wasted ~2 hours, now feelign annoyed n having a headache. i frigging hate designing sonas for meself cuz i can never make them look perfectly fitting the feel. i will ofc return to it n redraw it n finish it, but much much later cuz now am angry >_>

filled with colour just for the better look cuz didna wanna waste any more moments on it. the overall look, tail n head anatomy, spikes thingy - these're gonna stay as they're the kinda main attributes. the long neck n the slim overall look i hate cuz 'tis utterly wrong n i've no fucking idea why i ruined it this way. the fuck it looks like a twink, has nothing to do with me 😭
fully disappointed with myself n anrgy for now. will add the hashtags anyway just cuz the sketch itself isna trash, just i failed to draw it the way i wanted. some additional info i put into the alt text.

edit: i even completely forgot that i planned somewhat "ears" at first, and i hate that teeth are cool but completely off for this one. yay, so many fuckups and the design in the end is kinda cool... but 'tis not looking like my sona (the way i feel it) so will have to redraw. yay more hours to waste...

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lineart (almost) done

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Two new doll progress photos for tonight.

industrial ag mega-zine update:

WWII spreads are complete (phew!). that was a very large and complicated topic with many potential avenues to explore - WWII had a huge impact on the US food system.

we move on to the post-war period, the "real" birth of industrial ag in the form that we see it today. unsurprisingly, it gets even more complicated.

first of all, even before the war ended, agricultural economists were already thinking about what to do with the expected surpluses once the government was no longer buying food to feed soldiers. after WWI, this was a huge problem and led to a crash in the farming market with way too much food produced and prices way too low. so economists were trying to figure out how to prevent that.

one part of the plan was to send food to the war-torn countries of europe, but they weren't sure if that would absorb the entirety of the surplus, and weren't sure how long that would last as those countries re-started their own agricultural sectors.

a second part of the plan was to send surplus foods to underdeveloped nations, in what would eventually become development aid, the green revolution, etc. in other words, i feel fairly confident in making the claim that the massive expansion of food aid to countries like india was primarily to deal with agricultural surplus in the US, and also to use food as a way to counter the potential threat of communist takeover (since other countries in asia were "falling to communism"). so yea. it wasn't about "feeding the world" at all, even though that's the story that was sold to the public.

but that story is EXTREMELY complicated with books and books and articles and articles written about the effects of the green revolution in india (for example, vandana shiva's "the violence of the green revolution") and other developing nations. initially i planned to include all this in the zine, but i don't know... i already have close to 30 pages more-or-less completed (pending revisions), and getting into the india story will bring it up significantly (especially since i still want to leave room for "alternatives to industrial ag" and "where do we go from here" material).

anyway, i'm just gonna keep going, making one spread at a time! sometimes art ends up going long. just look at "my favorite thing is monsters" by emil ferris! it's a masterpiece imo, and it ended up being 2 huge volumes. should the author have cut it down? i don't think so. it's a big beautiful story and all the pages are necessary.

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