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Post by Kandybar on Jun 3, 2024 13:54:12 GMT -5
Good luck! And I feel you on wanting to do everything--I find it manifests as me being good at once thing for a few weeks, and then that falling to the wayside once something else gets focused on. Why is self improvement so hard?
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Post by galactic-pirates on Jun 9, 2024 8:57:36 GMT -5
Good luck! And I feel you on wanting to do everything--I find it manifests as me being good at once thing for a few weeks, and then that falling to the wayside once something else gets focused on. Why is self improvement so hard? OMG you have just described my life. This ^^ is exactly how it is. It makes me feel like I don’t have any stickability, like I am doomed to failure because I’m not consistent with anything. It really sucks ![:(](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/sad.png) So I feel you. I really feel you. Hugs! 98,176 / 75,000 wordsGoal: To Institute a new habit of 30 minutes of piano practice 5x a week
Success!! 6/5 this week ![:)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/smiley.png) My fingers remembered the exercises and the songs I had been working on even though it had been /cough months /cough. So I don’t feel like I have actually backslid that much… well maybe in theory. I think I had more of a grasp on the rules of scales and chords before but I can get that back. To be honest I never really understood why that mattered. I’ve never had lessons, so I’m just poking about on my own. Anyway, having remembered how to play the ‘Easy Piano’ version of the Star Wars theme, I’m now trying to play it with the correct timing. That’s the final step to mastering a piece. I do metronome with the Hanon exercises but that’s one note, one click, so it’s very regimented. The actual song having notes of different length - so so so hard. Still this is the first song I have ever tried to do this with ever,, so it’s bound to be quite a steep learning curve. I guess maybe with repeated practice it will get easier? Project: Path of Fire (Books 1 - 3)
Success!!
I have just realised that by calling this project the first 3 books, that’s essentially the writing project for the year which means I can’t ever cross it off. I know why I did that in January it’s because that’s what I thought I would be ‘rebooting’ (all three books) but when I did the reboot, I did the character/world work, but I only did the plot of Book One. I never switched the project to be just Book One. Oh well.
Anyway self-edits are DONE! Maybe I could have done this better, I don’t know. I’ll see what the feedback is from the beta/editor. Not going to lie I would love to be honest not to have to pay for edits. They are so expensive. So I’m kinda hoping that I might be able to spot what I do wrong, so I can correct it myself in future. I don’t mind paying for beta because that’s much less and I think it’s valuable to get neutral eyes on it. I am my own worst critic but then am I? Paranoia! I’m in my own head so maybe I don’t see the truth.
Book One has been emailed to the beta/editor ready for the booked slot next month. As I’m seeing mum for the day on Tuesday I’ve decided not to dive into the rebooting of Book Two tomorrow, and instead wait until Thursday. That will still give me 3 days on it next week so I should hopefully have something to report.
Project: Art Prompts
Nothing yet but I have been doing some pre-practice if you like (see below). Also while rewards don’t motivate me I am setting a reward up combining both this project and the sketchbook. It’s not really about motivation but more so I don’t buy it right now haha. Ohuhu has come out with a new ‘bleedproof’ marker sketchbook and I want it. I would love to use markers in my sketchbook but I hate how ugly it looks on the backside of the page. So it’s kinda like ‘fill my sketchbook with heads’ and ‘fill my project sketchbook with projects’ - get a new sketchbook (because honestly the last thing I need is more sketchbooks, I have a… a lot). This ‘challenge’ will run until September so it’s something to look forward to getting - if I do the work. Project: SketchbookLike a phoenix from the ashes it has arisen! I picked up my adventure journal because I wanted to complete the quest for the edited Book One draft and I was feeling a bit ![???](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/huh.png) about the journal. Like what was the point in it because it didn’t seem to be helping. Yeah I think it’s cool but I’ve got no progress on any quest but the writing one. Anyway, I figured I should do something about that so I added a reputation system. That immediately made me feel better about the art because I had earned ‘tokens’ for the art I have done this year, even though none of it technically counted towards the quest. I then made up another quest for the art (relating to the sketchbook) and then I did some head studies. The quest probably didn’t compel me all that much, but having updated the journal, I did feel at least a little push to do something. (Side note: I’m getting a little bit of XP per music practice session, but I think I might add a weekly reset quest or something, to make it more rewarding, something to think about). Anyway, so yes. I got out my new fancy square purple sketchbook, which I had got specifically for doing head studies and then intimidated myself out of using because it was too nice. I did 3 basics ‘Loomis’ heads (front, side and three quarter view), and then I went into a spread of different heads of Sofia Curtis (CSI character) using photos off google. Still constructing with the Loomis method but obviously with a variety of angles/perspectives, plus attempting to achieve a likeness. Out of the 3 heads I have drawn so far, I think I was only slightly successful with 1 but that’s not a bad percentage. Plus this is PRACTICE. Years and years ago, I forget when, 2020 maybe? Or 2021? I think it was Ana or maybe Tracey? started talking on discord about the ‘100 heads challenge’. I did I think half a dozen and none since. Now I’m not sure if I will do the 100 heads off the Pinterest board set-up for the challenge. However, I think aiming for 100 is a good first step - I’m bound to have learned something from the repetition! I think it was supposed to be 100 within 10 days, as that kind of intense practice leads to a ‘leap forward’. Thus far I’ve managed 3 per session before I can’t do anymore, so maybe a month is more of a realistic target? I think the point of the board was to vary the angles, gender, ethnicity, age etc. so I will try to do that with the subjects I pick, but also I want freedom to pick subjects I care about a bit. Give it a bit more interest to me. Anyway, that’s my target - 100 heads. Once that’s done, I guess do 100 more.
