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Have I achieved anything?\n\nI drew something (obv.), and I've given some time to my other hobbies (such as Lego). ...but insofar as Maia's Tears (MT)?\n\n...I looked at it. ^^\n\nHey, discount that if you want to, but it means it's in my peripheral---light is reflecting off the box it's stored in, from a distance at which it can yet be descried from the desk, whereat I can (and sometimes do) sit for hours (providing nothing interferes, such as life).\nThat's significant, because for the longest I wasn't able to say that about MT. ^^\n\nDropping the lightheartedness, the (real) issue is I'm stuck in a pattern of habit.\nFor years, the thing to do was draw these stupid cartoons whenever mind and circumstance allowed. So, in place of writing MT (which would be a new thing), habit compels me to continue drawing ACOs of forgotten TV characters no one cares about\n...so I do, despite my resolution to not upload any of them for the public eye.\n\nI'm sure there's a pill for that, but I don't have any, so what am I supposed to do other than act on it?\n\nApart from habit, the other thing that's holding me down is the timing of my hiatus---I left before I'd filled the last few pages of my ACO folder (bear in mind I was very inactive after burning out on Halloween---I didn't even touch Thanksgiving, and barely referenced Christmas in my gallery).\nWhen I began my break, I was dissatisfied with the empty spaces I'd intended to fill during November/December.\nIn order to work on MT, I need to be in a place of contentment ...so I've been drawing to fill space instead of writing. :P\n\nANOTHER issue ...right before my break, I went to the thrift and bought out a bin full of vintage drawing pencils of many kinds (I made a video about them).\nThat's a problem because I want to show the pencils off on DA, FA and IB ...and in order to do that the way I want to (one-by-one), I have to make a drawing with/for each. :P\n\nGranted, I have gone through the pencils several times and have sorted and prioritized the ones I feel I must show, but it's still a good many (about two dozen). :P\nRealistically, I know no one cares about the pencils (which is difficult for my pea-brain to fathom, given DA, FA and IB are art sites), but my autism does care ...enough so that I can't ignore it. :P\n\nIn other words, my mind isn't settled. It's like I've had too much coffee and consequently cannot sit down to ruminate on the text I wrote years and years ago (when my mind was in a different place) that I yearn to revise.\n\nTo make it worse, I'm aware of the art I've been building up and not uploading. I keep thinking I'm going to have more than a hundred uploads to dump on FA (etc) in one sitting, wondering how others will react ...which leads to me drawing more cartoons so I can make that stupid fantasy happen.\nIt's extremely childish, and I'd even say it's wrong ...perhaps even morally. :(\n\nHence I'm going to release some of my drawings, to relieve some psychological pressure.\n\nI do hope that's ok. :(\n\nOTHER NEWS:\n\nMy damn flip phone died, so I vowed to buy a new phone ...because I use my phone to pay bills, call taxis and the law (as necessary), as well as to chat with my one and only telephone companion.\nSaid companion said I should buy a smartphone, so we can do video conversations and so forth. I gave it a minute of thought.\n\nFor video chat, I don't really get the point (besides, once I was nearly arrested for filming inside a mall with my iPad, so ...yeah). :P\n\nFor art, a modern phone would enable me to take better photos ...but, then, no one cares about pictures of junk I find on the ground. Moreover, I actually have a perfectly good Canon camera, which I bought a charger for (in, like, 2019) and have yet to use. So a new camera didn't seem like a selling point.\n\nThen there were the prices.\n\nNow, i'm not rich, but my house is paid for, I have no car, and I don't have kids, so I could afford (say) an iPhone, but ...it's just a phone. :P\n\nI can see myself dropping $600-$1200 or more on a (real) computer, but (again) for a phone? Esp. for something made BY DESIGN to self-destruct after a few years ...just doesn't appeal to me?\n\nTruly, I'm not THAT interested in taking HD pictures of roadside trash and playing Flappy Bird. So I settled on a new flip phone---it was only $80 and does what a phone should be expected to do (ie, make and receive calls). I don't think I'm missing out. :3\n\nAnyway, that's all I have for today. =^..^= ","description_bbcode_parsed":"It's been a month! Have I achieved anything?
I drew something (obv.), and I've given some time to my other hobbies (such as Lego). ...but insofar as Maia's Tears (MT)?
