2023 Goals and Wishes 🌳

I hesitated for a while wondering whether I should put this page on here. I'm scared of looking back at the end of this year and seeing nothing but failure

However, I'm trying to change my mindset to view failure as a chance to learn rather than a statement on who I am, so I decided to publish this here after all.

Let's start by reviewing 2022 first.

After reviewing, I decided on the following items:

Goals

(2023 End of Year Update: checked off some items and added some comments)

Should be concrete and achievable

  • ❌Output at least 1 complete artwork a month

    • I had missed some months because of 2 big commissions.

  • ✔️More physical exercises. Aim for 30 min a day!

    • it's not exactly 30 mins, but was very consistent.

  • ✔️until October, achieve an acceptable drawing skill and switch to painting and composition study

  • ❌Maintain online presence, share my thoughts more, comment on posts and artworks

    • I had a heated discussion about AI on FB in April and lost any will to maintain online presence

  • ✔️Maintain this garden! Does not need to fill with a lot of content, but keep it consistent! 1 update per week should be fine

    • I'd say this is still counted since I'm still not dropping this garden and still have plenty of interest in maintaining it.

  • ✔️Reducing time for Passive Input🌱, last 1 hours of each day and sunday are the only time I can do that.

  • Note to self: be aware of Goodhart's law

    • being concrete is good as a reference, but the measure of a concrete number is not what I should be ultimately aim for.

Wishes

Can be vague, mostly for motivation .

  • Be more mindful and happy.
  • growing my fundamentals and developing uniqueness as an artist.
  • improve drawing speed
  • more people will see and like my artworks.
    • getting more commissions
    • getting more commercial commissions

Backlog

list of things that would be nice to check off but not obligated.

  • Skincare
  • be more social
  • going outside (a little bit) more
  • better color, composition and storytelling
  • learning graphic design
  • learning 3D
  • playing a sport
  • get real good at meditation
    Work on as many items as possible in Drawing Skill Roadmap

anything note done will be transferred to 2024 Goals and Wishes.