Bullet fine line markers on 3 by 5. I like the shape of the fish-thing, and I’m pretty happy with how the lighter blues kind of the effect I was going for, however it doesn’t have much of a cute or creepy feel to it, and the background probably would have been better if I used the blues on the fish. Overall I think I did fairly well considering I’d had four hours of, interrupted, sleep.
Tax season is finally over, which means I will hopefully have better access to transportation to do painting and the like.
I need to do some thinking about how to make drawing and stuff like that a more regular and less stressful part of my life again, because I’ve noticed that most of my drawing time is just making a creature to get a post done right now, and it makes it difficult to even start drawing when it feels like it has to be presentable every time you make something, like there’s no room to just play around and let it be ugly and chaotic. So I’m going to look at what I was doing before, see if I can at least draw some inspiration that, and go from there.
Gel pen on 3 by 5 piece of cardstock. Forgot to position my hand so that the pen wouldn’t smudge and the like, but I think it kind of added to the feeling of it.
I don’t have any pet sitting for about two weeks, so hopefully I can get some work done on things in that time. I am noticing that it currently takes me a few days to get into the groove of stuff at home when I get back, which is going to take some trial and error to help mitigate, and I’m going to be paying the price of that a bit today as I forgot about a morning commitment and there’s a bunch of Easter stuff to do still.
Hope you all have a wonderful week, safe travels, and Happy Easter!
Meant to post last week, however I am pet sitting and completely forgot.
As for moving forward on things… I’m pet sitting, not much I can do about most of it right now, so I do other things instead. Like read, crochet, doodle/sketch/draw, and play sudoku. I haven’t really talked much with anyone in over a week and it does not bother me, because I need time to be by myself and actually rest for a bit. Now that does depend a bit on the pet sitting situation, and how my head is doing, but this current stretch has been very nice for it.
Hope you all have safe travels, a wonderful week, and get the rest that you need!
Sharpies on 3 by 5. Also, I may switch back to just the date instead of trying to name every single one, as there are a LOT of these (about 52 a year if I post one every week) and naming things is not a strength of mine.
Stuff and Things! Everything has been a bit derailed due to an incident with my bed frame, however it has been the kick in the pants I need to get my room figured out and make the bed that I want, so there’s that. Until then, I am sleeping on the couch, which is kind of helping me stay motivated.
Classes: If I want to take the class I’m looking at, I would need to sign up for it soon, as it starts in April. However, I’m not sure about funding it at the moment.
Paintings: on hold while I figure out my room.
Redbubble: I may not have made any progress on it this week, however I will have plenty of time to do so soon, as I’ll be pet sitting for about two and a half weeks! Just have to hope I remember to do so.
Room: I’ve cleared almost a quarter of the carpet of debris! If you don’t count areas covered by furniture.
Social: I’ve had no time to think about it.
Streaming: haven’t had time to think about that either.
Thumb: unchanged
Website: unchanged
YouTube: unchanged
Other than that… I think I had something to say, but then I had to go do something and forgot what it was so… I hope you have a wonderful week, safe travels, and that daylight savings (if that’s something you have to deal with) doesn’t effect your health too badly!
Surprise surprise, it’s sharpie on 3 by 5! And it will be sharpies for a while, as I have a container full of them, am trying to use up materials, and they are rather convenient while I figure out how to do other things.
Stuff and Things!
Classes: I minorly forgot about them, so I’m still not signed up… however things are looking a little more hopeful in the paying for them department if things line up right!
Paintings: Finished the last Cute or Creepy one! and then I actually looked up why I was having so many issues with some things… yeah… my last one especially would have looked better if I had known those things before hand, but such is life. Next is landscape paintings. As for pictures, I’m hoping to have enough to pay for everything I need to and have some left over for a light box or something after the next few stretches of pet sitting.
Redbubble: I think they changed some things for having a store (or I just missed something), so I have some things to change/update, however I hope to have it going soon! Also, while I am working on some things specifically for redbubble, if you see something I’ve made here and you want to be able to get it on something or just a sticker of it, leave a comment on it letting me know.
Social: I’m having a little bit of a dilemma, as my phone is running out of space, and I kinda need all of the things on it. I’m talking like don’t have any games on it, got rid of a method of communication (pretty much only used once in a blue moon with family, but STILL!!!) levels of running out of space. So I may need to forget about social for a bit, because it takes up too much space to try and keep right now, however social is one of THE methods for getting your stuff out there. So I’m not sure what to do yet.
Streaming: Will not be doing for most of next month due to pet sitting. And I’m contemplating adding another game, because the one I’m doing is sooooooo sloooooooow and not very conducive to engagement… And I’m already not a very engaging person.
