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New Years and Resolutions
14 years ago
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Ripped from the headlines, it's another pointless journal entry!
I have two major goals I want to work on for next year.
1) Draw more. I don't where I developed this nasty self-hatred for my art, but it's got to stop. I can't keep saying everything I draw is crap or letting myself believe it or there is no sense in keeping any of the art supplies I have or calling myself an artist. I want to just pick up a pencil and draw. It doesn't have to come out a masterpiece or be finished, but like the Nike commercials go I gotta "Just do it". I want to focus on what makes me happy, and if that's drawing boobs, then so be it. I've always felt there wasn't enough artwork of overweight or chubby women out there and I've had this idea that I want to feature more of that in my artwork. Not chibi-styled chubby women, but actual women. Women with flaws and women I find attractive.
TL;DR : I want to draw more and I want to draw fat chicks.
This also means overcoming the wall I set up for myself and using the fancy wacom tablet Errol bought for me 3 years back. Maybe the ease of it will encourage me to draw more, I hope?
2) I want to incorporate this quote into my daily life more:
"Don't take anything personally. Even when a situation seems so personal, even if others insult you directly, it has nothing to do with you. Their point of view and opinion come from all the programming they received growing up. When you take things personally, you feel offended, and your reaction is to defend your beliefs and create conflict. You make something big out of something so little, because you have the need to be right and make everybody else wrong."
-A quote from "The Four Agreements" by don Miguel Ruiz
It's really easy (ESPECIALLY on the internet) to get into fights with people over opinions or the need to feel right or justified. I'm no different and feel that if someone is doing wrong or attacking me, I need to leap into action and fight when really.. is there even a point to it? I wish to apply what the qoute says as a way of just taking a breath, and not letting things bother me so much. Not let it get under my skin. Mayhaps in time I won't have so much stress if I can just.. let things be. I envy my husband so much because whereas something will bother me to the point where I'm raging over it, he can look at it, shrug his shoulders and move on.
Easier said than done, I know! But, one step at a time.
TL;DR: Don't sweat the small stuff; don't take everything so personally.
Here's hoping your Holidays are grand and so is your new years! Be safe and warm!
1) Draw more. I don't where I developed this nasty self-hatred for my art, but it's got to stop. I can't keep saying everything I draw is crap or letting myself believe it or there is no sense in keeping any of the art supplies I have or calling myself an artist. I want to just pick up a pencil and draw. It doesn't have to come out a masterpiece or be finished, but like the Nike commercials go I gotta "Just do it". I want to focus on what makes me happy, and if that's drawing boobs, then so be it. I've always felt there wasn't enough artwork of overweight or chubby women out there and I've had this idea that I want to feature more of that in my artwork. Not chibi-styled chubby women, but actual women. Women with flaws and women I find attractive.
TL;DR : I want to draw more and I want to draw fat chicks.
This also means overcoming the wall I set up for myself and using the fancy wacom tablet Errol bought for me 3 years back. Maybe the ease of it will encourage me to draw more, I hope?
2) I want to incorporate this quote into my daily life more:
"Don't take anything personally. Even when a situation seems so personal, even if others insult you directly, it has nothing to do with you. Their point of view and opinion come from all the programming they received growing up. When you take things personally, you feel offended, and your reaction is to defend your beliefs and create conflict. You make something big out of something so little, because you have the need to be right and make everybody else wrong."
-A quote from "The Four Agreements" by don Miguel Ruiz
It's really easy (ESPECIALLY on the internet) to get into fights with people over opinions or the need to feel right or justified. I'm no different and feel that if someone is doing wrong or attacking me, I need to leap into action and fight when really.. is there even a point to it? I wish to apply what the qoute says as a way of just taking a breath, and not letting things bother me so much. Not let it get under my skin. Mayhaps in time I won't have so much stress if I can just.. let things be. I envy my husband so much because whereas something will bother me to the point where I'm raging over it, he can look at it, shrug his shoulders and move on.
Easier said than done, I know! But, one step at a time.
TL;DR: Don't sweat the small stuff; don't take everything so personally.
Here's hoping your Holidays are grand and so is your new years! Be safe and warm!
