Day 26 to 60 : Now i know for myself, it is possible to achieve what i want if i can be consistent and dedicated with time.

Wow people of Nairaland 😂, i was too overwhelmed with the responsibilities I got from online as i embarked on this journey aa today is the last day of the month, i quickly realized i need to end this journey but in real sense, the journey has now begun.

A quick update
1. The Object painting: This was just one of the recomended skills to my primary goal, however i realised that painting skills will be much appreciated in animation and character illustration and from the useful boot camp i got free of charge, i have the entry skills from zero level previously (i intend to post my object painting work on a yet to determine new thread) but i was unfair along the line as i unsubscribed from the bootcamp newsletter, i was so so disturbed by mails for offers in paid seminar.

2. The time lapse : so many things took place but the goal was not altered as i continued learning in one of the recommended skills which i later got attached to that i have already started work with it with just the available tools that i have and am happy that a fragment of a skill that should have form part of my needful skill is already a goal mine.

3. Other things: you see deviant art, art station, Discord, stack overflow just to mention but a few worth sowing your time than wasting your time anywhere else.

4. What next: although I have not accomplished the over all task, i have accomplished segmented success that forms the overall task which am happy of. The 60 days was fun as i now added a new skill to my portfolio.

This officially ends it here
End of Challenge!

Day 18-25: 27.04.23 :YouTube Na Intro

Recall from my previous post how i struggle to watch youtube video on a simple painting of an apple 🍎 that got me frustrated, truth be told, i spent over 4hours on what a primary two kid will use drawing book , pencil and crayon to draw and colour within 30mins but am happy that is not me of today 😂.

In a bid to make an improvement on my apple painting, I luckily came across a bootcamp painting for an apple worth $67 but was for free, the kind speed i take put my email , i never rush like that before, the boot camp was to last for 5days, my people, this thing i dont know whether to say na luck or fate but it came at the right time

The videos were simple and straight forward and i was like wow, although the things mentioned and demonstrated where not new, they were really done with no step skipped. It was like solving a mathematics problem and you get stuck to a step that you dont know how it was arrived at and suddenly a tutor expand six hidden steps that the text book did not revealed, that was how the boot camp was to me and i now saw that YouTube is filled with intro videos, no wonder we have udemy , linda and co.

Well, with the little money left, I calculated how to spend data on the bootcamp training and resorted to downloading the video but that was a war of its own but to cut the matter short, i succeeded and to celebrate it, I bought myself an apple 🍎

What i have discovered:
If you want to go far, don't stop at youtube videos
Painting get children 😂 , Object painting, portrait painting, environmental painting, landscape painting.....
You see Discord, try join am and find community that resonate with you, u go see better family there where you go belong

What I can now do
I can analyze object for painting
I can paint object

See my progress below

Interesting

See marriage see business

Na wah o

Reading comment

This is true

It is well

Money is good

Its well

No competition

Ok

Even me self thats why I refuse buying despite the begs from the owner and the international community, I still no gree, I prefer parrot to that bird of a thing called twitter where no fit fly sef

Day 17 : 19.4.23 : journey of a thoudsand mile begins with a step

Following my first ever paint of an apple, and looking at what was obtained, I had to quickly go back to watch the results from the video and that of mine and give a honest criticism.

Hmm....nna, this thing look so flat o, just one color, no form, no lighting , no color, no background, poor silhouette....😂 but shebi i followed all the steps na why mine come dey difference.

A closer look at the video again shows there are wide array of brushes that was intermittently use in the painting, a kind of special brush yet to discover and secondly I dont know if the smudge tool effect is system dependent as mine no dey respond the way I dey see for the video upon saying smudge brush no need extra settings.

So I have decided to master those areas of weaknesses and prove in my next painting with same object to see the level of progress and hopefully light will not be an issue to stay long hours of watching and trying by error.

I hope to post the progress with the photos and until then, the journey continues.

This is like asking....CR7 vs MESS1

Day 16: 18.4.23: print "hello world"

So I suspended watching the main videos due to lack of grasping the essentials and this made me looked for starting from something simple, painting an apple.

Painting an apple is said to be the key to unlocking how to paint, yes they were right, I stumbled on a 35 minutes video with voice over and speed up. I literally cry for not knowing how to paint an apple, I watch and watch I couldn't know how the trick to mix color in photo shop and had to do a quick search again on YouTube, I almost quit the search until one mind told me click this video and see it...omo, i saw wonders, brush setting was all I had to know which the later did not highlight to my understanding and to make things worst, the whole problem was that I did not activate pressure opacity, so the mixing did not give any secondary color, this struggle took almost 3hours to figure out, then Boom to the apple video.

Hmm, this thing look simple but to sketch apple became war, I sketch apple that I wasn't proud of but I had no option, I went further to blocking which I was happy of the progress but you see mixing and smudge for blending, I knew that am in for long thing.

So like a programming language, hello world is a common out put statement which one Can use to test the code and so was the apple in my painting experience.

