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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'd do it when I had a) time and b) money. And last week my hind-brain decided that the time is apparently now. I've been busy as hell since.
Other things - more personal things - have been popping up to in a 'Pick me! Pick me!' sort of fashion and I feel like a single mom rushing between triplets. I'm trying and repeatedly failing to institute a get-up-early rule. I'll get there, but probably when I have to.
Again, not sure why the sudden enthusiasm for personal projects. It's great - it's wonderful and exactly what I've been working toward with a kind of 'fake it till you make it' enthusiasm. I'm now genuinely invested and working and happy and leveling up and it's so unusual that it's freaking me out a little.
So yeah. Sh*t just got real.
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'd do it when I had a) time and b) money. And last week my hind-brain decided that the time is apparently now. I've been busy as hell since.
Other things - more personal things - have been popping up to in a 'Pick me! Pick me!' sort of fashion and I feel like a single mom rushing between triplets. I'm trying and repeatedly failing to institute a get-up-early rule. I'll get there, but probably when I have to.
Again, not sure why the sudden enthusiasm for personal projects. It's great - it's wonderful and exactly what I've been working toward with a kind of 'fake it till you make it' enthusiasm. I'm now genuinely invested and working and happy and leveling up and it's so unusual that it's freaking me out a little.
So yeah. Sh*t just got real.
Scary, but good
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
Slow Burn
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
Cool stuff to draw
Dragons, gorgons, devils, gods, giants, chimera, griffons pegesi, serpents, heroes, mad scientists, werewolves, Frankenstein's monster, vampires, fairies, ninjas, angels, samurai, knights, princesses, elves, demons, forest gods, martial artists, monks, witches, wizards, robots, Muppets, enchantresses, barbarians, ape-men, jungle kings and queens, dinosaurs, shamen, tyrants, rebels, army troopers, vikings, aliens, masters of the elements, time-travellers, super-heroes, gypsies, gangsters, sport stars, anthropomorphic animals, pirates, 1930's-style spies, spacemen, space cowboys, normal cowboys, Native American Indians, detectives, assassins, m
Here's lookin' at you, Bobby Chiu
This post is not necessarily for Bobby Chiu, but I'm listening to his new book, The Perfect Bait (you should too: http://schoolism.com/interview.php?id=98) and his modus operendi is generally one of undying evolution and positive change and optimism in the face of failure. Which kind of is what I'm thinking about lately. Lately things have been amazing: I'm working on a film and people seem to be pressing work on me from all angles, as well as terribly good food. Oddly enough, this is kind of hard for me.
My life is exploding in different and frightening directions. It's hard to understand why people want to work with me or pay me ridiculous
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