Here we go again!!

#MarchHotel26 day 17/18/19/20 quests with boxes & Phil’s Loving Partner

March Hotel quests about boxes, construction, composition
(was super sleepy so the fact that I had to redraw the mess I did into compositions was pain)
and made up an affectionate date for Phil

I regretted making up that weird construction of a boxes into a character without legs because I didn’t know I would have to draw them again as compositions!! Why

I did the best with what I could…

MarchHotel26 day 17 a locked door to a boiler room

I got inside the March Hotel boiler room

I am not an avid drawer of environments but I was enticed by the MH fake coin

and it pushed me out of my comfort zone and it’s just for a day so why not.

MarchHotel26 day 17 Spooky time with figures

One day I’ll get to doing the mh quests at my own pace…
had to skip a bunch overall and the fashion ball one
And not too proud of the rough day 18 things I had to rush with super limited time and running low on sleep oof

Also who is doing plein airpril next month?
I cannot do that daily as mentioned ahh….
I didn’t do it / another daily art challenge last year because I was so burnt out from kimo and was still finishing up kimo studies after it finished

Just doing what I can and also finish the MH quests I want to finish THIS year…
After some thought I think I might not do plein air daily for my own sake
and will do my own thing at my own pace :’D
maybe do a few plein air studies randomly

Someone asked me if she was single when I posted this 💀

“Ask her at your own risk” was my reply ;P

It was fun drawing super large amounts of hair and adding more arms to her.

I don’t want THIS much hair to care for!!

MarchHotel26 day 20 hand stylisation challenge

So there’s dark greenish blue – studying hands as it is

the blue Pixar/Disney lady hands,

purple Disney’s animated Tarzan kind of hands,

and the pink set of hands…I think it’s me simplifying it more

MarchHotel26 day 21 Light with Figures

I did the quest wrong at first by only painting the shadow shape (reading the quest instructions while sleepy)

so I had to paint the light only as well

Then I just sketched over it after the quest was done ;P

MarchHotel26 day 21 Notan vs Chiaroscuro studies

I wanted to also do the figure drawing at the end so I did ;P

MarchHotel26 day 22 Frog gestures

I was struggling with my pen because the ink cartridge does NOT want to go back into the outer pen so I was attempting to draw with a thin, wobbly ink cartridge here 🐸

There’s a bunch more MH quests/studies that I’ve only just did a part of and I’ll slowly get around to doing the quest / studies at my own pace. I don’t want to stress myself even more than I already have ;P

March Hotel was full of inspiring people!

I’m more “get the quest done good enough because I don’t have time” mode. I don’t have the luxury of doing studies slowly and properly!

And there’s 9 or so more days to go to this challenge! I think more people will riot as they keep increasing the daily rent and the quests pay out the same lower amounts to make it more punishing. I guess it’s not like kimo where if you don’t post, you get kicked out of the server asap without any chances.

I still have some figures to do after this ahhhh

Personal rambles ദ്ദി ˵ > _ •́ ˵ )✧

• I do wonder if I should transfer the art/resources I post at my tiny discord server into a blog post here as well
  • though I doubt discord will go down any time soon
  • will probably not be public if I feel petty about sharing it that way 😛
• I stopped wearing my headphones
  • how you are not the hero and you miss human interactions around you if you always block out the world
  • I mean I don’t wear it unless I have to because:
    • I don’t want to miss anything / lose awareness of my surroundings
    • get lost in my own world, isolate myself and disrespect/disconnect from others even more
      • I’m already an online hermit ;P
    • it’s great as a way to minimise overstimulation though
    • and if you need to focus
    • it gets rowdy sometimes too
  • I tend to zone things out though when I’m hyperfocused
    • either way working in an open office and work are both draining and overstimulating ;P
• Had a terribly stressful weekend because of other people ARGHHHH
  • I’m TRYING TO RELAX and DESTRESS from work days, so WHY
  • (maybe TMI and am vaguely venting because I don’t want to actually discuss it in further detail)
  • someone ruined my sleep two nights in a row
    • making me sleep deprived not of my own choosing, tired and angy
  • routine being ruined and did not have a restful weekend
    • let me recover and juggle with the chores with my weekend
    • I’m trying to protect my personal time every time
    • don’t ruin it for me :’)
    • I didn’t eat healthy because of many interruptions and not being able to use the kitchen :<
      • and trying to not add to the stress/workload
  • HATE impromptu demands, social situations, constant and disrespectful interruptions and whatnot
    • I can’t respect people who don’t respect me and my boundaries, wishes and will back either
  • having to argue about things in circles
    • feeling all horribly tense, emotional and stressed afterwards / drama
  • the ongoing toilet stains I clean…this is my life
  • felt violated with someone contaminating with their unhygienic hands (ie they don’t wash hands properly at all! YUCK ) on my personal stuff and pushing my boundaries
    • (even they know they were pushing it with no remorse unsurprisingly and frustratingly)
    • PLUS I unknowingly spread it, going about my day normally and didn’t realise it until a day later!!
    • AHHHH all my stuff!! Especially those that are supposed to be clean for the face/eyes/mouth!!
    • as a germaphobe, it was stressful and I was super upset
      • now…I am slowly just accepting it and not spiraling after some days….
  • slowly jaw strain was getting a tad better
    • but the bad weekend didn’t help as it didn’t get better too much because of it
    • it ouchies a bit more now noooo
  • more mourning on hair loss and I wished it wasn’t another stressful handful of days again
    • because it isn’t helping with my hopes of regrowth like last time!! :'(
    • hoping that over a longer period of time, I can relax better
  • not great things happen, other things are ongoing and I’m trying to manage it really
    • venting about it helps and then I can move on and keep juggling with the present
• the journey with my attempts to relax will continue…
  • trying out picross playing as part of wind down too but too early to say
  • will keep on having my “zone out and do nothing” time before bedtime too
• Work was intense; ongoing stuff to work through
  • and I didn’t know about something I’m just learning about so apologies to the team for that
• thanks for bearing with my vents and ramblings!!
• I ramble more at my discord ;P
• Anyway I am tired from work, still got more things to do and won’t ramble any further – take care during these troubling times and catch you around!!

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