January Goals: Hit or Miss?

 

Welcome to the first Goal Recap post of 2026! Yippie!

In the art department, I have been incredibly busy and have made my way through some stuff that I really wanted to get done. I am super proud that I managed as much as I did this month. I have come up with a lot of designs, and really, I am proud of myself for that.

Art course-wise, I didn’t get as much done as I wanted to. I kind of got into a little bit of a rut with it because things just didn’t work out the way I wanted to work out, then my shadows on my reference were wrong, so I have to redo the whole assignment. I bought an extra lamp; now I just need to build myself a box, so I have defined shadows for my assignment. The issue was that I had multiple shadows coming from the items I chose to draw, and that was confusing to draw, especially in an assignment that focuses on light and shadow haha.

The disappointing part is that I have not gone to the garage to work out. Earlier this month I got my Haku colored in, so I had to wait, and then I let an apprentice tattoo me as well. So, it is all self-inflicted when it comes to not working out. I really need to get better about it. I am taking a break from tattoos now anyway. I have been on my walks, however, so that is a good in all the bad haha

We had to take a longer break from my Korean classes because my teacher went back to school yay So, he was really busy with his classes. I tried doing Duolingo to keep up with the grammar and stuff; however, there is an ad after every lesson now, if you don't have the paid tier. That really sucks, and made me not want to do it at all, because it took much longer to get anything done. It was simply annoying to deal with the ads. 

I have been journaling more. There was a week where I just didn’t, but with my cough, it just sucked doing anything, so journaling fell by the wayside. I am really trying hard to do it. I just lack motivation for it, I guess, or it’s more likely self-doubt because my pages don’t look as cute as you see online. Then I start thinking oh why am I even doing this lol. Brains are funny like that.

How was your progress this month? Let me know in the comments 😊