Art-a-Day: February (day 3)

[sholio]

Here's how my February art-a-day is going! I decided to do a wilderness scene with standing stones, on the general principle that it would have lots of interesting textures and if things don't match up properly, I can put a convenient bush over the awkward joining bits. XD (I'm already slightly concerned about that cliff in the foreground ...)

An unrelated thing that I haven't managed to shoehorn into a previous post: the best thing I've done for my mental health and productivity the last couple of weeks is to make a personal rule that all browser windows must be closed before I go to bed. It's working out so well that I think it's going to be a permanent habit. (It's pretty close to an established habit already.) For a long time I've had a bad habit of opening a bunch of tabs and letting them age while I try to compose comments or decide whether to reblog things or read articles I meant to read. If something is REALLY important and I don't get to it by late evening, I can bookmark it or c&p the URL into a text doc, but that extra step of engagement really makes me think, "... am I actually going back to this? Is it worth it?" I thought it would be harder to nuke all those windows at the end of the day than it's actually turned out to be. If it's not important enough to comment on, read, or reblog within a few hours, it's probably not something I'm going to regret never coming back to.

Comments

[nywcgirl]

Wow...you are gifted

[sholio]

More like overly ambitious. *g* But thank you!

[st_aurafina]

Oh, wow, it's looking gorgeous so far. And intriguing!

[sholio]

I LOVE doing ink texturing and I rarely do it anymore since my webcomic is computer-colored and works best with relatively simple line art. So this is fun. :D And thank you!

[torachan]

I honestly don't understand how people can keep a million tabs open all the time. It really stresses me out to have things standing open. Same with stuff in my email inbox. My goal is to always have zero mail in there, and when I have stuff hanging around, it bugs me.

[sholio]

I gotta say getting rid of the tab habit has been one of the best things I've done for myself lately. I wish I'd done it years ago.

[goss]

Ooooooooooooh, your calendar is looking SO COOL. Love the different patterns and textures you already have going on, and that there's a big picture happening. Exciting!

Mine is probably just gonna be individual abstract randomness. :b

Please keep posting pics regularly so we can see it all come together. :D :D :D

[sholio]

Thank you - and you too! I'm looking forward to seeing how it develops. :D :D

[ratcreature]

Do you have an outline how the pieces are going to fit together that you fill in gradually with detail? If not, your visual imagination is way better than mine. I don't think I could draw a picture one puzzle piece at a time.

[sholio]

Nope, I'm just doing it out of my head, which is probably going to become a problem when I actually start hooking up some of the parts if I'm not careful ... heh.

I've never tried to do anything like this before, so I think it's good training for the visual/spatial part of my brain!

[mific]

Oh, I was going to ask this too. Wow, hard to hold an image plan just in your head like that, I'm impressed!

[sholio]

Yeah, I'm not sure if I'm doing it differently from how other people are doing it, but I thought it would be good practice. :D I see you're doing it too -- whee!

[umadoshi]

What a neat idea! *admires art*

all browser windows must be closed before I go to bed

That's a great idea. Not sure I could implement it, but I like the thought very much. (I've gotten way better about having a bazillion tabs, but keeping it down as far as I am is hard, and still leaves more tabs open than many people find at all comfortable. >.<)