Currently am having challenges in mixing and blending color to give form and shape as I have overcome sketching wah ala, the trick was box model and since my overall objective is not a realistic painting, I can say I am the judge of this my sketch of apple.

Am worry I might be ban if I upload pictures and comments immediately like it happened before, so what I will do is that I will update the pictures tomorrow night abi morning if it sails through fine.

So what I can do after 16days

1. Sketching of object with reference or without reference
2. Developing a colour scheme and shades the painter method not clicking on color palettes.
3. Blocking objects with color

Self learning no be beans matter

Hope you can now have a lookup and guide your self, thanks for following this far and I hope to entertain your query when I have a good grasp of the craft, until then, Peace be still.

Day 15 : 17.04.23 : John 3: 15

Watching the videos became a task that must be done and finally it was done. It was clear that I look without seeing in all the videos. It only revealed to me that in youtube videos there are teachers, there are trainers, there are instructors, there are tutors and there are demonstrators, nothing really entered my head because I was watching videos on how to paint a set background without knowing the basics.

Another revelation that sets in was that the very ones that were good for beginners that recommended that I start with the fundamental referred me to watch the videos only on their patreon page, chai free thing no dey absolutely free.

So painting a background from ten video sources was like asking ten preachers to preach john 3: 15 and am sure, different outcome is certain.

So I resolved to learn the basics of painting and I must start with a simple subject or rather object and guess it, an apple, well I still have some spare cash for a 250mb YouTube shopping for a search in apple painting tonight.

Lessons learn, learn the basics and break down all complex scence to basic but as it stands, painting is just one area of the multifacet items to study in this strange journey with 15days gone only material gathered but no big dive in yet but am certain am close to breaking in.

advanceDNA:


The truth is medical scientist dont have too many options of places to work in nigeria... if he doesnt want hospital, its research or academics....


He can work in a bank though ...since banks dont discriminate as long as he gat 2:1 and is less than 25 years old

Please what makes him a medical scientist, does he owns a license? Which professional body issues him, I just want to check something

Hmmm

Day 14: 16.04.23 : Show of forces

What is happening today as I keep asking myself, well let night come as I keep wandering how it will turn out to be. I was shocked that I couldbe awake without any aid hmm, when I wanted to stay awake it did not work naturally as the evening keeps sailing slowly to night.

11pm ticks to 2am to 4am, to 5am, oh no, I just kept vigil in vain as I kept starring at the light bulb for power but the more I look, the more it seems impossible. Hmm, I hope some forces are not responsible for this as I said to my self as I sigh to bed in frustration, again in a row, no work was done!

Its well.

Day 13 : 15.04.23 : After All have been said

I did said immediately I get home, it will be me and that video, in fact I have arrange the video in the order that am going to watch, I have streamed line it to the best 10. I have revisited my combo to prevent me from sleeping at night, am sure it will be hot, fast forward to 11pm

11pm dot, i began to yawn, well maybe am thirsty, I grab two satchet and gallop all in a twinkle of an eye, let me keep my mouth busy, I took some snacks, let me stretch my back a little, I rested on the bed, set alarm for 30mins, ladies and gentlemen I found myself the next morning when the noise of my neighbors fetching water woked me up.

I taught I took my combo to prevent sleep, yes I did as I even saw the wrap of biscuit and satchet water starring at me, I look at my phone, behold the alarm was put off, who did it as I said to my self.

But it is said, if you fail to plan, you plan to fail, this one that I was fully prepare for a comeback fight only for the match to end before even starting, well I leave that for the motivational speaker.

So all in all, nothing come out, tomorrow is another day.

Joemavel:

The assignment plenty sha thanks... Lemme inform your knowledge so you can understand. The e-commerce is local and not the international one.

Owned a Facebook page, insta one, jiji and a former top vendor to the naija major e-commerce platforms.

Good to hear from you and being specific also as well as being truthful to your self, the ecommerce you mention is still in line and perfect for this review, so go ahead with it and if possible do the analysis per one ecomerce venture say, Facebook, then move to jiji and to others then make a comphrensive summary among the platforms, referred to your stock and sales book and see which platform made the sales the most, the aim is not to throw the baby with the bath water away.

Happy weekend!

Day 12: 14.4.23 : 45 Minutes Video

Having scan through the different videos, one video really took my fantasy, it wasn't up to anyone hours, infact, it can be watched within 45 minutes but surprisingly, it took me almost 4hours to grasp a single demonstration, I don pause, rewind, slow motion even frame by frame habba, na so video learning be? It wasnt funny at all and to make things worst, there was constant power supply, yes constant, so I was literally forced to watch without excuse of no light but I no gree do again, I don tire abeg, say wetin make I find another thing do but right inside of me, I knew I was just playing the blame and safe game, I have run away from the fight to fight another day.

Currently, the program requires any of the following
1. Photoshop or Krita or canvas or msword
But krita currently on 5.x couldn't run on my system so I had to uninstall it, I already had word but I can't used word due to the fact that I don't want to overshoot the function of word from word processing to desktop publishing. I like canva but count me out anything that has to do with online subscription based access, so at the end it ended with photoshop.

