Challenge 61: Goals
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drawesomeTitle: The 50th Box
Artist:eye_of_toad
Rating: gen
Fandom: none
Characters/Pairings: none
Content Notes: Ballpoint pen (despite the medium being officially frowned upon by "Draw a Box" guidelines.)
This is probably perfect for a January goals challenge, because this is the classic sort of thing that I do. Set a goal. Decide it's hard. Argue with myself whether I even want to keep doing the goal. Make excuses for not doing the goal. Forget I was doing the goal. Find it months later and remember I was trying to do the thing and realize I barely made any progress on it.
I hate "Draw a Box" so much. It's super annoying. I suck at it. I see no evidence that I'm getting any better. The rules feel arbitrary. (Why can't I do this in pencil? Why do I have to put down the perfect line on my first attempt?) But I also know (just like the gym) that the reason I'm failing is probably because I'm being so half-hearted about this. I started this MONTHS ago. My first page of boxes is dated AUGUST. So I'm not sure these first fifty boxes even count since they were spread out over such a long period of time and clearly aren't helping to build muscle memory or hand-eye coordination or whatever it was that drawing 250 boxes is supposed to accomplish.
Opinions? To get the full benefit, do I need to start over and complete 250 boxes within a more reasonable timeframe? Or do I just draw 200 more ugly boxes and call it good enough?
Artist:
eye_of_toadRating: gen
Fandom: none
Characters/Pairings: none
Content Notes: Ballpoint pen (despite the medium being officially frowned upon by "Draw a Box" guidelines.)
This is probably perfect for a January goals challenge, because this is the classic sort of thing that I do. Set a goal. Decide it's hard. Argue with myself whether I even want to keep doing the goal. Make excuses for not doing the goal. Forget I was doing the goal. Find it months later and remember I was trying to do the thing and realize I barely made any progress on it.
I hate "Draw a Box" so much. It's super annoying. I suck at it. I see no evidence that I'm getting any better. The rules feel arbitrary. (Why can't I do this in pencil? Why do I have to put down the perfect line on my first attempt?) But I also know (just like the gym) that the reason I'm failing is probably because I'm being so half-hearted about this. I started this MONTHS ago. My first page of boxes is dated AUGUST. So I'm not sure these first fifty boxes even count since they were spread out over such a long period of time and clearly aren't helping to build muscle memory or hand-eye coordination or whatever it was that drawing 250 boxes is supposed to accomplish.
Opinions? To get the full benefit, do I need to start over and complete 250 boxes within a more reasonable timeframe? Or do I just draw 200 more ugly boxes and call it good enough?