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Post by Kandybar on Jun 10, 2024 7:25:08 GMT -5
Woohoo!
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Post by galactic-pirates on Jun 16, 2024 4:02:59 GMT -5
98,176 / 75,000 wordsGoal: To Institute a new habit of 30 minutes of piano practice 5x a week
Success!!
It will probably be 7/7 this week (haven’t yet done todays).
I don’t know if I can feel an improvement. A couple of days ago my fingers were so clumsy it was insane (I think they were cold). But I have been persisting with attempting to play the song with the metronome. It is very hard. Anyway, with my resurgence in attempting to practice (and thus mentioning it) mum had another look for a teacher for me. I tried to get one last year but it didn’t pan out. This time she found one and I have a trial lesson booked for next Thursday so we’ll see how that goes. Project: Path of Fire (Books 1 - 3)
Did I really only start replotting Book Two on Thursday? I’m 14 hours in - I really don’t know why it takes me so long. I feel like it shouldn’t? But also I am mostly focused. I lose some time to comfort breaks but only a bit. I guess thinking takes a long time.
I have to say this was crazy overwhelming at first. I was screaming “I can’t hold it all in my head!!!” because there is so many plot threads to continue and stuff I need to mention and foreshadow. I have chipped away at it though, working on the bits that I could tackle one by one. There’s sort of 3 plot lines / character goals, but they are overlapping a fair bit in places. Yesterday I finally had a brainwave which made a couple of key points fall into place (and actually for book three’s structure as well). I feel like when I have the main points I can then fill in between them, make sure the timeline makes sense etc.
There are still a crazy number of question marks but I feel like it’s going well. I’m hopeful I might be finished by the end of next week but as I said at the start - this takes loads longer than I expect. It’ll take however long it takes to get it right.
Project: Art Prompts
Nothing yet but I have continued my pre-practice. Also I got the BEST artbook on Thursday. I pre-ordered it months ago, it was supposed to arrive May 1st but publication got delayed until Thursday. It’s DrawLikeaSir’s book in English and it’s amazing. It basically distills so much into something clear. I get overwhelmed with all the information with a lot of courses/tutorials (I can’t hold it all in my head!) so having a concise reference is so good.
Project: Sketchbook
I’m not sure how well this is going but I did three sessions last week. Monday when I didn’t do writing BUT ALSO Thursday and Friday WHEN I DID!! (Honestly I am so amazed I did a thing in the afternoon!!!). I have now drawn 10 heads since I started and it’s a real mixed bag. I think maybe 3 of them turned out ok. It’s the angles really, I’m struggling with the spacing, which is basically the whole point of the practice - the underlying structure. So keep going I guess. If I’m still all at sea by the time I’ve done a hundred, I’ll know I’m doing it wrong.
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Post by galactic-pirates on Jun 23, 2024 11:56:19 GMT -5
98,176 / 75,000 wordsGoal: To Institute a new habit of 30 minutes of piano practice 5x a week
Success!!
Another 7/7 week. I even did home practice on the day I had the lesson.
The lesson was… ok. I found being watched/other people there made me really flustered and my hands were shaking. It was hard to play and I definitely didn’t play as well as I do at home. We didn’t really cover anything - but then it was more an assessment of me and where I am this time - so jury is still out on whether lessons will be helpful. We shall see. Project: Path of Fire (Books 1 - 3)
24 hours, 6 sessions, and Book Two is now fully plotted and (hopefully) ready to draft.
