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Dec 2, 20231 min read

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ThePsych0naut
Published: Dec 2, 2023
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I'm gonnuh draw some fan art in a minute. Should have something posted by Sunday morning. This isn't going to be nearly as polished as some previous stuff I've posted, bc I'm doing this for the sake of mileage; and, more than that, just to get the proverbial truck out of the mud.



 Like most journals, this is about publicly enunciating a goal for the sake of peer pressure (however negligible) and planting in my mental periphery the seed of disappointment if and when I fail to meet expectations; low-grade consequences for self-induced mediocrity. It's not a matter of punishment, it's about stakes.  Hence the hard due date: which I will meet with gusto.

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Dec 9, 2023

Go for it.  It's about the process, not the product.  I just got back to drawing, posting exercises from Posemaniacs, hoping to use the threat of public humiliation to spur me on . . . but, nah.  Besides me, who cares whether the results are good or bad?  Haha. Right now I just want to remember what used to give me joy.  Just start and immerse yourself in it.  Get in the zone.  Don't come up for air until it's done.

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