Gordon - Art School Journey (Term 3)

[Sthingz]

It's good to see you still drawing despite your busy schedule - I feel for you. I am glad that the Loomis book is coming in handy. Personally, I think it's a great resource, but I am taking my time with it since there's so much to learn.
I am also happy to see that my reference proved useful. As feedback, one thing I immediately noticed from your drawing is that you made the nose larger than it actually is. If you put your tracing drawing and copy drawing side by side, you will be able to tell what I mean. In the same fashion, you will be able to identify that the eyes were drawn a tad too open. Apart from that, I think your drawing looks good and it clearly shows the different planes of the face.
Your TD drawings, and for that matter your cartoon drawings, are looking great. I love how you are branching out from TD and exploring other types of cartoon drawing styles such as your study from 4/4/23.
Lastly, your point about study habits hits close to home as I have struggled to balance my work and other hobbies, such as learning Japanese, with art. As a result, I have devised a new schedule that has me studying Japanese on some weekdays and practicing art on others rather than trying to fit the two into every weekday and completing either.
The fact you are venturing out into other cartoon styles has me excited for future commissions (like the car one you mention at the end of your post) as well as upcoming studies. Keep up the great work and thank you always for your feedback

[Gordon003]

Sprint Retrospective #8 (10/4/23 - 23/4/23)

Welcome back! Another 2 weeks gone and another 2 weeks challenge of habit forming and maintaining in order to improve myself!

Past Sprint's Goal & Other Work

Facial Anatomy Practice

This is getting annoying as I haven't maintained consistent study on facial anatomy, especially on mouth and eye from Bucci's anatomy course which I haven't made much progress. I can easily blame on my motivation but I don't think that's the root of my problem; rather, it's my inability to keep facial anatomy practice to be consistent ,challenging and rewarding at the end.

However, I'm not sure what to do and fix that; given that I'm already committed to also work and refine on my cartooning skill. So I aim to try and practice facial anatomy on both morning and night time (before and after work) and see what's the most effective time for me to work and practice on facial anatomy.

Meanwhile, went back to practising facial plane; using ref and work (as idea) from @Sthingz. This is something I'm aiming to do before I can do shading.

Car Comm

Not much progress on it unfortunately. Both me and the commissioner are unable to meet on Discord to discuss. At least I have done the basic box to set up the perspective.

I aim to at least get the digital draft done and agreed by next sprint.

Cartoon Fashion Art Study

After some art study, I decided to focus more on one artist rather than multiple artists.

Artist on focus - https://twitter.com/AtomicKingBoo

Others

I have met a irl person who is also interested in art too! I have art friends but all are from Discord via this art school or familiar work so it was nice to finally meet someone irl who I can talk with regarding about art; despite the difference in our art style and preference.

Friend Insta - https://www.instagram.com/amber_insydney/

I have also forced myself to lift my pencil/digital pen higher up to stop drawing so quickly. I still noticed myself drawing too quickly but my work's becoming more slowly and focused-wise which is what I want. I hope to continued that practice of lifting my pen higher after each stroke.

What could have gone better?

Even though I do gesture drawing and quick sketches every day within this sprint, I wasn't doing it consistently time-wise which disobeys the rule of James Clear "Atomic Habit" on the need to keep it at the same time. It ranges from 9am to 11pm; depending on my motivation which is not good to based on.

This may contributes to my lack of facial anatomy practice as I'm not consistent enough to encourage any art study as I found myself to be tired at the end of completing my daily art habit at night.

Improvement to make in next sprint

I have set up a week schedule where I will track not only how many times I did in those 2 weeks but also when I have done it. Upon assessing my past habit tracker, I decide the folllowing:

• 9:30am - Gesture Drawing
• 2pm - Quick Cartoon Sketches
• 7pm - Cartoon Study

This should motivates me to focus only on art study after my cartoon study (final daily habit) as I know that the minimum daily requirement has been achieved.

Sprint Goals towards the next 2 weeks

1. Facial Anatomy Practice (2 Heads per week)
2. Complete Digital Agreed Draft of Car Comm
3. Bucci Face Course - Mouth and Ear (Continued)
4. Continue Loomis Head Plate Practice (Chapter 1)

Thx for reading! And of course, I'm open to any feedback!

