Re: The Chronicles of An Overly Ambitious Soon To Be 20 year old.
Posted: Sun Apr 23, 2017 1:12 am
Okay, quite a bit to write.
On an unrelated note, I've finally gotten the book, blaurebell. I've done the blind contour exercises and just about a half hour of gesture drawing. Quite the experience, I must say. Being forced to sketch a pose in just about 30 seconds really makes me see human movement in a totally different way. The exercises apparently take 375 hours to complete. Yikes. However, I really don't mind progressing slowly. I'm also doing the lessons on the very appropriately named drawabox.com (and the subreddit by the very kind teacher, r/ArtFundamentals). True to its name, you do draw a lot of boxes but considering the fact that I have such a shoddy technical foundation, the exercises will definitely help me a lot.
I've also been having a ton of fun with the fountain pen, especially when I'm practising my cursive. I'm a definite convert now and ballpoints already feel unwieldly. So smooth
Russian
I've finally hit a wall with Assimil Russian without Toil, lesson 22 to be precise. While I've been focusing more on speed, as it is an attempt at a speed run after all, I've also been seeing a few grammar concepts in action. However, the amount of new vocab every lesson is overwhelming. I'll give it another go later, when I've progressed a bit further with the other resources as I'm bound to encounter much of the hard-to-stick vocab in other contexts.
Still progressing slowly with Michel Thomas, Duolingo and Colloquial. Slow and steady, they say....
German
Apart from a few pages of Ecce Homo, haven't done much.
French
More watching of Bob Lennon's absolute fantastic Skyrim mega series (200 episodes) I find myself laughing every minute or so and I know that my listening comprehension has definitely improved. I'm close to finishing the half SC (75 hours) and I'm thinking of extending it to 150 hours just so I have an excuse to finish the series
Spanish
Nothing special, more Assimil Spanish without Toil. Growing bored and itching to make the jump to native content but I've promised myself that I'll finish at least one Assimil course. Bit of a disappointment as I discovered that my Scriptorium notebook's paper was of a lower quality than I had initially thought, and feathered unpleasantly when I tried to use my fountain pen on it. Oh well, can't have everything.
On an unrelated note, I've finally gotten the book, blaurebell. I've done the blind contour exercises and just about a half hour of gesture drawing. Quite the experience, I must say. Being forced to sketch a pose in just about 30 seconds really makes me see human movement in a totally different way. The exercises apparently take 375 hours to complete. Yikes. However, I really don't mind progressing slowly. I'm also doing the lessons on the very appropriately named drawabox.com (and the subreddit by the very kind teacher, r/ArtFundamentals). True to its name, you do draw a lot of boxes but considering the fact that I have such a shoddy technical foundation, the exercises will definitely help me a lot.
I've also been having a ton of fun with the fountain pen, especially when I'm practising my cursive. I'm a definite convert now and ballpoints already feel unwieldly. So smooth
Russian
I've finally hit a wall with Assimil Russian without Toil, lesson 22 to be precise. While I've been focusing more on speed, as it is an attempt at a speed run after all, I've also been seeing a few grammar concepts in action. However, the amount of new vocab every lesson is overwhelming. I'll give it another go later, when I've progressed a bit further with the other resources as I'm bound to encounter much of the hard-to-stick vocab in other contexts.
Still progressing slowly with Michel Thomas, Duolingo and Colloquial. Slow and steady, they say....
German
Apart from a few pages of Ecce Homo, haven't done much.
French
More watching of Bob Lennon's absolute fantastic Skyrim mega series (200 episodes) I find myself laughing every minute or so and I know that my listening comprehension has definitely improved. I'm close to finishing the half SC (75 hours) and I'm thinking of extending it to 150 hours just so I have an excuse to finish the series
Spanish
Nothing special, more Assimil Spanish without Toil. Growing bored and itching to make the jump to native content but I've promised myself that I'll finish at least one Assimil course. Bit of a disappointment as I discovered that my Scriptorium notebook's paper was of a lower quality than I had initially thought, and feathered unpleasantly when I tried to use my fountain pen on it. Oh well, can't have everything.