2026-03-09T17:42:47Z https://d.moonfire.us/tags/personal-improvement-project/ D. Moonfire Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International 2013-07-23T05:00:00Z https://d.moonfire.us/blog/2013/07/23/personal-improvement-project/ <p>One of the newest things at work is giving us a chance to do a little personal improvement time during work hours. I was given a choice of what to improve, so I asked to work on drawing and artistic skills since I thought it would help me do something I've wanted to do for years.</p> <p>Today was my first attempt at this. I only had an hour, but I thought I would post the results. I'm not an artist, but I have <em>ideas</em>.</p> <p><a class="thumbnail" href="http://d.moonfire.us/files/2013/07/2013-07-23-downtown-cedar-rapids-iowa4.png"><img src="/assets/2013-07-23-downtown-cedar-rapids-iowa4-300x165.png" alt="2013-07-23 downtown-cedar-rapids-iowa4" width="300" height="165" class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3200" /></a></p> <p>This was a trace of the Cedar Rapids skyline from a random picture I found on the Internet. It is mainly leaning toward my desire to have an ink and watercolor-inspired cover for my titles, but (obviously) my muscle memory and techniques are a far cry from where it needs to be before I'm making covers.</p>