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!
I’m rather pleased with this one. It also helped me realize that I don’t always explain what I’m working with. This time it was Sharpies (one fine point), a Crayola marker, and a white pen for the shine in the eyes, on a 3×5 index card. I have some nicer materials, but I also want to use up the old ones, and sometimes I just use what’s on hand like the last two. So, because the quality of your materials can effect how the quality of your work is perceived, I will try to let you know what I was working with at the time from now on.
Now for the update on stuff and things
Classes: still have not signed up for. (I’ll get there… eventually)
Social: still no link for it, and it may be a while before I do link one, as I want to figure out some things first. I will say that I don’t think short form videos (and maybe even long form with how I’m set up right now) are the thing for me right now, even though they are very popular, as editing takes me forever and thinking about how it looks on camera interrupts my flow state.
Painting: finished two more, meant to post one today, however the options to do so were either a picture from my phone or going and getting it to scan and then taking it back (I do not have a good storage space for them here at the moment). The first one requires a cord or doing this from my phone, both of which I do not want to figure out today. The other requires a vehicle, which is hard enough on the regular, however we are now down a vehicle as of last night (which seems to happen every winter… at least we’re not down to one… yet). So little drawing it was!
YouTube: I feel like what I’m going to say is going to make me seem a bit all over the place (which is not an unfair assessment), so please bear with me. I’m going to try streaming, not my art (at least at first), but video games. Reasons being: It won’t leave my head, I don’t have to edit it, it’s a bit more interactive, if I get a laptop I can do it while pet sitting sometimes… there’s a lot of reasons why I think it is the path for me right now. If it’s not your thing, don’t worry, I’m still going to be working on my art and posting here. I’m just trying to figure out the best way for me to put myself out there.
Other than all that… I’m going to try to update somethings with the website, hopefully I don’t mess everything up.
