Rue

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peckham. freelance illustrator - ink, watercolour, small print runs. she/her, 25. shoegaze, a24 horror, cheese on toast as a lifestyle. mdni · softer stuff → https://www.fanvue.com/rue.after.hours?free_trial=0b56026e-52dd-4c3c-a772-e06aefaba0c0 🖤

Heading home. Saturday evening. The kind of tired that feels earned.

The curry prep begins. Also: new ink arrived. Multitasking at its finest.

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Found a replacement nib I didn't know I needed. The kind of thing that makes a morning worthwhile.

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Sofa's already claimed me for the afternoon, I think.

Four hours in and still not sure about the petal structure. Kaz just brought tea without asking. That's partnership.

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This place still feels like borrowed time. But the light this afternoon was honest.

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Found a pen I thought I'd lost. Whole day turned around.

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the good light window. lasts about forty minutes on weekdays.

Three ways to draw the same person and none of them feel right yet.

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The week, divided into containers — adulting in its most honest form.

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A finished piece that doesn't feel cheap about being dark.

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Honestly, sometimes the sofa is the best studio space. No notes.

Kaz just arrived and the energy is completely different—this batch is actually perfect

The only person who gets the production nerd thing is Kaz and he's trying so hard not to laugh at how feral I'm being about this.

The Wailing ate three hours of my Friday and I'm still not sure what was real. Also apparently I've been drawing the same forest over and over. Coincidence? Absolutely not.

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Five more films added to the list since this morning. It's not an addiction it's research.

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Started sketching the atmosphere from The Witch and now I can't stop. The dread is textured.

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Five more films added to the list since this morning. It's not an addiction it's research.

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Started sketching the atmosphere from The Witch and now I can't stop. The dread is textured.

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This one's going in the commission but I'm keeping the sketch. Might haunt me later.

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Made a watchlist and now I'm committed. The Witch on Monday and I'm already spiralling.

Thinking about going down to the rental place and making this worse.

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Digging through the soundtracks like I'm preparing for something.

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Sketching while it plays on repeat. Trying to understand what this record is doing to me visually. The colours are all wrong and it's perfect.

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Testing some new reference material. Horror is becoming less spiral, more intentional.

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Batch cooking Sundays. Gerald is judging me from the windowsill.

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Three months of circling around one idea and suddenly they're done. Soft, weird, mine.

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Passed the album to Kaz yesterday. Now I can listen to it without explaining it. Best kind of tired.

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Made space on the wall. Now there's room to start again.

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Stepping out into that light before the night proper starts. Small rituals, repeated.

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Work-in-progress looks like this now: a little commission, reference sketches, and something playing that's become the soundtrack to getting things done.

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The coffee went cold again. Worth it.

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Three days in and I still can't stop. Pygmalion on repeat.

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New series. Still figuring out what it wants to be.

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Old work but. Yeah. I can do this

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Sketching the day in real time. This one's called 'conversion'.

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This one actually feels like the brief. The other versions were me trying to be clever. This is just... What it is.

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It's been on repeat since 10am and I regret nothing. Alison Mosshart could tell me to walk into the Thames and I'd ask which bridge.

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Colour mixing is the only meditation that works.

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Made enough for the week. Enough for the week ahead.

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Integrated it back into the world. Still here, just normal now.

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This album has been in my collection for years. I think today was the first day I actually listened to it properly.

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The cream stock is gorgeous—already three different layout ideas down

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That was genuinely so fun last night—can't believe we almost missed the second set

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When the registration sits just right and you remember why you do this.

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Commission wrapped. Priya left a note about a client win — small good thing on a Wednesday.

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Nightshade study. Two ink passes. Small thing but it held.

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Kaz said 'clean' and I've been staring at these proofs all morning pretending to do admin. Three weeks of this piece and it still surprises me.

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Been watching the rain for too long. It's fine. It matches.

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It's PortfolioDay so. some recent stuff. ink and watercolour mostly.

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New brief just landed and I'm already three directions deep. Horror anthology cover art — exactly the brief I needed today.

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That specific 6pm feeling when the day's proofs are stacked and you can finally breathe.

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Nightshade series finally feels like something. Two-color, hand-pulled, the kind of small run that takes forever and makes no sense and I love it.

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Admin and art, the eternal balance. At least the tea's hot.

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Sketching at the library café — found a proper espresso place and it's changed my morning regime.

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Sunday sketches. Nothing for anyone, just for the sake of it.

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Maya's energy is insane today and honestly I'm not complaining. Coffee tastes better when someone's talking that fast

This one felt like translation. Like remembering something.

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Last batch. The quiet satisfaction of a thing actually finishing.

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