{"id":8729,"date":"2025-10-20T23:03:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T06:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/?p=8729"},"modified":"2025-10-20T23:03:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T06:03:11","slug":"getting-back-to-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/20\/getting-back-to-it\/","title":{"rendered":"getting back to it &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"428\" src=\"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Screenshot-2025-10-21-at-1.44.30-AM-600x428.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8730\" style=\"width:717px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Screenshot-2025-10-21-at-1.44.30-AM-600x428.png 600w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Screenshot-2025-10-21-at-1.44.30-AM-300x214.png 300w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Screenshot-2025-10-21-at-1.44.30-AM-768x548.png 768w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Screenshot-2025-10-21-at-1.44.30-AM-640x456.png 640w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Screenshot-2025-10-21-at-1.44.30-AM.png 1269w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>So I frequently stack too many projects on top of me to adequately attack all of them &#8211; perhaps this might be a consequence of me running upwards of two hundred projects at a time, but who can say &#8211; and the consequence of that is, some tasks that aren&#8217;t so important get the short end of the stick. For example, blogging (as you may have noticed) or going through bills (which pile and pile and pile until I doze them).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But this year, my drawing every day project has NOT been getting the short end of the stick.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I want to talk about it more later, but I&#8217;ve kept up a great buffer, and am well ahead of the game for 2025. So far ahead that I&#8217;ve started doing more complex drawings, rather than just the drawing exercises. Above, I&#8217;m redrawing one of my sketches for the Instant Book &#8220;An Original Use of Magic&#8221; for Thinking Ink Press. Frankly speaking, I&#8217;m not a great artist. But I have learned a trick for producing art better than I&#8217;m normally capable of: I redraw my own artwork over and over again until I get it right. I think it is progressing quite well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I still have a long way to go. But I can see that I&#8217;m starting to make progress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>-the Centaur<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pictured: My portable drawing setup, which I carry with me almost everywhere I go, to facilitate the &#8220;Drawing Every Day&#8221; project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I frequently stack too many projects on top of me to adequately attack all of them &#8211; perhaps this might be a consequence of me running upwards of two&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[226,227],"tags":[260,5],"class_list":["post-8729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artworks","category-sketchworks","tag-drawing-every-day","tag-we-call-it-living","ratio-2-1","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8729"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8731,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8729\/revisions\/8731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}