Yes that is 60 gesture drawings or at least it should be. Really pushing the page numbers thing huh? I'll have to take that into consideration when I work on the redesign for my website. I'm also trying a new file host for the original images that you can see when you click on the images above, vgy is what i've used before but it doesn't allow pornographic content which could potentially be an issue in the future and I cannot find anything on filegarden's site saying they don't allow porn so might be a better option. Though filegarden does create longer links which I'm not a fan off hmm maybe stick with vgy for these gesture drawings i'd probably only need to upload something pornographic to a file host once in a blue moon anyways but whatever.

Now why did I do 60 gestures? Cause of a video I saw, I'm not gonna link it cause honestly I have no say on if this is actually a good idea or not and the original video says to do it for 6 months but for now I'm just gonna try to give 1 month a try. Though the video says without fail and I think I'll allow myself to fail a little bit partly cause I want to do other things too, also cause doing these honestly tired my arm out a lot and today my shoulder is definitely feeling stiff probably from yesterday haha. Probably a combination of not having done drawing like this in a while with a desk easel and all that and even when I did I only did like 10 at a time. In the video the guy says he would do an hour of 60 1 minute gestures, and then 1-2 hours of study, and then 3 hours of personal work and I'd like to do that though because of how tired my arm was I did the gestures and then rested for most of the rest of the day, though I did do about 50 minutes of "personal" work before my arm and hand got tired again.

There's a couple reasons this plan interested me, for starters I was planning on trying to do more than one thing of study a day, like with the proko lessons I've just been doing one lesson a day and I'd like to change that so I can get through studying faster and then study more things. So while 60 gestures isn't studying I figure if I can get to the point where I can do 60 gestures and then 1-2 hours of study I can then change later to 2 things of study a day. I also feel doing more gesture drawing could help me overcome my perfectionism a bit, I've struggled with perfectionism for a long while now and I think in general forcing myself to do timed art may help me get over that. With a minute to draw I don't have much time to make it good and so it exposure therapizes myself to deal with not being able to make something perfect and be like "well it's pretty good" and such. My perfectionism is why I've also fallen into the study pit, where I feel like I can't start drawing the things I want to draw because I don't have the skills yet, which is a deadly spike pit and another reason this plan appealed to me. I want to do more personal art, that's what this is all for, I gotta crawl myself out of the pit. When I look at my work last year I feel like I didn't progress much at all, but a further look explains why I feel that way. If I look at my studies and practice I can see improvement but I barely did any personal art last year so I have nothing for comparison so it's like I only improved at studying and practice not at art.

Of course the current thing I'm trying to finish is for the thing I'm working on with friends, it's been kinda strangling me because of my perfectionism but also because it's a new form of art I've never done before that I decided to jump into without much prior experience. Definitely set myself up for struggle there and since I wanna continue doing that kind of thing I'll definitely need to study and learn in the future but for now I think I'm maybe finally getting it close to a place I can call good enough. Once I'm at the point where I can do the gestures and study I'll try to finish the objectober and finish the head practice.