💚 March Hotel art challenge week 3 – trying to not burn out

There’s just too many quests for March Hotel. No one can do them all **properly**.

It’s unfortunate a lot of low effort stuff happens but what can you do with so little time + people have other things happening too. WHY are some days have 5 quests running at the same time (most of which is of interest)?? I know you’re not supposed to do them all so :<

And they raised the daily rent and daily payment to the same amount in an attempt to weed out inactive people today. Chat was slowing down but now it’s just super spammy, overwhelming and noisy in chats over there again…so I don’t bother with reading.

A lot of the quests I want to do it in my own time but I don’t want to call it March Hotel when it’s not March Hotel anymore but my own studies at my own pace. I’d still acknowledge it as a MH quest but I won’t hashtag it as such when March is over. I don’t have the time to do everything but a lot of quests are interesting!! And then there’s Plein Airpril too!! And when do I get to my discord emotes (luckily no deadline)?? AHH I can’t do all of this!!

I can’t do dailies…I’m just too exhausted from everything else on a lot of days and I just don’t want burn myself out from daily challenges. All I can do is do a bit each time. Challenges like this wear me down the longer it goes on, based on kimo 2026 so I need to be more smart with my time. I’m not at risk of not being able to pay fake daily rent any time soon but I need to keep the buffer up.

I am also trying to juggle game sessions too because otherwise I won’t take an ACTUAL break from art as a whole (with work work and personal work/learning).

I also need a break from blog posting when this is over – at least not do it weekly all the time. Return to random weeks where I don’t post anything because this is time consuming too.

Anyhoo I just ended up posting some of the MH stuff below in my discord server instead ;P

And now I’m sharing it here:

#MarchHotel26 me as a March Hotel guest 🛋️

I just did a self portrait this time!

I don’t have this much floofy hair though – my hair is more thin :'(

But hey I wanted to have fun drawing hair :<

MarchHotel26 day 11 design a fancy car for this guy (since I’m a philanthropist)

I don’t know what this character is and their backstory but they said their vehicle needs to be made up for this quest!

And I had food in mind so here we are. I also added a leaf sprout.

MarchHotel26 day 12 gesture session ahhh

It’s been ages since I’ve done a drawing session

I need to do figure drawing sessions more and make it a thing after March Hotel is over!!

There’s always more studies and things I want to learn though oof

MarchHotel26 day 13 fairy horse gestures

I didn’t expect to draw horses again this soon haha

MarchHotel26 day 14 hand studies & MH key

Chunky hands with dynamic lighting and making up a key for a silly server role that doesn’t do anything right now.

MarchHotel26 my guest ID

I feel like I’m starting to burn out on this daily thing at this stage – even though there are a few days I skipped.

MarchHotel26 day 13 figures in different hair styles

Decided to add colour after the quest was over, just because.

MarchHotel26 day 15 cat gestures

Fun silly poses. Very rusty on drawing cats ahhh

MarchHotel26 day 6 DTIYS golden goblin

I didn’t really stick to the Goblin design because they didn’t provide reference character sheets on its quest so I just guess and made it up beyond the portrait they posted.

I am not interested in taking this further so here’s just the sketch ;P

I have no positive feelings with this goblin character who’s focused on coin.