Thumb: Is fine! While my efforts probably helped, it wasn’t as bad as I thought, and while there’s still a little recovering to do, it is no longer annoying, it just looks a little funny.
Website: unchanged, due to forgetfulness and anxiety.
YouTube: Unchanged.
… I think that’s pretty much it. Safe travels, and I hope you all have a wonderful week!
I would like you to know that making progress is going to take some time, as I am easily distractible and forgetful at times, and have many things that generally take priority over my art and the like. I’m trying to find a balance, and be patient with myself, which I think I’m (slowly) getting better at! All that to say… don’t be surprised if where I’m at on something doesn’t progress for a while, because there’s a lot going on that I don’t share here, for various reasons. now that that’s done, on to Stuff and Things!
Thumb: Yes, that says thumb. Last week I hurt my left (non dominant) thumb. It’s not that bad per se, in fact it’s mostly just annoying at right now! because I need to be careful I don’t accidentally make it whole lot worse, while also hoping my method to keep that from happening doesn’t somehow make things bad in the long run. It’s kinda hard to explain without going into detail, which I don’t want to do here.
Social: unchanged.
Paintings: Finished another one! Only one left for my current goal! As for pictures of them… A light box has gone up in priority of things to get, however I’m worried about how well the paintings will fit in a cheaper 1 foot by 1 foot one, and the size I think might work best for now would be around 70 bucks. So I’m going to think on this stuff more.
YouTube: unchanged.
Streaming: I’m currently very inconsistent due to life, other than that, unchanged.
Website: unchanged.
Other than that… I’m currently realizing how regular yet irregular my schedule is. There’s the regular things like church activities (consistent times and places with the occasional outliers) and tabletop RPGs (when they are supposed to happen is fairly consistent, however we are almost always late and/or over, and then there’s the stuff you’re supposed to get done for it between sessions or before starting a new campaign). There’s regular irregular things like shopping days (I have 3 days of the week that I go shopping on, however I don’t know when I’ll have a vehicle to do it. Thankfully I usually have one in time for church activities, and I plan the shopping for times when it doesn’t happen till after dinner.), posting here (I schedule when it’s published, however I’m generally making it when I remember the day before), pet sitting (I do some about once a month, for various lengths of time), and having people over for dinner (at least once a month. This week I made dinner, however I didn’t know when exactly they were planning to be here till less than two hours before, yet managed to get everything made in time!). And then irregular things like driving family members to things, or someone just needing an extra hand with something. And I’m kinda wondering if all this has put me in a semi constant waiting mode, like you can’t do much or you’ll get too focused and miss something that you need to do so you need to be ready to drop whatever you’re doing at any second… I don’t know. It’s past 02:00, I’ve gone on a tangent, I should go to bed.
Hope you all have a wonderful week, and safe travels!
Metallic purple gel pen and dying fine-liner on 3×5 cardstock. (the slightly lighter bits in the border are where the tape took some stuff with it.)
Didn’t make it down to the office this week, however I was able to start on another project while pet sitting! I ended up with bits of scrap cardstock in various little sizes from making the 3x5s, so I’m using them to make little drawings that might work as stickers!
As for stuff and things… my week has been so busy with other things, I haven’t had the time to really make progress on anything. Hopefully next week goes better on that front.
Hope you all have a lovely Valentine’s Day whatever your relationship status is, and a wonderful week!
3 by 5 and sharpies again. Also, I was off on the size of sharpies last time, they were fine and ultra fine, which was the sizes used here as well.
Stuff and things!
Classes: still not signed up, which I should probably do soon, however I want to make sure I have enough to pay for this website and taxes first. I do have a little saved to cover things if need be, but I would rather it didn’t come to that.
Social: I’m not ready yet.
Paintings: finished another one… two?… I don’t know, my log book for that stuff isn’t at home. Same dilemma as last time though, and I felt the same as last time, so same result. My wonderful sister did give me the idea of getting a light box for taking pictures of them. It is a bit lower on the list of things to put money towards, but it also sparked a few more ideas, so we’ll see what happens.
YouTube: working on some art videos, not the best set up for them, but when is it ever. Also need better pictures of the end results.
Streaming: doing as I thought it would, with pretty much just me in there (although some family members and possible others decided to watch the first one, for which I’m very thankful), struggling with the game and premise I chose (Morrowind is so SLOW, and I made it even SLOWER). However I also think that it is helping me be more comfortable with the idea of live streaming, and working on that skill, which will hopefully transfer over a little to an art live stream later. (no live streams this weekend though, I’m pet sitting)
Vehicle: My older brother fixed the problem!!! It still has issues, however it can drive, and that’s the important thing!
Website: haven’t had much time to poke at it this week, will poke at it later.
Hope you all have a wonderful week, and see many cool bugs! (unless you don’t like them, in which case I hope you see none.)
