Legit thought I was blogging, aside from the one day that my computer needed an emergency "go into sleep for the whole night". That one I knew I missed, unavoidably so. But I thought I was blogging other days.
Ah well.
It happens.
Anyway, today's been incredibly productive.
It may not seem so productive to have done a lot of work in minecraft (tho I did so!), but the real productivity has been in my art.
In that I am actually doing it.
For the last two days, yesterday Sunday and today Monday, I have been working on an art drawing. It's fully digital, and given the nature of the drawing, I did cheat a little. It's meant to be a self-portrait...but modified to include some clothing that I am considering buying/wearing once I get a chance to go out into the world. (Ideally, I get vaccinated first. And because clothes often cost 20-60 dollars each and I need 2-3 each ideally, I also have a job first. I currently am neither.)
The items: knee-high athletic socks (technically I already own a pair but I want more than one and for it to be normal wear rather than wear specific to specific shoes like it is right now), an aesthetic knee brace, and a thigh band.
Considering potentially adding in earrings, too, not sure on that.
The drawing is coming along relatively well, including me having a breakthrough (actually multiple breakthroughs in rapid succession) in drawing my hazel eyes. My eyes are notoriously hard to draw because how do you capture the color of an eye that is a different color in different lighting and can be blue, green, yellow, brown, gray, and more? Well I managed to figure it out!
So it's pretty good.
Granted, art like this isn't the most productive for long-term goals. I'm no closer to making Phyrra and Cyrus from it, for instance.
But it feels nice to make given the personal nature of it and it is very much not a waste of time. It's not a personal video game; it's art, and art is always worth it.
My main regret: instead of streaming these breakthroughs and my art process, I was doing this art while watching streams. (Well, listening. Hard to watch while also drawing.) You might wonder why I mention streaming.
Because that's a thing that I have done now.
It was only one hour.
It was messy, spontaneous.
But it felt so good to do, and dipping my toes in has gotten me a thirst for more.
I won't be doing it immediately, but soon, very soon, I will be streaming more because I did it once and I know I can do it now.