I still want to get through the objectober like I said just been struggling a bit mentally and trying to work on something else that's been stressing me as well. I'm gonna try to get more into a habit of drawing at least 5 out of 7 days of the week I also want to start doing more anatomy practice stuff again even though I've not finish the objectober so I may rotate things? I don't know I'm trying to figure it all out I've kinda been dealing with maybe brain fog or something lately i don't know I feel like there's this pressure at the back of my head I feel a lot not quite to headache levels but still there and making it hard to think. I've been drinking a lot more water lately though so hopefully being more hydrated will help me a lot going forward might take a month til I start feeling it lol. But yeah gonna try to do a little bit of anatomy stuff primarily on the head because I keep hitting that block and for the piece I'm planning it'd be good to get some more anatomy practice in.

For the drawing itself rope sure is tricky, I think it runs into the same problem I have with drawing braids kind of, they have some similar ideas in their structure. I did the noose tying diagram as a means of trying to understand how the knot works since it's important to know how things function as much as how they look since the function informs the look, honestly doing something like this for braids might help me get better at braids cause I'm terrible at drawing those but that's not important right now. For the diagram I just used my brush at a thicker size to place down the lines and then erased with the sort of shape of the rope simply just cause it was easier than drawing the entire rope. I don't know if I'll use this method going forward, though it is similar to how I already draw chains but I also could stand to improve at those, but it's not bad I kind of like the look of it with the red linear burn I put on my lines.

Also yes I did draw this on christmas, my dad and I don't really celebrate christmas. It's not like I haven't in the past we've gone to my grandma's for christmas in the past hell we did last year, but it's never really meant much to me especially since once I entered high school I was too old to recieve presents, I did get christmas money from my grandparents until I was 18 though. So it was kind of weird hearing my friends talk about everything they got for christmas. Honestly though no one in my family would even know what to get me and if they did get me something the chances it's a funko pop is too high I cringe at the thought.