#Habit Architecture

[themindtools]

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[zondearts]

Experimenting with Seawing architecture

[mindfulstudyquest]

study hard. no matter if it seems impossible. no matter if it takes time. wake up early and start studying for your future. just remember that the feeling of success is the best feeling in the world.

[aquamarinebling]

something something Vaugardians call their religious buildings a “House of Change” bc it’s a communal space anyone is allowed into. Vauguarde is welcome to all- and so anyone is allowed to stay in the House. Anyone is welcome to be housed and cared for and given residence, so much so that nearly every town has a place for it.

Maybe they prefer to call their own personal & private houses “homes”, adding to their image and nature of being hospitable & friendly. It’s never “welcome to my house”, it’s “welcome to my home”, an invitation into a more intimate space. They leave the front door open so anyone can enter, anyone is allowed to share the feeling of home.

plus, something about being welcomed & encouraged to stay in a House, and have it slowly but surely change into a Home… idk…

[venetianwindow]

20240303. 【📏】

A weekend working in the studio. It’s been a while since I’ve done this, but it’s nice to get away from the house. Weekends in the studio are quiet times; my favourite sort.

☞ studygram

[blasteffect]

Lunar Horizon: Pioneering the Future of Moon Habitation,

Courtesy: Delnia Yousefi

[smhalltheurlsaretaken]

not me typing a whole rant about some catholics being insufferably smug about their "better looking churches" while ignoring the history behind the barebone austerity of protestant churches and then deleting it all because my seething anger isn't christ-like either

*gnaws on wood* God help me love your children even when they are absolute prigs

[le-cercle-rouge]

Noisy-le-Grand, mars 2024.

[mellosdrawings]

I keep lurking in your blog but I just want to say I love how you do thorough research with your pieces, from the Wing au pieces (With what bird you’ve associated with the boys) and to your future N2 squad outfits! It’s just so nice to see how you put so much love and care in your craft! that’s all 🥺🫶 Looking forward to your future ocs series too, I can’t wait to see what else you come up with.

(Also I was the same anon that asked about the lineart processes, I really appreciate it and have been trying your tips! They’ve been helpful 🫶)

Hi! Thank you so much for the kind comment! 🥰🥰

I dont know if my research are very thorough (me thinks I could do better haha), but mostly I'm just endlessly curious about everything and love to look stuff up. One thing that I like when I draw is the diversity, be it in clothes or hairstyles or, you know, wing shapes. It quickly gets boring for me when it's always the same kind of western style and clothing for example. I might not always be the best at putting that diversity in practice but I thrive to do better!

But yes, I put a lot of time and care into my art because, well, it's my whole life. Dunno what I'd be doing without it, and I have a lot of fun doing it too!

I'm glad my few tips could be helpful to you.

I hope you'll like my future projects! Love you! Bye o/

(Dont mind the absurd ramble in tags lol)

[shironezuninja]

Falling asleep cuz it’s been a long day.

[afrourbanbeat]

Step 3: Get Organized

The Organized Mind, Daniel J. Levitin (2014)

Wow, so I've still been on this journey of trying to get my life back in order. And I realized that the problem was that all that external chaos that was going on was just an outward manifestation of the inner chaos that I had been experiencing for months and months on end. If someone could take an inner screenshot of what was going on in my mind it would look like a combination of a psych ward, a war zone, a vast and bone dry desert. I felt so empty, so angry, so disappointed, so lost. I felt so many things that I had not felt in a long time in my life, because I had had a lot of direction, focus, ambition and most importantly HOPE! I had lost my hope in my future and in anything pertaining to building the life that I had always dreamed of, and I had been feeling this way because of all the rejections I had faced in the job market and trying to carve a path for myself after working so hard to get my M.Arch Degree and just finding every door shut in my face.

I had sacrificed a lot, personally (leaving my daughter and fiance behind), financially (so much money was spent on applications, visa processing, flights, accommodation, etc), physically and mentally, because at the end of the day, Architecture (as any other creative endevour, is very draining pursuit, draining but also very rewarding, but it requires a lot of hard work, sacrifice and mental grit to keep on the path.) You say no to a lot of things to work on your design work. No to parties, friends, hanging out, going out and socializing, you have to buy things, software, model making materials, pens, computers, ipads etc. It takes so much out of you, but ultimately you do it because you desire to fulfil your dream of becoming an Architect and I had crossed a lot hurdles to get to the end of studying M.Arch and to just have every single job application that I made shut in my face, broke my spirit in a way that I never even knew was possible. And ultimately leading me to my giant wake-up call. And that changed everything. I still believe that I'm on a path of healing and regaining my passion again for architecture. But it has been a long road.

And one of the critical steps I believe in order to get there is to get organized. My thoughts have been jumbled for months, since possibly last summer. My design thoughts, my artistic thoughts, my creative thoughts and my business thoughts are all swimming around in my brain. And so I am on a mission to get organized mentally and the first step is in actually bringing order to all my work.

Funnily enough, even though my brain and all my thoughts were in turmoil and in chaos, it never actually stopped me from still creating and drawing and painting and designing. To be honest, it felt cathartic and so I found myself in a place where I had all these projects, designs, ideas, artwork, etc. But it's all in sheets or sketchbooks or random folders. There's no order to anything with regards to my design work. And so my mission now is to order all my work so that I can begin to pick up the pieces of what I thought my design career would be and begin to build something new from the ashes.

