I had laid out 6 goals this year… Let’s see how we have done.
General resolutions:
1) Keep email unread count low. I’ve been doing well on this one, mostly. Unread mail is a bit much at 234 now, but you have to forgive me… We have been on a 9 day holiday trip in Japan and just got back yesterday… But even then it’s been typically 200 unread mails and below. Of course I’ve also unsubscribed to plenty of mail that I don’t want to read anymore… But still… So many mails…
2) Finish a khadi fatbook. Done that, and started on a second fat book.
3) Finish the nerdforge sketchbook. Not done unfortunately. Made a big dent on that sketchbook, but just didn’t use it much in favor of the many other sketchbooks that I have finished.
4) Do art every weekend. Not exactly per say, but I’ve done urban sketches everyday that I have left the house, circumstances permitting. That meant every single day after work, even if it’s some quick train sketches. Somedays if I go out on weekends, I sketch too. But if I’m with the family for example, and there is just no time, then of course I am unable to sketch. Ironically I haven’t been doing art that much on weekends anymore, especially in the days when I did long watercolor urban sketches everyday after work… Because I felt that I was all arted out on weekdays already.
5) Use the happy mail dot cards from sketches.n.scrubs. This I have absolutely not kept up with. Because I stopped doing as much art on weekends… For a few months I just stopped opening the happy mail because I just didn’t have the time/energy to swatch it etc…
6) Tidy up desk space – this I’m pretty proud of, I cleared away all the stuff on my chair, and cleared some space on my desk… Although that is not true at the moment because of all the goodies I have from my Japan trip that is piled up on the chair. I didn’t buy all that much this trip. But there is still some stuff nonetheless, and I have yet to open them all, much less put them away properly.
7) Write more… Can’t say I did much of that…
8) Read more…. Didn’t do that well on that front either. I mean, I finished a few webnovels. But ‘proper’ books? Nope.
9) Use my art supplies more. Unfortunately, didn’t do well on this front in terms of the variety of art supplies I was using either. I just stuck to the same old watercolors. Still have a ton of color pencils, brand new in box, sitting inside my cupboard, unused…
So that’s it for my end of the year check in… next year’s goals? I’d say it doesn’t really change much… But that’s for another post…