I am undecided about when to begin. I had thought to perhaps wait until July 1st and take next week for art. However, I can only really do a couple of hours of art in a day and that feels like a waste of time. Plus on the 2nd I have a tough medical appointment, and on the 4th another piano lesson (the last one exhausted me). So if I did start on the 1st, I might potentially not write again until the 5th and that doesn’t feel like a very good beginning. Whereas if I started tomorrow, I should be able to get a full week of writing sessions in (hopefully) and then even if I did miss a few days next week, I would be more dug in.
I don’t know :/ I need to choose though because the worst thing I can do is be undecided. If I don’t commit in my mind then I’ll be mentally waffling and then I’ll get nothing done.
Project: Art Prompts
I have begun! I’m actually really pleased with it thus far. It’s only a ‘rough’ sketch (it needs refining/improving and yet it still took me 2 hours /sigh). But I drew it all myself. I had a basic reference but I have changed it (different outfits), and added to it (the reference was waist up so had to work out the legs myself). I need to work on the faces to see if I can get them to look more like who they are supposed to be, and make sure clothing is right (Flynn’s jacket isn’t hanging right I don’t think), and I think I want to alter Jacob’s pose to be a bit more dynamic. It’s all learning I guess (my excuse for why I’m so slow - it’s inexperience). I should have thumbnailed it and worked out the issue with Jacob’s pose first but I didn’t.
But yes I have finally started.
Project: Sketchbook
I did a bit more of this too. Two sessions so I have a total of 15 heads now (plus the 9 that followed the tutorials/as references). The next thing to do will be another few heads. Saturday’s session was on Flynn, and the next will be for Jacob (I’m hoping I’ll identify what makes their faces theirs, so I can apply it to my project).
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Post by galactic-pirates on Jun 30, 2024 7:52:12 GMT -5
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This closes out not just the week, but the month, and also I guess the quarter/first half of the year (though I'm going to make another post about that).
Goal: To Institute a new habit of 30 minutes of piano practice 5x a week
Success!!
I did 6/7 this week because I didn't feel very well on Thursday.
That makes 28/30 for the month. Really pleased with that, considering I think I had done about 5 sessions total January-May.
Project: Path of Fire (Books 1 - 3)
I did start drafting Book Two on Monday. So because, as I said, I didn't feel well on Thursday that made for four writing days last week. I got 9,364 words and I'm into Scene 6/50. That's not bad going. I checked what happened with Book One and I started that last week-ish of January (it was the 20-something) and I finished the draft end of March. Obviously in an ideal world I'd like to be faster (I always want to be faster with everything) but if I can complete Book Two's draft by the end of August I will be very happy.
At some point next month my beta/editor will be working on Book One, so I'll need to spend some time on that I'm sure.
Anyway so for the month! I finished Book One edits, sent to beta/editor. Replotted Book Two AND started drafting. That's a lot really.
Project: Art Prompts
Still only on that first prompt. My tweaking the pose that I spoke of last Sunday took a while. However, after another 5 hours (I am so slow) I now have the final line work. I need to copy it to the good paper and colour it. As technically this prompt is for Day Two/Day Nine, ideally I will be able to post it on Tuesday (Day Two) but we'll see I guess.
Anyway I'm not ahead, but I'm not behind either. I would have preferred to have 'banked' some done prompts by now but it hasn't worked out like that.
Project: Sketchbook
I did do Jacob's heads. I found it really hard to achieve a likeness for either Flynn or Jacob. I think it was to do with the angle issue. I'm struggling with where to place the lines on the construction circle. The 'rules' don't apply the same and it's confusing. This means some of my heads wind up being the wrong shape, wider than they are supposed to be unless I'm drawing someone with a round shaped face/that's heavyset etc. Still the fact that I know that is a step forward I guess.
Finishing the month with 20 heads (or 4 spreads, as I'm doing 5 heads of various angles of each person) + the 9 from tutorials/for reference.
Considering I've been mentally avoiding starting this sketchbook for forever, this is quite frankly a miracle.
It's not really following the 100 heads challenge at all. I mean for a start I'm not using that Pinterest board (choosing my own heads). Also I think the spirit of the challenge was basically about immersion (100 heads in 10 days) and obviously I'm 30 days in and I've done 20. However, the important thing is the practice and the learning. If I do 100 my way, I can always do 100 more the 'official' way.