As for my career right now, ultimately I still desire to work at a practice and eventually become a registered architect, but in the meantime, so long as that door is not opening, I don't want to let my fire burn out. I have a job, I am employed and I make a decent living but I don't feel satisfied or fulfilled that I am living in my true calling and so I am taking steps to remedy that. I've decided to work on creating design content online. I have a great backlog of work and projects and just cool ideas I want to work on and I also just do love sharing on social media and connecting with people. I figured I'll do it through design, while at the same time trying to build my company's brand and business.

I really feel like new life has been breathed into me. And I will continue on this trajectory. But now, back to the topic at hand: Getting Organized. I love reading, more especially, I love self help books (do not judge me!). I also love autobiographies and biographies, those are literally the only type of books that I read and I do tend to find they help.

And so if you're following this journey with me, I'll share what I've been doing to get myself organized in order for me to start creating and sharing my work more effectively.

I bought a printer a couple of months ago, I hadn't opened it because I wanted to film an unboxing video, because like I said I love sharing online and one of my favourite types of content are unboxing videos. I bought the printer because ultimately I want to print and share my work with my followers and customers, I want to more easily be able to share my design work with my clients and also to work on drafts of my work and also to print out all my old project files and actually have them in packs as folders so that if I need to update the folders I can easily pull out a physical reference for my work. This will be an on-going process.

2. Reading! Sometimes we just don't know how to get things done and that's ok. That's why it's good to learn from others who have mastered and conquered the areas of our lives that we are struggling with. You will find that they have some very useful tips that could change the entire trajectory of your life. For me, Atomic Habits by James Clear was one of those books. Game changer! And given by how popular it is, I don't think I need to say much more.

Another good one (although a difficult read) was The Organized Mind by Daniel J. Levitin. This one really helped to truly break down every single aspect of my life but more especially my career and work life goals into thinking about how to easily access all my designs, drawings, sketches etc, and to think about creating an effective system that manages all my physical paper as well as digital files. So I'm working on creating an integrated system that will make that process a lot smoother and more orderly. I highly recommend this read.

3. A filing system. It's a very simple one but sometimes it's just basic organizing of documents and drawings in a filing system that is needed to bring order and drown out the noise of the chaos in your mind. So I went and bought a simple binder and some sticky notes and voila! Order! I managed to organize all the lose drawings I had been doing over the months and now I can clearly see what I've been working on and properly organize my artistic and design thinking and with the printer I can keep track of all my digital drawings as well as scan and print out other work so that I can properly keep track of my work process, my art and my designs for myself and for my clients. One folder is for my art and design work and the other is for my other important personal documents, business documents, financial papers etc.

4. Google Calendar! I cannot stress this enough. I've shared a lot online about how I love my google calendar so much. Committing is hard but I'm very good at planning and scheduling things on my calendar. For me this is one of the most effective tools in my arsenal of getting organized as a designer or creative, and it helps you keep track of all your meetings, deadlines etc because you can put everything in different categories and color code everything. Here's a sample of what mine looks like if you'd want to take any inspiration from it or figure out the categories you want to use.

5. And lastly, Be Patient! Be gentle and kind to yourself. I think that is my biggest lesson that I've learned this year, not to talk badly to myself when things aren't perfect, giving myself grace and allowing things to naturally unfold through their process. Learning not to rush things is my biggest lesson this year and it's alright if you don't have everything figured out. I'm learning more and more that life is a marathon and we can genuinely take our time through our phases of growth, healing, creating, etc. Everything in time.

Well that's all for today, but I'll be back with another post soon to share more about my journey into finding my feet and passion again and becoming a Design Content Creator.

[happywebdesign]

Base Habitation

[anordinaryarchitect]

finally I'm at home 🩵

[abyss55199794]

“and as we’re entertained the earth will change under our feet.”

a lyric from ‘paper train’ by so long… partner that, within the album, is about post colonialism and queer rights and whatever else those themes may entail but really works with the state of the world now. i watch videos from 10 years ago and think wow, nothing’s changed. i walk outside and think nothing is different. but also, at the same time, when you watch those videos it is VERY different. We are in such a dissonantly seperate time to what we were only a decade ago but people act the same no matter what era you’re in. its a little easier for me to not over distinguish periods as i’m not on social medias, but people tend to fall into nostalgia traps that simply aren’t true past aesthetic contexts. The paths we walk are the same. the colour grading has changed but we watch the same movie, but your mind filters the older stuff so heavily you don’t remember it was more saturated than it really was.

[cursemyexistences]

[my favorite school supplies]

.・ ゜゜・ ˚୨୧˚ ・ ゜゜・．

pencil: pentel graph gear 1000

perfect weighted pencil, super comfortable, great for general use or drafting 9/10

pen: tūl fine point gel pens

i love these for journaling and marking my calendar, very sharp so may rip paper if writing too fast 8/10

highlighters: marvy uchida pastel liners

great pigment, doesn’t bleed through standard paper, comfortable to hold, 8/10

pencil case: easthill large capacity

easily holds my two pencils, two pens, four highlighters, full size graphing calculator, drafting pencil set, and erasers 9/10

[2t2r]

Les mystérieuses grottes de Mustang au Népal

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Les mystérieuses grottes de Mustang au Népal