Sunshine Revival Challenge #1

[elyusion]

Journaling Prompt: Light up your journal with activity this month. Talk about your goals for July or for the second half of 2025.
Because I'm obsessed with making lists, especially to-do lists, I actually do have a list of well-defined goals to finish by the end of this month. I'm only going to share the ones I'm pretty sure I'll complete, because it's really embarrassing saying you're going to do something and then not doing it.

• Translate 5 chapters of that thing I'm translating.
  
• Translate one smaller thing, like a one-shot or interview or something.
  
• Finish one (1) singular illustration.
  
• Finish one book of original English-language fiction.
  
  • To the readers here this probably seems crazy to have to add as a goal, but I usually use comics to fulfill my fiction needs, and read nonfiction otherwise. For my future job I need to read more fiction in my native language though, so here I am. Although, I'm also told I need to be reading contemporary fiction, to know what readers expect now... instead what I'm reading is from the 60s and 70s. I have a problem, I think.

My goals for the second half of the year? I just want my driver's license and to graduate college TT I know I'll hate having a job too (when I had one for a while I was like "so... is this just it for the rest of my life?" and my sanity meter started draining, but I went back to school before it could empty), but I'm so over school. And I would like to go to the places I want when I want! Looking forward to that!! I don't live in a place where depending on public transportation is feasible for an exciting life.

As for the creative prompt, I had started a drawing (completely unrelated to this event, but I was going to share it regardless), but I wasn't able to finish it in time. I'm trying to figure out what's causing me to be such a slow artist lately - lately meaning the past 5 years or so - but I hope I can do at least one of the creative prompts. I know there's not actually any time limit, so maybe I'll do them all even if it takes a while... I still haven't even finished the Snowflake Challenge though. ^^; I forgot about it until just now, although it's in one of my many to-do lists.

Here's to hoping I'm able to accomplish everything I want. 🙏🏾

Comments

[muscle_wizard]

I hope you do too, I believe in you <3

[mekare]

Hey best of luck with your art goals. Sounds like you have a lot going on, so it's not a surprise your energy for art may be low. If you‘d like some gentle encouragement/prompting, check out drawesome.

[svgurl]

I totally remember the feeling of just wanting to be done as you get closer to graduation. Good luck with making it through and getting your driver's license, as well as the rest of your goals! :D

[elyusion]

Thank you! 🖤

[elyusion]

Thank you; it means a lot ^_^

[elyusion]

Consider it checked out! I guess I am pretty busy... I have too many skills I want to hone 😭 I hope you'll see me around in drawesome sometime.

[scripsi]

Good luck with your goals!

[elyusion]

Thank you so much 💛

[zenigotchas]

Gopher it. Those don't sound like impossible goals.

Anyway not to be demanding but can I see it's current sketch form then? I like looking at any art in any state tbh

[elyusion]

Sure, but don't feel the need to force a compliment once you see it, LOL. It's here. In the middle I was going to paste a screenshot of a Tumblr post that says the following: "the wife of this boddhisattva keeps cheating on him with me and it sucks every time he catches us fucking on his bed he just smiles and nods with boundless compassion and understanding i think she's actually getting off on how guilty it makes me feel"

See, in retrospect, it's a good thing I never finished it because such an image, featuring characters from a series 5 people on this side of the planet care about (and I'm barely exaggerating when I say that), would be a wild way to introduce myself. (Also for the record I Was Going to Add Clothes, I Swear)

[zenigotchas]

I can tell you must practice a lot! I think you have good anatomy.

For me it is the opposite–The nicher it is, the sweeter it is to finish it for myself. I mean I can get the loneliness! It can feel like effort wasted or even a bit "cringe"–it's NOT and cringe culture is dead and should remain that way, but I mean, I think self conciousness is a feeling that happens a lot in these moments of sincerity where we share art about things we really really care about that others don't. That's where the fear of being """cringe""" comes in. But tbh, I have respect for people who are brave enough to be honest about what they like, even if it's not popular.

(But I agree it does get tiring. I wish more of my fave things were bigger in 'Murica (icon relevant))