So, here is a little backstory into this Challenge I am creating for myself. For years I have been trying to create a system routine habit what have you to get some potential out of my talents and honestly for my day to day. I have been really low for a while and grew in to a depression that brought me far away from anything creative for a bit and a half. After some self reflection and a whole new different direction, I found my answer. For 15 years I have been into martial arts. I got to the rank of 4th degree black belt with a Sensei title. You think with those credentials I would be set in the confidence department right?… WRONG! But anyway…
My Kempo Jujitsu classes were always on Tuesday and Thursday for multiple hours in the afternoon for years. I have that routine embedded in me. I am combining the belt rank system with the two day a week classes into a creativity / art / poetry / etc routine.
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Heres the deal, twice a week I will post some sort of new form of art on this blog. It can be an old drawing of mine or a completely new project. I can post progress shots, sketches, photography, etc. These will be my karate classes.
For every belt there are 3 stripes. At the end of the month I will decide to test for a stripe at the Monthly Moo, where I have to create and finish a completed artwork at the end of the month. It has be a sketch or idea from the posts from that month.
Testing for a belt you have to create a brand new artwork from the ground up after you have acquired 3 stripes. Every test will have a theme picked form an assortment of random ideas for an ultimate challenge.
I will personally put my creative self back to the rank of a white belt.
I am going to have to earn my rank in my own art dompetition. This an individual competition so there is so need for comparison and no need to feel better or worse than anyone else. This wont take 15 years to complete. It comes out to 2 years of training total to get to black belt in this challenge. I scaled back the belts to the basics.
WHITE, YELLOW, ORANGE, PURPLE, BLUE, GREEN, BROWN, BLACK
Every week I will be posting some sort of content every week on this blog and nowhere else. I do not want to make myself go off focus with social media getting in the way or even other sites are tempting distractions when I am trying to edit this post!
So if you want to follow along with me, you are going to have to follow me here. If you want to take on my challenge its all up to you. #YOUCANMOOIT in your socials or just do it for yourself as I am. Either way it is about individual growth so if you want to share all your progress, share as much as your heart desires to share. Have yourself a party! Let’s take this to a place a little more private. For my grown the distractions have to be cut out to focus. I will still post for my belt tests as well as other things I am proud of.
If I can moo it, You Can Moo It!