Weekend, Productivity, and a Bratty Lioness

This weekend's biggest accomplishment was getting a good handle on Procreate. It was a fight, and I'm sure there'll still be conflicts—I don't want touch gestures on ANY device, thank you very little—but I powered through, producing this pic of Nii-chan by the time I was done.

My productivity (and overall mental health, which is closely coupled with it) have been slowly improving over the past several weeks, after some serious rough times earlier this year. Summer did its usual number on me, of course, but as fall came, it felt like a block broke somewhere. (I then immediately got sick, of course, but I managed to keep moving forward even then, just... more slowly.) Normally at about this time I'd toss out all kinds of determined resolutions to be even more productive, to do a dozen art pieces while working on NaNoWriMo or some such, but I'm not going to fall into that trap this time. I actually think it's a self-destructive mechanism, putting all kinds of pressure on myself which then turns into resistance, which in turn becomes avoidance and burnout, and I end up both getting nowhere, and angry at myself.

Instead, I'm just going to say that I'm enjoying being productive, and I'm going to do my best to keep doing that, because it always makes me happier. Instead of making promises I may or may not be able to keep, I'm going to do stuff... and present it to the world as a fait accompli once it's done. ;)

-The Gneech