[Sthingz]

Hey man, you are doing the best you can while working a full-time job, the effort is what counts. It's not easy balancing your work with your hobbies, and I totally understand that (this is coming from someone who is also struggling to fit sketching into the workweek). Nevertheless, I gotta say...you haven't lost your edge with cartooning, not one bit! Those hand-drawn cartoon studies look amazing - very expressive indeed (FORCE seems to be paying off all right). As far as head studies go, just draw what keeps you entertained. If doing X is not rewarding, then just move on and find something else. I have gone through several references that don't speak to me and settled with those that I find interesting. But, above all, I keep things fun by mixing actual studies with my own style of drawing (which is more stylized). In this manner, I am studying but I am refueling myself by adding a little twist here and there to make the drawing what I WANT it to be. Sure...it may turn out kinda wacky, but that's alright. I have learned that I rather make errors on the spot than try to fix them over and over, although this is a problem I specifically struggle in gesture drawing, not portraits. Anyways, I look forward to your upcoming work and I wish you the best with the changes you will make to your schedule.

[Gordon003]

Thx @Sthingz or your words! Few points to make and reflect:

• Yeah, it's challenging to balance work with hobbies but at the same time, I should be grateful that I'm able to do art as a hobby at all! I know others who does limited art due to their outside situation.
• Even though FORCE is not designed for cartoon drawing, I feel like my cartoon drawing gotten better thx to FORCE as it "forces" me to find assymetrical shape.
• Yeah, interest is definitely a big problem with my inability to do consistent head practice. I have a go at trying to combine head practice with my current drawing style to see if it spikes and maintain my interest.

[Gordon003]

Sprint Retrospective #9 (24/4/23 - 7/5/23)

What a turbulent 2 weeks! Last week was my graduation day as I have finally progressed to receive my degree which is Master of Information Technology or IT. Hopefully, that means the end of any uni studies lmao.

Anyway, let get onto my past 2 weeks work!

Past Sprint's Goal & Other Work

Facial Anatomy Practice

After playing around with my time, I figured that I'm most effective at learning facial anatomy in the night time. Morning is best for my daily habit which is 1 min gesture drawing and practising Chinese before going straight to my software engineering work.

So at night time, I practiced on each facial anatomy part with pen on paper to work on my utensil control. So far, so good.

Also continued to use @Sthingz to help with my deconstruction. Not doing as much full facial anatomy practice so need to work around my night schedule.

Car Comm

Nothing much else to add at the moment as I haven't heard much from the commissioner since those 2 weeks. Here's the current draft progress so far - just need confirmation that the angle is right and the feature are there.

Cartoon Art Study

Continued to do at least 1 art study of a particular artist I like - AtomicKingBoo. What I like about this artist are:

• Usage of cursive line to showcase particular features
• Ability to exaggerate particular features
• Keeping it cartoony yet slightly realistic
• Expressive colour scheme which is something I look at later.

Artist on focus - https://twitter.com/AtomicKingBoo

I did have a discussion with my IRL art friend who expresses concern about the artist's NSFW content which i totally agreed with it. However, I'm not studying this artist for its NSFW content - rather, it's the process/way the artist does it that's more interest me, not the content.

You will never get the perfect artist who exactly what you want to draw without difference. Best to take the good part of that artist and only focus on that

Anyway, here are my work with red pencil deconstruction.

Others

I went to my state art gallery with my art friend as we explored 17th - 20th century artworks and discussed about techniques and composition; ranging from sculptures to sketches to paintings. Sadly, we were stuck in 1 area for nearly 1.5 hours before its closed so we definitely going back again. XD

I also decided to record and post my cartoon work process in YouTube to give others beginning artists an idea on how I deconstruct and construct cartoon anatomy quickly.

Youtube Link - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFQjmwLXyI-lJcTIj_o4UAw

What could have gone better?

I am able to do my daily art habit more daily and more consistent within the time slot I allocated to it.

However, I'm not able to do more study on areas i want to work on (Facial anatomy) so I need to rework on my schedule.

Improvement to make in next sprint

Set up 2 types of works for my facial anatomy:

• Theory (Night) - work on facial understanding and deliberate practice
• Practice (Day/Afternoon) - work on existing understanding. DO NOT GET NEW UNDERSTANDING!!

Sprint Goals towards the next 2 weeks

1. Facial Anatomy Practice (2 Heads per week)
2. Continue Digital Agreed Draft of Car Comm
3. Continue Loomis Head Plate Practice (Chapter 1)
4. Have a look at Brunet Term 3

Thx for reading! And of course, I'm open to any feedback!

