Inktober Day #9

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I could fit likkkk, estimated around 15-20

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Yeah. No. Terrible

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Did dizzy ever popup?

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Yeah

You goin back to sleep?

[vale meadow]

Nah

My b, that one word response took forever cuz I was tryna figure out wer the webnovel I was reading was, I basically lost it

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Oh lmao it’s alright

Enjoy your reading👍 I’m lowkey considering another anatomy challenge. Could be on the horizon so stay tuned if that piques your interest 🤔

[vale meadow]

Yea

I agree

I accept

I will do it

Sign me up

To put it simply, I will join

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https://tenor.com/view/death-note-light-kira-anime-gif-22100000

[vale meadow]

Long story short, this guy is tryna safe her because she plus basically most of the world is being manipulated by this other guy

So he snuck up to her

It’s no surprise she tries to attack him literally the next second

[vale meadow]

https://youtube.com/shorts/15Z5JvEzlj4?si=a6fq2_pOi-RvLlg2

https://youtube.com/shorts/Y9QdGgPOiec?si=RjBLTXDkux5dGDbB

This game goes so hard, and im not even including the gameplay itself

https://youtube.com/shorts/99wYXZUi5aU?si=wqqcoDrTM4FtGJmO

This one went so hard

https://youtube.com/shorts/6Oxq6pLfovE?si=izAA4FvUvqv4b39-

Okay, last one

I need to get to arting now

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@green horizon

I wanted to start it off big

But things didn’t go according to plan

And now im having a terrible time with the details

[green horizon]

Better👍

[vale meadow]

Today, im going to he doing this

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Its so crazy, cuz I remember the first youtuber I really started watching art videos from

And it’s been such a long time, and I been think abt all the YouTubers that have came and went

Like Mikeymegamega, and marc brunet

I used to love them, then I moved on, it’s not that I don’t like what they do anymore, its just that, I moved past it basically

There is probably still stuff I could learn from some of their vids, but I feel like, right now, I don’t even wanna watch YouTubers that much

Working and learning from reference is what I usually do now, and I think at this point, once I get really good at that,

Thats when it will be time for me to really move on and draw from imagination

I say by the end of this year

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Yeh i feel like they’re there as a good starting point. Teaching you how to learn, in a way. But once you know how to learn and what works for you, you don’t need people to hold your hand like that

At that point, you’re studying people who occupy the niche you wanna be in, and tutorials are more for targeting specific skills than building a foundation

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@vale meadow do you still have the linkto this book?

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Yea

In fact, I have it saved

Let me get it

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chrome://external-file/ilide.info-tenten-anatomy-translated-pr_9567e1518b198c01dccced563219dbb3.pdf

Err

Guess ima have to do it the roundabout way

[vale meadow]

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1i1WTs7zn2zbWDypdPbezvFxOIRFN4w3j/view?usp=drivesdk

There

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:D thanks

[vale meadow]

Np, Ima go put some water to get cold now cuz I have a slight throb in my head

Prob from listening to music too much, ima have to stop doing that while I draw

Or at least, play it lower, most of the time, I forget it’s playing anyway

[green horizon]

Ah yeah be careful w that

Especially if you have earbuds in

[vale meadow]

Yea, ima probably just stop listening to music while drawing all together

And instead just turn on background videos or sum

From what I have seen, playing music sometimes makes me draw worse

And it’s probably not the best to play it while studying

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@vale meadow

Is your sleep cycle awful? If yes, magma?

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Im here

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Yes, and yes

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https://magma.com/d/1SZijOomIX

[vale meadow]

An officer came kmockin today

It was while I was drawing nsfw art

I got so startled that my nine thousand two hundred thirty seven history in google is all gone

[vale meadow]

All the talk of boxes and stuff reminded me of a rlly cool artist that helped me out a lot

I accidentally left their server tho and could never find them again,

This is some of their stuff I saved

Im pretty sure they also did all that from imagination

[vale meadow]

I also stole this from their server

Im unsure if they did this themselves or not tho

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Looks like a mx of artists

The yellow ones are that Taco person that makes a ton of anatomy stuff

[vale meadow]

https://youtube.com/shorts/kSq5Gfj8PwU?si=8RaGiP1sJCdjg1Ch

Idk what this is but the comments make this funny asf

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I’ve never understood curling as a sport

[vale meadow]

Im doin some figures today from photos

Right off the bat, it’s a lot harder, and a lot more stressful

Mainly because I haven’t used/trained my figure/gesture drawing skills in a very long time

Also, I kinda forgot the process of how to start and end, but I remembered a lot of it and am probably ganna do some better ones later,

Ima sleep now tho, this tired me out fr

[green horizon]

Rest well. Your figures look nice

[vale meadow]

Another reason they look so bad is probably because im used to fery long form drawings,

These were pretty short, most 3-5min, and like two 7min

Im not at all used to timing myself, but ima start doing it

[green horizon]

Ah i hate timing myself

Good luck w that haha

[vale meadow]

I just started some figure drawing again today, I made them way bigger, which pains my soul

My plan is to just repeatedly erase them once im done

So I can use the paper for several times it’s worth

[vale meadow]

Im starting to understand my problem, my translation of anatomy is not profound enough

I reason to this because, I can’t quickly simplify it

Therefore, I must not understand it well enough

[green horizon]

Hmm that’s possible ues

Btw I’m still working on that challenge. Needed a few days to regroup and pinpoint what to study in order to achieve my goal

What anatomy knowledge do ypu think you’re lacking though? Or is it a lack of enough application?

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I feel like I lack everything

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I disagree. I don’t think you’re starting from zero

[vale meadow]

I forgot abt it tbh, the group thing was largely unsuccessful in my opinion, tho I do appreciate tia for trying

[vale meadow]

Maybe I need to watch some jeff watts

I always learn sum from him

[vale meadow]

Maybe u can’t see it, but I thought for a second, and realized,

When you said application it kinda gave me a thought, then I realized,

I’m not actually applying much of what I learned, such as the rythms of the riley rhythm method

[green horizon]

Right. Sometimes it’s an application issue and not a knowledge issue

Very easy to get into a rhythm that makes you feel like you’re learning when you’re actually halfway autopiloting in realitt

[vale meadow]

Also, I see a lot that, maybe because of the timer, I rush the shapes a lot,

And make the body either to big or too small

[vale meadow]

I suppose practice can fix this issue though

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Yeah. Times gestures are their own category of skill once you’re at those lower times tbh. More about trying to weave your lines together fluidly than showcase intricate knowledge

Ig my question would be how yku feel abt your stuff that isn’t timed. And maybe also abt things that aren’t studies

[vale meadow]

I don’t remember the last time I did something that wasn’t a study tbh

[green horizon]

Studying can be fun

But it is still study at the end of the day

That balance rule requires a separation between study and leisure imo

[vale meadow]

The further I get into this, the more not cut out for it I seem to be, yet the more I wanna do it

Ill finish these gestures, maybe do some for another hour

Then do some

From imagination

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👍

We’ll get there

[vale meadow]

Here is the same figure redone in even less time

After leaving before, and watching youtube shorts for that whole time,

I finally remembered I still needed to draw

[vale meadow]

