This one’s proving to be a lot more work than the mouse. Rude.
Not too much to report this week, at least not while dashing this off between RPG sessions on a very busy Sunday.
Still waiting on hearing back about the library job. I clarified/added a couple of references to my list and they let me know on Monday they were reaching out to those new folks. I’m hoping with those they’ll get enough responses to do whatever final evaluation(s) they’re going to do so the process can move forward. I’m officially flat broke so not knowing if I should be looking for other jobs or not is becoming increasingly stressful.
The big end of month accountability post is for next week, but on the whole this week didn’t go fantastic. I’m falling off of some habits due to stress and general tiredness and I need to get myself back in the game. I did manage to work on art this week, and you can see the WIP above. I’m at the point where I’m having a tricky time finalizing the general shapes of the figure. I started venturing into doing a little shading so I can have a better feel of the forms to help me check proportions. I am going to have to get rid of a lot of the line work at some point here to have the fur texture of the shading flow properly, if I want to go into that much detail. It’s currently the plan to render the fur, but I might end up burned out on this particular drawing before then and go for something more simple. We’ll see.
On the entertainment side of things, I’m continuing my way through X-Files and enjoying myself. I finished Bioshock 2 last week, and played a little bit of Horizon: Zero Dawn. Some of my friends from my last job and I played Valheim together on Thursday, and it’s going to become a recurring thing, which I’m very happy about. Oh, and I saw Metropolis last night at the Seattle Symphony, which is a wild way to watch it for the first time. What a wonderful and weird-ass film.
My cough finally went away, too! I was able to go to boxing on Thursday, and it was joyful to be back even if it kicked my ass.
I grappled with some * ~ * feelings * ~ * the last several days, but I don’t think there’s a good or productive way to write about them here. Let’s just say they didn’t help my mood, but so it goes.
If you’re in the Seattle area, I hope you managed to stay dry the last few days. Wherever you are, I hope you’re able to stay comfortable and safe and, ideally, happy. See y’all next week.
