added new entry to drawing challenge

src/routes/blog/2026/0205.md

@@ -68,4 +68,32 @@ I started with the head shape and definitely immediately screwed up, as I made h
 
 Tried to do shadows/shading as well, and it turned out kind of neat, though obviously without much thought as it's clearly just a carbon copy.
 
-I'm wondering whether I should try to trace some art, just to get a feel for dimensions? Again though, I don't want to depend on tracing, so I'm a bit wary of trying it.
+I'm wondering whether I should try to trace some art, just to get a feel for dimensions? Again though, I don't want to depend on tracing, so I'm a bit wary of trying it.
+
+## Day 05: An Uptick
+
+<span class="date-marker">2026-02-10, 18:55</span>
+
+Listening to some good music. Signing my work contract so I'll be out of unemployment from tomorrow (don't worry it was planned). I'm in a good fucking mood, here we go.
+
+I didn't draw yesterday unfortunately, but I didn't do this to quit the challenge! I was just really busy – I was out and about from 9 in the morning to 9 in the evening, and considering how bad I felt after day 3 of drawing, I didn't exactly feel like picking up the pencil this late in the day either. I bought an IKEA [Tertial](https://www.ikea.com/de/de/p/tertial-arbeitsleuchte-dunkelgrau-50355395/) lamp which gives way better lighting for drawing than my room lights do. Yay to setup improvements!
+
+<SubtitledImage
+    image="05.webp"
+    altText=""
+    subtitle="A few cute faces, drawn using references but not relying on them 100%!"
+    alignment="right" />
+
+I drew a couple of faces again. It looks like this is the direction I'm heading in. Before I started drawing anything, I watched one of PewDiePie's videos on how he learned to draw – I don't usually watch his videos, but I remembered that he challenged himself to learn to draw as well, and that he was quite successful. It managed to spark some motivation in me, so the first thing I did was try to copy one of the girls he drew (she's on one of his thumbnails as well). I changed some small things like placing the ear a little higher. I don't like this type of style quite *as* much (see the note about the nose next to the drawing) but it still turned out quite cool and I like her.
+
+I then experimented with some eyes, from open to closed. The big closed eye at the bottom was actually copied from a screenshot of [Laura with her eyes closed](/projects/projectn5/devlog/2025/1022/#blinking)! I then used this very screenshot as a reference to draw Laura as well!
+
+It was pretty cool to draw my own character, I gotta say. I drew her head noticeably shorter than on the screenshot, which resulted in a more chibi-style look. It's cute, I think.
+
+The third girl, in the bottom left, was half-freely drawn. I drew her eyes and then her head shape while trying to draw a smiling/happy girl. I then had no idea for the hair, so I used a reference I got from [a pikat video](https://youtu.be/XeIR7P82aPU?t=91) for that. I specifically wanted to draw a girl with a different style of nose than the PewDiePie reference, and it worked out!
+
+I found that I tend to draw some things too big. Noses turn out too long, eyebrows turn out too wide or too high. It might also be because I keep drawing with dull pencils. I like that they're easily erasable, but the lines are never as sharply defined as I'd like them to be, so I keep redrawing lines which just makes them thicker. That's a problem I didn't have with [my first drawing](/blog/2026/0129/); maybe I should try to draw with different pens as well? I was even thinking of trying digital, I even installed Krita on my Surface tablet, but I haven't dabbled much with that yet.
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+All the girls I drew are also looking towards the left. I'm assuming this is because I'm right-handed and it's easier to draw the lines I need for a left-facing face than for a right-facing one. Nevertheless, I should definitely try to draw some right-facing characters as well. I think it'll help with symmetry (something I also struggle with).
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+Overall feeling very good about today's drawings – much better than two days ago!

src/routes/blog/posts.ts

@@ -46,8 +46,8 @@ export const posts: BlogPostLink[] = [
 		post: {
 			date: "2026-02-05",
 			time: "22:55",
-			banner: "",
+			banner: "banner.webp",
-			bannerAlt: "",
+			bannerAlt: "A Leuchtturm-branded notebook with a copper-coloured cover. An eraser, a pencil sharpener, and a Faber-Castell pencil are lying on top.",
 			title: "Drawing Challenge",
 			description: "Challenging myself to draw something every day for 4 weeks.",
 		}