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Post by galactic-pirates on Jun 30, 2024 8:30:09 GMT -5
My WriYe sign-up is still for 75k. I haven't raised it yet and I'm not sure whether I will officially. The WriYe goal is simple, it's just all about the words, as that's the clearest metric for a writing challenge. However, finished projects are far more important to me than volume. It's not all about the drafting this year.
So what have I achieved the past quarter?- Riptide (Book One) self-edited. Completed and sent to beta/editor
- Beta/Editor hired for Riptide (slot booked in July)
- Faithless (Book Two) replotted
- Started drafting Faithless (written 9,364 words)
- Two watercolour paintings completed for the Librarians Exchange
- Watercolour painting commission completed
- Drew a card for Mum's birthday
- Started head construction practice (drew 20 heads)
- Started a drawing for the Librarians Prompt Month
- Restarted regular piano practice
- Found a piano tutor and attended initial lesson
Goal for the year
This year I have tried to focus more on the work, than on the "agony of the gap between where I am and where I want to be". Because it can get very demoralising when I think about the mountain I still have to climb. There's always more to do and when I think about where I want to go, it feels like I will never get there.
So I tried to keep the goals small:
- 1 complete/ready to publish novel - I've almost achieved this! Once I make changes and finish with the editor, Book One will be ready to go.
- A finished sketchbook - I have started 2 (a project book, and the head construction practice book) and they both have a lot of pages left. However, in actually starting (for the first time ever) I stand a chance of finishing. It's impossible to finish what is never started. So progress.
Obviously I dream of more.
What I really want is to feel like I've made real progress. To level up. To feel like I'm getting to where I want to go. To not get to December and feel like I've wasted another year. I'd say in rebooting Path of Fire, replotting, rewriting and doing a complete edit of Book One, and now starting on Book Two!! I've already made this year more of a success than so many past years. If I continue at this pace then I stand a good chance of coming, at least close, to completing Book Three this year. I definitely should be able to publish by the end of Q1/start of Q2.
So what does it mean?
June has been my best month all year and I think that was because I finished Book One edits at the start. I finished something and I feel relatively good about it. I'm scared and waiting for the other shoe to drop but I worked really hard on that book. 258 hours of effort to take it from the wreck it was, to the almost 100k I sent to the beta/editor. I keep cycling between "it's egotistical to think it's good, it probably sucks" to "no it is good" and back again. We'll have to see what comments the beta/editor makes. Neutral party, only way to know for sure.
Anyway, it has certainly spurred me on to new heights. I'm finally doing the art in the afternoons that I have repeatedly whined about not being able to do. I've got back to piano. I've been studying comics and I read 13 books in June - 13! I'm honestly kind of scared about this too because is it sustainable? Consistency is not my strength and having tasted this 'success' it will feel even worse if I go back to struggling again.
I'm still not getting to the Lego MOC's at all. Plus the art worries me because it takes me such a long time. I get that it's because I'm still learning but it's a problem. The things I make should not take anywhere near as long as they do. Still at least I'm doing some and thus hopefully making progress. At some point I should go back to the courses but let's not scare myself off again. I would like to put in more hours within the week. I did 70 hours last month and that's just not enough really. Still I'm doing more than I was, so as I said at the start of this year - small steppy. Build up to it. It's a marathon, not a sprint.
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Post by Worry on Jun 30, 2024 14:26:37 GMT -5
All things considered, I think that you're doing fantastic! I'm glad that you've had a good month and that you're feeling positive about it. I'm rooting for you here in July!
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Post by galactic-pirates on Jul 1, 2024 12:37:09 GMT -5
109,693 / 75,000 wordsGoal: To log a minimum of 4 hours per week on a Lego task relating to MOC work
I went back and forth about what goal to set for this month. I didn't want it to be just "keep going with everything like last month" because yes THAT but that's not really a goal. Continue isn't striving for more and goals are about striving right? Anyway, working on a Lego MOC is my last remaining activity that hasn't had any love, so going to give it a go. I'm saying "task relating to MOC work" because my lego table is a bit of a mess. All the hours this month might go to sorting through and putting away the loose parts. Not ideal but that takes time, and it's something that I need to do before I can begin, so it's technically like 'step zero' and thus part of it. It's a roadblock to moving forward anyway. Once it's done then I can do actual MOC stuff. I know if I say I won't count the putting away towards my hours I am unlikely to do anything, because there's no way I can sort and put everything away AND do 4 hours this week. Not and continue doing everything else.
