Drawing of Myself Working (WE 221)

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littlepiggies1.2 K8 months ago2 min read

Weekend Experiences Prompt

Draw/paint yourself at work doing your job. (Shit drawings are acceptable, you don't have to be an artist, it just has to be your work.) Also, explain the drawing/painting. Use a photo of your drawing or painting as your post image.

Happy weekend everyone, and happy Labor Day weekend to everyone in the United States. Thank you @galenkp for prompting me to bring out a pencil and pen (and crayons) this weekend; it's been a while since I've done a hand-drawing. I usually create illustrations with digital platforms because the Ctrl+z tool is my best friend. With hand-drawn illustrations, I use pencil first and then trace over it with pen. Oftentimes, while doing a hand-drawn illustration, my hand defaults to pushing the ctrl+z buttons when I make a mistake. I then realize there is no keyboard there. I guess that shows how much I am on the computer.

I work from home for my job, and one of my go-to places is the couch in the living room. Lately, I try to get work done when my daughter is home from school, which can be challenging. I work as a Data Annotator for machine learning purposes. IBM describes machine learning as "a branch of artificial intelligence and computer science that focuses on the using data and algorithms to enable AI to imitate the way that humans learn, gradually improving its accuracy." The perks of this job are the incredible flexibility and learning interesting facts about the stuff I research. I like working from home because I can control my work environment and I have less distractions. I'm a very introverted person so I enjoy the alone time. However, even for me, it does get pretty isolating at times.