I am very happy with how it turned out, or rather, I should say I don’t hate it

So comparatively speaking, I love it a lot more than the other ones

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https://youtube.com/shorts/NGSHP_rBE24?si=No1ypc42hWB3PsBZ

Smash bros is something I do not understand how people get so hype about

I literally can’t tell what’s happening

“He bounced like four times” im tryna think of why that’s cool

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Maybe some complicated tech required to do that

I only know abt ssbu stuff and even then not a ton

[vale meadow]

Yea, I feel like for brawlhalla, even someone who has never played can definitely tell when u do something cool

But for smash, I just can’t comprehend

Actually,

Ima be honest, idek if that is smash bros

I just assumed it was

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It’s a way older one

Melee i assume

ssbu is easier to follow imo

[vale meadow]

Maybe one day I’ll grt the game and play it

Maybe

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Its very insane, I been going to sleep and waking up around 4-6am again, and am super surprised by how long the day has gotten

Like, I thought it would be around 12 by now, or even close to 1 am

But nah, its 10

[vale meadow]

I def had no idea how to digitally color this,

But I thought it looked cool

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Oo that’s really cool

[vale meadow]

Thx, I spent like 30min tryna figure out how to actually start coloring it tho

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I had to “cut” it out basically

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You can use this without a stylus

I use it to fill stuff very quickly

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I would have just put the line drawing on a layer by itself, then locked it

But,

I keep forgetting about the layers and not using them

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Remember em. They’re important

As much as i hate them, i will still use the minimum to get the job done

Usually 2

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I now think it’s basically impossible to finish a super really good artwork without layers, but

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It’s just more inefficient than anything for the majority of people

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I heard a guy did sum like this with no layers, its not the same from him,

But its the cloest I could find

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This guy uses one (not counting background color ofc)

Wlop is crazy, but he uses a lot of layer modes, which require multiple layers

Probably merges them as soon as he gets the effect he wants n continues to paint though

[vale meadow]

I think ises one layer just takes extremely hogh skill and extensive knowledge of the program tho

[green horizon]

Confidence and a tonnn of skill yeah. It also only makes sense if you’re going to render until your lines are gone

[vale meadow]

It’s Friday, so I have no excuse not to go hard at drawing today

It’s not like I had one for any other day of the week though

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Make up for all of it today then

I’m gonna be working for a while today since the painting i started yesterday is for a contest that ends tomorrow

I might change my concept entirely. I’m entering mostly for fun now since I can’t put a ton of time in

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Tell me when u get first place

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(Huruu would never receive notice again)

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https://tenor.com/view/sad-sadface-gif-21062559

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Just finished the skull, it’s still uneven, as I can never draw symmetrically,

But now ima put on the muscles

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https://tenor.com/view/robert-redford-jeremiah-johnson-nodding-yes-nod-of-approval-gif-21066931

[vale meadow]

I can’t lie, for a second I was intimidated, but I got it

It said that the human body only has 360 muscles, which when you think about it, isn’t a lot

I bet I could memorize them all

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Yeahh and then a lot of those are buried under other muscles n therefore won’t be seen

And then another number of muscles don’t matter enough to be memorable for artists

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Ima probably hop in magma and add the muscles though, cuz

It’s ganna be pretty hard to do it on paper,

I think digital will be a lot easier

And I can use the layers

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Yeah👍

[vale meadow]

https://magma.com/d/cj2UGc64JA

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Imma be workin on my piece. I have a way cooler concept i wanna try

But i might join if you’re up in a couple hours

[vale meadow]

Yea, I will be most likely

Ima prob stop working on the skull muscles in like an hour or two tho

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Ah ok👍

[vale meadow]

Didn’t feel like it suddenly, so I did some 1 and 2min hand gestures

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Interesting construction 👍

One day we’re gonna do a magma session and the most excellent sketches are gonna appear

[vale meadow]

My ipad is ganna go dead

My charger is not with me currently

So, if u did intend to ping me for magma,

I probably would not be able to reapond

I should be getting it in around 30min to an hour though

Or less

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Oop i got a headache suddenly and fell asleep

[vale meadow]

Lol, np

I just got my charger aain

Again*

Strangely, my ipad has just been chillin at 1%

Guess it’s because I never turned it back on

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A loyal companion, fighting to stay by your side

How heartwarming

[vale meadow]

It is past midnight, so we can hop in magma tmmrw if u aren’t up for it

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Oh nah I’m wide awake now. Headache suddenly disappeared while i was petting my dog

It was weird cuz i fell asleep then woke up a good 3 or 4 times like “no you said you would do something keep your word”

I lost a fight w a ghost

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Your mind keep waking u up cuz you feel so strongly abt sum

I has that happen a lot

Then ur body is lik, “nah man, I’m goin back to sleep”

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https://magma.com/d/SaPfm0A1yC

Fighting yourself and losing

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Im thinking of making in total about 100 more skulls before i move on

20 for each view, front, back, 3/4, and side

This time, I don’t wanna rush and really wanna ingrain the information in my mind

The only thing is, I don’t wanna use that much paper

What a conundrum

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Half traditional half digital

?

[vale meadow]

I was just ganna get out my super huge book and make some decently sized skulls,

But that is a good idea as well

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Oh. Yeah that’s also good

[vale meadow]

It’s kinda sad that I filled it with a lot of pointless atuff when I started drawing

Could have put it to way better use now

Now I use the pages stirringly

Err, not stirringly, I corrected it to the wrong wrong, that makes me wonder how one can use a page stirringly though

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Are you unable to get sketchbooks right after you finish one? Ik some people aren’t, but you just seem a lil too keen on rationing your paper out

To the point of not even properly using up the space on a single sheet

[vale meadow]

I can get more,

But like,

I feel like the value of a lot of the stuff I draw is not worth the space it takes up

[green horizon]

Give yourself room to reach the point where it’s “worth it”

All of the mileage, good or bad contributes to the bigger picture

But you’re holding yourself back by not giving yourself the room to just boldly learn. Remember you were saying how sometimes you would always default to an excuse or a reason why you didn’t reach max potential whenever you posted a drawing? This is one of those things

All of these? Pretty damn bad

But i was just enjoying the learning process and taking up as much room as I needed in order to do that

You’re falling for the “waiting til I’m good enough,” cliche, even if you don’t realize it

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Alr then, ill take up as much room as needed

I also just woke up from a nap

[vale meadow]

I spent two hours tryna kill one fly

In the end I drew two skulls

And those were in the first 10min

I don’t know how it survived under my relentless pursuit for two hours though

I think it literally had a revival spell or sum, cuz I know I hit it like twice

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Damn😭 idk if i admire your persistence or the fly’s persistence more

[vale meadow]

In the end, I think I hit it, but I slapped it out of the air, and didn’t see it’s dead body, ao I just gave up and called it a day

[vale meadow]

Long story short, I might be going bald

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[cerulean parcel]

i didnt know yous spoke here for the challenge

[vale meadow]

We don’t,

This is my personal Kingdom

I usually talk to Rc about anything and everything here

So technically, you’re half right

[cerulean parcel]

okay okay so ill send my pieces here instead?