2. As part of the training, I will be creating scenes by sketching and painting so a tablet is necessary as I already have a tablet which was bought for digital illustration 2yrs plus ago and abandone but now ready to be put to a different use. It is here the problem of 45mins video watch became a problem

3. A story book is also required as this will be handy in crafting my sketches and painting my scenes, so I need to learn story telling too.

That's all on what happened yesterday, hope this insight was helpful, let's keep it a date tomorrow for more update.

Thanks😊

Joemavel:

I really do not have a choice yet or come to conclusion yet but I was into e-commerce before and currently.

Let's say you are to make a choice what will your three best be?

1...
2....
3...

Now considering ecomerce based on your submission, answer the following

1. What went wrong
2. What went right
3. What should have been improved
4. Did I know the workings of ecommerce
5. Was the frame work ideal
6. Was it scandalous
7. What were customer complaints
8. Where those complains addressable
9. Could you on your own address those problem
10. Were those problems a business opportunity in disguise?

Now if the problem were on technology such as ecommerce,
1. do you see opportunities in solving such problem
2 Do you have the skills
3. Can you develop the skills
4. Do you have the resources
5. Do you have an identifyable framework to solve the problem like WordPress+woocomerce, PHP+mysql, java+rdms etc

If the problem was on products
1. Was it poor products
2. Was it though competition
3. Was it unfavorable market conditioner
4. Was it poor advertising
5. Was it a brand issue


Dear friend, you see there is much work to do, I believe that tackling the route cause of a problem is the best approach to finding a lasting solution than just rendering first aid to the symptoms.

I will be the last person to tell you go and do graphic designing or do machine language or do AI or datascience why? because those are not solutions but rather routes to calm you for a while which in no distance time, you will lack the zeal to continue and the hold thing will fall like a house of cards, in essence what am saying is that it is better to start from the known to the unknown, as time goes on I will ellaborate on this but does that mean those areas that I mentioned in ICT are not good? No they are but I will rather recommend it to a secondary school leaver and a fresh graduate with caution, again, I will explain more on this later.

So, go back to work and report back your assignment, and always remember to quote as that will notify me rather than replying.

Seen

Scripted

Ok its almost the same story elsewhere and I have something to tell you, so listen and pay attention very well, in fact bring chair, bring lantern join cos this discussion go last till night come..😃.

First look inward in your self, your talent and your environment. What business where you doing before and what were its ups and downs and if you were to advice yourself what kind of a honest review will you make of it, this stage is key to knowing who you are, where you are and where you are heading to, there Is this chinese proverb that says a filled cup holds no water no matter how you pour in to it ( paraphrase), am not trying to sound like a motivational speaker but am saying this because you are thinking of going into ict, perhaps a new path to you.

First what area of ICT are you thinking of, ICT is a broad area with lots of job opportunities as skilled, semiskilled or professional but that does not rule out the fact that there is no reported cases of underpay or even no job as well but chances are that if you horned your skills, you will surely have a leap especially if its backed with industry standard certification such as IBM, Comptia, Oracle, Sun, Microsoft and a lot of others.

So the big question, which area am I going to go?
This is purely personnel, its neither here nor there but you will likely have interest and progress in areas that resonate with your passion, as when the demands starts coming, the reason will push you against all odds, so am not going to do a push up for you to develop your muscle but will advice you to go think about what you want in the ICT area that resonates with your already known strengths and this discussion will continue, just quote me to be continue.

I have written an epistle, its time to take kola.😂

Day 6 - 11: 13.4.23 : Abridge Report

So I decided not to be distracted by the distraction that has happened, I pick my courage on one hand and determination on the other hand, so let's jump in time.

First a report of cash
Every night I just gave my self 2G night plan and I have exausted more than what I think is enough to keep me going as day 8 actually left me with 400 naira left.

Resources gathered
I can now look into my folder with great wealth of ebooks tallying 8 in numbers on the subject matter, there is also a repository of video files running in 40s as am now currently comfortable with those resources.

What transpires during the ban
There is one of this eBook that really struck my fantasy, but the problem was that I don't like reading, I wonder what would become of me if I find myself in school now, will I will even see third class in one of the A- rated university like the University of Nigeria, Nsukka ! (Shout out to the lions and lionesses) , I have converted the eBook to audio worth of 8hrs run time and my ear drum is vibrating to the sound of a pretty Robot Voice in person of Sali whispering the wordings to my listening pleasure with lots and lots of jotting in my jotter that was handed over to me by a friend who graduated from the college.

The reverse was the case with video files, but I must point out one thing clearly, there is this extra feeling of watching educational videos on a TV set than on phones or laptop, that was the magic that kept me busy during the holiday and at night and at day.I was able to scan through over 30 videos at my free time.

Coming up next
Insight on what new profitable business skills which is what this strange journey is all about and the outcome of a 45minutes video, untill then, I leave you with this Chinese Proverb.."the best time to plant a tree was 10years ago, the next best time is now"

Just like that

Ok

Internship is good but after that what next

Ok