My sketchbook hit 200 pages and it made me see my own style for the first time

Honestly, I was just cleaning my studio last week and stacked all my old sketchbooks. When I counted them, I had filled exactly 200 pages with fashion sketches over the past four years. Ngl, it was a weird feeling. I always thought my ideas were all over the place, but flipping through them, I saw this clear thread of using really wide, architectural sleeves in almost everything, even my early, messy drawings. I never planned it, it just kept showing up. It made me realize my brain has a default setting I wasn't even aware of. Now I'm thinking of leaning into it hard for my next collection. Has anyone else had a moment like that, where a number or a pile of old work showed you a pattern you totally missed?

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wells.morgan19d ago

Seriously, that just sounds like you got stuck in a rut for four years.

troyjackson18d ago

That's the thing, wells.morgan, a lot of people mistake a rut for stability. They get comfortable with the same routine and call it being responsible. It's a hard pattern to break once you're in it.