[vale meadow]

Sure, anyone is welcome to my Kingdom

[vale meadow]

I slept all day

Actually I worked out a lot, then slept all day

I plan to get in some art now though

On another note, doing some neck exercises is probably why my neck feels much better than usual today

I don’t usually do neck exercises, but I def have to add them to my routine now

On another another note, this morning I was watching a video about making games/programming

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I really felt like that would be such a fun thing to do, and I actually did get into that a long long time ago, but dropped it, now ima probably be looking to get back into it

[vale meadow]

I decided I’m gonna start writing again

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Feel free to

Share with the class if you wish🫴

[vale meadow]

I’m planning to do a fantasy webnovel with one of my favorite tropes

I only have a general plot for the world in my head,

I will probably do some world building and stuff later as well

I’ll also try to draw any monsters or stuff I think of, cuz it would probably get me to draw more

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https://tenor.com/view/robert-redford-jeremiah-johnson-nodding-yes-nod-of-approval-gif-21066931

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This is that turned upside down

I intended for it to be that way

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Thas cool asf wtf

The composition and pose🤌

[vale meadow]

Thx, it’s just another one of my small efforts, nothing much

[vale meadow]

Just finished watching a whole anime

Time to draw

[vale meadow]

I believe you already saw this before, but I went on ahead and took another pic of it cuz I came back around to it and used some more pen on it,

And basically runied it, but I already knew that would happen,

So I took another pic of it

[green horizon]

ay going for it anyway is a win in my book

Always get the pic first lmao

[vale meadow]

Fr tho, I used to be too scared to even use pen on stuff like this because I wasn’t confident I could bring it to a good finish, I’m still not confident, but at least I can ruin it with confidence

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hell heah

Yeah

Haey

[vale meadow]

Some unknown people in the comment sections of a youtube video calling the Karl Kopinski a pervert and a bad parent because he said he draws more strong female characters because he has a young daughter

I don’t know if they genuinely think that, if they had a few braincells loose, or if they just wanna make jokes, and most likely many of them have some sort of combination of that

[green horizon]

I gotta see the context

[cerulean parcel]

i saw that, i dont understand people. he said he daws strong female characters so his daughter can also feel strong- or something along the lines of that

https://tenor.com/view/the-office-sick-weird-weirdo-disgusted-gif-18456732

[vale meadow]

I can link the video

I honestly just played it as background noise though, so I also barely know the context

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🫴

[vale meadow]

https://youtu.be/I_bBwtn_SnI?si=OR65GL66nAgQikLp

Pretty sure this is the one

[vale meadow]

There is the vid

I think he says it towards like the second half of the video

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I’ll take a look🫡

[vale meadow]

Should I start progress on my story or should I just like, draw?

[green horizon]

Start progress on your story

[vale meadow]

https://tenor.com/view/anya-forger-anya-spy-x-family-anime-salute-salute-gif-okey-dokey-gif-25700022

[vale meadow]

I have literally just been lying in my bed and thinking of how to go about this,

The original story idea will be out on hold since I realized there are a few conflicting things

But through deducting that, I think I came up with a much better idea

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https://tenor.com/view/nodding-crossed-arms-pikachu-eyes-closed-pokemon-gif-15194868

[vale meadow]

On another note

Sleeping without a pillow feels really nice

I also did not know you weren’t suppose to have your back on your pillow,

Though I rarely did, and when I did, it was just a bit

[vale meadow]

@green horizon wer the chat thing go?

I dun see it

[green horizon]

Sent something on it

Can you see?

[vale meadow]

I had to find another way to get to the chat thing

[green horizon]

Never seen that before. Does r the whole tab and rejoining help?

Closing^*

[vale meadow]

Nah, I closed it like three times,

Does nothing, maybe I got to fiddle with the settings or sum

[green horizon]

Yeahh that’s really weird

[vale meadow]

I didn’t like how the toolbar got in my way sometimes,

But I didn’t want this

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[vale meadow]

I think I found a guy with a bigger ego than me

Well, almost bigger

https://youtube.com/@stevenzapataart?si=7-W2PQi9fTsNuK7H

[green horizon]

I love his work

He’s awesome

[vale meadow]

My literal first thoughts after making this—

“It just looks like a ton of scribble scrabble”

[green horizon]

I see the vision tho. Give the lines’ direction more intention and it’s absolute heat

[vale meadow]

Is it that obvious?

I was tryna do cross hatching,

But then I was like, how da fugg u supposed to do this

Then it gradually devolved into me just putting down lines

[green horizon]

Well it just looks like the lines aren’t following any particular form is all

Who would notice and who wouldn’t is a mystery to me. Thas just what i saw

[vale meadow]

Yea, ima just stick to what I regularly do from now on

Cross hatching is a side quest anyway

[vale meadow]

I’m ganna have to start an elitist art server or sum

The flower guy just seems like they do not get it, says they know basic construction, but then when pointed out it seems they actually don’t know much, then it also seems they don’t know how to learn effectively, and I may look like the bad guy for just being as direct as possible to them

Which I understand, but like, I don’t think babying them will make things much better

Its also crazy cuz like, the stuff they posted from the proko vid they watched showed improvemnt

So I don’t think its a problem of them not being abke to improve,

More like, them just not trying

[green horizon]

Hana has good days sometimes. Idk where it all goes in the meantime. Nor do I know what to say to em atp

[vale meadow]

Yea, today they told me they stopped drawing for a week

Like, its like tug of war,

But each side keeps pulling each other back

[green horizon]

Yeahhh ion wanna gossip or nothin. I’ll give practical advice but I’m nearing the point of just kinda

Leavin that alone right there idk

[vale meadow]

I should probably not be a hypocrite though, so I got to practice today

[green horizon]

get that pen moving

[vale meadow]

Just got a fresh cut

[vale meadow]

Altjough

Ah, I had to get my stuff and put it up so the sentence stopped,

But anyway,

Although I don’t think I can really grt into TenTen’s style, there are a ton of things I can take from them, the most important being, my form and construction has locked in

I read around 200 pages and probably only took around 20-30 min to do some stuff I saw in there

But what I gained from reading all that was a lot

[vale meadow]

Looking at it now, there probably isn’t a big difference from this and the stuff I usually do,

But when I really learn to apply the stuff I jus consumed, that’s when I will go off

[vale meadow]

Another thing, I learned how to easily turn objects in space,

And I feel like this could have been taught very quickly and very easily in probably like a sentence or two, but it took me years to get it, once again lamenting being broke and having no mentor

[green horizon]

Sounds like today was pretty productive for you

Thas nice to hear

Or read..

