Based on a fuzzy photo in the rain, this morning I used it as a reference for this pencil sketch. The result is what it is, but it’s a result despite the fear of failure. The latter is silly 🙃 since nothing is threatening me, nor has failing real consequences. 🎨

Work (currently) in Progress 🏃 First long run in my current marathon schedule, a 3+ hour run.

See my Strava activity.

Watching relay.fm’s live stream for St. Jude Children’s Hospital fundraiser. It starts in a few minutes!

I’ve noticed that in my timeline in many occasions I have no idea what people are writing about. I suppose the reverse is true as well. I wonder how I can find people to follow who at least I can somewhat understand. The Discover tab isn’t doing it for me, clearly, same reason.

Isn’t it customary for people who need their iPhone to work, to wait for at least a point update, like 16.1? 👨‍💻📱

Today’s ballpoint pen sketch from observation. It’s still hard to get into the mood of drawing, especially if there’s so much noise around to distract me 🎨

Observational sketch with ballpoint pen in a notebook 🎨

More experimenting. I made a frame of 120 x 108 mm on paper in my notebook and sketched a fox from a photo reference with ballpoint pen. Next I scanned it and tried to create a pixel art outline, which I filled with flat colors. 🎨 It’s too many steps to feel “easy to do."
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So perhaps I should do some urban sketching with a notebook and a pen. Here’s two sketches of my two Bengal cats in low-low resolution (16x16) 🎨🐱Perhaps the resolution should be more like 64x64 pixels for better recognizability, or even higher, 160x144. So more experiments…
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So swordtember turned out to be a big failure. It seems I’m really bad at routine and habit forming. Nevertheless, I turned to Reddit gets Drawn, and drew this woman 🎨 No idea if I can keep this up. I haven’t posted it on Reddit, because I don’t like it myself, so why would she?
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So phone cameras are basically a way to deal with what’s in front of you, examine its intricacies and details, later, much later. It would be the opposite of being in the moment, of living life to its fullest. If this is true, of course. It may devalue life experiences to pixels.

This month I’m doing swordtember. Number 1 is the longsword, done as pixel art
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I like the design esthetics of this pixel art drawing I made in August. After being burnt out from self-challenges earlier this year, maybe I should pick up my Apple Pencil again, and join one of the many online suggestions for artistic self-challenges, only more selective this time. If a criterium (draw every day) becomes a target, it loses its usefulness
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Wonders what would remain of texts authored by private individuals if it’s not a call to arms, nor a self-promotional write-up. No wonder personal blogs have been decimated since 2006, then mainly used for spit takes and self-aggrandizing, as was aptly noticed by social media 📝

This morning I fell during a forest 🏃 Something I “luck” 😣 into more often than I’d like. So what does one do? Well, it’s silly to try and resist gravity, unless you’re able to jump over the moon. No, you give in, rolling over the ground, making a mess of yourself. No blood, yay!

The project I started yesterday was finished today with some annual plants, replanted from the planters that stood in front of my house before. Of course, I’ve watered and fertilized them 🌺 🌱 🏠

I don’t have a front garden, so I made one. I call it a micro garden. My cat Maahir seems to enjoy it 🌸🐱🏠

This morning I had a resting heart rate of 42 beats per minute, the lowest measured in my life so far. I know running buddies who (claim to) have a HRrest as low as 34 bpm. Yay for supercompensation, the superior form of adaptation in sports physiology 🏃🩺

Preparing for a 10 km race this afternoon, 15.00 hours local time (CEST). With faster shoes and 3 kg weight loss I should be able to beat the 50:02 I ran six weeks ago, though it’s 5℃ warmer today 🏃‍♂️

Wish me luck, please, TIA!

Tried the new HOKA ONE ONE Carbon X 3 running shoe🏃‍♂️ ‘Twas an instabuy.

Aaand, I got a discount on an already low price. It’s not the Nike Alphafly super shoe, but more affordable and still awesome for a slowpoke like me.