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Gonna sketch stream on Sunday and New Year Personal Stuff
5 years ago
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Happy New Year.
I was planning to toss up the first stream of the year tonight, but other shit ran kinda late and it'd be not as well placed this late based on the trends I've had.
SO, Sunday evening about 6pm EST I'm gonna stream some live sketch commissions. I might consider doing them more often on Sunday as sometimes it seems easier? I have a variety of new plans and schedules I wanna put myself into with stuff. I'm experimenting with some of it still.
More on that in terms of New Year stuff...
I kinda don't like the cliche of New Years being the excuse to do things, but I figure after a bit of a weird December it's a good time to try some plans to schedule myself more and manage my ADHD better with some structure. I tend to fall off of my plans quickly because of said ADHD and I tend to have mixed weeks of great progress on things, and others of feeling useless and gettin little done. I'm also generally disorganized with my projects and tend to finish them at different speeds very inconsistently.
I'm trying to set myself up with 4 hour blocks where I block out distractions and focus on a chosen task for that block, and do two of them a day. I've been trying it so far and when I do zone in, I get a good amount of stuff done, but sometimes I drift off on the second block, kinda running outta steam. I'm at least gettin in one solid session a day now. gonna figure out how I can optimize it to not trail off when I need a break to walk around and stuff. So far it's generally better than I've been doing. I also need to set myself up with a posting schedule, which I've also been bad at. I have a ton of stuff I can post and I just haven't. Gonna pick a day next week to queue up a bunch of stuff on PostyBirb and let it do it's thing, posting a couple things a week or somethin like that. Along with the dozens of sketch commissions I've done from my streams. I don't like mega dumping stuff. So I'll set it up to post things over time.
I'm eventually gonna set up certain days for certain projects ahead of time, maybe at the start of each week so I focus on whatever I'm doing in a set order, but varying enough to avoid burnout on anything, which is another problem I have when I push my mind too much on any given task.
I've also started regularly working out mixed around these "blocks" either right before one or after one which has been helping a bit along with helping to loose a lil weight I've put on since fall and picking my meals a lil better. I wanna loose the 20 I put on over the fall by spring. I gained and lost before, so I'm tryin to turn it around now before I start to feel like butt again. I like to draw me some round critters, but for me IRL, when I gain too much, I start to physically feel different and I especially feel it when I'm out and active. I know I tend to put on weight when I feel very mentally blah, so part of it is that I'm TRYING to stay in a positive mindset, but 2020 gave plenty to make that real hard and I have no idea what to expect for this year. I'm at least trying to make the best of the situation that I can and try to stay optimistic. Cutting the distracting information overload from the internet also helps a lot.
I am happy with some of the growth I've had this past year in spite of all the poopie. I've gotten over 7k total watches here and I am putting out more work than I have before. I've been doing okay since I've gone full-time artist. I plan to expand on this and work more on my productivity and get more work out there for peeps.
Thanks all. Stay safe. And maybe see ya Sunday on my stream. :3
I was planning to toss up the first stream of the year tonight, but other shit ran kinda late and it'd be not as well placed this late based on the trends I've had.
SO, Sunday evening about 6pm EST I'm gonna stream some live sketch commissions. I might consider doing them more often on Sunday as sometimes it seems easier? I have a variety of new plans and schedules I wanna put myself into with stuff. I'm experimenting with some of it still.
More on that in terms of New Year stuff...
I kinda don't like the cliche of New Years being the excuse to do things, but I figure after a bit of a weird December it's a good time to try some plans to schedule myself more and manage my ADHD better with some structure. I tend to fall off of my plans quickly because of said ADHD and I tend to have mixed weeks of great progress on things, and others of feeling useless and gettin little done. I'm also generally disorganized with my projects and tend to finish them at different speeds very inconsistently.
I'm trying to set myself up with 4 hour blocks where I block out distractions and focus on a chosen task for that block, and do two of them a day. I've been trying it so far and when I do zone in, I get a good amount of stuff done, but sometimes I drift off on the second block, kinda running outta steam. I'm at least gettin in one solid session a day now. gonna figure out how I can optimize it to not trail off when I need a break to walk around and stuff. So far it's generally better than I've been doing. I also need to set myself up with a posting schedule, which I've also been bad at. I have a ton of stuff I can post and I just haven't. Gonna pick a day next week to queue up a bunch of stuff on PostyBirb and let it do it's thing, posting a couple things a week or somethin like that. Along with the dozens of sketch commissions I've done from my streams. I don't like mega dumping stuff. So I'll set it up to post things over time.
I'm eventually gonna set up certain days for certain projects ahead of time, maybe at the start of each week so I focus on whatever I'm doing in a set order, but varying enough to avoid burnout on anything, which is another problem I have when I push my mind too much on any given task.
I've also started regularly working out mixed around these "blocks" either right before one or after one which has been helping a bit along with helping to loose a lil weight I've put on since fall and picking my meals a lil better. I wanna loose the 20 I put on over the fall by spring. I gained and lost before, so I'm tryin to turn it around now before I start to feel like butt again. I like to draw me some round critters, but for me IRL, when I gain too much, I start to physically feel different and I especially feel it when I'm out and active. I know I tend to put on weight when I feel very mentally blah, so part of it is that I'm TRYING to stay in a positive mindset, but 2020 gave plenty to make that real hard and I have no idea what to expect for this year. I'm at least trying to make the best of the situation that I can and try to stay optimistic. Cutting the distracting information overload from the internet also helps a lot.
I am happy with some of the growth I've had this past year in spite of all the poopie. I've gotten over 7k total watches here and I am putting out more work than I have before. I've been doing okay since I've gone full-time artist. I plan to expand on this and work more on my productivity and get more work out there for peeps.
Thanks all. Stay safe. And maybe see ya Sunday on my stream. :3
But I also run into the problem where i run out of steam on the second block, ahah. Ive tried various things to help, like napping or exercising. Nothin sticking yet.