What's goin' ooon~
After months and months of not doing shit with my blog portfolio site, I've actually started updating it again. So from here on out, each time I add something to my sequential art portfolio, it will appear somewhat promptly on my website. Phew. Good, for a moment there, I was beginning to think I'd become totally useless! *sarcastic* So that's a good thing.
Another thing I'm working on as I submit portfolio and resume after portfolio and resume to various studios is...BLOG ABOUT MY ATTEMPTS TO GET INTO MY FIELD. And I will post the link to the blog when I've finished tweaking the template. Yes. I've gone from almost anti-blog to someone who owns not one but two blogs. Plus a tumblr. But I'm looking forward to the new blog- I've got my ideas ready to go. I think it'll be a nice and often amusing sad-sack read for people who are in a similar position, and it might add insight into the job hunting process. And in the end, it's supposed to be all about tenacity and never giving up on your dreams. If I were a logical human being, I'd have long since abandoned my goal of working in the animation or comic field. I'd have given up about a year after graduating college. I'd have ended up trying for a mundane office job with the hopes of rising in position until I'm old enough to retire, all the while collecting comics and collecting movies and things I love and just hoping and daydreaming for a life I'd never have.
But I'm not a logical person when it comes to my dreams. I'm a decent artist, I've got a passion for all of that good stuff, but I lack the concrete experience that most are looking for. The only thing to do is keep improving my portfolio, learn as much new software and tricks from the industry as I can, add that shit to my portfolio site, and keep myself accountable each day on the grounds of: "What have I done today to get closer to my goals?" And make sure that I've done everything possible on that given day so that I can look myself in the eye and answer honestly, "Yes, here's what I've done today to get closer to my goals: 1. 2. and 3." And keep doing that DAY IN AND DAY OUT WITHOUT GIVING UP until, at last, someone likes what I have in my portfolio, has an opening, has had a little too much to drink, and decides "HEY! Why don't we fucking hire this kid?"
That's how I'm able to sleep at night. It's not easy (day to day drudgery in the office is getting to me but I'm not letting it get to me too much. I find it funny more often than not)...but I'm still rolling along. :)
Another thing I'm working on as I submit portfolio and resume after portfolio and resume to various studios is...BLOG ABOUT MY ATTEMPTS TO GET INTO MY FIELD. And I will post the link to the blog when I've finished tweaking the template. Yes. I've gone from almost anti-blog to someone who owns not one but two blogs. Plus a tumblr. But I'm looking forward to the new blog- I've got my ideas ready to go. I think it'll be a nice and often amusing sad-sack read for people who are in a similar position, and it might add insight into the job hunting process. And in the end, it's supposed to be all about tenacity and never giving up on your dreams. If I were a logical human being, I'd have long since abandoned my goal of working in the animation or comic field. I'd have given up about a year after graduating college. I'd have ended up trying for a mundane office job with the hopes of rising in position until I'm old enough to retire, all the while collecting comics and collecting movies and things I love and just hoping and daydreaming for a life I'd never have.
But I'm not a logical person when it comes to my dreams. I'm a decent artist, I've got a passion for all of that good stuff, but I lack the concrete experience that most are looking for. The only thing to do is keep improving my portfolio, learn as much new software and tricks from the industry as I can, add that shit to my portfolio site, and keep myself accountable each day on the grounds of: "What have I done today to get closer to my goals?" And make sure that I've done everything possible on that given day so that I can look myself in the eye and answer honestly, "Yes, here's what I've done today to get closer to my goals: 1. 2. and 3." And keep doing that DAY IN AND DAY OUT WITHOUT GIVING UP until, at last, someone likes what I have in my portfolio, has an opening, has had a little too much to drink, and decides "HEY! Why don't we fucking hire this kid?"
That's how I'm able to sleep at night. It's not easy (day to day drudgery in the office is getting to me but I'm not letting it get to me too much. I find it funny more often than not)...but I'm still rolling along. :)