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theNiliad  ·  3456 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What are some of your seemingly mundane hobbies and why do you enjoy them?

Sort of a hobby/compulsion: designing movie, tv, and game posters in photoshop. I have a very large digital media collection, organized through Plex. But a lot of the time I hate the posters that it automatically assigns to the movies and TV shows so I find myself making my own artwork for my collection in photoshop a lot. This also led me to start designing and printing my own game covers for some of my favorites. Since those are one of the last forms of physical media I still frequently use I actually end up printing those and using it in place of the art in the box sleeve. I wouldnt call any of the custom covers phenomenal, but I just find it really calming and fun to make them, and I really like seeing my own artwork for something I love. Small thing but I enjoy doing it.





DC-3  ·  3456 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I would also love to see an imgur album of these, especially the video game ones.

theNiliad  ·  3456 days ago  ·  link  ·  

My video game ones really aren't that great, plus I do them for collections. For example I'll have a 6 disc case that has a bunch of random games and the cover is a mismash of stuff just designed to tell me what's in it. But I recommend you check out the customcovers subreddit, they have some cool stuff you might like looking at.

explodingmonkeys  ·  3456 days ago  ·  link  ·  

That's not mundane at all! Honestly, that seems really interesting. would you be willing to share some of your favorites?