KaitSith: From Art Nerd to Amazon, Level 2!

[KaitSith]

Heeyyyyyyyyy there Challenge 2, you are looking good.  I'm going to complete you with 90% or better, so you best prepare.

[shadowmoonsedai]

17 hours ago, KaitSith said:

Heeyyyyyyyyy there Challenge 2, you are looking good.  I'm going to complete you with 90% or better, so you best prepare.

Yes but what iiiiis iiiit? 

[KaitSith]

I still have dreams of being a fantastically hot Amazon Warrior / Lady-Gaston. (STILL!)

I will settle for being healthier and in better shape, running my art business successfully on the side, and owning a house instead of renting.

 

Warrior-to-be KaitSith's LEVEL 2 REBEL CHALLENGE:

Diet 

• Enter calories into tracker and eat a salad daily for lunch or dinner.
• 1 cup coffee, 1 cup tea daily, water only after.

Fitness

• Ride the bike or walk 3x a week.
• Find low-impact strength training (THANKS L4 and L5)

Level Up Your Life 

• Create!  Write, draw, paint something every day and share.
• Spending Freeze for one week, building up to one month.

Biggest of Goals

1.Make Kit & Wolfe a successful business 2.Get to healthy weight 3.Get Finances in Check 4. Finish Book series 5. Buy a house

 

Break 'em down:

1. Kit & Wolfe successful business

1. Create Website and active social media
2. Paint complete body of work
3. Make prints and do physical shows
4. Submit work to galleries

2. Get to healthy weight

1. Clean Up Eating
   1. Cut out empty calories
   2. Meal Prep
   3. Count calories
2. Exercise
   1. Strength training
   2. Ride bike Walk 3x/week
   3. Join a new class

3. Get Finances in Check

1. Make savings plan
2. pay down one credit card
3. spending freeze for one month
4. pay down second credit card
5. pay down last card
6. add money from paying cards into emergency fund

4. Finish Book series

1. Write often
2. Aim for Book 2 completed by June.
3. Edit edit edit
4. Share with someone to beta read

5. Buy a house

1. Pay down debts
2. Improve credit 
3. save for down payment
4. Find House
5. Rainbows and Unicorns

[Miw_Sher]

4 hours ago, shadowmoonsedai said:

Yes but what iiiiis iiiit? 

 

+1

[Miw_Sher]

Ooooh, the thread updated after I posted.

 

Your Big Goals are big! I have the utmost admiration for those who start their own business. Best of luck with it!

[KaitSith]

32 minutes ago, Miw_Sher said:

Ooooh, the thread updated after I posted.

 

Your Big Goals are big! I have the utmost admiration for those who start their own business. Best of luck with it!

THANK YOU!!!!

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Anyone who thinks about venturing into this madness needs all the luck they can wrangle

I dabbled with selling paintings in person and online but it is no where near full time.

  I have an Instagram and Facebook where I share works in progress and I networked a lot to find some awesome Maker's Markets/ Art shows/ and galleries in the area.  But I don't have a car right now nor do I have an EZ Up or comparable tent and I don't ever feel like my paintings are where I want them to be. To make it happen I have to get over the fear that my work isn't good enough, then I need to make prints, and finally I need to get a nice booth set up.
^^ Yeah just those things.

[Fae Rising]

Yay another writer!

 

I love all your goals! Following

 

 

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[Pherales]

Some great and awesome goals there!  Breaking your huge goals down into little chunks is also awesome   looking forward to seeing you rock this!

[Hobbitron]

Following!

Great detailed goals  

Running your own business is the hardest but most rewarding thing if you can do it. Reaching out for support is a big necessity for positive and negative days. 

 

[Luciana Valerosa Culming]

It's so cool that you try to start your own business and create your own art and write. If you want to, I can give you a link to the Art accountability group later, when I finished setting up the new thread. We try to encourage each other by posting pictures of our current projects.

[shadowmoonsedai]

22 hours ago, KaitSith said:

THANK YOU!!!!

!!!

!!

Anyone who thinks about venturing into this madness needs all the luck they can wrangle

I dabbled with selling paintings in person and online but it is no where near full time.

  I have an Instagram and Facebook where I share works in progress and I networked a lot to find some awesome Maker's Markets/ Art shows/ and galleries in the area.  But I don't have a car right now nor do I have an EZ Up or comparable tent and I don't ever feel like my paintings are where I want them to be. To make it happen I have to get over the fear that my work isn't good enough, then I need to make prints, and finally I need to get a nice booth set up.
^^ Yeah just those things.

I think it's important to remember that the people buying your work will see it very differently than you do. The average lay person doesn't have the same eye that an artist does and is more willing to accept what you would call flaws as enhancements. Also, I think your stuff is gorgeous and I can't wait to buy all of it (as soon as I have a place to hang it in my disaster of a house, oi).

[Miw_Sher]

You've probably seen this already, but just in case you missed it, there's a specialmini going on this challenge. 

 

 

[KaitSith]

On 2/8/2017 at 1:12 PM, shadowmoonsedai said:

I think it's important to remember that the people buying your work will see it very differently than you do. The average lay person doesn't have the same eye that an artist does and is more willing to accept what you would call flaws as enhancements. Also, I think your stuff is gorgeous and I can't wait to buy all of it (as soon as I have a place to hang it in my disaster of a house, oi).

