Weekly Art Blog 7/13-7/20/2025

I took a week off the blog last week to relax and recharge. Things are calming down, but my energy levels are still pretty shot. I try to drink more water in the summer, and clearly I’m still not drinking enough. Starting to wonder if I’m anemic, too. I’ve been tired my whole life, I get headaches and dizziness a lot, I’m always thirsty. I finished up the big montage I talked about last and am close to the end of the second chapter. Hoping to increase my production speed in the future, because I want to finish up this book series so I can have a real table when I go out to sell books. One thing working on the montage reminded me, it’s very visually satisfying to use more than one color of pencil on the roughs. It just looks really good.

I’ve been sitting here for a while, trying to think of something to write, and I can’t really think of much. In general, I put a lot of pressure on myself to make stuff. I have things I want to make, and I really do want to make them quite a lot. My biggest creative struggle is not being able to rein that in. I don’t notice a lot of what I feel until well after it’s happened, so it’s hard for me to notice when my desire to create is ramping up into a overwhelming force to make something or else. So I need to get better at identifying my feelings, and then shifting gears. I also transition between activities and thought processes slowly. I could use some sort of ritual that can shift me into drawing right away, something I can do in multiple situations such that it’s not dependent on the schedule of the day. I do well when I have instructions, after all, so I could benefit from having “how to start drawing” instructions.

I guess I’ll leave it at that. I want to write more, like in general, but also I want to be done with this since I don’t have a topic coming to mind. This blog only really exists for me, after all.