{"id":578,"date":"2024-01-15T07:54:28","date_gmt":"2024-01-15T07:54:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shawnmeanders.com\/blog\/?p=578"},"modified":"2024-01-15T07:55:38","modified_gmt":"2024-01-15T07:55:38","slug":"learning-to-draw-people-challenge-week-one-evaluation-pause-announcement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shawnmeanders.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/15\/learning-to-draw-people-challenge-week-one-evaluation-pause-announcement\/","title":{"rendered":"Learning to Draw People Challenge &#8211; Week One Evaluation (Pause Announcement)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\r\n<i>This article was written January 15, 2024<\/i>\r\n<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\r\nHello everyone, <br>\r\nI&#8217;ve now completed a week of drawing daily. As promised, it&#8217;s time to evaluate whether this challenge makes sense for me or not.\r\n<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\r\nAs you may have noticed, I haven&#8217;t posted a lot of content this past week (as of writing this, only the first day has been published). Does this mean the habit didn&#8217;t stick? Not quite, I <i>have<\/i> been drawing every day. I&#8217;m actually really happy with the progress I&#8217;ve made and what I&#8217;ve been able to accomplish. It&#8217;s nothing out of this world, but I&#8217;ve still managed results that are better than I would have expected. \r\n<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\r\nUnfortunately, while drawing has been going well, I haven&#8217;t been able to keep up with the blog posts. There are a few factors behind this:\r\n<ul>\r\n\t<li>I tend to review my posts at a later time (usually the next day), which means more work, and an extra task left incomplete for an extended period of time (a mental &#8220;loose end&#8221;). And I do catch a lot of mistakes in that review step (I&#8217;m also sure there are plenty left afterwards)<\/li>\r\n\t<li>Since I&#8217;m drawing on the tablet, but writing my posts on a computer, I need to export and transfer the files (a recording and my drawings), adding extra friction. Moreover, the software I&#8217;m using has a few kinks with its export feature.<\/li>\r\n\t<li>Things have been really exhausting and stressful for me lately, and I&#8217;ve been getting further and further behind, adding to my stress<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\r\nSo, based on this, what&#8217;s the verdict? I think I&#8217;m going to pause this challenge for a bit to get my life back on track. I&#8217;ve been struggling a bit with my language classes lately, and I also have to go through an alien resident application (which I find stressful). Therefore, I want to spend one or two weeks handling these. Afterwards, I plan to focus on catching up with the posts I haven&#8217;t completed yet. Since it&#8217;s my impressions that the content is much better if I can write it while the drawing experience is still fresh in my mind, I&#8217;d rather get up-to-date first and have a fresh start, instead of trying to catch up to this constantly moving goal post. Once I&#8217;m back on track, I plan to re-attempt this challenge, starting once again with a one week trial period.\r\n<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\r\nSo, would I say this experiment was a failure? Not exactly, I&#8217;d just say it was poorly timed. If this habit had already been formed, I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;d be struggling so much (after all, my daily reading doesn&#8217;t really feel like an issue here). For anyone that&#8217;s following me, I&#8217;m sorry about this set back, but unfortunately I had to re-prioritize things. I&#8217;d like to use this opportunity to remind everyone of the important of taking care of your mental health! \r\n\r\n<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\r\nThank you everyone who has been following me, and I hope to be back soon re-invigorated and re-energized, even better equipped to tackle this challenge. Have a nice one!\r\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article was written January 15, 2024 Hello everyone, I&#8217;ve now completed a week of drawing daily. As promised, it&#8217;s time to evaluate whether this challenge makes sense for me or not. As you may have noticed, I haven&#8217;t posted a lot of content this past week (as of writing this, only the first day &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shawnmeanders.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/15\/learning-to-draw-people-challenge-week-one-evaluation-pause-announcement\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Learning to Draw People Challenge &#8211; Week One Evaluation (Pause Announcement)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"index","bgseo_robots_follow":"follow","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drawing","category-skill-learning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shawnmeanders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shawnmeanders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shawnmeanders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shawnmeanders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shawnmeanders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=578"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.shawnmeanders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":613,"href":"https:\/\/www.shawnmeanders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578\/revisions\/613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shawnmeanders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shawnmeanders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shawnmeanders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}