It is certainly amazing how your mood and feeling of motivation can be changed in just thirty one days.

January started off very wonderfully. I can say that I completed each and every scheduled two and a half hours of creation. The major issue I ran into in January was when my employer cut me from the scheduled work hours a month earlier than they had told me that they would. It has been a weight of stress latched onto my ankle amongst many other things.

I started out using my planner, but swiftly found it hard to keep track of and to write in. I feel like I need a lap desk but I do not want to impede more expenses without making money myself.

Fitness:

Big Shot for EveryMove Fit Pursuit: 150 workout minutes minimum per week.

It is still in progress. I did not know that it didn’t begin until January 13, this this week is the third week and so far, despite an injury, I have managed to get a big shot for all three weeks.

Knee injury

The second workout of the month I badly injured my left knee. I am not sure what I had done to it, but it made me have to do a lot of extra procedures in order to go anywhere, to have to sleep a certain way, and prevented me from doing workouts that involved it. Thankfully, it finally came to completely heal by the end of the month, but it is hard not to be nervous with it.

Mini Weight Goal: Energized (165 lbs)

The lowest I made it in January was 165.4 lbs.

I finally hit 164.6 lbs on February 1st.

Written:

Minimum word count per week: 1,200 words.

At first, I did not keep up with this at all. Most all I did was read or draw at the beginning of the month, though in the last week I typed over eight thousand words in collaboration with my friend, Dana.

Terms & Conditions for art Requests, Trades, and Commissions.

This was not completed, though it was attempted seven times.

I honestly couldn’t focus with all of my stress, loneliness, and immobility.

Finish the Google Doc-ception; I need to solidify my organization and lists always help me.

Only works well when looking at my screen doesn’t kill my eyes.

I will work on it slowly throughout the year.

There is a good chance I won’t finish them all this year.

At least once response to each and every role play.

Completed with the exception of a small few that just weren’t possible for me to get back into. (There are over thirty in total: both dead and still moving.)

Illustrations:

Puck’s Ref Sheet: At least the basic lineart finished.

Incomplete

Upon almost finishing the first snapshot of him, Jake mentioned that the sword was incorrect. Only until the last day of the month did he finally give me the reference picture of it.

Also, our other pathfinder players decided that they also wanted me to draw their characters next. So, in order not to keep them waiting for the entire ref sheet to be complete before moving to the next one, I’m going to try and draw a snapshot for each of them.

Coloring Tutorials

Never got to them. Whenever they came to mind, I found it too hard to watch any lit screens. Side effect when on bed rest for your leg and the television and your phone end up being all you can use.

Birthday Gift: Michelle (January 24th)

I could not figure out a concept for her. Will have to figure out what to make her while I wait for the next one.

Ended up working on a birthday gift for MichiTheThird.

At first began to rush, but then decided to take my time and make sure I was happy with it before I am to give it to her, even if it is now very late.

Gift: Jayy (rebecca010 from deviantArt)

Still working on figuring out pose

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February is here. The shortest month of the year.

I have determined that I will try to do as much as I can, but I’m going to follow what feels right. My perfectionism is part of how I learn, and would be going against myself if I didn’t follow my own judgement on my artwork. (Even if a lot of the time I hold myself to too high of an expectation.

Fitness:

Mini Weight Goal: Lovely (160 lbs)

Should be really easy. I’m 2.6 lbs away.

Mini Weight Goal: Strong (155 lbs)

I don’t know if I will lost 7.6 lbs in 25 days, but who knows.

Walk Frosty at least once a week, twice or more if possible.

Poor guy is going crazy with boredom and he is starting to gain weight. He needs the activity before he gets fat and sick.

Writing:

Terms & Conditions

I’m going to break it down into sections and type it out.

Descriptions for types of artwork I will do for others.

I’ve come up with a few categories and at last I have a bit of a plan on how I will organize how things are priced or differentiated.

Revise one chapter of Driahries.

I figure one chapter wouldn’t be too much and it will be something simple to do in free time.

Drawing:

Kiriban

Dark-Arctic-Fox's character : Reference Image

Finish Puck’s Snapshot Line Art

Just need to fix the hands and the sword.

Finish Toryat Glaive’s Line Art

Just need to do the rest of the tail details, the whip like braids, and markings.

Commission Samples for Pricing image

I’m going to be approaching people to ask for them to allow me to make them a commission piece for free. This will mostly be guided at my friends because most of their characters I have grown to know well enough to easily picture them.

Jayy

At least get a concept put together. It shouldn't be so difficult to draw her once I figure out the pose I want.