perfect ratio around burrito 50 feels like a spiritual journey or something, like you started as a burrito novice and ended as a burrito shaman. I'm genuinely impressed you had the discipline to count them all, because I lose track of what I ate for lunch yesterday. Did you ever hit a point where you just got sick of burritos and had to switch to tacos for a month?

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