After closely tracking my creative work for the week. I have found many a few things very interesting. One thing is that the purple marks on the calendar only occur at night. And looking back that makes sense because while working two jobs and taking grad school classes i don’t really spend much of my time anymore teaching myself music, but anytime that I can’t fall asleep I will. And this past week both Monday and Tuesday I could not fall asleep. So I taught myself a couple of Hamilton songs.
Another pattern I noticed this week and after reflecting on other week s happens very often, is that once I get my assignments for my production job in the second half of the week I kind of stop doing personal art for myself because most of my time is dedicated to either editing for my job or I’m stuck in the office at my other job at the beach. The only personal thing that sometimes breaks up my creative work is when I create stickers or digital art work on procreate and adobe illustrator and honestly I usually go on to my iPad when the videos are exporting on my computer.
One thing that would be considered an outlier for the week is my Saturday and Sunday being spent doing photography. I usually like to go out on adventures and photograph as often as I can, but with how this summer has been going I haven’t had a lot of time. Fortunately this past weekend I was able to drive up to Connecticut and go adventuring with some friends, which was really fun and definitely a nice break from my usual weekend work.
Overall it did shock me to see how much time I spend doing creative projects for the whole week. On the other hand, I feel for this to be a truly comprehensive data visualization I would have to track my hours for an entire month because each week can fluctuate a lot between how much creative work my job gives me and how much of a creative drive I have to create my own personal work.
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