[Lockenheim]

Nice progress on these head structures, Signifigant gains in a short amount of time. One thing that I have been doing that I found very helpful is tracing over the actual photo and putting in all the planes. Its a bit more challenging than you may think, well for me it was. Lovely work keep it up!

[Gordon003]

Sprint Retrospective #10 (8/5/23 - 21/5/23)

Back again! This past 2 weeks was basically no art at all as I was out celebrating with one colleague in 1 weekend and chatting with another colleague in another weekend!

Frankly, I was surprised by how little I did on those 2 weeks, art-wise. Anyway, let see how little I did.

Past Sprint's Goal & Other Work

Facial Anatomy Practice

I have decided to stop art school progress for the time being to focus more on Loomis's book. But I have decided to continue to do facial anatomy practice to complement my Loomis book reading.

I have also set up a 15 minutes session to draw Loomis head construction in multiple different angles. Here's an example of a 15 minutes session. So far so good.

Car Comm

The commissioner have comes back and responded back with feedbacks. Haven't made the change yet but can't wait to make progress on it.

Cartoon Art Study

Haven't done much on it. May decide to discontinue it but so far only do 1 cartoon study on Tuesday and Thursday which are cartoon night.

Loomis Text Read

With the physical copy of Loomis book, I have decided to restart and read the text while making physical notes and examples. For me, there are extra values you can get from physical art books compared to PDF.

Others

In a mentoring session with a senior employee within my company, we had a chat about setting and spitting up long-terms goals into medium-terms goals and then into short-terms goals. Not only for my career development but also for my personal development, including arts.

As a result, I have decided to create a Google Doc to compile a full list of my goals. Here's an preview of my art goals.

In another week, I have met with one of my colleagues who's into fashion. After a day of going out and chatting to each other about our future consideration, I later learnt about the basis and meaning of fashion. In other word, I'm getting into fashion art - not only drawing it but understanding the sentiment and personality of a character's outfit.

What could have gone better?

My art progress have severally slowed down for the last 2 months. I don't think I have broke my goal down into achievable targets so I feel those 2 weeks are more into goals and breaking them into achievable goals.

For more info, you can check out my Trello screenshot.

Improvement to make in next sprint

Focus more on my agile board. Break goals into achievable targets and tasks.

Sprint Goals towards the next 2 weeks

1. Facial Anatomy Practice (2 Heads per week)
2. Continue Digital Agreed Draft of Car Comm
3. Continue Loomis Head Plate Practice (Chapter 1)
4. Break my long-term art goals

Not much art to show but yeah, a lot to think about what and how I want to do art.

Thx for reading! And of course, I'm open to any feedback!... if there's any work to show

[Sthingz]

Never stop with those head studies, keep the boat sailing! Your comm is coming out great. On that topic, I like the side-by-side comparison of the original sketch vs. the new one. The Loomis head studies are looking pretty solid. The one thing I will point out is that in the last drawing (the one above the subheading "Others") the face "mask" seems to not be sitting on top of the sphere in the correct angle. I drew a couple of guidelines to illustrate my point.

Now, what I am really curious about is...where did you get the physical version of the book from? And what extra values do you think the physical book bringa with it?
Anyways, you are doing a great job and I love to see you so motivated with the long-term goals you have propositioned.

[Gordon003]

Thx for your feedback, @Sthingz! So the new sketch wasn't mine but a art friend who tag me along to help with this car commission lmao. I already made a new draft and send it back to commissioner for approval before I refine it further.

Loomis head study wise, the daily 15 minutes practices is going well as I begin to construct it easier; thus still need improvement like you mention via the image.

I got the physical via a friend of a friend who is also interested in art. It's just a loan that was Initially for 2 weeks due to work trip, but now been extended to 2 months as my friend suffered a minor injury hiccup so time extension. XD

Best thing you can get from physical book is you can see the book in more detail without hurting your eye too much compared to online screen. As a software engineer, I can't afford to look at the screen 24/7 so physical book helps me work on paper without the need of a laptop to look over the text.

[Gordon003]

Sprint Retrospective #11 (22/5/23 - 4/6/23)

Just realised that we are already half-way of this year! Let see how far I been so far...

Past Sprint's Goal & Other Work

Facial Anatomy Practice

Haven't done much facial anatomy practice due to busy 2 weeks of job and doing other stuff but I have consistently been doing daily 15 minutes practice of Loomis head. So far, I'm getting better at drawing those head in dynamic camera angle as I learnt to use perspective rule to draw straight lines for example.

