Kiki

Slight edge is really a great book. I finished it and had a more clear mind on my goal. It can really help you on making plans.

Day 41~42 (challenge day 2) Oh wow my friends are going to make their own board game called"enchanted woods" and I am responsible for designing the characters!! I think that's a extremely reasonable purpose for me to work hard during this holiday! Actually I trained at least 5 hour a day as I attended the online drawing group. And I am going to design my first character today! And yesterday I went to my friend's house and he teached me basic operations about Maya. I am so excited.

Hi Ring that's a well organized journal and I wish you successful! I will be following too!

Hi Kiki. It's very surprised for me too. I saw different countries' people in this forum so I guess there may be some Hong Kong people too. Actually I cannot find any forum in Hong Kong is like Game Quitter. In HK, the forum are just focus on chatting like HKGolden/HKDiscuss/ HKuwants/Babykingdom/ Beautyexchange etc. There are many advertisement on the forum everywhere and want you to spend money. None of them tell u how to improve yourself step by step. Exactly! None of the forums in HK are talking about self development and people here tend to blame others for their misfortune instead of taking responsibility for what they had done that resulted in the consequences.(In fact All of my friends were shocked and had no positive response when I told them I was quitting games lol.) But don't let others to stop us. Just keep in faith and show our results to others!

Day 38 ~ 40 (challenge day0) the quarter ends ! It's hard not to oversleep during holiday... I was super lucky again to be invited to a group that everyone will train at designated tune! So I won't be lazy on the holiday!

Oh hey Ring! I am kiki and I am from Hong Kong too! (Thats the first time I see Hong konger here haha I am excited to see you here!) I am a college student too so let's work hard together!

Thank you guys I will think about it seriously(I still have 4 months to make decision ) Day 37(challenge day 10) today i had strong urge of watching animation when I was about to work - but I survived after 30minutes of struggling! Then I finished my work on time and went to bed! The thing I did was to do no nothing instead or find something to eat haha

Day 35&36 (challenge day 9) I went to extra classes outside school again and I realised myself was improving! I also considered whether I should study abroad as all of my friends are going next year and they also wanted me to go with them! I am very grateful that my accountability partner are helping me too!

Thanks Mad pharmacist and Lukas listening to audio book is really a good idea don't worry I only read self development book on bus. For draiwng guide books I will probably read them at home. Thank you T! I think i have almost overcome the problem with gaming and what challenge I am facing is something even bigger. But I won't lose hope! Day 34( challenge day 7) Huh I nearly did nothing today. I just watched an animation film and messed around in the house. I have presentation tmr and I didnt work on it the whole day. Instead I keep checking messages and getting lost. I realised how important it is to avoid staying in the house or else I would definitely become lazy. At least I should go to the self study room near my apartment if I really don't want to go to school, although it is weird to do drawing project in that place. Just dont stay at home. And I should have plan the day. I should plan on what I suppose to do each hour. today I desired to just watch aniation for 2 hours then head back to work straightly. Sadly it expanded to 4 hours followed by several hours of mindless browsing. I read a post from another quitter about how to plan the day and I think it will be useful to me. Also, I realised myself become distracted after some passive entertainment (eg. Reading comics, watching animation). They are so much fun and I think I should at least read / watch some of those to be familiar with them as I decided to major in similar subjects next year. But I have cravings for watching more and more once I start watching then I may possibly ended up with doing nothing else. I was quite disturbed. Daily mission: just don't mention it Things I am grateful for: -the only thing I did is to plan my winter quarter break! I have designed some effective training and figured out how to implement them. And my accountability partner is super heartwarming to give me detailed and structured suggestions and recommendations!

Day 33 (challenge day 6) I went to school for my project again. The tutor Thomas is amazing and he taught me a lot. I don't know how to repay him... Today was they school open day too and my family came here lol but they took me away so a didnt work since 4pm sad face The most wonderful thing is that my accountability partner is going to help me plan my holiday Daily mission: other things are fine but I can't read 10pages as a read so slow on the bus

You did it!!! I am glad that I can do something using the drawing skills I learnt lol. I wonder what it feels like to look forward to do homework good luck on your journey ahead!

