New year, possible new beginnings
I'm not the one to make any new year resolutions. This arbitrary change of calendars is as good (or as bad) for making changes and resolutions as any other time. But this little thing I might do: get some art activity going here again. Starting now.
It's been a while since I put any journal here, time to fix that!
I was not very active in the last couple of months because of the work matters. First my typical-so-far contract abroad (completed successfully despite covid restrictions, this deserves a note). And then, back home, I found myself presented with an opportunity of an entry-level job in IT. Hardware, network and software administration in the public sector, to be a little more precise. To be sure, I never worked in something like that before, just had some relevant courses finished in the past. So despite some doubts and dilemmas (not necessarily even connected to job itself, but to my overall life situation), the only logical option was to go for it.
For more than the first month there I was learning a lot every day, in a way it felt like the university days again. And I was immediately put into the thick of things, no time to fuss around with carrying papers and coffee for senior employees (as I've heard can be the case with such positions). Managed to make my mark there too, and may I add, got paid accordingly.
I can tell for sure that I like this kind of work. But the amount of things to learn and to do was causing me to be rather mentally exhausted at the end of the day. With no energy left for art, for example. Only most recently I started coming out on top with this.
I'll be uploading things soon, despite everything I've made a few pictures this spring. They were simply stuck on Furaffinity for the time being, as it's there where I have my biggest "base of operation" currently.
Going slow again...
Resuming operations
Hopefully this can be called official now: I'm back to the intensified art activity. The most job-heavy season is done with for now, and it is high time to launch some games... no, not this time around! My decision for this year is to give my best to the art, for as long as I manage.
While I can make a simpler project in two days, as that week in early December has shown, not all intended projects are simple, so the actual publishing rates may wary. Especially when I get into making more characters, which are longer projects that for quite some time do not yield anything presentable. And I do want to make many more characters. Still, it shouldn't be as bad as it has been in the past, with just one art piece made per month or two on average.
Wish me perseverance, that's needed above all.
Art sprint finished!
But as of yet, I need to come back to much slower pace again. There probably won't be a chance for similar level of engagement until the winter is over. Duty calls...
A very interesting thing to note, devoting solid 8 hours to art daily has dissolving effect on various roadblocks. These come in many forms, generally some difficult/unpleasant parts of the project which can cause me to procrastinate on it. Sometimes for days. But now, having this time set off for art anyway, a roadblock stopped being a roadblock. I'd work on it right away, and sooner or later, it would be done with. Even if it required many hours, still this was not days.