Project: Path of Fire (Books 1 - 3)
At some point this month I will have my beta/editor slot for Book One. So that's happening.
Otherwise the task is just to continue the rewrite of Book Two. I'm wary of setting targets as I've been doing well with just chipping away thus far. However, if I'm aiming to have the draft completed before the end of August, then I really hope I'm at the halfway mark by the end of July.
Project: Art Prompts
I have 5 projects I would like to do for Librarians Prompt Month - Costume + Singing (linework is drafted, just need to copy to the good paper and colour) - Dragons + Rarepair - Crossover (Assassins Creed) - Crossover (Star Trek) - Celebration
Thankfully all but one of the AU August prompts I like are almost 2 weeks into the month - bar one. I like the prompt for Day One so I really need to complete that this month too. Although with 6 AU August prompts and 2 for Timeless Fest (also due by the end of August), and then Star Trek FemSlash the first week of September it would be helpful if I could do a little more in July, and not leave all of this ^^ for August.
Project: Sketchbook
80 heads left. I've been considering these and I think I need to focus more on shape. Clear lines. Perhaps I need to not permit myself to do any shading for a few spreads. I also think it would help to do some nose studies, practice rotating the 3D angular 'block' in space outside of the heads. I'm not quite sure how to approach that. I've never done isolated studies like that before but something to think about.
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Post by galactic-pirates on Jul 7, 2024 13:32:03 GMT -5
110,415 / 75,000 wordsGoal: To log a minimum of 4 hours per week on a Lego task relating to MOC work
Success (kinda).
So 4 hours in a week is quite low for a goal, but this is very much an extra. It's something that matters to me that I haven't been making time for, not because I don't want to do it but just because time gets away from me. Anyway, I set it at 4 hours because I figured if nothing else I could do that on a Sunday morning and that is what happened. I managed to sort and put away maybe 2/3rds of the loose parts. This is reaquainting me with where all the pieces live which should help with free building next. But there was no actual MOC work.
Project: Path of Fire (Books 1 - 3)
I think my beta/editor might be starting work tomorrow! Or this upcoming week at least. So that is scary and exciting.
This wasn't a very good week mentally. I had an appointment Tuesday afternoon which triggered a downswing, and the UK had a political election. I try very hard not to think about politics much because it gets in my head and I start searching for information that just isn't there - there are no guarantees - and then I start worrying, and just spiral about all the things that I am afraid about and how powerless I am etc. So yeah not a good week. I wrote on Monday and then a little on Friday but that was all. I hope to do better next week.
Project: Art Prompts
I have 5 projects I would like to do for Librarians Prompt Month - Costume + Singing
- Dragons + Rarepair - Crossover (Assassins Creed) - Crossover (Star Trek) - Celebration I'm not all that happy with it but I have finished the first prompt. Learn by doing is the goal and I guess that's true enough. I am learning (I hope).
Project: Sketchbook
Didn't do anything on this, this week.
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Post by galactic-pirates on Jul 14, 2024 12:46:59 GMT -5
112,552 / 75,000 wordsNot too sure how it got to be Sunday again :/ Goal: To log a minimum of 4 hours per week on a Lego task relating to MOC work
I did just over 3 hours and finished putting all the loose parts away. So I guess that was something. Project: Path of Fire (Books 1 - 3)
I said I hoped to do better this week - and I did worse.
I don’t know what it is but it takes weeks (months even) to get into a good groove, and 2 seconds practically to tip me into a spiral that takes ages to recover from. That depression spiral can so easily become self-sustaining because I feel worse the less I do, and the worse I feel the less I do etc. etc. I’ve lost months to this before.
Possibly not the best time - or maybe it is the best time? - to be writing a book which is thematically about the loss of hope and struggling not to give into despair. Project: Art Prompts
I have 5 projects I would like to do for Librarians Prompt Month - Costume + Singing
- Dragons + Rarepair - Crossover (Assassins Creed) - Crossover (Star Trek) - Celebration I’ve had another resurgence of feeling like “what’s the point?” re: trying to improve and AI. So thats been annoying. To be honest I didn’t do much this week. I had a little stab at trying to block out the dragon piece. It did not go well and I wouldn’t say it even qualifies as a rough sketch yet. I got a bit despondent about it and haven’t persevered yet. I want to because being able to draw a dragon would be super useful for me (hello Book One) but ugh, it’s very hard.
Project: Sketchbook
Didn't do anything on this, this week.