Still aiming to keep this a daily habit for the time being.

Loomis text wise, haven't made much progress on it.

Compared to the start of this year, I begin to appreciate the construction method while ensuring to not follow it too strictly to be "normal". challenges such as perspective (dynamic camera angle) to different facial build. Despite the lack of progress in term of facial detail (e.g. shadow), I feel more comfortable deconstructing head quickly and precisly.

Car Comm

After much discussion on particular features and ideas how to showcase it, I have finally finished a draft of the Mazda Autozam and can start doing the lineart and colour. Huzzah!

Cartoon Art Study

Was aiming to do 4 cartoon studies this 2 weeks but was so damn busy, can only muster 2 of them. I was hoping to do those studies every Tuesday and Thursday for around 30-45 minutes. If too hard, will need to find an alternative solution.

Art Goal Breakdown

After that session with my work mentor, I haven't fully broke all art goal down to its short-term goals yet. But it did help me find and filter out some long-term art goal I have in my current mind.

So far, I have settled into 3 long-terms goals:

• Develop my own cartoon style within 3 years
• Read and Adopt particular methods from Cartoon books within 5 years
• Complete Art School within 2 years (not sure though)

It's important to note that I haven't fully confirmed that the goals are fully set; neither how long will it take to achieve. This is something I have to update every 2 weeks to check if I'm going the right way.

Others

Continued to record and post one doodle live stream process on my YT channel.

Gordon003

Continued to post my doodle works on Insta.

Gordon Chen (@gordon0066) • Instagram photos and videos

What could have gone better?

Really do need to ask myself if I can actually do facial anatomy practice or just move onto term 3 anatomy content; given that I haven't done much practice at all.

If the following 2 weeks is the same as before, may have to go forward to Term 3 without worrying too much about my lacking facial anatomy drawing skill.

Improvement to make in next sprint

Continue to break goals into achievable short-term tasks

Sprint Goals towards the next 2 weeks

1. Facial Anatomy Practice via Loomis (2 Heads per week)
2. Lineart and Colour of Car Comm (Pleaseeeeeeeeee!!!)
3. Break my long-term art goals

Thx for reading! And of course, I'm open to any feedback!... if there's any work to show

[Lockenheim]

I think you did a really nice job with the perspective on the car, one suggestion that may help you as you start to clean it up is to be a little less loose with the lines of the wheel. I feel like that is one of the most important points to selling the perspective and when the lines there are really sketchy and loose it feels like that problem may not have been solved completely yet. If you keep your lines a bit tighter there, or go over the sketch with a darker color for final form, I think it will help as the process goes on. Really fantastic work on a difficult piece!

[Gordon003]

Sprint Retrospective #12 (5/6/23 - 18/6/23)

Past Sprint's Goal & Other Work

Facial Anatomy Practice

Haven't done much facial anatomy practice but I continued to do daily Loomis head practice for about 15 minutes. As I continued doing this, I realised that I need to work on my 3 points perspective which involves drawing a cube/prism. so prepared to see red perspective construction.

Have finished reading the first chapter of Loomis book but need to go through the plates again.

Car Comm

Continued to work on the same car. So far, got the lineart but the colour is still there for review.. Hopefully should be done and onto next comm next sprint.

I think you did a really nice job with the perspective on the car, one suggestion that may help you as you start to clean it up is to be a little less loose with the lines of the wheel. I feel like that is one of the most important points to selling the perspective and when the lines there are really sketchy and loose it feels like that problem may not have been solved completely yet. If you keep your lines a bit tighter there, or go over the sketch with a darker color for final form, I think…

Thx for your feedback @Lockenheim. Yeah, I think I'm becoming more loose due to number of draft and redraft I have done. One thing I do know about car commission is they straight-up can see if you are missing a minor detail. Not saying it's bad but it's expected to be doing a lot of re-draft over a new unknown area. (cartoonic version of real car)

And yeah definitely, I need to correct the wheel angle to set up the 2 points perspective I wanted. Thx for reminding me that.

I have started other comms but just an approved draft.

Luckily, the commissioner approved the draft to go ahead to do line art and colour.

Art Goal Breakdown

Haven't done really much to it as I continued to chat with my technology mentor about breaking the big goals into easier smaller goal. This is done via SMART criteria which you can see in this YT Link.

Here are my current art goals so far.

Others

Because of King's birthday (national holiday), I have a long weekend which involves a 3 days tour to another city. Being on a tour, this involves on being the bus most of the time.

