February 2020: Music
(2/7/20) Since the start of the new year, we've been working on a new project to sing, translate, and teach Chinese songs, popular and original. The goal is to produce…
Learning Japanese: 2020 Progress
Overview Quick summary: I started officially learning Japanese in 2017 when I memorized the Japanese alphabets (hiragana and katakana) in a couple weeks over the summer. I then took about…
Learning Chinese: 2020 Progress
Overview Quick summary: I've been learning Chinese on and off, both officially and on my own, with varying degrees of seriousness, for 10+ years. At my current level, I can…
December 2019: Learning Photoshop
In December, I will be using Lynda.com to teach myself Photoshop. I had some experience with it a decade ago (most of my school friends were artists), but it's been…
November 2019: NaNoWriMo
What I Do in the In-Between Months Although November is not an even-numbered month, and I'm not planning to do an official art or music project this month, I decided…
Ideas for Future Projects
Art (2D, Design, and Video) Follow Lynda videos Photoshop InDesign After Effects (focus on kinetic typography, type animation) Go through RDE course Mimic one fav artist's portfolio Draw a bunch…
Learning Chinese: 2019 Progress
I have been learning Chinese off and on for many years, but rarely with much seriousness. Most of it was watching shows and absorbing semi-passively. But in the last few…
Learning Japanese: 2019 Progress
My journey with Japanese began in the summer of 2017, when I first used JapanesePod101's free Youtube series to teach myself hiragana and katakana. But actually, the seeds were probably…
Where I Draw Inspiration From (Pun Intended ;D)
Here, I keep a running list of resources (mostly online, but also books) that continually inspire, or that I return to over and over for learning art, music, and languages.…