Goals and such
As of yesterday, I've actually reached my goal for 10-Humans-A-Day! My goal was to draw 1000 humans by the end of the year (starting from...whenever I started, which was after I finished BBS, I think) and I've now drawn that 1000 humans! Most of the time I was drawing form stock photos, sometimes copying other artists, and sometimes my own stuff (like the BBS casts). While I didn't always feel up to it, I'm glad that I stuck with it all the way to the end of the year. My humans aren't totally perfect, but I think there was significant improvement...I feel a lot more confident drawing them, and can get them down faster, too. Soooo, yay! Glad I did that art goal.
And so knowing that I can do it, I'm setting new art goals (I guess art resolutions?) for myself starting next year. Since talking with People Whose Opinions I Trust (or recruiters, who are People Whose Opinions Matter The Most) it seems that in terms of my boards, my drawings are fine and the story is clear but my camera usage and staging needs more work. So to fix that, I need to sit down and study more movies...pick a scene from a movie and write down the shots/camera moves and then draw them out, just to see how they work. So I plan to do that for four movies a week...pick one scene and board it. My goal is to do at least 50 movies.
That aside, I also want to do one grayscale painting a week. I want to be better at color, but to do that, I need to get better at doing things in grayscale, especially faces. So, along with the movies, one grayscale painting a week (probably from a photo as well.) I'm hoping to do at least 20. Hopefully these will also work out okay.
I do have one other resolution for next year; slightly less fun...I decided I'm going to give up soda completely. Just go cold turkey on it, like my little bro did. I tried to just cut down my intake, but that didn't really work. This is going to be hard for me, because I loooove soda, and I don't really have any other regular caffeine source like coffee or tea...I drink those pretty rarely. But I know I'm already lazy about my food choices, and giving up soda is at least one "lazy" thing I can do to better my health. After hearing about all of the junk soda does to you (totally aside from weight), I'm thinking it may be for the best. So, after December 31st, I'm saying goodbye to soda.
And of course, some more Epic Mickey playage...
- I always feel a little bad rounding up the bunny children. :x
- I'm following the video walkthrough pretty much step-by-step now. My few attempts to wander around and try to discover things on my own have resulted in frequent death, and it's just not worth it. Like I said, just a few missteps and you have to start all over.
- I think Ventureland has been my favorite place so far, just because it wasn't quite as killer as Tomorrow City, and I love the real Adventureland. That said, I feel like there were a few things missing from it...I'm guessing the Tiki Hut was supposed to be a reference to the Tiki Room, but where were the birds? Like Juan, the barker bird? No mention of Shrunken Ned? (unless you want to count Daisy for that). And again, I guess the treehouse was supposed to be for the Swiss Family Robinson treehouse, but I didn't recognize anything on the treehouse to suggest that it was for Swiss Family Robinson. There was the water wheel, but it was entirely separate from the treehouse. Didn't see any mentions of Jungle Cruise, either. Just seemed like there were a lot of missed opportunities for my favorite land. :<
- Also, from the looks of things, I guess Frontierland isn't showing up at all? I guess that's not surprising, since there's really nothing interesting in Frontierland. Maybe they just combined it with New Orleans Square for Bog Easy.
- Speaking of, I'm a little amused that they focused so much on the pirates for Ventureland, considering POTC is actually considered a part of NOS. I guess they just wanted to focus on the ghosts for Bog Easy.
- ARGH THOSE PIRATE BEETLEWORX. GAAAAAH. Died against that first one SO many times. Those things are unnaturally aggressive and fast!
- Thusfar, I've managed to restore both Animatronic Goofy and Animatronic Daisy! Wonder if there's any more...
- Once again, beat Captain Hook using the paint method. However, UUUUGH that battle was a huge pain in the ass; I had to do it over several times. Platforming on moving/disappearing platforms while being fired at by the boss, and with an unmoving camrea? NOT AS FUN. But dammit, I wanted that extra paint and I want the good guy ending!
- Guess I've got Bog Easy next, which I'll go do today...
Drawing Finished all of 10HAD! And some LG.
Writing: Nah much
And so knowing that I can do it, I'm setting new art goals (I guess art resolutions?) for myself starting next year. Since talking with People Whose Opinions I Trust (or recruiters, who are People Whose Opinions Matter The Most) it seems that in terms of my boards, my drawings are fine and the story is clear but my camera usage and staging needs more work. So to fix that, I need to sit down and study more movies...pick a scene from a movie and write down the shots/camera moves and then draw them out, just to see how they work. So I plan to do that for four movies a week...pick one scene and board it. My goal is to do at least 50 movies.
That aside, I also want to do one grayscale painting a week. I want to be better at color, but to do that, I need to get better at doing things in grayscale, especially faces. So, along with the movies, one grayscale painting a week (probably from a photo as well.) I'm hoping to do at least 20. Hopefully these will also work out okay.
I do have one other resolution for next year; slightly less fun...I decided I'm going to give up soda completely. Just go cold turkey on it, like my little bro did. I tried to just cut down my intake, but that didn't really work. This is going to be hard for me, because I loooove soda, and I don't really have any other regular caffeine source like coffee or tea...I drink those pretty rarely. But I know I'm already lazy about my food choices, and giving up soda is at least one "lazy" thing I can do to better my health. After hearing about all of the junk soda does to you (totally aside from weight), I'm thinking it may be for the best. So, after December 31st, I'm saying goodbye to soda.
And of course, some more Epic Mickey playage...
- I always feel a little bad rounding up the bunny children. :x
- I'm following the video walkthrough pretty much step-by-step now. My few attempts to wander around and try to discover things on my own have resulted in frequent death, and it's just not worth it. Like I said, just a few missteps and you have to start all over.
- I think Ventureland has been my favorite place so far, just because it wasn't quite as killer as Tomorrow City, and I love the real Adventureland. That said, I feel like there were a few things missing from it...I'm guessing the Tiki Hut was supposed to be a reference to the Tiki Room, but where were the birds? Like Juan, the barker bird? No mention of Shrunken Ned? (unless you want to count Daisy for that). And again, I guess the treehouse was supposed to be for the Swiss Family Robinson treehouse, but I didn't recognize anything on the treehouse to suggest that it was for Swiss Family Robinson. There was the water wheel, but it was entirely separate from the treehouse. Didn't see any mentions of Jungle Cruise, either. Just seemed like there were a lot of missed opportunities for my favorite land. :<
- Also, from the looks of things, I guess Frontierland isn't showing up at all? I guess that's not surprising, since there's really nothing interesting in Frontierland. Maybe they just combined it with New Orleans Square for Bog Easy.
- Speaking of, I'm a little amused that they focused so much on the pirates for Ventureland, considering POTC is actually considered a part of NOS. I guess they just wanted to focus on the ghosts for Bog Easy.
- ARGH THOSE PIRATE BEETLEWORX. GAAAAAH. Died against that first one SO many times. Those things are unnaturally aggressive and fast!
- Thusfar, I've managed to restore both Animatronic Goofy and Animatronic Daisy! Wonder if there's any more...
- Once again, beat Captain Hook using the paint method. However, UUUUGH that battle was a huge pain in the ass; I had to do it over several times. Platforming on moving/disappearing platforms while being fired at by the boss, and with an unmoving camrea? NOT AS FUN. But dammit, I wanted that extra paint and I want the good guy ending!
- Guess I've got Bog Easy next, which I'll go do today...
Drawing Finished all of 10HAD! And some LG.
Writing: Nah much