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Well, as it turns out all I really needed was to be challenged. You know... be given something to actually DO. I found out last night that I would be playing piano in church. Not just the keyboard, mind you, which I have played a few times, but I usually just set it on the strings setting and plunked out a note at time. The actual piano piano. You know... the kind you can't turn down to cover your mistakes.
And... I actually didn't do too badly, and I had a lot of fun doing it. But yeah, having to put some actual effort into something helped pull me out of the rut. I'm even able to draw. I'm working on a picture which features women of varying body types. It's a great exercise. There are types of curvy and types of skinny. I've got six types: voluptuous, pear, apple, slender, hourglass, and bony. It's a really fun drawing exercise actually. I'm also trying to draw them of different ethnicities. That's kind of hard to do, but so far my African American woman is clearly African American and my Asian woman is clearly Asian. It's hard to do, but I'm having a lot of fun doing it. I really just wanted to help myself better appreciate all the different body types a woman can have, and not just the body type I wish I had. It's been interesting, because with some of the ladies, I struggled with, "No, she shouldn't look like that!" It was kind of weird to realize that even I have to a certain degree succumbed to the cultural ideal of beauty. Hence the exercise.
And... I actually didn't do too badly, and I had a lot of fun doing it. But yeah, having to put some actual effort into something helped pull me out of the rut. I'm even able to draw. I'm working on a picture which features women of varying body types. It's a great exercise. There are types of curvy and types of skinny. I've got six types: voluptuous, pear, apple, slender, hourglass, and bony. It's a really fun drawing exercise actually. I'm also trying to draw them of different ethnicities. That's kind of hard to do, but so far my African American woman is clearly African American and my Asian woman is clearly Asian. It's hard to do, but I'm having a lot of fun doing it. I really just wanted to help myself better appreciate all the different body types a woman can have, and not just the body type I wish I had. It's been interesting, because with some of the ladies, I struggled with, "No, she shouldn't look like that!" It was kind of weird to realize that even I have to a certain degree succumbed to the cultural ideal of beauty. Hence the exercise.