Not Dead. I think.
Well, not much going on here. Dad's in the hospital; he just had his first (yes, first, meaning he will be having a second in a few months) hip replacement. He had his left hip replaced and will be having his right replaced as well. I feel terrible for him, considering he's only 53 years old, and he's always been really healthy and athletic...though, the being athletic part is probably what led up to this :\.
Work's been stupid ; I'd go into it more if I wasn't afraid of getting fired... If we weren't supposedly in a recession (I still doubt how much of this is real and how of this is Bush/Republican caused scare to the public), I'd go look for something else to help pay the bills. Though, right now, I've been selling jewelry and little handmade knick-knacks, like cellphone straps, on the side. I don't know if I want to make a full business out of it, considering that while I enjoy it, I consider myself more a visual artist than crafts person. But it helps me to have pocket change when I need it.
And on an aside, I ordered an artbook from Jace Wallace a few days ago, and it came this morning. Love this guy's work. While I've always collected artbooks and artists' compilations, this one is probably one of the few ones that made me want to pull out my tablet and start sketching in Photoshop in a long, long while. At least, not since the days of sitting in my dorm room and browsing Falcoon's site late at night. I just wish I had more time to do stuff like this these days... But, you know, considering that I've been trying to do everything to try to get inspired again, it's nice finally having some kind of inspiration and drive again. Hopefully, this won't be temporary... We'll see :). Also bought this book of photography called FRUiTs. Basically, it's mostly of a collection of fashion photography of people in the Harajuku district of Tokyo--For people that are confused, think Gwen Stephani when she went retarded during that "Holla Back Girl" phase of hers :B. I liked the clothes and bought it for inspiration for character design; I figured it was better maybe to start looking at photography and at other illustrators, especially if it's all starting to look the same...though, admittedly I was more drawn to the people dressed like Sid Vicious in the 70s...which is probably telling that I'm looking in the wrong era and culture for crap that inspires me. So, next probably going to start looking for more stuff that's punk-era Britain instead of modern day Japan, hur hur.
Anyway, that's all that's going on with me right now. Basically, a lot of personal crap getting to me, and looking to be inspired to draw again. Maybe things'll get better here soon.
Maybe not.
Work's been stupid ; I'd go into it more if I wasn't afraid of getting fired... If we weren't supposedly in a recession (I still doubt how much of this is real and how of this is Bush/Republican caused scare to the public), I'd go look for something else to help pay the bills. Though, right now, I've been selling jewelry and little handmade knick-knacks, like cellphone straps, on the side. I don't know if I want to make a full business out of it, considering that while I enjoy it, I consider myself more a visual artist than crafts person. But it helps me to have pocket change when I need it.
And on an aside, I ordered an artbook from Jace Wallace a few days ago, and it came this morning. Love this guy's work. While I've always collected artbooks and artists' compilations, this one is probably one of the few ones that made me want to pull out my tablet and start sketching in Photoshop in a long, long while. At least, not since the days of sitting in my dorm room and browsing Falcoon's site late at night. I just wish I had more time to do stuff like this these days... But, you know, considering that I've been trying to do everything to try to get inspired again, it's nice finally having some kind of inspiration and drive again. Hopefully, this won't be temporary... We'll see :). Also bought this book of photography called FRUiTs. Basically, it's mostly of a collection of fashion photography of people in the Harajuku district of Tokyo--For people that are confused, think Gwen Stephani when she went retarded during that "Holla Back Girl" phase of hers :B. I liked the clothes and bought it for inspiration for character design; I figured it was better maybe to start looking at photography and at other illustrators, especially if it's all starting to look the same...though, admittedly I was more drawn to the people dressed like Sid Vicious in the 70s...which is probably telling that I'm looking in the wrong era and culture for crap that inspires me. So, next probably going to start looking for more stuff that's punk-era Britain instead of modern day Japan, hur hur.
Anyway, that's all that's going on with me right now. Basically, a lot of personal crap getting to me, and looking to be inspired to draw again. Maybe things'll get better here soon.
Maybe not.