It's been a while since I've posted here and that's because I haven't been doing much art wise the last little while. I'm not proud of that but I'm working on getting myself back in gear and on staying in gear. I've had a hard time transitioning from being a student to being a working artist. As a student I had time constraints, classes, part time job, and homework. Too often art homework got pushed to the side because I got more ambiguous homework in my art classes and I had syllabi that were followed in other classes. It's ironic I know, that as an art major, that's the homework I focused on the least; I guess in high school if I was working on art at home, it was more for my own pleasure than actually needing to work on it at home and on the other hand in my brain writing a paper etc. seemed more pressing than getting to work on a painting. Anyway this mindset is not a great one for an artist and I believe it's part of the reason I've had such a hard time getting myself to really work on art.
I'm changing things, I'm making goals and working on getting myself to treat art more like what it is, my job, it's an awesome job but it's still my job and I need to do it.
Also I've decided that I'm done with the sketchbook project, I just wasn't satisfied with the results I was getting, so I'm revising the sketchbook project, no theme, most likely not sharing the results but just sketching and drawing to do it, for practice and improvement etc.