While sleeping most of the time, I also did basic exercise, mainly ribbon exercise to help me understand how to draw hair/twist better. Here's a page example.

Continued to record and post one doodle live stream process on my YT channel.

Also bought a human body poster to help me see it easier lol

What could have gone better?

I have listened to Proko podcast on a book called "War on Art" which shows how creative tasks are often challenged by "resistance" which is basically anything that makes want to do easier distracting work rather than our "hard" work. The book is a bit hardcore but if used right, could impact how i do my work.

Very interesting and I can't wait to listen the actual full audiobook.

Given context to this book, the next challenge to reduce "resistance" to my practice work.

Improvement to make in next sprint

Practice with Mistake and reduce "Resistance".

Sprint Goals towards the next 2 weeks

• Facial Anatomy Practice via Loomis (2 Heads per week)
• Lineart and Colour of Car Comm and other art comms

Thx for reading! And of course, I'm open to any feedback!... if there's any work to show next

[alwaysneedsleep]

Man I really envy your discipline @Gordon003. The amount of work you put into scheduling etc is commendable.

[daceronine]

Damn, you organize your art practice better than some of my scrum teams organize the work they get paid for.

That's all good progres and practice, and your style is really easy on the eyes.

I did notice that like myself, you still have a bit of "hairline" in your physical works, while it's very clean on the digital side. I'm trying to work on that myself. Last time I did a physical drawing I had a hard time coloring it.

[Gordon003]

Sprint Retrospective #13 (19/6/23 - 2/7/23)

Past Sprint's Goal & Other Work

Facial Anatomy Practice

Frustrastingly, I haven't done much... AGAIN. This is getting some frustrating and I think I know why...

When I do cartoon, I can maintain not only because of interest/motivation BUT ALSO MONEY POTENTIAL. But for facial realism drawing, I only have interest but it can only go so far. I feel I need some short-term benefit from this otherwise.

So I only did some facial plane from @Sthingz reference. But it's not consistent at all which is what I want to focus on. System, not goal.

I need to find a short-term benefit of doing facial study so that I'm motivated to do this again... and again. Could be an external reward such as eating a chocolate snack or something else. Hit me with any suggestion.

It could also be that I'm focusing too much on study. I saw a video where it's not very good to keep showing your study notes but is useless if you are not using those study knowledge to your existing art works.

But hey, at least I'm continuing to do Loomis head practice at random office time. Also decided to do 3D perspective box to help work on my perspective.

Cartoon Commission

Finally finished the 2nd car commissions. However, there was some trouble at the end as the commissioner ask for some big changes at the LAST minute who just made my groan as I specifically told him that I can't make major changes AFTER my draft has been approved.

At the end, I didn't make the change as my art commissioner friend who asked me to do this will instead do it for me.

Not preparing to do the 3rd car commissions for the time being as I got other commissions to do plus I got other non-art works.

I also completed a private commission. Haven't done lineart a LONG time so I feel really rusty doing lineart. Nearly finishing another comms for American Independence celebration.

See, the interesting thing is how I'm able to continue doing cartoons despite the fact that I can see how much mistake I makes. It may be motivation but the fact that I can make money/interest from my cartoon study got me to continue pushing myself further on cartoon. That's what led to my initial statement on lack of workload on facial anatomy.

Others

Continued to do Total Drama doodles. Wasn't able to record at all unfortunately.

Started doing cartoon facial expression after I struggled to do expression facial expression. Decide to do some TD doodles on facial expression.

Also continuing to do cartoon study. I feel better and more quicker by the minute.

What could have gone better?

Not finding a short-term benefit to motivate me to do facial study again and again.

Improvement to make in next sprint

DON'T JUST STUDY! EXERCISE YOUR KNOWLEDGE!!

Sprint Goals towards the next 2 weeks

• Find short-term benefit to continue doing facial anatomy practice
• Continue to do art commissions
• Fix up my evident cartoon weakness - facial expression

Thx for reading! And of course, I'm open to any feedback!... if there's any work to show next

[Gordon003]

Thx for the kind word but discipline won't help much if I don't find short-term enjoyment/benefit from my study. Feel like I may need to lose some of my discipline to just enjoy art as it currently is.

[Gordon003]

Really!? I feel like the other way around as I found myself drawing faster than I can think when doing digital drawing while physical drawing is the other way around!

