litterbugger

I've been... busy. Yeah, busy just about covers it. I'm not sure why or how it happened, it's just been one of those watershed kind of months where, counter to what my lack of freelance work is telling me, opportunity just seems to be EVERYWHERE. It's a little scary - I have a lot of choices to make and I'm letting my hind-brain make an awful lot of them. I've signed on for the Noah Bradley Artcamp - a twelve week online course that will rocket me from enthusiastically untrained to drilled and enthusiastically unstoppable. 'Better' I guess is for you people to decide, but I've been wanting to take an online course for ages; I just thought I

Been a while since I've written, or submitted anything much. Don't know why, just haven't had anything poking at my brain for a while. Well, that's not true, but the truth is more boring and so we gloss over. I have in fact finished a comic that I'll be selling. A hundred and ten copies of them, if the fates are with me. The extra ten copies are to send home and abroad to interested parties. I'm very proud of my little story and the fact that it's actually printed out. It feels like a definite accomplishment, and a solid step in the right direction. Lord knows I need at least one step in a right direction; some aspects of my life are waiting

I've had this on my mind a few days now - hell, a few months now. My feelings on the topic of how artists are treated in a corporate setting have never been very far under the surface. Give me two minutes of your time and I'll talk your ear off about my own experiences in that area and what I've gleaned from others' stories. And now in the last few days, with the big VFX house Rhythm and Hues going down the same week as it won an Oscar (http://www.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/1969o6/more_than_400_vfx_artists_protest_at_the_oscars/c8l8eg8) a big chunk of new stories has arisen, and from the last place I expected - a big studio in the US. Now a