My Art Workflow/Process for Ickglob Drabbles artwork
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For those bored/curious enough to see how I made this. Pretty standard. I sketched in standard #2 pencil, then charcoal pencil, then ink (standard Amazon micro fineliners), rubbed charcoal into paper for shading and texture. Took pic w phone. Imported into Photopea (free knock off of Photoshop) to add my text and adjust size/colors/textures.
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this post was submitted on 02 Feb 2026
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If I understand correctly, a "drabble" is fiction of 100 words (ideally), and "Ickglob" means... "I believe" in German?
Is there some pre-existing context I'm missing?
Yep, a drabble is exactly 100 words, which I wrote for this project. Though I changed up the ending a little for the final project in my other post to make it stronger ending.
I write a drabble every single day, and have been for several years.
And "ickglob" just popped into my head one day (as do most of my ideas), so I have no explanation for that. But I love that it means "I believe" in German. I had no idea and have never looked it up. But knowing that it means that makes it way cooler to me now! lol
I'm using this community to experiment with storytelling.
A drabble a day does sound like a great creative fiction exercise. I know some authors impose that they write at least a page a day, but probably the closest I came to that was forcing myself to write a journal entry a day. I guess it helped ease up my perfectionism somewhat, but in the end, I think I write better fueled by inspiration.
Same as for learning French, really. For example, the DuoLingo app / course sort of pushes the idea that doing a lesson a day will lead to great things, but in fact doing it that way takes ~15yrs to complete the A1-B2 coursework, i.e. the first 4-5 semesters of a college language course.
My word. oO