I choose the power of habit but I guess I will read all of them later! Day 32 (challenge day 5) I went to school early for my project. My classmates were chatting with each other happily. I wish I could join them too. I don't know if my English is improved but at least I still can't have conversation with my classmates easily. They are talking fast and with accent which let me hard to follow. Then I attended the drawing club. In fact the processor helped me draw for 90% of the drawing but he kept praising me again and again. I didn't know why he didn't realised and he also made other student getting jealous too. but overall he was a great teacher. I could say none of the techniques I learnt was from my normal drawing class, but from him and m classmates. Daily mission: all done

Wow thanks so much WorkInProgress! I have many books to read now! Day 31( challenge day 4) I stayed at school for the hole day to work. However, I couldn't concentrate well as I am too sleepy. The content of the project is challenging too. Fortunately a senior student was willing to help me and he suggested me to find the real figure at 5/F for refrence. At night we had fuel for final and the meal offered was delicious haha. daily mission: all done!

Day 30( challenge day 3) wow, I have completed one-third of the journey! I watched a featured animation film at home for celebration haha Things to be grateful for: - I bought my lunch and share with my friend - managed to wake up early I decided to fill the checklist everyday! - stretching exercise: ✓ - effective practice on drawing: ✓ - read 10 pages: ✕ (haven't found another book yet)

My slight edge plan!

Hi happykhan! Thanks for writing to me. Unfortunately I think the tutor is right . After thinking for the whole day, I guess what he meant is that I am not skilled enough. I didn't check the perspective well before shading, and I didn't observe enough to shade the object properly, so the outcome is far from satisfactory. He didn't want to hurt me, and we all believe that everyone can draw well once they practiced enough, so he concluded that I was not taking it seriously. I agree that self confidence is very important but self awareness is also vital for achieving goals. Being open-minded to objective comments is the method to improve. (in our culture teachers tend to keep comments hard to understand and let us think about it haha! Although the tutor also teach me many useful techniques) day 29 (challenge day 2) I drew several cubes using different approach in the break. I also seek help from the senior student in sequential art major. He pointed out the problems in my gesture and perspective and said something surprising again: 'Do you know why the prof are praising everyone in classes? As she thinks that she is incapable to help them due to student's incapability. So what she can do is to praise.' omg I was confused I was not familiar with this foreign culture Then I rushed to the extra drawing class after school and show my new drawing to the tutor. He said I was getting better, but still left room for improvement. I was excited! Things to be grateful: -My tutor is super super super helpful more helpful than the dumb prof in my school!!! He teached me loads of skills that I never heard from the prof! -a nice lunch at a Taiwanese restaurant -be able to see progress

Day 28 (challenge day 0): I went to the meeting of StoryTaler, a volunteer organization that focuses on eliminating social stigma. I am a graphic team member in the organization. Our members in story team have to share their own stories in the story day in next year, so they started practicing from now. I was surprised when I heard their stories. The story tellers was suffering from different mental illness such as depression, social anxiety disorder and split personality, but they are brave to accept their condition and step up to share their stories with the public. They encouraged me to face my own obstacles. Day 29(challenge day 1) : I attended an extra drawing class outside school (not organised by our school). The school were not supposed to get me to anywhere as long as I didnt work hard. (I tried to take the responsibility instead of blaming everything around me, as the book taught me haha) After finishing my drawing and showing my previous drawing to the tutor, what feedback I got is that 'You didnt take it seriously. You didn't try your best to draw.' I was shocked! I was using this approach to draw all long my school class and my prof also praised me. But in fact that wasn't enough at all and it was considered as 'not taking it seriously'! I felt like my mind was cleaned by the tutor and from now on I should practise hard. I believe the power of slight edges can get me where I want! I would type my slight edge list later. Grateful things today: Ate a super delicious salad Working seriously until 11pm with my friend Being able to be taught by a great tutor

Day 27 (Wake up challenge day0) I overslept on this Saturday and I went to a gallery with my friend. It was so disappointing. I took the bus for1.5hour to get there and there were only 5 exhibition pieces and none of those were related to me as they were all installation art. Then I attended the Christian fellowship, which I seldom did when I was gaming. Actually I had the time to do anything I want. As long as I didnt procrastinate and wasting time on meaningless things.

