alright, one more rep, one more 1,000 word essay, and then i'll let myself draw some solarpunk art
i promised myself i'd write for most of the afternoon/evening to prepare for my salon, and then i'd let myself draw, as a treat
i don't usually write to prepare for things that involve speaking. read a book by Dale Carnegie on public speaking a few years ago that emphasized preparing by speaking informally rather than writing (especially not writing your talk out word for word)
been talking about drawing with @QiaochuYuan who said this the other day: "drawing as a meditative method for concentrating attention on an object for multiple hours has a lot going for it" which i completely agree with
i've done many many hours of meditation and i can concentrate pretty decently but i am genuinely astonished at how easy it is to get into concentration states while drawing
I've gotten into more flow state type areas from drawing recently than meditation ever, along a certain axis anyway
i am understandably very intimidated by this upcoming solarpunk challenge i've signed myself up for, and have been procrastinating working on it, so i took a feasible step with this image
i didn't spend very long on it but i sorta proved to myself i could make a thing that was relevant