Final thoughts of the month

Written 07/11/2025

While this ended taking me longer than I would like (purely in terms of not working on it), I am actually pretty happy with how this painting turned out! I think the final painting looks pretty good (and I listended to the second Murderbot audiobook while doing the painting which I really enjoyed too lmao).

I think because I was drawing and painting something from life, a lot of the complications were erased. I just had to look at my desk (or a photo) rather than combined multiple references into an image. There was still a degree of combination involved (I took from multiple drawings of my desk rather than strictly adhering to the photo) but it was all ultimately ONE image that I focused on.

I don't know why though, but I have been feeling really tired and drained though. Not from this project, if anything this project felt like a relief to do. It's things outside this project, like my work or my personal life that have felt rather overwhelming and draining this last month. The weather taking a dark and gloomy turn certainly hasn't helped with that. It does feel like doing this felt like more effort than it has been. Not the 'doing it' per se but motivating myself to start. The soft deadline helped a bit with that (as annoying as they are sometimes deadlines are a good thing).