Over the last year and a half I've been dreaming of going back to art school and going into art-making as my full time job (I'm currently in a creative job, but it's a very jack-of-all-trades kind of role). Leaving the stability and community of my current job to pursue this dream is one I've approached with a lot of discernment. So much time has gone into research and doing my best to learn what the road ahead may realistically look like.

The 3-Point Perspective podcast has been an INVALUABLE resource for me this past year, and this episode in particular. I desperately want to go into this transition with my eyes wide open to all the hurdles and pitfalls and not romanticize what's in store for me.

Laurie Santos's recent episode of The Happiness Lab (Ep 7: Don't Accentuate the Positive) reinforced to me how important these honest conversations about the negatives actually are to achieving success. https://www.happinesslab.fm/season-1-episodes/dont-accentuate-the-positive

Thanks for spending some time dealing with the downsides, we're better for it!

@aska I can't complain. San Diego is pretty idyllic! I do miss autumn, but apart from that it's pretty near perfect.

Rough sketch of my idea for the January contest. Would love feedback. Does it read clearly? Problems that you see?

@AjMitchel I’ve been using the OG paperlike for a year and just put the new Paperlike 2 on my iPad Pro. I’m soooooo in love with it. The texture is amazing.

https://paperlike.com/

I was encouraged with how my sketch turned out on this exercise.

Ended up with a tiny stubby seat!

This was a fun exercise. A good challenge.

Here’s my vehicle using boxes in perspective to build up the shape, then line work, and tone.

Last week when I was watching the season finale of The Mandalorian I spotted a new droid I'd never seen before in Star Wars. An R2 type droid with legs. I'm calling it a Gondola Droid. Anyway, I took it as an opportunity to just do a quick sketch, but then I decided to develop it a bit further into a more complete image. Doing the color and lighting on it was a lot of fun. Any feedback is most welcome.

Here's my original sketch.

Then I did some line work. You can see some of my reference photos in this one.

Started come coloring.

Then redid the coloring on the droid to reflect the lighting from the lava river and fog.