Hey All!

I’ve been collecting the urls to the books and classes I’ve done this month so that it is all in one place, in case something was interesting to you and you wanted to go check it out yourself.

I also wanted to show you the things I’ve done since the last post.

I finished one of the Sketchbook Bootcamp Prompts…

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And I attended a Live Online Sketchbook Bootcamp Workshop…

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November Dailies Experiment ¹

I had some trouble keeping up this month, some of it was due to the time change – I seem to have a really hard time acclimating to the change, every year it seems to get harder. I had some days were I just didn’t have enough energy to do ALL.THE.THINGS so I had to pick some and be ok with not doing others. I’ve stopped ‘making’ myself do things, if I don’t want to or I don’t have the energy, I listen to my body… and when I do that, I come back stronger.

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This month I was able to:

• read 2 books, and 9 short stories/novellas
• blogged nearly daily
• drew nearly daily
• learned all kinds of new stuff

Books

Completed:

Seanan McGuire – October Daye Universe:

• ✔ When Sorrows Come (October Daye, Book 15) – Seanan McGuire
  • ✔ And With Reveling (October Novella) – Seanan McGuire
  • ✔ And Deeps Below (Simon Short Story) – Seanan McGuire
  • ✔ Sacrifice your Tears (Simon Short Story) – Seanan McGuire
  • ✔ Into the Sea (August Short Story) – Seanan McGuire
  • ✔ In Safety Rest (August Short Story) – Seanan McGuire
  • ✔ Upon Your Honor (Simon Short Story) – Seanan McGuire
• ✔ Be the Serpent (October Daye, Book 16) – Seanan McGuire
  • ✔ Such Dangerous Seas (Luidaeg Novella) – Seanan McGuire
  • ✔ With Sweet Peace (August Short Story) – Seanan McGuire
  • ✔ Like a Dream (Simon Short Story) – Seanan McGuire

Currently Reading:

Draw Like a Boss – Ashley Edge

31 Days of Baby Boos & Spooky Dudes – Karen Campbell

Give Sorrow Words (Simon Short Story) – Seanan McGuire

Classes

Completed:

✔ Digital Illustration, Character Design, & Lighting Techniques – The Art Mother

YouTube:

• ✔ Watercolor & Ink Botanicals – Peggy Dean (YT)
• ✔ How to Paint lights like a Pro – easy watercolor – Naiz Hannan Watercolor (YT)
• ✔ 4 Ways to Paint a Watercolor Galaxy – Sudio of M.M (YT)
• ✔ Urban Scene at Night in Watercolor – Shellly Prior Fine Art (YT)
• ✔ Sketchbook Bootcamp 2024 Workshop #1 – Peggy Dean (replay)
• ✔ Endinburg Nocturne – Doris Ettlinger Studio (YT)
• ✔ How to Paint a Night Scene in Watercolor – Matthew White (YT)
• ✔ Watercolor Night Painting – Café Watercolor Eric Yin Lin (YT)

✔ Paint Ornaments – Peggy Dean

✔ Sketchbook Bootcamp Workshops # 3, 4, 5, & 6 – Peggy Dean

✔ Art Nest Deep Dive & Live Make Hour – Peggy Dean

Currently Watching:

Create Pixar Style Concept Art – Siobhan Twomey

Finished Drawings:

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That’s all I have for today… hopefully I’ll find time to draw/learn/read today. This keeping track seems to be helping me, so I think I’ll do it again next month too. Are you enjoying the nearly daily blog posts? I hope so… see you tomorrow?

Until next time…

~nic

1. At the beginning of September, I decided to try a little experiment. I created a list of things I wanted to accomplish daily to help me succeed at completing my monthly goals. Then I made a little drawing so that I could track the ‘streak’ of doing dailies. ↩︎