Questing: 21st to 28th Aug 2019

Wednesday is here again! Here is the quest list from last week:

‘Quests to complete by next Wednesday:

Main Quests

Do some idea generation and media experimentation in sketchbook (refer to watercolour book)

Side Quests

Do some life drawing

Research Ix Chel

Rough out some designs for business cards

Play your darned violin’

I must admit, I got very distracted this week. With the beginning of September looming, I put extra emphasis on YeeHawgust in a last ditch effort to get it finished in time (although that’s still unlikely).

I did have fun experimenting with my watercolours though! I found an exercise called ‘Mixing Chickens’ in a book I picked up in a charity shop a while ago. I practised in my sketchbook to get the gist of the exercise and then moved onto my watercolour paper. However, the colours presented themselves much brighter in my sketchbook than on the proper paper – which was a bit of a let down. The next exercise is to mix greys in a similar way (I know that sounds boring but there’s nothing better than a really good grey).

I did manage to get my violin out. I played through some old pieces (with some difficulty since I’m a lottle rusty) and then moved onto my book of gypsy folk songs, I worked mostly on Ryabinushka. (I couldn't find a violin instrumental version)

While researching Ix Chel, I also delved into the Bacabs – the very concept of them fascinates me and the blog post will go up later this week.

I still need to do some life drawing, idea generation and business card designs. I perhaps need to work on splitting my day up into small chunks of different tasks rather than binging one (I did spend two days on YeeHawgust this week, oops). Other things I’d like to get done this coming week would be to work a little more on the Almost Lawful roughs and generate some ideas regarding the ‘Crap my dad says’ zine.

Along with all of this, I did have a few busy days where I wasn’t able to work on the quests at all: We visited Cilgerran castle and Pentre Ifan, the experiences there will also go up later this week, and I also made time to focus on nothing and play a little No Man’s Sky.

Quest list for next Wednesday:

Main Quest

Idea generation

Almost Lawful

Side Quests

Life drawing

Business cards

Crap my dad says

Look at/photocopy ‘Kings and Queens of Maya’ book

Print out and file Ix Chel and Bacabs

Here's to another productive week!

Mort