A small update on things. A few months ago, a friend and I started a weekly art stream, every Thursday, usually at noon my time. We started out streaming on his Discord server, but eventually I will be streaming to Picarto, or some other platform, so anyone can watch if they want. It adds structure to the development of my art skills.

One of the good things about my life is that I have friendships and a job that form a foundation of stability. It's been like this for several years now, and at this point, it's hard to imagine life any other way. The job supports my life, and my friends are the reason to keep it going. I work overnight, then I do shopping, then chores, then time with my friends online, then I go to bed. It gives my life a structure that's very important to me.

The art stream has become a part of that process. I've tried to leverage the time in the stream time order to progress my art. I did one drawing of a cat carrying a bookbag. It started out as a personal character, but then I decided to make him blue and purple, so that was that. But it was a lot of fun. After that it was some muscle guys, where I have been teaching myself how to do digital paint.

Then I decided to tackle humanoid faces. I'm in a Pathfinder campaign. I have a half-orc character. I wanted to draw him, but I remembered that I struggle with human-style faces! So I spent a few weeks experimenting with that. Maybe I'll post some of those attempts in scraps. Is that something someone would want to see?

The art stream has been fun. We've had some other artists come and draw with us, and recently I've received some very useful input. That's something I didn't get enough of when I was younger -- open communication with other artists in order to share techniques and advice. I used to be so shut off from others. Hard to think about how I lived like that for so many years.

I should also apologize for something. When I was creating this journal today, I realized that I had previously featured a journal saying that I would be streaming on Picarto, but that never materialized. If anyone's been checking and seeing nothing, I'm sorry about that. It took a few tries to get something going, and having a friend to start it with me was also a big help.