GDC’s Sketchbook

Updates from @GraceDChin_Illo, my sketchbook instagram account:

✨Shop update! ✨ I’m moving a little slower today, but trying not to be hard on myself about it. The other day, I listened to an episode of The TED Radio Hour where @luckycooke talked about sloths and how their slow metabolisms give them an unpa
~ Shop update ~ Winter is always rough for me (guess I’ll stay a Californian in some ways), but spring is around the corner. The crocuses are coming up in Berlin 🌱 ~ Shipping update 📦 ~ I added a new cheaper, but uninsured shipping option f
“I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.” It’s Audre Lorde’s birthday today - here are a few of her words. I’m celebrating by watching the documentary @audrelordetheberlinyears, about the her time (1984-1992) in Berlin a
Valentines Day is a good day to remember that love ought to make you feel powerful, supported. My best relationships have been the ones that reaffirmed my worth; my worst made me pare away parts of myself to better accommodate someone else. I don&rsq
Good news! There were more stickers in the box 📦 I’m wrapping up with this last round of orders (thank you so much 💛) and just updated my shop to reflect the correct stock. #emotionallyswole #stickergame
In case you need to hear it again: I believe you. The experience of worrying you won’t be believed, not being believed, and having your (valid and normal) reactions to trauma dismissed - all of this is painfully familiar to survivor-victims of
Just popping in to say that these are back in my shop now after a cool mixup with USPS/DHL 🥲 My “home studio” situation has gotten to be kind of a mess, so any purchases this month will help me invest in not using cardboard as a rug for
Added this batch of clay ornaments to my shop ✨it’s my last ornament update for the month. Thank you to everyone who’s purchased one, left kind comments, or shared the posts. 🤞 It’ll all work out 🤞
Sold out ~ thank you 😭✨✨✨ Lately, I notice I have so much judgment in my heart, both for myself and for others, but it’s good to remember that people are usually doing what they can. Scarcity mindset can make me petty AF, but the world become
This year I’d like to focus on the way I speak to myself. That voice has gotten kinder and more compassionate than it was say 10-15 years ago, but there’s still work left to do. Noticing how I speak to myself was a big part of therapy for
Energy to take into the coming year 💪🔥😈. These are the wreaths that are in my shop (photo 1, 3-5) and the video tutorial I put up on YouTube (photo 2)! I have a few more wreaths to add, but then I’ll be done for 2020. The wreath tutorial mak
[EN] Hey there - it’s been a while! After several months of navigating the challenges of moving my business, my shop is back online 😭. I‘ve got a smaller offering online right now, will have a fuller range by January, since I have a few
Cheesing hard because I’m a legal resident in Deutschland until 2023, baybeeeee!!!! This is on the same block as the un-air-conditioned building my appointment was in, so of course I celebrated with an ice cold Spezi (orange juice and cola pop)
** Asking for help from any folks in Germany - Please pass along to anyone who might be able to help. Even if you’re not in Germany, please like this post to help it get wider visibility 💛** As many of you know, I’m in the process of imm
I’ve been on creative hiatus partly because I’m adjusting to life in Germany, away from friends and family, but also because I’m not really sure what I’m doing anymore or why 🙃. It’s frustrating and discouraging to feel
What a time to be an American - a time to reimagine what justice looks like in the USA. Hindsight is truly 20/20. It means that we have the privilege of learning our history without accepting it as our future as well. Keep listening, reading, asking,
I’m feeling overwhelmed on multiple fronts and have a feeling I’m not alone. I never expected to feel this much grief in leaving America. Of course, I expected to miss my friends and family, but never expected that loss of country would f
Every year, people set fire to the prairie grasses in the Midwest. This is a process that dates back to pre-Columbian time (and thus a practice begun by people of color). Burning the prairie eradicates woody vegetation that stifles the native grasses
America can only heal once all the poison is sucked out of its system - this means convictions for hate crimes. Every time one of these lynchings goes unpunished emboldens white supremacists. Justice for Ahmaud. #justiceforahmaud now, solidarity fore
“MAY YOU HEALTH AND PROSPERITY EVER ENJOY NO COLDNESS TO WOUND YOU, NO CARE TO ANNOY” Today was my first day out of mandatory 14-day quarantine, and that meant getting right to business. I chose to face my first admin task without my [Ger