But yeah, thx for your kind words! But like I said earlier, those organisation will be useless if I don't have the motivation to continue doing this again and again...

[patrycja.lerch]

DON'T JUST STUDY! EXERCISE YOUR KNOWLEDGE!!

Studying all the time is tiring. I did only studies when I was starting out and I almost quit because of it. Do some studies and then implement it in your own work. Now I often mix studies with personal works and it feels much better.

Nice job on expressions!

[Gordon003]

Sprint Retrospective #14 (3/7/23 - 16/7/23)

NOTE - The 1st week (3/7 - 9/7) was school holiday so my family went off on a break while I have to stay back at home to continue to do work. Although I got independence (yay?), I have to do more responsibility, especially cooking.

Now my cooking skill is zilch so I thought it's a good time to try some basic cooking from cooking an egg to veggies such as broccoli. Obviously, it went fairly badly (e.g. egg is over cooked or the yolk broke when I cracked it) but I didn't burn my building so that's a mission success! XD

Even though it's not art, I feel I need to adopt a "Don't give a fck" altitude as I learn to cook by actually giving a fck about it and actually do it, rather than stay back and continue reading it.

Past Sprint's Goal & Other Work

Short Term Benefit

After some time around, checking everywhere and seeing which one catches my attention, I eventually discover that I like to wear my NBA jersey for fun. I feel that I work best at night when I wear one of my NBA jersey collection, fake or real. And yes, I'm currently writing this blog wearing my #3 Dwayne Wade Heats jersey.

It may be expensive short-term benefit (a new NBA jersey is $130 AUD or $90 USD) but I remedy that by either non-popular new jersey (50% off) or used jersey in EBay. Plus, it provides me a short-term challenge as I'm can use my art commission money to buy new NBA jersey; thus providing me an incentive to keep grinding. In other word, I have an non-art incentive that will push me further.

Fair to say, I think I have found my short-term benefit but let see how far I can go within 4 weeks.

Facial anatomy wise, didn't do much as I was so busy understanding to cook and also doing over-due cartoon commission.

Cartoon Commission

Done 2 commissions this 2 weeks. Getting used to the lineart phase now.

Got 2 other comms to do this upcoming 2 weeks. One new char commission and the car commission I mentioned in the last blog.

Facial Expression

I want to keep it simple and just focused on the eye as the eye and eyebrow convey the most facial expression (2nd is mouth). So going thru Total Drama canon shot, I not only trace but understand why the artist chose to depict the feeling in that way.

This is from a female character so for the next 2 weeks, I'm going thru a male character and compare each other when done.

I'm looking to practice and create emotion via my upcoming doodle work.

Others

Total Drama Doodle works. Didn't do in the 1st week as I want to take a mind break and also got caught in technical bug squash work.

Also recorded my process in doing those doodle.

Also watching a video on how to not give a f*ck. Looking to review it again and try to incorporate to my life principle, not just art-wise.

What could have gone better?

Just focused on practising and not worry about being good. Enjoy the journey boredom, lol.

Improvement to make in next sprint

DON'T JUST STUDY! EXERCISE YOUR KNOWLEDGE!! ((Again)

Sprint Goals towards the next 2 weeks

• 2 Facial Studies per week
• Art Commissions
• Continued study on facial expression

Thx for reading! And of course, I'm open to any feedback!... if there's any work to show next

[mitsuki-youko]

Yooo i can't belive i didnt follow your page til now thought i already did for some reason since i've seen your comments on my forum..

NOTE - The 1st week (3/7 - 9/7) was school holiday so my family went off on a break while I have to stay back at home to continue to do work. Although I got independence (yay?), I have to do more responsibility, especially cooking.

Now my cooking skill is zilch so I thought it's a good time to try some basic cooking from cooking an egg to veggies such as broccoli. Obviously, it went fairly badly (e.g. egg is over cooked or the yolk broke when I cracked it) but I didn't burn my building so that's a mission success! XD

ooh congrats!! cooking is a form of art and when i have time i like to make my food look super fancy just for fun

Done 2 commissions this 2 weeks. Getting used to the lineart phase now.

Got 2 other comms to do this upcoming 2 weeks. One new char commission and the car commission I mentioned in the last blog.

Congrats on the commissions!!

your style reminds me of nickelodeon style lol

Also watching a video on how to not give a f*ck. Looking to review it again and try to incorporate to my life principle, not just art-wise.

HEY I HAVE THIS EXACT BOOK!!! (the subtle art of not giving a f*)