Life, let's talk about life...
I've been doing a lot of thinking about my course in life. After leaving CMU things haven't looked great. I'm not sure if I'll be able to break back into technical writing as it seems that to be a writer you need to have a few dozen other skills that currently I don't have. Mainly skills with certain software among other things. So I decided to take a look at what else I do well.
One thing I've been able to do well, and quite frankly love doing, if developing my faux alphabets and making interesting designs with it. This is something I threw together a few days ago with min and Beverly's names. It was a quickie piece with not a lot of formatting. But it got me to wondering if something like this could be marketable.
Designing these types of specialty items is not viable as each one takes so long to create and the price I'd have to charge would make them unsellable. But I thought, what could be made that would be within that "sellable" price range. And the answer is creating word and phrases in these faux scripts.
Here's one I did for my former brother-in-law and his wife. It needs redone as I've lost the original Illustrator file but I figure it will make a wonderful Solstice gift. If you read this Liz, then you know what you're getting...
Since my prospects of getting back into writing seem to be diminishing I've decided to look into going back to one of y earliest childhood dreams. I think I want to be an artist when I grow up. It's what everyone always told me I should try to be-so I didn't. But maybe it's time to start to think about it.
I know that this won't support me and that I will still have to work a "normal" job, but maybe it's about time I began allowing myself to do the things I enjoy instead of just what people tell I'm supposed to be doing.
And this isn't the only old project I'm dusting off. I've also decided to resurrect the calendar project. The database is still intact. And with the knowledge I currently have about networks and in the future begin able to visualize it on the web with the d3.js, I hope that this too can become something that sees the finish line.
And it's not just the "old" projects that needs worked on. It's the work I've been able to do with the data graphics like the time lines for Red Dwarf and The Big Lebowski. Both of those turned out much better than I had expected. Most of my work in graphics was as a graphic artist, not as a graphic designer. And maybe this will give me a chance to get to work on the creation side instead of just working on someone else's ideas.
The articles Jürgen and I were writing for Whotopia have been great in that it allowed me to combine Doctor Who, Network Analysis, and graphic design all in the same project. It's probably the most fun I've had in ages. And frankly, I think I want more fun like that.
So I'll probably end up in some crap job making a crap wage but I'll know that I'm finally going to get my artwork moving. And who knows, maybe it "will" pay off in the end.
Maybe I'm just tired of having all these projects cluttering my life and none of them getting done. It's the time in my life that I realize I have to get a move on and finish them. Maybe not all of them, but at least some of them...
That's all-have a nice day...
One thing I've been able to do well, and quite frankly love doing, if developing my faux alphabets and making interesting designs with it. This is something I threw together a few days ago with min and Beverly's names. It was a quickie piece with not a lot of formatting. But it got me to wondering if something like this could be marketable.
Designing these types of specialty items is not viable as each one takes so long to create and the price I'd have to charge would make them unsellable. But I thought, what could be made that would be within that "sellable" price range. And the answer is creating word and phrases in these faux scripts.
Here's one I did for my former brother-in-law and his wife. It needs redone as I've lost the original Illustrator file but I figure it will make a wonderful Solstice gift. If you read this Liz, then you know what you're getting...
Since my prospects of getting back into writing seem to be diminishing I've decided to look into going back to one of y earliest childhood dreams. I think I want to be an artist when I grow up. It's what everyone always told me I should try to be-so I didn't. But maybe it's time to start to think about it.
I know that this won't support me and that I will still have to work a "normal" job, but maybe it's about time I began allowing myself to do the things I enjoy instead of just what people tell I'm supposed to be doing.
And this isn't the only old project I'm dusting off. I've also decided to resurrect the calendar project. The database is still intact. And with the knowledge I currently have about networks and in the future begin able to visualize it on the web with the d3.js, I hope that this too can become something that sees the finish line.
And it's not just the "old" projects that needs worked on. It's the work I've been able to do with the data graphics like the time lines for Red Dwarf and The Big Lebowski. Both of those turned out much better than I had expected. Most of my work in graphics was as a graphic artist, not as a graphic designer. And maybe this will give me a chance to get to work on the creation side instead of just working on someone else's ideas.
The articles Jürgen and I were writing for Whotopia have been great in that it allowed me to combine Doctor Who, Network Analysis, and graphic design all in the same project. It's probably the most fun I've had in ages. And frankly, I think I want more fun like that.
So I'll probably end up in some crap job making a crap wage but I'll know that I'm finally going to get my artwork moving. And who knows, maybe it "will" pay off in the end.
Maybe I'm just tired of having all these projects cluttering my life and none of them getting done. It's the time in my life that I realize I have to get a move on and finish them. Maybe not all of them, but at least some of them...
That's all-have a nice day...