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Something was great today. I don't know what it was, probably the fact that today is the first day I can remember for over three months where I did not feel totalyl overwhelmed when I got to work with the size of my to-do list for that day. For a period about a month ago, my daily to-do list was growing almost twice as fast as I could knock them off. I would go into work with 12 hours worth of work that "had to be done" in that 8 hour day, and end the day with 14 hours worth of work that people wanted done that day... despite the fact that I was always doing 10 hours worth of work. That's nothing compared to some people like lawer Jason, but I the more I read his site, the more convinced I am that I am doing the right thing by saying screw any work that can't get done today... it's not like I am taking four cigatrette breaks an hour like some other people. I feel bad that clients are probably disapointed, but I also know that if I say "ok just today I will stay till 11 to get this done" I will still have the same problem and wind up being there till 11 every night.
Anyway, this is supposed to be about things that went well, not complaining about work...
like I say, today (and yesterday) where the first days where I was able to get everything that had to be done for that day done in that day. (yesterday I even had time to sneak in some testing and work on mfop with Carsten)
The result of everything going so well? Some special sketching spirit entered me and I did so much better than I have been doing lately at the nudie sketch club. The sketches may not look any betterm but the differece is that for the past few months I had been struggling to create mediocre sketches... today they just flowed out of me.
each Friday, a different model does four different ten-minute poses, followed by three twenty-minute sessions of a single pose, and then four different five-minute poses. I had commented last week to one of the other people, who is also an art teacher, how much easier the 5 minute poses are to sketch than the 20 mintue posses, despite the fact that the five minutes are so rushed. I speculated that it was because the twenty minute posese tend to be more static (easier for the model to hold for long intervals) while the five-minute poses are full of motion (require more streangth to hold than most models can muster for twenty minutes... and more than I can muster for two minutes) The teacher disagreed, saying that it was because after 100 minutes of sketching, my eyes are more used to seeing and processing the shapes. It makes sence, but after toniht I think that the real reason is actually that by the time the five minute poses role around, I am just tired of trying so hard to make a good sketch, and when I say "screw it!" I do so much better. I have noticed this in other things too. The more I try to do a good job, the suckier I do. The more i don'T care, the more magic happens.
So...
And more train sketches... I am quite dissapointed that I don't seem to be improving over a couple months ago when i first started sketching people on the train.
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