I got a bit of a shock when I had to pick the cover for this journal and all I saw was that one piece I put up here at the very beginning of the month.
Oddly enough, this must’ve been my most free-time-filled month of the year, yet I haven’t managed to release a finished piece despite that. It’s quite the baffling thought to me as I had wondered there to be more to show off. and it’s such a wild thing going on in my mind that I have to start this off with my projects…
In truth, I was rather busy all the time. While finishing the final piece to the commission, I was already under way of relaxing from the very work-heavy week of the animation festival. Given how much energy I had spent, it was time to cool off a bit and I did so mainly by staying at home, play games and finish said project. I do recall I was rushing to finish my summer badge for the ‘upcoming’ eurofurence, which I plan to attend. I wanted to get my badge done in time so I could sneakily use my office printer and lamination machine for the cause.
Then, I was traveling over to my study place to attend a very nice niche film festival there with friends, though sadly had to depart the day after to get to work again. And work was surprisingly busying once I got back in, so not quite the free, relaxing time I had expected. Nevertheless, riding the train meant I could calm down for the most part and sometimes do sketches on the way.
One last thing I finished was a personal “thank You” gift card for my coworkers that I painted with my tablet and it was receipted very nicely and made me all the happier ^v^
I can be glad to have had the opportunity to work in this environment, with such a friendly bunch that all work together to make this festival great for everyone. We parted ways with hugs and hopes to see each other again and I make it my goal to have this environment with my future job positions <3
I’ll just say that towards the end of my internship, I grew a little more fatigued: I needed more breaks, didn’t want to read as much and sketching grew less often and since, I haven’t used my tablet for much now that I’m not needing to ride the train every week.
Still, after work, I placed my resolutions for the upcoming open months before my work at a new internship will (hopefully) continue: up until the beginning of September; I will try to uphold a daily schedule just like with work days to spend on my animation project for university. I’ve already made great progress to my ideas and concepts and have settled for a final direction how and where the plot will go. In the following weeks, I see into finishing the script and sitting on recording voice lines to use in further animatics and animation practices.
Yesterday, I too returned back to animating and will regain my flow of working on the board. While I have already sent out my applications to new internships, I want to fill in my portfolio with these exercises a bit, so they might as well be representable on my social media accounts.
Regarding personal projects, I have made space to work on them in my schedules: enough to actually get things done and scarce for me to be looking forward to these sessions.
My fruit hat piece is well under way, but should need some more days to be fully finished. I plan to print it on my wall again this time around and thus, it should upkeep decent quality standards.
Then, I have another pressing matter regarding the piece I want to submit to eurofurence’s con book. I shall do some more concepts but I think I settled with an idea. I will have most of June reserved for it, so there should be enough time to carefully consider everything. Until that’s done, I won’t do anything else, I think, even though I got some ideas brewing in my mind >M<
Anyway, that’s my look-ahead for next month.
I haven’t gone over what private stuff I’ve been doing, so let’s include it in this addendum:
I’ve been going more frequently to the movies. I grow a liking to see them on the big screen and in recent memory, there have been quite some cool new releases that I really enjoyed and am looking forward to.
My mother and i went on some trips together, just today, we visited a nearby castle and it was nice going out again doing some hiking and sightseeing. Also, I went to some second hand stores and was amazed by how much cool stuff I could find, as well as some accessories; some new piercings and some new glasses, which were quite expensive all in all but hopefully worth the price.
Was out doing BBQ with my dad again after a couple years and we enjoyed it a lot, I think we’ll do it more often now that I am here and the weather is good. We’ll try out new recipes since he started eating vegetarian as well.
Rejoining with old acquaintances slowly, always happy to do so (just pretty convoluted to get a shared date sometime).
I started to do my daily workout sessions again, lots quite some energy and gained some weight since I started working, should reajust my diet to stop eating sugar that much and it should help greatly.
Uhmm what else? I think that covers it.
I wish you all a lovely new month and see you won’t be caught in the heat, let’s all hope for a calm summer…
With love,
~Souvillaine