This week’s sketch started with a strange coincidence.

First, I came across an article from the Harvard Library Innovation Lab about century-scale storage, which included a beautiful visual effect that mimicked decaying paper. Not long after, a Gorilla Sun newsletter landed in my inbox featuring a related technique using dithering and threshold-based effects. It felt like the universe was nudging me towards making something that disintegrates.

So I did. The result is a scroll-based shredding effect where the image slowly breaks apart into glitchy dithered rectangles the further you scroll. It blends gradient logic, pixel sampling, and just the right amount of chaos via noise.

🎉 10,000 and A Lot of Becoming

We just hit 10,000 subscribers. That’s a big number. But honestly? The biggest thing isn’t the number — it’s who I’ve become along the way.

Looking back at the past year and a half, I barely recognize the version of myself who posted that first tutorial. My early videos were scrappy. My code was messy. I didn’t always know what I was doing. I had to learn how to keep making, keep showing up, even when I didn’t feel great.

And somehow… I did.

Through each sketch, each upload, and each kind comment from someone out there watching, I kept going. And now I’m here, not just with 10K subscribers, but with a creative life that feels deeply mine.

“What you become is far more important than what you get.” — Jim Rohn