Redemption Arc

 

 

 So I've done some thinking on how to atone for my art blog sins and as a result have some new measures in place for the blog for the foreseeable future, let's start with the biggest one, placeholders.

 

As of this post, this blog now has a placeholder ban.

 I will no longer be able to make a post just to fill in later. Placeholders already sound dumb to do in sketch-a-day blog, and I wholeheartedly agree, but the main reason I was doing it was because most of the time I was too lazy to get the picture uploaded to the blog. I do want to make something clear though, whenever I made a placeholder post I, 90% of the time, always had something made for that day already. So it wasn't a "I'll do the art later" post, it was a "I'm too lazy to post the art" post. Not that it makes it any better, but just thought I'd make that clear.

Glad that's dealt with. The piling guilt of the placeholders were starting to get to me, anyways, next up is monthly goals.

 

As of this post, every month is required to have a "art goal" by the end of the first week and every week must have at least one post related to this art goal.

I am criminally bad at staying to my art goals, this isn't breaking news to anyone, but we're going to see a change in that hopefully. I said in a previous post around the end of February that I would focus on working on clean line-art drawing with hair being a subject of focus. It is more than halfway into March and there is not one post with any of that. I can't change the past but mauling over my laziness won't do anything better, just going to forgive myself and move on.

And that's it, those are the changes. Only two changes but they will definitely have a noticeable impact on the quality of the blog even at a glance.

 

Also, this gesture drawing was based on a video lecture by Michael Mattesi's FORCE class, which is a course I've been studying for the past two days.