[vale meadow]

They also made art of Ciel

And Nezuko

And probably a lot of other characters I did not know or did not care to remember

[green horizon]

Tenten makes it look easy😔

[vale meadow]

Never thought I would be so obsessed with blocks

[vale meadow]

https://twitter.com/98_seok

석구팔 SEOK98 (@98_seok) on X

contact : [email protected]
oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh

Twitter

U might like this person

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Oo i think I’ve seen some of their stuff

This one is really cool

[cerulean parcel]

ooooooooooooo

[vale meadow]

I been having a lot of sudden chest pain in the same side of my chest, basically right on my heart

If I don’t respond for awhile, you know what happened

[vale meadow]

I also tried to make u a birthday drawing, didn’t turn out so well tho

[green horizon]

I appreciate the fact that an attempt was made

https://tenor.com/view/anime-goku-dbz-dragon-ball-super-saiyan-gif-8246706

[vale meadow]

Another attempt will be made

I think my idea is cool asf and also mot that hard,

It’s just my nemesis the head, like Batman and Joker

It never just lets me do my thing

[static matrix]

Eyy @vale meadow, you just advanced to level 57!

[vale meadow]

I did that in magma

I feel like not having a blend tool wasn’t a big deal, just that it was kinda confusing messing around with hardness and flow

But I used the blend tool like once in my life, so I probably don’t know how useful it is

It was also very confusing when I got like one place blending together with another one, but couldn’t get it for another area, I guess I’ll have to go test that out more

[green horizon]

You did a good job on this

[vale meadow]

Thx, the only thing i hate is the shadow

For the reason explained above,

I somehow got magma to do this weird blending stuff

Then did not figure out how to grt it to do it again, then I had the stuff on the same layer

So when I erased, a ton of stuff that should not have erased, was erased

So I just had to keep it like that

[green horizon]

Magma has the basics of what you need, but i feel like it struggles when it comes to blending

Not because there’s no smudge tool specifically but just because of its current brush options

[vale meadow]

Definitely not as simple as with the blending tool

[green horizon]

Yeah

Difficult but not impossible

But frustrating sometimes

[vale meadow]

I also tested the blending tool in ibis, and I see how it’s much better

[vale meadow]

Tbh, I used the pencil brush and the uhh sketchy round because I remember u saying it was good

I don’t really know much abt brushes

[green horizon]

You achieved pretty good results w what you chose haha

I just make a few swatches with every single brush whenever i start in a new program

N choose a couple favorites

[vale meadow]

Ima try again for this,

I feel like once I really learn how to draw the head, then I’ll be good

Drawing the head has been my nemesis like since I started drawing

[green horizon]

I relate so hard it could make me cry

We’ll get there we’ll get there

[vale meadow]

Time to go learn sum facial muscles

https://tenor.com/view/abort-abandon-thread-dip-outoutout-gif-5529679

[vale meadow]

I thought I was ganna have a heart attack for a second

Luckily, I too strong

I wonder where this is coming from though, it’s not like I’m unhealthy

Maybe getting an actual doctor to diagnose me might be better

[green horizon]

Or take googles word for it

You have cancer

[green horizon]

@vale meadow you down for magma? I didn’t feel good enough to draw yesterday so im making up for it

[vale meadow]

Im up for it mow

Or I would have been up for it earlier as well,

[vale meadow]

But I signed out of my discord acc so I didn’t see the message

[green horizon]

Imma wash the dishes rq n we can if you’re still down

There aren’t as many as usual so it should be less than 30 misn

Mins

[vale meadow]

As long as it dont take two hours

Because literally in two hours ill prob go eat sum

Then ill be tired

And me + tired in magma does mot lead to anything good

[green horizon]

https://magma.com/d/e1sVLextGj

I’m still congested

[vale meadow]

https://pdfhost.io/v/dUb2WnpfQ_Design_Your_Own_ANIME_AND_MANGA_CHARACTERS

[green horizon]

@vale meadow

[vale meadow]

I decided to get some sleep, i got to wake up early to get my schoolwork done

I am behind in one class

Mainly cuz its just tedious, memorize then answer type stuff

[green horizon]

Yeahh i hated those classes

But good on you for at least being mostly caught up. Sleep well🫡

[vale meadow]

https://tenor.com/view/me-too-same-gif-21473256

[vale meadow]

https://magma.com/d/mdi04zubig

[vale meadow]

“Lol what idiot got caught lying about their age”

It seems I am the idiot

[vale meadow]

It’s quite mysterious to me how it happened though

[vale meadow]

My studies so far for today,

I haven’t fully understood how to draw the lip yet, but I didn’t wanna waste too much time on that since it’s basically inconsequential in the bigger picture

Ill most likely be going back to it soon though

[vale meadow]

I have dome back to reclaim my throne

I feel like I’m getting closer to my first skill milestone

Im currently working on doing this though,

But it isn’t going so well, I’m having a lot of difficulty with foreshortening the face

Ill prob watch some vids on it, and then ill go back and finish the expression practice

[green horizon]

Yeah they make it look easier than it is

[vale meadow]

As far as I got before I tapped out

I also attempted the ribcage as well, also pretty hard

But I think it’s more about understanding how viewing stuff from different angles and etc changes the silhouette

[green horizon]

Looks like you’re also still drawing kinda small

[vale meadow]

The paper is actually huge so it’s kinda funny cuz if I were to zoom out, it would be like way smaller than it looks

[vale meadow]

Going back and trying the old loomis method

It in fact does work

This drawing definitely doesn’t showcase that though

When I was testing it, the only thing I found to be annoying is that I don’t know of anyway to calculate the placement of stuff exactly

I should probably watch the proko vids on the loomis method and see if it explains anything like that

[green horizon]

Yeahh. That’s one of my bigger issues with loomis personally. Feels too unspecific for proportions but also too restrictive with all the guidelines. Idk. Glad it works for others though

[vale meadow]

I do personality like when sum has a lot of guidelines, just not when it’s err, idk the word, unspecific.

I like guidelines though because I feel like good guidelines give your drawing a lot of structure

Stuff like this is the point I wanna get to

But also adding on some jeff watts

Cuz the anatomy is a bit too simple in some places for me

[vale meadow]

What I think this does really well is show the form, it feels really three dimensional

And also wonderful shading

[green horizon]

Impressive for sure

[vale meadow]

U still got stomehouse anatomy?

I seem to have lost it and dont know how

[green horizon]

https://dn720303.ca.archive.org/0/items/junghyun-seok-stonehouses-anatomy-2020/Junghyun Seok - Stonehouse's Anatomy (2020).pdf

[vale meadow]

I was drawing some loomis heads for practice and was cery confused for a moment

Cuz my heads were well, not so good looking

Compared to the ones I did before

And I realized, i was measuring wrong

I took the distance from the top of the head, instead of the hairline,, but that was mostly because I didn’t usually draw in the thirds of the face when I was doing skulls

So it kinda confused me until I got it

[green horizon]

Ah i see

[vale meadow]

I dont think anyone is ganna let me be their barber if they see this

Though the placement of the jaw still doesn’t looks like loomis, probably because I made it a bit on the longer side,

It’s better than before

I also got the lips low as fugg

Things to improve on

[green horizon]

Proportionally i think it looks fine. Loomis is a set of guidelines but real people have such a wide variety of face lengths, asymmetries, facial feature distances from each other etc that I personally wouldn’t view getting the perfect loomis head as a goal

[vale meadow]

Yea, dats true

I think the thing that kill me most is symmetry

As it has been since day -1

I know human faces are not perfectly symmetrical, but it would be good if I could get closer to that than I am now

Though I don’t even practice symmetry specifically so I can’t really complain

[green horizon]

@vale meadow

? Idk why that sent just now

[vale meadow]

You have summoned thy?

