Grenbug

Well, yikes. I wanted September to be a bit of a reset, but it didn’t turn out that way.

Art Update

I was still stuck on the gesture drawing class. I really think the class was geared to people with much more experience. Each lesson was really tough and would break my confidence. I stopped trying to write up each class with notes and examples. I’m just not able to do things at that level. And having that over my head meant that I practiced less and less. So, I watched the rest of the lessons, took some notes, and I’ll call it good. I’ll try moving on to the next class.

I did a rework of my character drawing. It came out ok. Pretty good. I still have a lot to learn, but it was ok. I liked it well enough to use it as my profile picture for YouTube.

Strategy for October:

• plan my day to get a lesson in Monday to Friday
• work through next class, and circle back to previous lessons too
• sketch daily, even if it’s just a very rough pencil sketch.
• go ahead and post daily to the website. That was working better for me. I was going to try occasional updates in September, but they obviously didn’t happen.

Life Update

I will again take a break from social media (Reddit, Bluesky, Instagram, also Discord). I have already setup all my browsers to limit those sites. But I need to respect that and stop going there. I have been super-scrolling lately with all the news going on, and it’s just not helping me. I need to take at least two weeks off, just as a reset. Once I do that, I won’t even feel like scrolling.

This also needs to include YouTube. I’ll go back to my August project of only checking for new videos on Saturdays and planning my viewing from that. I also need to watch my own videos for quality, but I can do that while knitting! 🙂  I’m doing too much scrolling and watching on YouTube too. So let’s take a break.

Even for my Minecraft video channel, it needs to be lower priority. Part of the reason for the new series is to make videos that are not as big. I need to get back to that mindset. I keep making big plans instead of just going with the flow of things. So, less time spent on planning.

What will I replace this time with? sketching, reading, knitting and sewing! I was making a lot of progress on a blanket until lately, so I can get back to that. It’s very soothing.