Apply Nose A to Grindstone B
Originally published at Dream Colony. You can comment here or there.
Busy Busy Busy.
I have been hard at work the last few months. Which is stressful sometimes, of course. But then I think about how much nicer it is than the alternative. And yes, I would much rather be worrying about how I'm going to find time to sleep than I worry about what the hell I'm supposed to do with my day, or if I'm wasting my life away sitting around the house.
So, summaries as briefly as I can manage:
My job continues to be very cool. I do a great variety of things in my day, which is exactly what I need to stay interested and focused. In the past week, I've created cartoon characters for a Golf e-commerce site, designed an interactive flash web banner for the same, put together a complete site design for an environmentally-conscious e-tail shop, design a few HTML email newsletters, and also done a handful of tedious-but easy data-entry/code update tasks. Oh, and I spend half of Monday golfing with my bosses, under the very vague auspices of learning more about our new clients' business, but mostly just to have a fun company outing.
Simultaneously, I've been pretty solidly booked on illustration work - in fact, I've had to turn down assignments for the first time ever, which I'm not entirely thrilled about. But I've been doing plenty of fun work none-the-less, so I can't really complain. I've just gone through and posted all of my new stuff (I think) on Dream Colony.
I've done a couple of new pieces for Insight magazine, which is always fun and pretty easy work. My premier model, Anthony once again got to be Jesus for me, which he seems to enjoy perhaps even more than being the Devil. Thank you, Anthony.
For Ars Magica, I've done three new pieces for their upcoming Hedge Magic book. I would have loved to take on more, but, ah, time. lovely wife gets to feature prominently here.
Finally, I'm currently working on a trio of images for a mysterious new book, which I believe is called "Tales of Zobeck." More on this as facts emerge. What I know is that it's a Eastern-European setting, in a city where the Kobolds are the poor underclass, and the rulers worship the gear goddess and employ armies of clockwork automata. I've never done the gears n' bolts steampunk thing before, but I've been having a lot of fun with it - I'd totally do more if the opportunity came up. I have one more piece to finish today, which was actually due yesterday.
Back to work!