Art in the Year of the Snake

Raven - drawn with fountain pen using black Noodler’s Ink

“Journaling leads people to life changes, leaps of faith, new insights, and meaningful decisions.”

~ Lynda Monk

Got a bit of a head start on the Year of the Snake goals because I arranged to have an art mentor for the month of January. I’m hoping to have a month of mentoring every quarter since I can’t afford to do it every month. The mentor I have chosen works in the film and game industry, as well as teaching. Looking forward to seeing how far I can progress during the Year of the Snake.

Seems the first step may be to reacquaint myself with my tools, both digital and traditional. Digital in particular because I forget how to use most of the software that I have and it’s also changed because of updates since I last used them. Yesterday my display tablet didn’t even want to drag and drop.

A new tool that I’ve begun learning, because of this mentorship, that’s helpful, is PureRef which makes it so much easier to collect, view, and take notes on/about reference images. Wish I’d known about this a long time ago.

This is definitely going to be a year of learning!

Numbers:

Pushups: 3867

Situps: 2962

Weapon Form: 651

Hand Form: 375

Random Acts of Kindness: 111

Sparring: 245

Kilometres: 1416

Memorize “Mastery”: Nothing to report

Nuture Relationships: Nothing to report

Blogging: 43

Declutter my life: Continues

Greatcoat project: No progress since last blog