[art/life] first art of the new year is self indulgent blorbos the way god intended. Also some year goals/plans within?

my children

I'm not gonna list out full blown resolutions, but some mindfulness and things I want to do more of this year maybe?

ART GOALS

Work more....just like, get back into and more consistent with the working during the day habit would be ideal, then I can use evenings to do more fun indulgent stuff without working bleeding all over everything

More traditional media! specifically I want to get back into sketchbooks. my ipad has been an insane boon to my art life and output but I miss the low pressure, low investment of a sketchbook, and just being MESSY with it. A bo expectations space

New project preliminary work. I'd like to make big headway on this, whatever it looks like

and related to that, let myself be weird and messy in my art. worry about pitching and target audience later, and just be as niche as I want.

Last Ship to Mars started out as an incredibly niche, incredibly self indulgent project...a comic for ME and that worked out extremely well. I want to get back into and stay in that headspace

FITNESS

Get outside more LMAO

Get back on my schedule with my new gym and lift HEAVY. I wanna make some gains this year, and I wanna do some pull ups.

Get back to the pole studio!! I literally havent gone ALL MONTH because it got so brutally cold and it's a longish walk. Solutions: maybe switch to morning classes...walking long and cold distances as night is a lot more daunting than morning.

(also when I was doing pole in the AM it was really helping me start my day earlier!!)

ALSO, set up my home pole!! been putting that off for awhile but I really want to do it. I want to be able to mess around at home not just in class, and the chrome at home is SO much easier on my hand than the brass in the studio

Eat more protein...cant grow them muscles without lots of prot

RP STUFF

2023 is the year we put weird, sourceless RP anxieties in the ground where they belong. I've always played mostly super weird niche characters and it often has made me internally anxious about how I stack up as a player amongst much Cooler characters

which in the past has made me kind of shy, or if not SHY, reluctant. Like I dont wanna foist my weird guys on people who are just looking for a serious playtime. WHICH IS NOT something people actually did or said or anything, it was pure internalized silliness and I strictly dont believe in that kind of thinking for any other areas of my life

(ie/ letting your brain assume what other people think or want based on my own anxieties)

So I'm saying it out loud to kill it. Being more proactive and open to possibilites.

My favorite thing about RP is the collaborative aspect, and I'm not a good collaborative partner if I'm too stuck in my own head.

So that's the big RP 2023 goal, the micro stuff is kind of just, par the course. Stay on top of inbox

find ways to wrap threads instead of dropping them! nothing wrong with a dropped thread if it needs to be dropped, but I'm finding a lot of threads are better served by bringing them to a sooner than expected conclusion that moves CR forward rather than stressing, stalling out and dropping

Life willing, I really want to stay in xim for a while! Its been years since i did a long game stint and i want that time to actually run through some CR/character/story arcs

MISC/OTHER

Start practising my Japanese again, ita been getting so rusty the past year especially. my mom just talked about finally wanting take a trip with me sometime in the future (I've been wanting to go back to Okinawa with her) and I would want to be Fresh

Read more! Did REALLY good with this in 2022 which felt good. I didnt read a CRAZY number of books but I want reading throughout the year, reading both new stuff and old, comics and novels. more of that!

It’s tough to balance and budget all the hobbies/work/things i want to do, but i think I’m getting there! I’m gonna keep working on it

I HAVE SOME FINANCIAL GOALS TOO BUT, let’s leave this space for other stuff instead of the boring deets of financial organization

Ugh, groan...get back into social media

I’ve been kind of really existing nicely without the likes of twitter, but as a professional artist with a book coming out in the next 18 monthish, I unfortunately. Need to get back in there.

I’ve definitely being feeling out of touch and disconnected from my comic people, and i don’t know what ANYONE is up to. I also haven’t been posting or sharing any of my art, which is fine, I’m not out here like, desperate for attention, but it’s fun to share and I kind of miss it!

I think the thing to do will be to really, really pare down my list, and give myself very small windows in which to use things like twitter and, i don’t know, tumblr? I really don’t think tumblr is going to take off again, so I’ve been reluctant to put energy into that but maybe some casual cross posting. Twitter, sadly remains the industry’s home.

If anything changes, it’s going to be TikTok which. Blehhh

BUT, we’re staying positive! I’m excited for the year, excited about what’s to come and what i have going on. I’m going to do some real housekeeping this week and set myself up for success, decrease my stress and make the most of this coming year

I love all this

Thank you, i feel like these are good, practical goals and attainable ones. Nothing to stop me from exceeding or doing other stuff, but this is a solid baseline!

You’re going to crush it