BUT ITS NOT HOW I SEE IT IN MY HEEEEAAADDDDD .  Where is the foaming at the mouth emoji? 

 

I know these are my hang ups, for sure, but I still put myself and my work out there.  Now that the car is kaput I have an excuse to keep refining work instead of showing work.

[shadowmoonsedai]

2 hours ago, KaitSith said:

BUT ITS NOT HOW I SEE IT IN MY HEEEEAAADDDDD .  Where is the foaming at the mouth emoji? 

 

I know these are my hang ups, for sure, but I still put myself and my work out there.  Now that the car is kaput I have an excuse to keep refining work instead of showing work.

I do totally get it. I'm currently in a funk over my writing because I've convinced myself that I'm never be as good as the writers in editing. So much imposter syndrome, uuuugh. 

[Luciana Valerosa Culming]

I watched a documentation about Lovecraft yesterday. He seemed to be a really hard critic on himself, too. Seems to be something a lot of writers experience.

[Miw_Sher]

12 hours ago, Luciana Valerosa Culming said:

I watched a documentation about Lovecraft yesterday. He seemed to be a really hard critic on himself, too. Seems to be something a lot of writers experience.

As someone who isstudyingVFX, that makes a lot of sense. People working in the craft have a much more trained eye. I can't watch movies for more than 15 minutes anymore before I start noticing things that were done well or badly in VFX. For instance; in the Rogue One Star Wars spin off. There are two actors that have been completely reconstituted by VFX. For a layperson, that is awe-inducing. For me... well, I saw every single detail that was a dead giveaway of the VFX. They were impressive, that is for sure, but they were not perfect by any means.

[KaitSith]

2 hours ago, Miw_Sher said:

As someone who isstudyingVFX, that makes a lot of sense. People working in the craft have a much more trained eye. I can't watch movies for more than 15 minutes anymore before I start noticing things that were done well or badly in VFX. For instance; in the Rogue One Star Wars spin off. There are two actors that have been completely reconstituted by VFX. For a layperson, that is awe-inducing. For me... well, I saw every single detail that was a dead giveaway of the VFX. They were impressive, that is for sure, but they were not perfect by any means.

TARKIN LOOKED LIKE A PLASTIC DROID OF TARKIN.  You're not the oooooonnnlllllly one!  I thought Leia was ok, but thats because her screen-time was like... 2.5 seconds

[KaitSith]

14 hours ago, Luciana Valerosa Culming said:

I watched a documentation about Lovecraft yesterday. He seemed to be a really hard critic on himself, too. Seems to be something a lot of writers experience.

We're all our own worst critics.  Ira Glass talks about it a lot, and its my go-to: 

 

 

 

[KaitSith]

20 hours ago, shadowmoonsedai said:

I do totally get it. I'm currently in a funk over my writing because I've convinced myself that I'm never be as good as the writers in editing. So much imposter syndrome, uuuugh. 

Oh, I'm writing fanfiction for Mr. Sith instead of my actual novel because I am convinced that I'm not good enough yet - I understand you soooo much.

[Miw_Sher]

TARKIN LOOKED LIKE A PLASTIC DROID OF TARKIN.  You're not the oooooonnnlllllly one!  I thought Leia was ok, but thats because her screen-time was like... 2.5 seconds

 

With Tarkin.... omg the eyes. The eyes! If you spent more than five seconds on them, they were just creepy. The person who added that weird glint there should be sacked.

 

Also, it probably was even worse than it appeared since he was in half-darkness the entire time. Very smart of the supervisors there.

 

Leia did not have any expression whatsoever and that is what allowed them to get away with it.

 

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[shadowmoonsedai]

20 hours ago, KaitSith said:

TARKIN LOOKED LIKE A PLASTIC DROID OF TARKIN.  You're not the oooooonnnlllllly one!  I thought Leia was ok, but thats because her screen-time was like... 2.5 seconds

As a lay person, Tarkin was the furthest thing from awe-inducing, unless you're really into some Uncanny Valley. 

[KaitSith]

On 2/11/2017 at 0:59 PM, shadowmoonsedai said:

As a lay person, Tarkin was the furthest thing from awe-inducing, unless you're really into some Uncanny Valley. 

Which is sad because the Tarkin books were excellent and that character is a fan favorite (and Star Wars novels need all the excellence they can get to combat all the, "their blades sang the song of battle," nonsense that they usually contain).

[shadowmoonsedai]

41 minutes ago, KaitSith said:

Which is sad because the Tarkin books were excellent and that character is a fan favorite (and Star Wars novels need all the excellence they can get to combat all the, "their blades sang the song of battle," nonsense that they usually contain).

I will admit that I haven't read most of the novels. The only one I've read is this first one by Chuck Wendig, which I really enjoyed. 

 

Day 2 of the challenge! Do you want to be my food tracker accountabilibuddy? That's something I'd really like to work on as well. 

[KaitSith]

4 hours ago, shadowmoonsedai said:

I will admit that I haven't read most of the novels. The only one I've read is this first one by Chuck Wendig, which I really enjoyed. 

 

Day 2 of the challenge! Do you want to be my food tracker accountabilibuddy? That's something I'd really like to work on as well. 

Sure! I am tracking too on MFP - are you keeping a log somewhere?

[fleaball]

Welp, the Star Wars talk lost me but hiiii back to root for you!