...I looked at it. ^^
Hey, discount that if you want to, but it means it's in my peripheral---light is reflecting off the box it's stored in, from a distance at which it can yet be descried from the desk, whereat I can (and sometimes do) sit for hours (providing nothing interferes, such as life).
That's significant, because for the longest I wasn't able to say that about MT. ^^
Dropping the lightheartedness, the (real) issue is I'm stuck in a pattern of habit.
For years, the thing to do was draw these stupid cartoons whenever mind and circumstance allowed. So, in place of writing MT (which would be a new thing), habit compels me to continue drawing ACOs of forgotten TV characters no one cares about
...so I do, despite my resolution to not upload any of them for the public eye.
I'm sure there's a pill for that, but I don't have any, so what am I supposed to do other than act on it?
Apart from habit, the other thing that's holding me down is the timing of my hiatus---I left before I'd filled the last few pages of my ACO folder (bear in mind I was very inactive after burning out on Halloween---I didn't even touch Thanksgiving, and barely referenced Christmas in my gallery).
When I began my break, I was dissatisfied with the empty spaces I'd intended to fill during November/December.
In order to work on MT, I need to be in a place of contentment ...so I've been drawing to fill space instead of writing. :P
ANOTHER issue ...right before my break, I went to the thrift and bought out a bin full of vintage drawing pencils of many kinds (I made a video about them).
That's a problem because I want to show the pencils off on DA, FA and IB ...and in order to do that the way I want to (one-by-one), I have to make a drawing with/for each. :P
Granted, I have gone through the pencils several times and have sorted and prioritized the ones I feel I must show, but it's still a good many (about two dozen). :P
Realistically, I know no one cares about the pencils (which is difficult for my pea-brain to fathom, given DA, FA and IB are art sites), but my autism does care ...enough so that I can't ignore it. :P
In other words, my mind isn't settled. It's like I've had too much coffee and consequently cannot sit down to ruminate on the text I wrote years and years ago (when my mind was in a different place) that I yearn to revise.
To make it worse, I'm aware of the art I've been building up and not uploading. I keep thinking I'm going to have more than a hundred uploads to dump on FA (etc) in one sitting, wondering how others will react ...which leads to me drawing more cartoons so I can make that stupid fantasy happen.
It's extremely childish, and I'd even say it's wrong ...perhaps even morally. :(
Hence I'm going to release some of my drawings, to relieve some psychological pressure.
I do hope that's ok. :(
OTHER NEWS:
My damn flip phone died, so I vowed to buy a new phone ...because I use my phone to pay bills, call taxis and the law (as necessary), as well as to chat with my one and only telephone companion.
Said companion said I should buy a smartphone, so we can do video conversations and so forth. I gave it a minute of thought.
For video chat, I don't really get the point (besides, once I was nearly arrested for filming inside a mall with my iPad, so ...yeah). :P
For art, a modern phone would enable me to take better photos ...but, then, no one cares about pictures of junk I find on the ground. Moreover, I actually have a perfectly good Canon camera, which I bought a charger for (in, like, 2019) and have yet to use. So a new camera didn't seem like a selling point.
Then there were the prices.
Now, i'm not rich, but my house is paid for, I have no car, and I don't have kids, so I could afford (say) an iPhone, but ...it's just a phone. :P
I can see myself dropping $600-$1200 or more on a (real) computer, but (again) for a phone? Esp. for something made BY DESIGN to self-destruct after a few years ...just doesn't appeal to me?
Truly, I'm not THAT interested in taking HD pictures of roadside trash and playing Flappy Bird. So I settled on a new flip phone---it was only $80 and does what a phone should be expected to do (ie, make and receive calls). I don't think I'm missing out. :3
Anyway, that's all I have for today. =^..^= ","writing":"","writing_bbcode_parsed":"","pools_count":0,"title":"Obligatory Progress Report (and more)","deleted":"f","public":"t","mimetype":"image/jpeg","pagecount":"1","rating_id":"0","rating_name":"General","ratings":[],"submission_type_id":"1","type_name":"Picture/Pinup","guest_block":"f","friends_only":"f","comments_count":"0","views":"1","sales_description":null,"forsale":"f","digitalsales":"f","printsales":"f","digital_price":""}