That’s my mental state and motivation levels I guess…
I did finally dabble in a little bit of art, but not quite anything ‘proper’ so to speak. And no video again…
Really glad that I did do something artsy though… And also sent out a couple of letters. That’s something at least, even though I couldn’t bring myself to finish up everything I had wanted to.
A little amateur brushwork and a quick doodle.
Hands up who else is as lazy as I am? I have never drawn guidelines for calligraphy, and I am just too freaking lazy to do so. Would I improve faster if I do guidelines? Maybe. But I might also never learn to write properly without guidelines. I don’t know…. But I want to be able to do brush lettering without guidelines, and I can say for sure that practice has definitely helped a lot. If only I kept up with it. From the letters being completely slanted and falling off the page, to this… Most of it was when I pushed through with the 100 day challenge and then kept up with the lettering prompts for a little bit longer afterwards… So maybe, 4 months or half a year’s work? And by work I really mean, like 5 – 10 minutes of work a day on average. I might give that one word 1 or 3 attempts and that’s it. Hardly what you’d call practice, but still a lot more than I’ve been doing in the past… 3.5 years. That’s how frigging long it’s been since I last practiced, honest. I pretty much stopped when I changed jobs.
It’s certainly nice to have a job that’s a lot more mentally engaging. But it seems like regardless, I just don’t have sufficient energy/brain power or well, stamina and willpower to constantly be super productive after work. These days the most productive I might be is to practice on my speedcube a little before bed. But more often then not I’m just reading some webnovels, playing some games, and watching some YouTube. I should really make the effort to spend my time better huh. At least a portion of the time…
It’s 1:15am right now and strangly I’m not the slightest bit sleepy. Ok, maybe just slightly sleepy…
Using my pens again recently made me remember how nice it is to use them… AND that foxy doodle on the postcard made me realise how much I actually love that plasticky sort of feel. Personally I find it really nice to write on and I love it. And that’s why I love the Iroful paper. You might beg to differ too and that’s fine… It’s really a personal preference kind of thing. You do you.
Alright. Shall end off here today. Till next time!