Deathline 22th of June 2013

[Melanie]

Melanie's Deathline Goals

Starting: 22th of June of 2012
Deathline: 22th of June of 2013


The three goals for that period:

1. Increasing my social skills:
- staying in touch with my feelings
- becoming aware of my strengths and limitations
- improving my skills to resolve conflict situations
- increasing my self-esteem

2. Improving my artistic skills:
- basic skills: live drawings, nudes, anatomy
- composition and lightning: book covers and complexe illustrations
- designs: character concepts
- environments: perspective, depth, nature and architecture

3. Becoming a perfect freelance artist:
- delivering high quality images long up front the deadline: at least 1 week in front
- making my clients feeling comfortable and happy
- taking assignments only at reasonable rates with following exception: taking up to 4 days a month for exciting assignments that doesn't have to pay well - only for my amusement (assigning more severe priorities)
- doing the paperwork within reasonable time periods

I will write about different approaches to reach those goals and about my experiences with them. I will also redefine some small steps to reach the big goals.

[Melanie]

First Steps:

1.1 Take 5 min off every day and write about your feelings
2.1 Paint a thing from live everyday day (it can be very small and easy when I have not much time)
3.1 Update your time plan every day

After achieving those steps for 7 days in a row: Moving to the next steps.

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Day 1: Check!
Day 2: Check!
Day 3: Check!
Day 4: Check!
Day 5: Check!
Day 6: Check!
Day 7: Check!

[Melanie]

Alright: The first step is done. I did all my homework for 7 days in a row and succeded at first go.

Here are the steps for the next seven days of my deathline challenge:

1.2 Think about a current conflict or one which happend in the past and resolve it.
2.2 Study one landscape everyday, then make 4 black and white thumbs for composition and apply what you learned.
2.3 Do paperwork everyday. Also if it is only copying one page. That's ok.
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Day 8(1): Check!
Day 9(2): Check!
Day 10 (3): Check!
Day 11 (4): Check!

[Melanie]

I have to make a little break, because I unfortunatly don't have enough time for the landscape thing. Deadlines, deadlines, deadlines.