"School Timetable" Experiment: Week 2
Jan. 8th, 2021 08:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
icecheetahFor all the basic Details, read here.
Well, I actually managed all the hours, albeit... getting easier and easier to be distracted towards the end of the week.I managed to start my 6 hours of "classes" around 9am each day, but the time I finished got as late as... 9pm!
Still, it was a good start, possibly helped by me not having to go to work this week. Or rather being literally unable to go to work due to the icy conditions and the new lockdown.
More details of what I did under the cut, as well as some philisophical considerations.
I seem to have settled into what I do in the first hour of the day being what I do in the last hour of the day. And like on the Friday of last week, on Monday that first hour was art. Specifically, I was working on the same piece that I started last week, a drawing of my Numenera Character, Cxemhlar Reidh. I wrote some details on my process of drawing this image in the description, but another note: I had never drawn that head angle before so I am glad it turned out so well.
I finished it yesterday in an extra hour because I though I wouldn't have enough time in the one remaining art hour, and I really wanted to have it done for this weekend because I am not entirely sure Reidh's going to survive the next session. Whether he literally dies or mentally does so.
This week instead of doing composition as one of my classes, I'd started learning to do 3D art. I downloaded FreeCad with the intention of using it to build sets for my comics so when, for example, I draw a main character in his room I don't have to do everything from scratch. I am one person, who's going to release the thing for free, so I'm sure I can be forgiven for some shortcuts.
Tuesday, the two hours were dedicated to Anki. While it's part of my korean learning, I'm basically considering it a class in its own right rather than merging it with Duolingo class because they are different enough things. Also I have a lot of Anki decks installed so I wouldn't spend much time on Duolingo if they were merged.
Anyway I used one of my Anki hours to do a lot of Hanja (chinese characters as used in korean) practice.
On Tuesday I also gave up on FreeCad. I was following a very basic tutorial and it kept hanging on me when I tried to do what should be basic things. Hanging so bad the only way to stop it was to open up task manager and kill it. So I switched to learning how to use Blender. Which so far has not crashed or hung on me once and is a LOT smaller.
Wednesday's double class was Duolingo, Thursday's double was Pixel Art. Leaving today, Friday's double was 3D Modelling!
So it seems that the classes are going to be somewhat flexible, I'm going to keep things simple by having the slots set each week. Duolingo, Anki and Art are essential, and I think I should probably get the 3D art to the level where I can at least do what I want to do, leaving Pixel Art as the only class that can be swapped out next week. I'll probably do composition then.
A slight problem is: I have Lingodeer, where I seem to have accidentally glitched my way into having access to the paid content. I don't want to just... let it sit there on my phone, but including it in the classes would mean I was dedicating three out of five daily classes to Korean, and my creative stuff is important to me too. And at some point I'd like to do some online courses as part of the classes... .
I might have to remove the "double class" aspect to cover the sheer amount of stuff I want to do.
Well, I actually managed all the hours, albeit... getting easier and easier to be distracted towards the end of the week.I managed to start my 6 hours of "classes" around 9am each day, but the time I finished got as late as... 9pm!
Still, it was a good start, possibly helped by me not having to go to work this week. Or rather being literally unable to go to work due to the icy conditions and the new lockdown.
More details of what I did under the cut, as well as some philisophical considerations.
I seem to have settled into what I do in the first hour of the day being what I do in the last hour of the day. And like on the Friday of last week, on Monday that first hour was art. Specifically, I was working on the same piece that I started last week, a drawing of my Numenera Character, Cxemhlar Reidh. I wrote some details on my process of drawing this image in the description, but another note: I had never drawn that head angle before so I am glad it turned out so well.
I finished it yesterday in an extra hour because I though I wouldn't have enough time in the one remaining art hour, and I really wanted to have it done for this weekend because I am not entirely sure Reidh's going to survive the next session. Whether he literally dies or mentally does so.
This week instead of doing composition as one of my classes, I'd started learning to do 3D art. I downloaded FreeCad with the intention of using it to build sets for my comics so when, for example, I draw a main character in his room I don't have to do everything from scratch. I am one person, who's going to release the thing for free, so I'm sure I can be forgiven for some shortcuts.
Tuesday, the two hours were dedicated to Anki. While it's part of my korean learning, I'm basically considering it a class in its own right rather than merging it with Duolingo class because they are different enough things. Also I have a lot of Anki decks installed so I wouldn't spend much time on Duolingo if they were merged.
Anyway I used one of my Anki hours to do a lot of Hanja (chinese characters as used in korean) practice.
On Tuesday I also gave up on FreeCad. I was following a very basic tutorial and it kept hanging on me when I tried to do what should be basic things. Hanging so bad the only way to stop it was to open up task manager and kill it. So I switched to learning how to use Blender. Which so far has not crashed or hung on me once and is a LOT smaller.
Wednesday's double class was Duolingo, Thursday's double was Pixel Art. Leaving today, Friday's double was 3D Modelling!
So it seems that the classes are going to be somewhat flexible, I'm going to keep things simple by having the slots set each week. Duolingo, Anki and Art are essential, and I think I should probably get the 3D art to the level where I can at least do what I want to do, leaving Pixel Art as the only class that can be swapped out next week. I'll probably do composition then.
A slight problem is: I have Lingodeer, where I seem to have accidentally glitched my way into having access to the paid content. I don't want to just... let it sit there on my phone, but including it in the classes would mean I was dedicating three out of five daily classes to Korean, and my creative stuff is important to me too. And at some point I'd like to do some online courses as part of the classes... .
I might have to remove the "double class" aspect to cover the sheer amount of stuff I want to do.
