Drawing

I managed to do two long sessions of figure drawing. I showed my progression to A and it made me realize that there has been progress, after all, and that my skill significantly improves when I'm using softer materials (charcoal, mostly, but I should look for softer pencils) and have at least an A4 at my disposal. Distributing space is easier, I no longer find myself without space for the hands or feet, and I've learned that marking the head angle and neck really helps me draw better motions.

Japanese

I didn't practice Japanese at all this week. Did I have windows of time where I could've plugged in my Wacom and chugged away at it? Yes, definitely, I did spend an inordinate amount of time waiting for things to Happen and I could've entertained myself. But I didn't.

As I write this, I realize I could use my regular tablet where I read instead of my drawing tablet to make the kanji-ing a little less inconvenient. I will try this the upcoming week.

Reading

• Dropping the 'Vegan' Label from my Political Banner
• ‘No one way works’: An Interview with Ira Terán and Emrys Travis on Trans Marxism
• How to like everything more ❤️
• The Bad Guys Won And We Are Still queer
• The Brutalist Explained For Cinephiles
• Daring to dream: Reclaiming our connections and building our resilience
• jeremy strong, kieran culkin, and the cost of caring too much ❤️
• The White Lotus, TERFs, and “Autogynephilia” as a Floating Signifier
• 'Cloud Dancer': A Measured Response ❤️
• no good alone ❤️
• How to Draw a Head
• You are not, in fact, the granddaughter of the witches they couldn’t burn
• No State Solution
• Heat Death of the Internet
• Caption This: the subtitling champions working to make festivals, screenings and global cinema more accessible
• How I Became a Pathological Liar ❤️
• The Invention of Memory
• Tarsem Singh on arthouse epic The Fall
• Laziness Does Not Exist

Watching

• Bojack Horseman S03. Raúl Esparza was there!
• Bojack Horseman S04
• Rewatched several episodes of Severance S01 in friend watch parties. They were hard to schedule and very rewarding. I love showing Severance to people.