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Post by Kandybar on Jul 15, 2024 19:47:33 GMT -5
Don't beat yourself up! It sounds like you still made some progress on most of your goals!
(And yes, being able to draw a dragon would be SO helpful. Maybe I should practice that too.)
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Post by galactic-pirates on Jul 21, 2024 4:53:22 GMT -5
112,717 / 75,000 words/sigh it's been another week Kandybar thank you. I'm just annoyed I guess because I had been doing so well (relatively at least for me) :/ Goal: To log a minimum of 4 hours per week on a Lego task relating to MOC work
Did nothing. Technically I could do some today but I'm not sure that I will. It's not as hot today so I don't really have an excuse. Except it's 10:30am and feels like it should be early evening (I was awake at 4am) but yeah I just have the oomph to get started. Task activation energy is empty.
Project: Path of Fire (Books 1 - 3)
I sat down and stared at it a bit on Monday but that's about it. I have zero excuse for Tuesday. I got hyper-focused on reading this fanfic which is very much a symptom not a cause (if it hadn't been that distraction it would have been something else). Thursday got messed up because late Wednesday had a message from my piano teacher suggesting I attend without mum. After having spent barely more than an hour, just two sessions with them, that wasn't something I was comfortable with and I spiralled to the point of cancelling the lesson and not booking again. In my mind if somebody requests basically a chaperone, that isn't something to pushback on when you don't know them. Friday I did some art (more on that below) and Saturday I felt unwell due to the heat I think. Way too hot in my house.
So that's all the excuses I have for yet another week with no progress.
Part of me wonders if perhaps I'm subconsciously sensing a problem with the draft and that's why I'm dragging my feet. However, that's impossible to tell without actually testing (aka writing it) so I need to crack on and then evaluate when the bigger picture (the draft) is more complete.
Project: Art Prompts
I have 5 projects I would like to do for Librarians Prompt Month - Costume + Singing
- Dragons + Rarepair - Crossover (Assassins Creed) - Crossover (Star Trek) - Celebration Friday I spent 2 and a half hours (I know, it takes too long) sketching out the dragon. I did it from a reference photo of a bird so I think that counts as 'from imagination' - it's not like I copied someone else's dragon. I want to paint this with watercolour and so next step is to copy it 1.5x bigger to some rough paper, before then copying it to the good paper. Hopefully I can make some good progress on this next week because time is running out.
Project: Sketchbook
Didn't do anything on this, this week - which means nothing all month /sigh.
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Post by Kandybar on Jul 22, 2024 9:54:10 GMT -5
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Post by galactic-pirates on Jul 28, 2024 10:35:24 GMT -5
115,646 / 75,000 wordsAnother week up and vanished on me... Goal: To log a minimum of 4 hours per week on a Lego task relating to MOC work
Did nothing. Yeeeeah it just be like that this month.
Project: Path of Fire (Books 1 - 3)
Multitude of factors I think. Start of the month my brain got hit with a few things that made me spiral. Plus it's summer, and I loathe summer, it's the most miserable time of year so that doesn't help. Anyway working out cause and effect is difficult. I have started to wonder if maybe some of my malaise with the draft is because I'm half in 'waiting mode' as my beta/editor is now working on Book One and obviously I'm anxious about it. Nobody has laid eyes on this but me and here I am trying to work on Book Two when I don't have confirmation Book One is worth a damn yet. I also think Book Two is going to need more of a structural revision. Hopefully not anything too massive but there's some scenes which haven't hit how I would like and need a rethink. So yeah I think my subconscious is sensing there's trouble with the draft and is having a moping fit about it.
Anyway I finished two more scenes (which will likely be cut and reworked) and I'm almost at the end of Act One. I think the first Act suffers from too much 'set-up' and maybe it will be easier to write when I get more into the meat of the story. We shall see.
Project: Art Prompts
I have 5 projects I would like to do for Librarians Prompt Month - Costume + Singing
- Dragons + Rarepair - Crossover (Assassins Creed) - Crossover (Star Trek) - Celebration The Dragon artwork is now all inked on the watercolour paper and ready to paint. I'm only going to get 2/5 of these prompts done but I knew going in I was being ambitious. Maybe if July had been more like June in terms of productivity I would have been fine but it wasn't. Still I should finish the dragon piece at least (and it was a very ambitious piece in of itself). I suppose I should remind myself that for years my goal was to do "one piece of art per month". It's easy to see how far I have to go, and forget how far I have come.
Project: Sketchbook
I don't think this is going to be a thing this month. Oops.
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