[green horizon]

That was from way earlier my bad

[vale meadow]

I get it, many people are so impressed by my skills that it befuddles their minds sometime

[green horizon]

Im trying to figure out a project i can work on

[vale meadow]

Im genuinely lost as to how to progress right now

So im basically just following TenTen artbook, training my skills

I think u know what im doing already, but rn im tryna learn to do this

Just drawing heads from different angles that are doing different things

But more realistic heads

Then maybe add that with expressions, which was actually before heads, but that didn’t make much sense to me, so I skipped that to dome back to it after

Then move onto ribcage which is next etc

Basically, I’m just kinda flowing along with TenTen

What I learned from trying to do the same with the TB Choi artbook is that, while there is some really good stuff in there, it’s teaching ability is subpar

Or at least that’s how I feel

[green horizon]

Well

When you try to draw the boxes in all of those angles, do you succeed?

I’d look there first. Taking a step back and assessing in order to move forward

[vale meadow]

Actually, I feel like it would be easier to do this with the head first, then the bones

I already know how to draw the bones of the head in the common views, but going for anything for extreme, I feel like

It would be easier to learn how to draw a normal head that way, then the bones of the head

[green horizon]

Well yeah but how are you constructing the heads? Some are better than others for making sense of different angles

Boxes are the easiest for me, for example

[vale meadow]

I watched this guy that went to watts atrleieir and basically stole that method

https://youtu.be/fu2awnEXSxs?si=MPz7816a_VGjxV69

He has some good stuff on heads

Thats basically

What his channel revoles around

Head anatomy

Head protraits

Head etc

[green horizon]

Ah yeah this type of construction is quite separate from what helps me visualize things so i cant offer much

But i have seen his content before

[vale meadow]

Tbh, that video specifically doesn’t really help me much other than me just being able to take some shapes he does and reference his to mine

Some of his other stuff is like super helpful tho

[vale meadow]

Basically, to explain it better, that entire video is just a glorified reference

[green horizon]

Ah ok

[cerulean parcel]

i get confused with these super complicated methods because you might know how to draw a very detailed portrait but how do you go about drawing anything else

such as animals, objects, etc

are there also methods for other things or

[vale meadow]

Yea, there are methods for other things,

Like the riley method, it isn’t only constrained to drawing heads

It’s about the rythms of tress, cars etc

But that is also why construction would be such an im skill,

If tou dont have a method to draw something, construction basically helps you make one

[vale meadow]

This is also why I place emphasis on not copying, but more understanding . I feel like only once you can do something with no guidelines and references at all, do you truly understand it

[cerulean parcel]

i often found though using these methods id be stuck with same face syndrome, i used to use guidelines when i was younger because thats what everyone else was doing and i was never really learning anything because i was constricted to these shapes and lines

everyone learns differently and i feel like using all these shapes and lines have helped very little whereas learning in my own way, ive managed to improve throughout this year very quickly

ofcourse if it works for you, it works. but i think a lot fo skill also comes into play with rendering, you might have a decent sketch but knowing how to turn these 2d shapes into something that looks 3d is also a big skill

[green horizon]

I need at least 2 guidelines in any given angle because my eye for symmetry is extremely skewed (to the point where I have spent 30-45mins adjusting a single feature). I find that they always go away very quickly though. Loomis’ default doesn’t look like my reference and people’s heads aren’t literal boxes, after all.

But what has helped me most is picking a few planes I can rely on. Then if my construction falls apart, I can still locate the ear and therefore the jaw etc etc. Planes are also the basis for how I like to render (though I’d like the increase my skill in that area because i simplify planes a little too far)

What’s really curious is that I stumbled into simply using a triangle to “construct” and it mostly solves my symmetry issue and allows me to work in whatever angle I want without locking me down. Weird.

[cerulean parcel]

oh yea i also use a line every now and again to make sure the eyes are level, but i cant get my head around using 50 shapes to correctly get the head and face right

an artist i look up to, Eleeza, draws the same way i do and watching her draw has lifted my doubts on my technique so much

i remember watching a youtube video on this guy who made a career in art out of nothing, started drawing later on in life kinda thing and he said that it’s impossible to draw with just a silhouette

and so, i listened to him and tried the whole guideline stuff and just got so lost in what was comfortable for me that id just crumble everytime i tried to draw some thing
the good out of that though, is that i know for sure what works for me considering ive tried atleast 15 different techniques and none work for me apart from drawing the silhouette, like eleeza does

https://youtu.be/w6L6yAYN-jk?si=HJ40p-6bGLQkYeEW

no need to watch it all but her process is so satisfying

[green horizon]

I don’t believe anyone who poses a technique or method as straight up impossible in art of all things

[cerulean parcel]

i know i know

[green horizon]

But i get how seeing dang near every single artist doing something and some even claiming you’re selling yourself short by doing what comes naturally to you would make you compelled to follow their lead

[cerulean parcel]

yeah

it’s also a good lesson i’ve learned, is to stop consuming so much content on art cause it’s so easy to compare

[green horizon]

Absolutely

Overconsumption had me in a rut that I’m lowkey still in. I think it’s interesting how it effect everyone differently

[cerulean parcel]

mm if i’m ever watching any art content its usually just for the cosy vibes while i also draw

i’m quite disconnected from the art community online which i quite like, i often find that it can be a bit intimidating sometimes. this discord and my instagram is the most i ever go

[green horizon]

Yeah that’s probably for the best. A decent sized community of people to talk to and show your art to and an app with a pretty well curated fyp to consume art you like. Doesn’t need to be more complicated than that for most people

My Instagram is way too over saturated with artists I don’t care for anymore and former classmates i also don’t really care for (not to sound callous but these are people I didn’t even talk to much in school). I made a twitter where I’m picking people to follow based on more strict criteria to prevent overconsumption

Feels a lot better than having to scroll a ton to find something that resonates. Luckily even at worst, I still only spent an hour on insta on any given day according to my screentime stats

I think exposing myself to so much content, so many art styles, so many methods, I’ve become extremely indecisive when it comes to stylistic decisions

[vale meadow]

For me, I think I already told u awhile ago, but from the beginning, I was super selective of who’s art I looked at

Basically, even if I see sum someone does and am like, I can study that, I also look at other stuff, and a lot of the time, there is more stuff I don’t want to pick up than I do from someone’s art

Also if I don’t like the look of the finished product, I will won’t study their art ever

It was the same with Josh Black, who I recently started watching tutorials from. The first time I ever saw his art was awhile back, and it was sum I did not like the look of, even though it showcased a high amount of knowledge

So only now am I finding out I really like the way the guy draws, and that first time was just a fluke

[green horizon]

Better to be that selective than have so many options you get paralysis

[vale meadow]

I only spent around 30min drawing today

But tmmrw I wanna fill this entire page

And that won’t take too long, most of those 30min were me trying to figure out why my heads were lookin like old starved men

