Week of Jan. 23, 2023 — For full context, see the description of my Art Home School Curriculum. Retrospective I feel like my motivation has returned in full this week. I finished all my homework, which was a total of 74 grayscale environment thumbnails. I had to rush to finish them all, so they turned out a…

Week of Jan. 16, 2023 — Retrospective I’m back into my normal groove … almost. It’s more difficult to make myself work than it has been in the past, but hopefully I can push through it. When I finished my homework for ENT 1 I got a burst of motivation. It seems that doing work is the…

Week of 1/9/2023 — Retrospective I’m back from an unscheduled, 1 month break. It was not my intention to take a break, but somehow the combination of my arm injury (diagnosed as tendinopathy), the end of the semester at Brainstorm school, and the holidays sapped my motivation to draw. I think my arm is back…

Week of Dec. 12, 2022 — Retrospective I saw a physical therapist this week about my arm because even after taking a week off last week, drawing for about an hour began hurting. I did several movements under the guidance of the physical therapist, and was reassured that my injury isn’t severe. She gave me some strengthening…

Week of Dec. 5, 2022 — For full context, see the description of my Art Home School Curriculum. Retrospective For two and a half years I’ve practiced art every single day, which is why it felt so wrong to not do any art at all this entire week. …

Week of Nov. 28, 2022 — For full context, see the description of my Art Home School Curriculum. Retrospective I’m officially finished with the Fall term at Brainstrom school. Overall I’m pretty happy with my final projects, especially considering how hecting the last 10 weeks were. A family member was in and out of the hospital, a…

Week of Nov. 21, 2022 — For full context, see the description of my Art Home School Curriculum. Retrospective This was a short week due to continued pain in my arm from RSI. I was able to draw for a couple days without pain toward the end of the week, so I think I’m mostly healed, but…

Week of Nov. 14, 2022 — For full context, see the description of my Art Home School Curriculum. Retrospective This week I started having some pain in my forearm and had to take a break from drawing. I think I got RSI because a muscle in my flexor group (connecting the wrist to the elbow) starting hurting…

For full context, see the description of my Art Home School Curriculum. Retrospective My goal for most days is to draw for 12 hours. I almost never achieve that goal, but I don’t let that get me down. I look at 12 hours as the platonic ideal of the amount of…