Week 5

As pretty much all's done on my end for the room project, I've been making small changes here and there to my assets, nothing too major just a little polishing up, I've also volunteered to create one of the few remaining assets there are left; the dartboard, which was easy enough to create and didn't seem to take up too much time. Other than that I've just be doing a little general admin work, making sure all my folders are cleaned up, files are named properly, pivot points are centered, making sure everything is ready and streamlined for when I make my final imports into engine next week.

I created some digital drawings this week as I feel this aspect of painting lacks the ability that my physical sketches do, I'm not sure for the exact reason, but my line work is less accurate using a tablet then it is on pen to paper; this week's preference is figure studies. I searched the internet for some interesting poses and tried to replicate them to the best of my ability, I think they turned out alright, especially by using the blocking in technique from last week's life drawing. I know that using reference online isn't the best approach to take when trying to understand the real physical nature of objects but I used primarily as an exercise in order to familiarise myself with digital painting again, for the next projects coming up.

Something I need to discuss is my resent decline in absence, which is to blame for my lack of substance in this week's update. I've haven't been attending classes as regularly as I should do, and it's not because I'm struggling, procreating, or not finishing the work, it's actually quite the opposite. After last year I've never wanted to go through what I did, with the snowball effect of work, the constant anxiety of falling behind more and more every day, and the thought of having so much work to complete that is it even possible to catch up, so instead I feel like I may been over working myself a little too hard, which has lead to me burn out multiple times and unfortunately miss class as an alternative to do work. Obviously this isn't ok and defeats the whole point of university, I can feel my positive position starting to deteriorate as I miss assignments for certain lessons (which I do plan to catch up with), and details about the course that have been said in lectures and what not. I'm going to use next week in order to calculate myself again and start attended classes like normal for week 7.