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You know what? I’m gonna admit something that really does bother me. And it bothers me much more than it probably should. Hoo boy, here we go.

That sandwich Lee’s drawing is too good.

I’m not saying it’s brilliant or innovative or even particularly notable. But in my mind, Lee is actually a pretty good artist, so when I’m drawing something that he’s drawing (particularly if it’s realistic) I want to make sure it matches that canon. So, I took my time with his drawing of that sandwich, and I like how it came out!

But then when I’m putting it all together, I’m staring at the panel and realize that at that small scale, it looks indistinguishable from what you’d expect outta some “pencil sketch” Snapchat filter! And that would be such a cheap, cop-out move! And one that I didn’t make! But what do I do now? Go back, draw it again but worse enough that you can tell it’s a drawing without looking up close, print it out, cut it out, cut out the foam board to tape it to, reshoot everything in front of my little green screen — and then getting that actually separated from the green screen properly is a whole ordeal!

So… I didn’t do that. I just stuck with the two-hour drawing of the sandwich I did initially. The level of laziness there really is shameful. What next? I get a career in the field of fine art? Ugk! Sorry! I just threw up a little in my mouth.