Drawing practice
At my annual review my boss gave me permission to practice figure drawing for 15 minutes a day as 'professional development', since we never get any training opportunities back here in design land*.
I haven't actually managed it every work day, but it's still better than I had been getting. I'm saving jpgs of all the sketch pages so I can look back at 'em later.
Today I cheated and took a full half hour, though:
The really funny thing is that it took me about two weeks of this before it occurred to me that I was looking at nekkid people pictures at work.
*Technically HR is supposed to pay for any training opportunities if we go out and find them, but there aren't any classes in town that would really add to my level of CS knowledge, the time we tried to organize a trip to Seattle for an official Adobe workshop HR dropped the ball on our registration, and I've been begging for a Lynda.com membership for YEARS. So: No professional development.
I haven't actually managed it every work day, but it's still better than I had been getting. I'm saving jpgs of all the sketch pages so I can look back at 'em later.
Today I cheated and took a full half hour, though:
The really funny thing is that it took me about two weeks of this before it occurred to me that I was looking at nekkid people pictures at work.
*Technically HR is supposed to pay for any training opportunities if we go out and find them, but there aren't any classes in town that would really add to my level of CS knowledge, the time we tried to organize a trip to Seattle for an official Adobe workshop HR dropped the ball on our registration, and I've been begging for a Lynda.com membership for YEARS. So: No professional development.