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How to draw 'overthinking'?

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Apr 30, 2023
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Later this week, I’m sharing a comic that involves a bit about my tendency to overthink things. It was quite the struggle to draw that, so I thought I’d share! I’ve been using a brain as a character for quite a while now. It’s really helpful when I want to show something that happens inside my head.

Here’s one of the first comics where I do this:

So when I started to think about ‘overthinking’, I thought I’d draw my brain stuck to my face, a bit like this:

I made these two sketches.

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