Day 1 - A Slow Start

Already I have begun digging my own grave. I started today not by drawing, playing Go, or getting on the old treadmill, but instead by purchasing three new games from steam. Of course, I did eventually get around to doing SOMETHING for the challenge. I filled in a sketchbook page with faces drawn from reference images, and played a single game of Go.

Of course, I had some nice ideas to flesh this post out. I was going to talk about the Go study material I ordered, but a problem came up with my checking account and I have not received them yet. I tried scanning in the drawings I did to add to this post but both available scanners have given me the cold shoulder. So I remain with.. not a lot to say, really.

As for the books I ordered, I picked three books from ChiyoDad's helpful buying guide. Two pure strategy and technique books, and one book of go problems for me to work on my reading skills with. They are:

• Opening Theory Made Easy (by Otake Hideo)
• Tesuji (by James Davies)
• Lessons in The Fundamentals of Go (by Toshiro Kageyama)

Hopefully they will come soon so I can really start progressing. At the moment I am sort of at a stand still.

So, untill tomorrow,
-BuddytheRat