I think I can draw them to a sub-par or decent level now

After tmmrw that should go up tho

I also really need to start practicing symmetry

[vale meadow]

For this, since it was basically my first time attempting to really try and shade sum with pencil, I can still see how I could have done so much better right after, I also tried two different shading strategies on each different boob,

I would say the far away boob was the better shading technique, even though it turned out worse, I think it has more potential

This is also a study from uhh artist from

Road to kim jun li art server

[vale meadow]

I feel like by the fifth iteration I could get sum really good, or at least way better than what I got here

Or even just the next iteration I can get sum better,

But bu the fifth I think I can really start to understand it

That’s if I had enough patience to go to the fifth, which I actually do, but I still wont

[vale meadow]

From Joubs

[green horizon]

Yeh the one on the right is smoother

[vale meadow]

I did some messing around for like a min or two after

Im leaving it here, cuz I think its getting worse

[green horizon]

Working on something right after you post the first one is real tho lmao

[vale meadow]

Ima try to do more of these morning sketches,

Or rather, ima try to do these everyday,

Maybe add one study in like this, then do stuff from memory

And draw from imagination

Then go on to study my main stuff

[green horizon]

https://tenor.com/view/nodding-crossed-arms-pikachu-eyes-closed-pokemon-gif-15194868

[vale meadow]

I,also just randomly made that emote

[vale meadow]

Imwould normally never do sum like this, but I feel like this is actually good for me

I didn’t really know how to draw an axe, be I cut forward anyway

https://tenor.com/view/anime-laugh-gif-14348867

Now ill attempt to do some simple light shadow stuff

[vale meadow]

Idk what happen, but it happened

[green horizon]

https://tenor.com/view/anime-searching-looking-gif-12390527

[vale meadow]

Alr page is finished

I started to add a bit of pen and used a bit of reference for them

Except for the bottom right and middle

To make it more clear since the places I pointed out made it no clealer,

I used refs for all of those

The middle was supposed to be batman, but when I got done and looked back, I noticed that I couldn’t make out a batman face anymore, so i at least had to make it sum

I see a few more spots were I can add a bit more stuff, but ima say this one is done cuz ima go eat

Ima put it in showcase, cuz this is the first time in awhile I had a lot of fun

[cerulean parcel]

oh shit i thought they were vegetables

[vale meadow]

I thought they were when I was drawing them too

[vale meadow]

@green horizon

I had an infenous idea

Ingenious*

[green horizon]

You gotta elaborate at soon as you say things like this

Now i gotta wait for you to respond

Increasing chances of disappointment

[vale meadow]

I always respond instantly tho

So at the disappointment comes faster

[green horizon]

Good point

[vale meadow]

What I was saying at the time was, ima like, making realistic heads, then put stylized like anime heads beside them, and do this while I practice head drawing

To knock out two birds with one stone

[green horizon]

Oo

Makes me think of 82Pigeon

[vale meadow]

It’s basically ganna be that

[green horizon]

Good stuff

[vale meadow]

Its 10 10 rn

I should get to it

I feel like, once I complete the TenTen artbook, my art is ganna be 345000x better

But im at .1% rn

So I gatta work

[green horizon]

Get to it i imagine heads will be the hardest part and things will sail by a bit faster after that

Anatomy is vast but not as complicated as it’s made out to be

At least that’s how I feel abt it

[vale meadow]

I feel like, it’s even more complicated than it’s made out to be, but I also feel like people focus on the complexity when they should actually focus on the simplicity that it can be

That sounds like a philosophical quote

[green horizon]

May be some truth in that too

[vale meadow]

Truth…no truth,, either all things have truth or everything is pointless, pick one and be happy —Huruu 2024

I imagined I was a drunk in a barrel wiith a long beard

When I typed that

[green horizon]

💀

[vale meadow]

A lot of the time when im doing those quotes, random thoughts r roaming my mind

[green horizon]

Flesh them out and put em in a book

[vale meadow]

I particularly like going in freehand/no guideline with pen

Because I feel like it gives the drawing a lot more character, and also tests you more

You r also ganna have to roll with your mistakes, which is part of what I said before abt giving the drawing more character

[vale meadow]

This was the end result of these two, I dont really like it tho

Maybe cuz I need to fill in those colors

[green horizon]

Real nice

[vale meadow]

The edits go crazy

[vale meadow]

Well, lets see how being self-imprisoned here for the rest of eternity turns out

[green horizon]

Leaving it like this

So the single stray soul that enters that thread can wonder why tf i said that

[vale meadow]

https://youtube.com/shorts/5kKn9K4ufLI?si=hloyFVGfBMNa_3Iy

Another moment when I don’t know what is going on nor why people think it’s cool

[vale meadow]

Ima try to start filling the pages fully now

[green horizon]

That looks cool asf

[vale meadow]

Thx, i did so e slight edits to it tho

Making the pencil darker and stuff

Cuz I used like a half sharpened pencil to go around the paper with

So I didn’t really like how it was kinda dark in some places and not in others

[green horizon]

You could always go back n fill in the light ares in the future

[vale meadow]

Yea, i plan to start another page tonight

With guns and deers

And not guns shooting deers

Are maybe I might do that

But I jus wanna learn to draw guns and deers

And maybe after that, half human half mech type stuff

[vale meadow]

My tiktok

Is starting to pick up traction

All I need to do is learn how to do edit and find some good somgs

And maybe make some better wtkworks

There must just he a ton of people acrolling

Just I just started posting again, after posting like one or two cids

[green horizon]

Yeah that’s the nature of tiktoks, Instagram reels, and yt shorts

So if you can look at your analytics n they show retention, take a look at that too

[vale meadow]

Yea, for now im just posting pocs, but if I learn how to edit stuff, i should get a lot more views

[green horizon]

👍

[vale meadow]

I been studying for quite awhile

Then i went to sketch some freek statues

Greek*

Realized I did not have the patience for that now

All I was studying was the rest of the expression information, cuz as I said before, once I feel like I got drawing the general head shape down to a decent level, I would go back and do it

The next step is just like a ton of shading practice and stuff

I dun have the patience for that, so ima just skip it for now

[green horizon]

Real

[vale meadow]

Alr, I just tried to draw a hand holding sum from my imagination, which didn’t go well at all, and

Played with some mannequin for some fun

Now im done for the day

I realized this was in the perfect position, so I just took a second to draw a guy and make up a story in my head

[green horizon]

A productive day I’d say

[vale meadow]

Ahh, its 7 already

I usually go draw at around 4

[green horizon]

You start drawin yet?

[vale meadow]

I was abt to

But I never did yet due to a series of uhh

Actions taken by other people

Ill draw eventually tho

[green horizon]

Ah ok

[vale meadow]

Its almost 11, I planned on getting my work done by this time

But I still haven’t drawn anything, so I guess ill do some quick sketches while working

[green horizon]

👍somethin is better than nothinn

[vale meadow]

I find im more unproductive when it comes to art if it’s on weekdays

This might just be due to the influence of school tho

[green horizon]

Maybe so yeah

Are you still on or ahead of schedule in all your classes?

