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Luddites, Process, and Friction-Maxxing

Lauren Panepinto

A big part of my job is trend forecasting, and to do proper trend forecasting you have to look beyond your genre, beyond your industry, and all the way down to the collective unconscious. I talk about this a lot in various Muddy Colors posts, because it informs a lot of what I do, and I most recently did a mini-series on Trendcasting around the Neo-Medievalism trend happening. You can read Part I, Part II,…

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Post Graduation Studies

Francis Vallejo

January 12, 2026 - Across the world, art students are graduating from their respective programs and entering the professional world. Congrats to you all! This post is for you. Some of you have jobs lined up. Awesome. Some of you are pursuing freelance or waiting to hear back from your job applications and all of a sudden have all this time on your hands. What to do? Well, 12 years ago I was a young artist freshly graduated looking to pursue freelance work. I had a lot of growing to do over the following years and made a ton of mistakes. But amidst all of this I did what I always do when I needed to advance my career: DRAW. The following images are a sample of the sketch pages I created the months following my graduation. These are…

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