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so, i got tagged. ten things about my art:
1. my art has changed a lot. A LOT. i used to work ONLY in graphite. now i barely ever use it...i actually never wanted to paint.
2. i often think i'm an awful, awful painter, and wonder what the hell i'm doing being an artist.
3. i've done some art just to sell prints. this makes me feel awful and like a total sell out.
4. i worry that i produce meaningless art sometimes, and lose sight of my own direction in my haste to get bills paid, try to rectify it, and feel so overwhelmed by the task of creating a deeply meaningful and moving picture that i get confused and often wind up making overly deep-seeming stuff that is actually just as meaningless.
i empty the recycle bin on my computer often.
5. i hate it when people look to me for insight or artful thoughts. i'm just a person that draws pictures. that does not make anything i might have to say inherently any more worthwhile than anything else. ever.
6. i also hate being asked where my ideas come from. where do ANY ideas come from? my imagination? i don't have a stock room full of them or anything. i don't buy them on ebay.
7. i don't follow proper rules of technique or anything while arting. it's chaotic, goes against all rules, and i don't care. perspective lines and tedious anatomy construction is the pitts. i don't do it. i just go with what feels/looks right to me. so shoot me.
8. i hate artistic wank. i just do.
9. i'm not a huge fairy fan. most of it kinda pisses me off.
10. i don't know who i am or where i am going in this ocean of chaos.
i tag...whoever. go for it, my pretties!
1. my art has changed a lot. A LOT. i used to work ONLY in graphite. now i barely ever use it...i actually never wanted to paint.
2. i often think i'm an awful, awful painter, and wonder what the hell i'm doing being an artist.
3. i've done some art just to sell prints. this makes me feel awful and like a total sell out.
4. i worry that i produce meaningless art sometimes, and lose sight of my own direction in my haste to get bills paid, try to rectify it, and feel so overwhelmed by the task of creating a deeply meaningful and moving picture that i get confused and often wind up making overly deep-seeming stuff that is actually just as meaningless.
i empty the recycle bin on my computer often.
5. i hate it when people look to me for insight or artful thoughts. i'm just a person that draws pictures. that does not make anything i might have to say inherently any more worthwhile than anything else. ever.
6. i also hate being asked where my ideas come from. where do ANY ideas come from? my imagination? i don't have a stock room full of them or anything. i don't buy them on ebay.
7. i don't follow proper rules of technique or anything while arting. it's chaotic, goes against all rules, and i don't care. perspective lines and tedious anatomy construction is the pitts. i don't do it. i just go with what feels/looks right to me. so shoot me.
8. i hate artistic wank. i just do.
9. i'm not a huge fairy fan. most of it kinda pisses me off.
10. i don't know who i am or where i am going in this ocean of chaos.
i tag...whoever. go for it, my pretties!
New Projects
So, as I await the release of the oracle deck I illustrated, I'm working like mad on some other projects. Trying to redo my ancient website (that thing is a relic to 2003, really), get some prints organised (it's been SO LONG since I've done this) and work on a couple of others projects too...
I thought it'd be all free time once the Chakra Insight oracle deck was done. HAH! Oh, so wrong. So, so wrong.
I'm also trying to step out of the comfy little hermit hole I've made myself during the course of the oracle deck, and step back into the world of the internet. I want to reconnect with old friends and familiar places, explore new things, mee
Oracle Deck
The reason I've been so quiet over the last two years is that I've been working on illustrating an oracle deck.
All the work is done now, and I'm finally allowed to start sharing some of my work!
The deck is called 'Chakra Insight', and will be released later this year by Blue Angel Publishing.
The basic concept of the deck is that it is divided up into seven Chakras, with each Chakra having seven cards.
I'll be releasing images one by one over the coming months. I can't wait to share them with you!
Anyway, that's what's been keeping me busy! What have you been up to?
I am still alive!
Well, I'll still alive. Despite not being active here (or anywhere else) for a while, I still exist!
And I'm working hard on art too, but since it's for a project due for release sometime next year, I can't upload any of it yet. Hush hush and the like.
But what I HAVE done is start a blog at The Ugly Goat - http://theuglygoat.com
I talk about a bit of everything as well as art and illustration and the like. So if you're interested in those things, head over there. Fav it. Come back. Read!!!
Also...what? I can't get my mood selector to load. I'm not 'lazy' damnit! I'm caffeinated!
i always forget.
i forget everythng.
i usually forget to update here. i DO keep a journal, just not here...and i update it. pretty often, actually. sometimes too much, even.
see? here-->http://toeknuckles.livejournal.com here it is! my journal. PROOF that i sometimes remember things.
earlier tonight i really wanted a cup of tea. i was just in the right mood for it, and so i went and put the kettle on, waited for it to boil, and poured it into a cup with a teabag in it.
then i walked away to wait for it to cool and to let the teabag soak. i loathe weak tea.
so about an hour later, i'm thinking "hmm...i'm in the mood for tea again already. ok, i'll have a
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I loved reading this. After reading so many tags on journals lately this one was the most insightful...I don't share your fairy disgust though lol. I would be out of a job if I did