Leonie rambles about…

watched all of PARANORMASIGHT: the Mermaid’s Curse
- (whoops it was a sequel from the first game, not prequel, my last blog post was wrong)
- it’s incredible with its storytelling through its mechanics as a point and click thriller, mystery, supernatural, creepy, dark, historical, visual novel game
- I love the art
- I don’t want to spoil too much beyond this, it’s too good
- the story behind some characters kind of haunted me in some ways even after watching it
- I couldn’t stop watching, I wanted to see what happens next
I played the Adventures of Elliot demo and finally finished it
- kept dying to the frog fish boss
  - gameover deaths over and over just rob you of your money each time
  - just let me quickly get back into it, why do I have to hold the button to load the bar to continue??
  - it became less and less fun and frustrating and punishing with the bubble bullet hell and tidal waves
  - I guess I’m not good at reacting fast enough to get to safety >_>
  - being told “I didn’t have trouble with this boss” made me peeved
- I forgot fairy dash was a thing so I skipped a “test of discipline” tower
- I do not like the equipping process of weapons as it’s a lot of extra button steps and I keep pressing the wrong buttons
- I switched back to english va because not everything she/the fairy says is subtitled at all
  - some complain that the va is trying too hard to be cute – but it can be in a lot of kids shows too
  - JP fairy va is cutesy too – we’re just more used to that kind of va in anime
  - I kept being reminded that I don’t use the shield by the fairy ugh
- it felt like a harder version of Zelda with a lot of magicite switching? And build management??
- not sure what I think of Elliot as a character yet and if we get further backstory
  - I HEARD his english va suddenly speaking more sugary/flirty when he was talking to the princess haha
- I am not sure if I like this game yet as the final boss was annoying
- I’ll wait and see from reviews
The Apothecary Diaries and Gachiakuta are changing how we discuss SA in anime
- this is why I can’t watch some mainstream anime/manga when they keep sexualising teenagers/young people and normalising it, all kinds of SA, grooming, harassment, abuse, manipulation, violence, etc without handling with care how it affects victims
  - they lean too much into framing it as fan service with SA, nudity and so on…
  - what also bugs me with character design is when the character (with their personality in mind) wouldn’t be wearing their outfit if it wasn’t for fan service
Good Morning Art People – Don’t Give up – Dave Rapoza
- that it’s always been tough 20 years ago and internet made the career more accessible
- and now it’s tough in a different way
- but still do what only you can do with art – “that is your shield”
- I’d add again: protect the joy you have in creating and learning art
  - I guess this blog is really me doing that and journalling it
  - and still figuring out the “special” thing I want to do with my personal art
  - I envy artists with projects already in mind that they’re passionate about
  - I just want to learn technical art stuff, create and express myself

Personal rambles ദ്ദി ˵ > _ •́ ˵ )✧

for a day my inner ear was hurting with pain while my left jaw joint hurts with chewing or opening mouth…!!
- it was scary
- forcing myself to zone out for 10 minutes before bedtime helped with the pain the next day
- I’ll see if I can heal from my jaw strain/pain from stress 🙁
also a lot of hair loss today – I do have some alopecia
- but I can’t help but think this past week was stress induced too ahhhh
- I was gloomy for a while for my loss of hair and I’m still processing it
- I need to take a longer break and just relax from art stuff altogether….
I really need to let March Hotel take a back seat and just keep quests I want to do properly later
- just do enough to get by because I need some more sleep too and MH isn’t helping
- I’m skipping more quests now the more March goes on
- I am glad I got to make some more art so far but at what cost…
where is my healthy medium??
- I can’t do a little bit of art each day when I take ages to get into the zone
- and then I don’t want to get out of it nor switch to something else :<
- I’d rather have time chunks and dedicated nights for it or something…
- and other times I just want to do what I can in bits, every other day or so ahhhh
- I am fickle at times
got gifted a cute Miku sticker (that shows her back view looking into a portal) from a friend – thank you even though they won’t read this :’D <3
I spam resources and creatures at my small server too as usual
gosh posting to social media is annoying and I don’t know if I should quit another place
- I’ve already cut out things except discord, bsky, youtube, cara and linkedin
- maybe I’ll just cut out linkedin…most people I know aren’t active there unless they’re job hunting or hiring and those who are randomly there keep thinking I’m active there. Then again, I remind people I exist by posting there :S
I keep making mistakes with house work because I’m tired ahhh

Okay stopping here, I’m tired and tense and I need to relax. And because life is short 😛

It was too long last week so here we are! I can’t ramble all the time!!

I’m supposed to be juggling art, life, rest, play, work focus mode and struggling with it haha

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