So for Halloween I decided to make a shirt design for the “Design By Human” Halloween contest. I wasn’t unable to choose between two designs so I just went ahead and finished them both. I really need to stop procrastinating so much as I ran rather close to the deadline…
I ended up liking the one with the girls more then I thought, the apple one is a favorite of mine. If you like either of these please vote. Vote Apple! Vote Girls! Ha! That seems cuter then it should. =D
I’ve been drawing a bit here and there but I seem to have some sort of had a con crash after AnimeFest. So, mostly I’ve been sleeping, cleaning, and seeing friends but not working. I did managed to put in an application for a juried art show thing… but I have to wait and see if I get in.
My goal for this week and next week (for my purpose the rest of this month) is to do about 5 images a week. I’m already behind by a day. I’ve been working with little paintings on wood much like the Fat Bee picture I did. It’s weird that I have no stamia for actual media at all. I’ll make all of these really complex things on paper but when I go to draw them on the wood I’ll shy away from complex and stick to simple and cute. I think I’m willing to spend the time on digital work cause I know what I can do it but it’s been so long since I’ve really worked on actual media that I get easily discouraged. If I can’t finish the image in a day I usually won’t finish it for a long time.
I’m fighting this malaise about art in general. I really have to have a set of goals for me to motivate on the things I need to do. I like setting goals… I’m just not good at meeting them. I was really good when I had to finish things FOR conventions or else they wouldn’t get made in time. I managed to do the Catalyst folio by thinking and planning ahead. Even so I feel maybe I got burn out a bit. I’m not even sure where that feeling comes from, the burning out bit, it’s like my energy goes away and it’s really hard to get it back. Maybe I need to go on walks a bit more or swim in a pool. Movement of some sort makes me feel a little better. I could always obsessively clean my room. Which mostly involves taking books to Half Price Books or recycling as much as possible. I think I’m just trying to let go of some of the crap I’ve accumulated over the years. I can’t even get to my comic collection but I think a bunch of stuff would go away if I could.
I think I’ve finally had enough of owning stuff I don’t look at or use. >_<
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