packrat poll

[ratcreature]

I'm wondering what other people do with their preliminary sketches and stuff. For each actually finished piece of fanart I end up with a pile of more or less awful and hideous half abandoned sketches, rough composition doodles, sketches to work out body parts, perspective, color, textures, sometimes just a couple, sometimes dozens and more. I have packrat tendencies in general, so it is hard for me to throw things out, but otoh, what do I need a pile with failed sketches of mishapen half-finished stuff for, once I have finished the work?

So I'm curious what other people do:

Poll #452 packrat poll

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How much of a packrat are you?

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I keep everything, I might become/already am famous and my complete work process is worth preserving for posterity. Future scholars will love my estate. (If they ever manage to find anything in the boxes full of junk.)
1 (12.5%)

I keep some preliminary work, but only if the study/sketch/doodle/whatever looks nice in its own right, might be still of use for something later, is in a sketchbook which I keep intact, or I have some other reason for keeping it. The rest I throw out.
2 (25.0%)

I throw everything out that I don't need anymore once I'm finished with a piece of art. Decluttering is my lifestyle choice.
1 (12.5%)

It's not so much that I want to throw things out, but periodically circumstances (such as moving, running out of space etc) force me to, so I have purges.
2 (25.0%)

I work fully digital, so I don't produce these kinds of paper piles in the first place (and digital storage is cheap and plenty these days).
1 (12.5%)

Your radio buttons oppress me with their limited choices. I will explain further in a comment.
1 (12.5%)

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[ratcreature]

Admittedly my brother did manage to repair and/or sell some of these iirc, and he doesn't have extreme random junk piles in his garden or anything. (which wouldn't be allowed anyway, I mean, it's the garden belonging to his apartment, in a city with more regulations than is healthy about maintenance, not some empty spot in the Alaska wilderness with lots of space and no neighbors, lol) And he got rid of some of the weird random stuff (e.g. one of the weird largish objects he kept was some kind of boxing dummy thing that you could punch? but he doesn't even box), to make room for stuff his baby daughter needs now. I expect that soon her becoming a mobile and inquisitive toddler will do much more...