[vale meadow]

Im behind 20 assignments in history or social studies or whatever that class is called

But its not really as bad as the number makes it sound, I can catch up quickly, the real problem is if I let it ferment

Ima be getting my other classes soon, so what im trying to do is finish up the easier ones tonight, and im very close

Then tmmrw, ill work on the “harder” ones, harder as in, they just take more time

[green horizon]

What counts as an assignment for you?? Cuz online they have a lot of stuff that’s just fluff. Like reading an article that I can literally click through in seconds if I wanted to is not an assignment to me

[vale meadow]

Though I cheated a lot on algebra, which is a black page in my book, on normal days, I actually don’t have to cheat

[vale meadow]

Yea, some of my classes have that too, but this history class thing isn’t like that. Its basically just me listening to people talk, writing down stuff, maybe reading some article, then memorizing that

And it’s really tedious cuz it actually takes a long time

So sometimes I just avoid it and this ends up happening

Five assignments take around an hour, sometimes two hours to complete

[green horizon]

But huruu a 20 assignment pileup is a lot then

Why are you that behind?

Not tryna press you rn but i am tho lmao

[vale meadow]

Nah, it’s fine, im not actually worried abt it, cuz 20 assignments = like uhh4-8 hours

I could really blow through that in a day if I focus up, which ima try to do

Tmmrw

[green horizon]

Bro. That’s a lot of work🗿let’s not deny that bro. It’s cool that you can blow through that in a day, but it’s still a lot to do

It’s too early in the school year for this to be happening man

[vale meadow]

Ur right, I been trying to

Work on weekends, aka sat and sun

But it’s like I’m cursed

I don’t remember a single time I worked on a weekend day, this is from the time I started online till now

Probably sum subconscious tbh tho, escapism or sum

Idk what escapism is btw, it just sounds kinda right for the situation

[green horizon]

Well we’re inclined to believe weekends are for resting, making us more likely to put off productive things we don’t wanna do deep down

But if you have such an inclination, why not do all your work during the week so you can properly use your weekends to dilly dally?

[vale meadow]

Cuz im also dilly dallying every other day

Tbh, this school section? Or whatever just seemed so much easier than before, all my motivation to work hard disappeared

Algebra gave me a challenge, but it also gave me sum to work for

[green horizon]

Keeping motivation when nobody is reallyyy holding you accountable and none of the content is stimulating is definitely difficult

But that’s all the more reason to fly past it during the week like it’s nothing. I hate that “hhh I’m doing something I enjoy feeling, but I need to do xyz soon”

[vale meadow]

If they put like, some type of thing were you could see who has the most progress out of the whole class or sum

I feel like I would be way more motivated

Just to be at the top

But alas

[green horizon]

My online school showed your rank on the page where all your progress n gpa n stuff was

But it didn’t update often enough to actually feel competitive haha

I was 276 or somethin cuz i slacked really hard in middle school classes that gave hs credits due to believing i was mediocre anyway

[vale meadow]

I think I need to make a schedule again, tbh, I do be following the schedules I make, even if I’mslightly off timing sometimes

But somehow all the schedules I make end up disappearing into obscurity

[green horizon]

Checklists and schedules keep the world runnin lowkey

But yeah i think making a different task list daily feels helpful because you can go at your own pace and get the perk of checking each thing off. As long as everything is done on there, maybe one or two things unchecked at most, the day feels successful

Tight schedules don’t work for me personally. Not long term at least, and if somethin doesn’t promote consistency, it think it needs a rework

[vale meadow]

I, I did it every night before bed cuz I saw it in a video once, and it actually helped a ton…..when I still did it

[green horizon]

Why not do it again?

As soon as you feel that sand in your eye, jot down a few things yk you need to do

[vale meadow]

Now that u reminded me, it may come back

I think I actually found out the problem for that tho, it was because my screen was also on super low brightness when I read at night

[green horizon]

You’re very good at creating regiments, routines, goals, etc, but your consistency is shaky. You’d be unstoppable if you were consistent if I’m being real for a minute

[vale meadow]

This makes me think,

I been bored for the past few days, no good webnovels, don’t wanna search for lightnovels rn, just read most of my manga and waiting for updates

So why don’t I

Do the “Unstoppable Plan” in the meantime

Ill draw for five hours a day and do schoolwork for five hours a day, plus exercise for one hour a day, and go to sleep and wake up at designated times for one week

[green horizon]

How long do you think this would last?

[vale meadow]

A week

[green horizon]

So no

That’s not consistency

[vale meadow]

Oh wait

Ur saying like, how long I could do that for?

[green horizon]

Yeah. Not even could cuz hypothetically you could do it til the day you died

Realistically, if you had to predict and be mega real with yourself, how long do you think you would last?

[vale meadow]

Well, workouts aren’t really a problem, I used to do one hours and even two hours everyday, it’s just I really feel off in that area, as for drawing, I think I can pull off five hours quite easily if I break it into a 3-2 thing

[vale meadow]

Like really, as long as I wanted to last, I could last

Schoolwork is boring, but it’s not like I didn’t used to meditate for thirty minutes when I woke up a few yrs back (which wasn’t boring actually)

So it’s quite easy for me to turn off my brain and do tedious work, just I don’t like doing it

I can already kinda see the outline, I wake up, brush my T, wash my face, maybe take a bath (if I didn’t do it the night before) then hop into the schoolwork

After those five hours, I go eat, then I have a one hour rest period

Then I go draw for five hours, and if im not feeling it, three hours

Then another rest period, then workout, then after, if I haven’t finished drawing, go do that

Then day ends

[green horizon]

I will come in periodically and ask for updates every couple hours for a week just to see if you would keep up with that

[vale meadow]

Oh, we doing it now? Alright then, from Tuesday to whatever a week later from that is

Ill probably go to sleep so I wake up at around 3-5am and am well rested, so like 8pm-10pm

Probably 10pm tho, don’t think I could fall asleep at 8pm

[green horizon]

If you f this up I’m never taking your word for your work ethic seriously again🫵

You will be Procrastinator Huruu in my head for eternity

[vale meadow]

My word is worth it’s weight in gold

Ill say it here and now,

I will do it

Record that in 4k ultra sound next gen photorealistic video editing

[green horizon]

🎥🎥🎥🎥🎥🎥🎥🎥🎥🎥🎥🎥📷📷📷📷📷📷📷📸📸📸📸📸📸📸📸📸📸🤳🤳🤳🤳🤳🤳🤳🤳📽📽📽📽📽📽📽🎞🎞🎞🎞🎞🎞

[vale meadow]

It seems I have to sleep now to get ready

https://tenor.com/view/out-disappear-bye-vanished-gif-4932063

[green horizon]

👋

[vale meadow]

I am currently at around 3 hours left? Or 2 hours in a bit left?

I don’t remember

[green horizon]

✍️

[vale meadow]

But I haven’t ate anything today and I think that’s starting to make me a bit iriable and making me focus up less

I can keep pushing on no problem, but

Im worried abt after when I have to draw

[green horizon]

You should eat something light at least

They don’t have to be consecutive work hours

[vale meadow]

The problem is, I’m the only one here, and I don’t know how to cook

And there isn’t anymore milk, so cereal are a no go

And same for other stuff

I also ate all my snacks,

[green horizon]

No eggs?

