June 7, 2025

How I procrastinate as an artist, sometimes.

My process for art:

1. Spend too much time working your day job, so you don't have time to really get started.

2. Repeat for several days.

3. Sit down to start, and spend too much time scrolling your phone instead.

4. Finally find an idea and pencil sketch it in an hour or less.

5. Flee quickly to bed.

6. Procrastinate lightly for a few days before inking it.

7. Inked! Share it with the world, who probably assume it's "done" when it's not.

8. Begin heavy procrastination.

The moments I've said, "oh, so this is what procrastination looks like mid-motion:

• Organizing an empty fridge

• Taking the plastic off votive candles I bought from the dollar store

• Washing the teapot

• Spending an hour cooking chicken I don't even want to eat

• Researching "DIY snake repellant"

• Rearranging the wildflowers on my counter

• Sweeping the floor again

• Eating the chicken

• Complaining about eating too much chicken

• Being unable to contain a "need" to go to Goodwill and The Dollar Store

• Assembling and reassembling my art workstation for the day

• Wandering into the yard to talk to my plants

• "While I'm here" watering said plants

• Restacking the patio furniture pillows for the next rain that isn't coming for a month cause I live in the desert

• Checking Dora's paws

• Peeing

• Spraying peppermint on that trail of ants that found its way into the trash again

• Talking to the spells and gems on my altar

• Burning candles and bay leaves

• Making something to drink

• Peeing again

• Adjusting the fan speed

• Changing my socks because these ones "feel funny"

• Checking my email

• Checking my day job email

• Checking the status of my last Amazon order

• Looking at my drawings in-progeess briefly

• Burning more bay leaves

• Taking my hair down and standing on the mirror deciding if I want to let it grow, or cut it short

• Inspecting a zit that's healing above my lip

• Throwing away random bits of trash

• Using the first stair to do step ups in the ongoing effort to maintain my glutes

• Retrieve said Amazon package from the delivery driver

I could go on.

Lord, I can go on.

Am I insufferable? Yes.

But also, cute.

Don't worry, I made progress on my artwork too.