Megan Morris 🥉

Adding one thing - Love the warm-up idea - make it specific: 5 minutes of straight lines ellipses, and ghosted strokes; 5 minutes of value scales and hatching; 10 minutes on one simple object with only 2–3 values but then... rotate themes across days (boxes/perspective, cylinders/ellipses, textures, cross-contour) so it stays varied without extra planning. Track by dating each page and redrawing the same benchmark subject every Sunday for 10 minutes under the same light, then add a one-line note about what improved. To keep it fun, stop on a win and toss in tiny constraints now and then, like only straight lines or an overhand grip.

I ran into the same problem with big kibble constantly jamming my feeder. I first tried breaking up the food and keeping the hopper fuller but that was a pain and only helped a little. What finally worked was adding a small plastic wedge inside the hopper to steepen the slope and sticking a tiny tape tab on the rotating paddle so it sweeps the outlet, then switching the schedule to more frequent smaller drops and giving the hopper a quick shake after refilling; since then it has run fine with the chunky pieces.