Stone-cold

One more week gone by in what feels like the blink of an eye, and another week where I feel I have been underperforming. A week where my problems once more has been of a personal nature rather than professional, for the most part.

I have quite learned to loathe stones this week, let me tell you. All day, every day, have been shading stones, and I am still not done. It is infuriating, as well as terribly monotonous. But alas, it has to be done. I do wonder if we truly need this many of them, however. Maybe I will bring it up next meeting.
I am shading only one, maybe two more stones this weekend. I may be able to stand doing three additional ones after that, but that may just be my limit. Why did I make so many flats again? Someone please stop me next time I get a stupid idea like that.
This is one of the rocky bits I have been working on.

climby cliff
Four layers of grey in different shades, sketch up up the rough shape of the shadows, doodle around until it looks natural-like.
No, it is not difficult. It is simply time consuming and infuriatingly monotonous. And as someone who most likely has ADD, I do not deal with monotony very well. As if that was not enough, sickness, depression and visits to the youth clinic has been further setting me back this week, leaving me with another week of below expectations productivity. It is not doing my depression any favours.

Yet another thing that popped up on my schedule all unwelcome-like is the old shading assignment from 2d1, which I have to do over yet again. Because my schedule simply was not packed full enough yet.

So, for next week… more stones to shade, I suppose. Maybe a bioluminecent flower or two to break up the monotony a little bit.

If anything’s good come out of this week, it’s the fact that I have just discovered a rather interesting as well as useful text editor. It is called Writer’s Block. A free little thing that is not made to make text look fancy, or anything like that. It is, in fact, extremely minimalistic – the file can only be saved as a .txt, in fact. When you open it up, you enter a parameter – it can be a time limit, a word limit or nothing at all, and the program then enters fullscreen. You then become unable to exit the program until the parameters have been met – and the copy/paste function is disabled. It is very useful in eliminating distcractions, and will hopefully help me avoid posting these entries so late in the future.

I do very much wish there was an equivalent program for drawing. It would make my job oh so much easier.

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