WorkinProgress that's the city of xian China! Thanks Lukas! And if you show them to your mother maybe she will realised this drawing didn't involve any skills orz. At first the professor suggested me cross hatching all the items in the picture but I destroyed all if my ink pens as I couldn't hold the pen properly orz. So I decided to just blacken the things and luckily that was good looking too. Day 26 (wake up challenge day 1) I had dream about relapse again orz. This time I played Pokemon in my dream and I realized myself relapsed after 90min of gameplay. I remembered myself decided to hide the truth and continue the detox lol. Luckily it was just a dream. Also, I started reading the book slight edge. In my life I always wanted instant results and refused to continue to develop the skills if I couldn't do well at the start. For example, before quitting I tried to play LoL and I deleted the game after 1 day as I couldn't play well and was scolded by others lol. This behavior was similar to other daily life situation to. So I thought this will be a good book for me. Today I attended the open model session hahaha that was fun! I also attended the drawing club at school and the professor is extremely helpful, more helpful than my prof in classes for 100 times! I was so happy to meet a prof which was helpful!

Day 25 Today my prof praised my work hahaha and I had lunch at the restaurant where I worked in durng summer holiday. I was very grateful as this was the first part-time job in my life and they were very nice to me. Today was not very effective as I slept in the afternoon and do nothing lol. But that's ok otherwise I would get sick after staying up late. Grateful things: Skype with my accountability partner! Yay! He is super nice and he becomes one of my boy god ! Yay!

Hi T! Thank you for your support! I want to watch re:zero too and I will probably watch it when I have time haha Day 24 Project finished! As I waked up super early and I went to school for working on the project so I was very productive! I avoid mindless browsing all the day and finished the project on time. However I still stayed up late until 3am so the 30 days challenge will be reset. Also I have to stay up to 1am for registering classes so the challenge will be started on Friday I guess.

Thanks everyone! I felt better now! @WorkInProgress I also did digital drawing! In fact I didn't use traditional media at all before having my foundation classes at college! I didn't take visual art as an elective when I was high school and I wasn't familiar with traditional media. The pictures I posted was my projects at college haha. Maybe I will post some here later! Thankyou for your suggestion! What i was looking for is jobs related to animation/sequential art/illustration/game design rather than pure design. But still thank you! Lukas I definitely agree that spending time on drawing is a lot more meaningful to gaming haha Day 23 Waking up at 6 with lack of sleep to go to school, I suddenly had a feeling of depression and I thought I was unfortunate to have to wake up so early lol. However, something strange happened. When I was listening the song that has identical name to my journal (coldplay- army of one) , I somehow regard the 'you' in the lyrics as god (I am a Christian) and I thought all I was doing currently is for his sake. I dont know what kind of jobs I can apply for in the future but at least I can be a picture book artist and draw for god. And it also remind me of the priest in my high school saying that the mission or suffer we are currently bearing is definitely bearable as god has already thought it over before giving us anything. I nearly bursted into tears on the bus while thinking about these. So at now I decided to start a 30 days challenge to sleep before 11 and wake up before 6 everyday. I was inivited by a friend to do so.I think it will be beneficial to me to achieve my goal. Today when I wrote this is day 1 now and I was energetic and happy. I arrived school at 6:55am with a class at 3 pm hahahaa. Here are some of the lyrics in the song: Been around the world The wonders to view Been around the world Looking for someone like you Pyramids try Babylon too But the beautifullest treasures lie in the deepest blue So I never say die Aim never untrue I’m never so high as when I’m with you And there isn’t a fire that I wouldn’t walk through My army of one is gonna fight for you

Day22 ah I dont want to comment on my exam orz My projects are posted here. I don't think they are something I can be proud of but maybe I should acknowledge my efforts spent on it?? My Secondary school are asking me to apply for the scholarship as I achieve satisfying results in the public exam. But how should I tell them I refuse to being admitted to Chinese medicine university and choose an art school instead?? My friend scolded me when I told them how many marks I got from the public exam and they told me I were wasting money and time on this art school lol. By far I had learnt nothing from the prof and I am practicing all by myself. I also couldn't think of any jobs that I can apply for after graduation besides jobs related to game design. I don't know whether I have chosen the right path. (Working on progress)

I like your idea of being best possible version of yourselves! I realized that many things I did currently are not leading myself to become a person that can be proud of. I look forward to seeing your progress!

Thank you your suggestion lukas! I should try doing something besides using my phone before sleep... Thanks mad scientist! I won't let my bad dream come true for sure! Day 21 Finally exam tmr. I don't want to suffer aymore ugh Today I went to the birthday party of my brother's friend haha. He is a artistic child and he is good at drawing. Even during the party, he is still drawing something. I think I should work harder too.