You need to learn to some basic go to dishes. They’re life savers

[vale meadow]

No eggs, I actually learned how to cook eggs like three weeks ago or maybe a bit longer than that

I think I sent it here

I definitely took a pic of it or sum

[green horizon]

Hmm

[vale meadow]

I just like it to be consecutive, makes it easier to do everything at once for me

But ill split up art into probably 3-2 as I said last night

[green horizon]

Ah i see

Sounds like your house needs a grocery shopping trip but hopefully you find something to throw together

[vale meadow]

Im also almost fully caught up with the class, I should be able to catch up and then some after 5hrs

[vale meadow]

Yea, usually we do before the food runs out

But sometimes my mom probably forgets, cuz I never actually tell her

Idk, I just feel a little pathetic having to ask my mom to buy food when im already this old, dats why I been looking for a job

[green horizon]

Yeah i get that feeling. More so with other things than basic necessities but

It’s the lack of independence that makes you feel a bit small

[vale meadow]

Yeah, this has recovered my mental a bit, ill probably do another hour or two and come back to update on progress

https://tenor.com/view/pani-poni-dash-ichijou-anime-disappear-box-gif-21295601

[green horizon]

👍i might be sleeping because extreme fatigue is kickin me while I’m down

But I’ll definitely come back by the end of the day to read all the progress updates

So post anyway

[vale meadow]

https://tenor.com/view/eraser-anime-sleepy-lazy-my-hero-academia-gif-11836856163358807630

[green horizon]

As soon as i laid down and closed my ehes

My sleepiness significantly decreased

This is why I carry hatred in my heart

[vale meadow]

Im currently at 1 47 50 or sum rn

So basically two hours left

Imalso always pause the timer whenever im not there, so it’s as close to me working for five hours as possible

[vale meadow]

It’s around five min left

[green horizon]

Did you eat something?

[vale meadow]

Nah, tbh I’m not even hungry, I wasn’t hungry then either, I just guessed that’s why I been a bit unfocused

[green horizon]

I

O*

[vale meadow]

I should eat sum tho

Ill go do that rn

Cuz I still need to workout today, and doing that for long periods of time without eating will kill you

I mean figuratively, but it feels literal sometimes

[green horizon]

Guess I’ll go eat too and get my day started

The sleep served me well

[green horizon]

I put my head phones on and time just slipped away

Hhhhh i need to shower and wash my face

[vale meadow]

I actually don’t wear my headphones to listen to music anymore

I still use them to watch youtube sometimes or sum, but not music

[green horizon]

My house has thin walls and when ppl are here they have the tv all the way up

So i just got used to having them on

They’re also comfortable to me

[vale meadow]

Oh yea, no one is usually here with me tbh, so

I kinda always got the house to myself

That has its merits and demerits

I do like it this way tho

[green horizon]

Fair enough

Idm having ppl here doing things. There is a small level of comfort in knowing other people are in the house. But my room and my headphones allow me to be in my own little world

Which is necessary

[vale meadow]

I should probably start drawing before it gets too late

I wanted to have a planned rest break

But I never planned how long

So it’s just been a while of me playing roblx

[green horizon]

Probably shouldn’t set a strict time but at least an upper limit on rest times

[vale meadow]

Im planning to sleep by at the latest, 12

So if im drawing for fives hour plus work out, six hours

And if I do five hours of work after I wake up at seven, so

So basically I have twelve hours to allocate time

So actually that’s kinda nice

[vale meadow]

I uhh

I do feel like this is kinda cheap, but I propose I only draw for two hours, just for today, though I could do five, I realized, if I start now, it will be around twelve by time it ends

And that’s without any breaks

Then I still have my workout

Though I can definitely still do it,

Having today to get my schedule together is, then going into tmmrw would be better

[green horizon]

Sure

[vale meadow]

I feel like I kinda filed already, so we calling today a test day

Though ill still do my workout, and more likely than not, ill draw for around 3 hours, as I usually do

Ill also move the time from a week to a month

I feel like only that would somewhat make up for my folly today

[green horizon]

Nnnno keep it at a week but start tomorrow

Then move to the month if you accomplish that

[vale meadow]

if

I will definitely accomplish it, no problem at all

I have nit only supreme confidence, but the skill to back it

[green horizon]

Yeahhhhhh

If

[green horizon]

@vale meadow

[vale meadow]

Oh, my b

I have my ipad in the other room when im working

So I didn’t see ur ping

[vale meadow]

Though I do have a question, does this challenge apply over the weekend days as well?

Of course it would still be the same for me if it does or not, but I just wanted to make sure

Also, working five hours a day, my work goes pretty quickly, and since it’s coming up on a break, im basically ganna complete everything by tomorrow in which by then, ill have to wait for them to throw me a few more months of work

If that doesn’t make sense, im not saying i completed months of work in one day, Imjus was already doing it before, and now since I was already kinda close, its ganna get done quick

So what do I do when im waiting?

Drawing for ten hours isn’t something im too excited about

[green horizon]

Hmm any other productive things you could do? Doesn’t even need to be 5h. That’s excessive imo

Also yeah weekends are included. 7 consecutive days

[vale meadow]

I mean, other productive things?

Uhh

I could work on my story or sum

I also been thinking abt learning programming

But I would need a new pc for that

My last one burnout

[green horizon]

Yeah maybe throw in an hour or 2 of writing

[vale meadow]

These five hours really be goin slow

Im at 2 15 rn, but this is literally just going over central idea and text structure and whatnot

Stuff i already know how to do

It does help if I like write it down, that makes completing the work slower, but time goes faster

[green horizon]

See this is why I don’t fw school

Elementary school stuff. Where is the new content💀💀

[vale meadow]

I literally been learning this same thing for years

Like, the only other thing I remember that was actually new was in 7th grade or maybe earlier when they introduced like finding adverbs and stuff, sentence structure, adjective sentences, noun sentences, and stuff like that

Other than that tho, I don’t think there has been any new content

[green horizon]

I think the majority of core classes after middle school significantly decrease in purpose. I wish they made things more career focused atp. Make the 4 core classes shorter and increase the quality of content. Then use the new space for letting students research and explore different career paths they could take

[vale meadow]

Exactly, I don’t see a reason why I’m still learning about the new deal and the great depression after I have learned about it for like five years in a row

I think school just needs sum to fill up the extra hours

And because they don’t wanna spend too much money on free education,

They just kinda do the most cost effective plan

[green horizon]

Hhhh

[vale meadow]

I got an hour left, I’ll knock it out later

This time, ill give myself a 1 hour rest break, then start drawing

[vale meadow]

This has me raging so hard

It’s literally just a series of failures

But alas

[green horizon]

Have you analyzed what’s goin wrong yet?

[vale meadow]

I noticed I have a very difficult time drawing straight lines for my boxes

More difficult than normal

That may be due to a few different reasons

Also,

I have a hard time seeing the proportions of the ribcage in my head

So I should probably try to find some references