“Remembering How 2 Draw” by Bug showed up in my P.O. Box at just the right time, like a bright orange, half-sized muse. As I mentioned in last month’s review of “At Your Own Pace”, I’ve been struggling with my own artistic practice, always feeling like whatever I’m making is never enough, and that I’m just not as productive or prolific as I could/should be. And just like “At Your Own Pace”, reading this zine was a really welcome reminder that I need to stay the course, keep on going, and make art — even if my process is slow. We can, and should, make art just to make art.

Bug describes “Remembering How 2 Draw” as “a messy, chaotic story-based pondering of art making full of spelling mistakes and maddness” – handwritten and heavily doodled, the zine shares Bug’s thoughts on how their artistic practice has shifted from making art purely for fun, to doing it as a job (and becoming burnt out in the process), and their journey to get back to “the spark, intrinsic, base connection between a person and art” that fueled their passion for drawing in their youth. It’s a deeply relatable and completely delightful perzine; their stories about how art showed up in their childhood made me laugh and their realization that “making art may be integral to emotional processing” resonated with my own need to mine meaning from my practice. The little drawings and doodles that illustrate the zine — stars, chains, thorns, fairies, tides, and more — bring Bug’s word to life, and I finished the zine feeling inspired and energized to make art just to do it. Thank you, Bug, for this welcome reminder and for sharing this glimpse into your own practice with us all.