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Ever felt that need to return to the begining? That something went wrong, weird, or at least way too unexpected? And I mean "too" unexpected, because unexpected is the norm.

Well, I've been there for a while.

And tried to start over many this. This isn't the first time I've wrote this kind of journal.

I've been flying too close to the ground for too long, allowing myself to hide so that no one to avoid being "judged" or failing, all the while beign my own worst "judge" and failing steadly, for there's nothing worsth than doing nothing..

Well, no more.

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Looong time no post...

I'm finally done with the Realms of Strife artwork, and it only took me nearly 3 years, a HARD three years period I must say. (I'll link to the new site as soon as it's ready)

What's next? Well, I've been the busiest with everything (family, school, life, health, etc.) BUT art, but the past 6 weeks I've been toiling on the map mines producing lots of stuff for Numenera 2, and that has whipped me back into the good drawing board habits, or at the very least a nice rythm.

I'll be past that Numenera 2 assignment by may the 7th, and I'll return the the queue of long overdue work along with a couple more pending projects (both steam/storm punk) AND, a seious back to the start.

I've been trapped on my style for a long time. I can say it has improved, but, it's far from where my skillz should be given the time I've put into it, and the problem is: I don't "practice". Yup, Practice is the magic word: color theory, anatomy, perspective, etc. and this year, I'll dve deep into that. Starting with anatomy.

More news coming soon!
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Radio Silence

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I've been rather busy trying to stay afloat with two jobs and adding another class to my repertoire (multiclass rules and sucks!). I'm kinda "neglecting" the second job (illustration) thou not really, since I'm prempting lots of stuff to bring it back ful force by the begining of next year.

Right now my efforts are on finishing/dealing (as in refunding) the most direly overdue stuff, and on trying to revive my Social Media accounts, not that I ever paid much attention to it, but it's time to make it work properly. I've been posting never-before-seen-in-my-portfolio art, which is not new but is not wshown in dA either. So, if you want to see this "new" stuff, please check it on my Pacebook [link]

On December I'll be posting LOTS of fresh & crispy new stuff!

Hope you are still there checking in ;)

Hugo
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A lot is going on on the non-illustration front, between taking care of my health (check!) and giving my professional life a new direction (I've entered a Masters in Marketing... go figure) my time turned more chaotic than usual, turns out that going back to school after 18 years of beign on a non-academic mindset is quite disturbing, but now I'm close to getting the hang of it back.

Anyways, This month will see new artwork horizonts (space horizonts that is, thou re's no really a horizont in space...) as well as the stuff that I STILL owe.... AND, lots more activity in social media to regain my joy of art and steer away a bit from workworkwork.

Once I get my marbles sorted out, I'll write a general schedule to notify the folks still waiting on me more speficically how are things going .

Cheers!
Hugo
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June of 2017 will be a transition month for my and my family. Transition from what? well....

- June last year I started on a Diet, and I'm ending it this next month. I've lost around 55 punds :)
- June Last year I started working out. Nowadays on a bad week I put some 6 hours of workout between strenght (weight lifting) and cardio.
- I've dropped my TV time from 36-50 hours weekly to 6-8 weekly (It would be less but CURSE YOU Netflix!).
- Since June last year (around my boy's surgery day) I've started reading non-Gaming/Art/Graphic novels/Novels & stuff -from filosophy to business books, from then up to today I've read 25 books and have a larger cue waiting to be read on the next 6 months and on (this is a lot within my eductative-reading standards!).
- I'm spending more quality time now with my whole family more than ever.

What does this has to do with art? Well... For some 5-6 years my consistency has drop to -10%... The only constant thing nowadays (artwise) is that if I'd set an art delivery date you could be sure I WOULND'T deliver until the 3rd to 5th time (if lucky!) I gave another past due date...

It took me a year after my son was born (a couple years ago) to realize I was on a deep depression, and then a bit more than a year after that (and some 50+ pounds gained throughout these years) to gather the will power to start doing something about it, and I started it with both a diet and exercise.

Now I'm certain that I'm past that deep depression and well on the way of forming some real good habits. Part of this plan was to catch up with delayed artwork and return to a seriosus commited attitude, but that didn't go as planned.

A few months ago I learned that humans can hardly focus on more than ONE single major activity, and if you try to handle several major changes in your life you are pretty much setting yourself up to failure. I can vouch to this (at least on my part) on several dieting+art commitment attemps I did previously to last year, so after starting seriously with diet and exercise and seeign I couldn't keep a serious commitment to art, I decided to focus on myself.

I didn't drop art completely but I stayed well below the public radar and pretty much servicing only my main customer and a precious few private commissioners (which are still suffering from my still pending commitment fullfilment). Still trying to deliver ASAP but prioritizing my well beign and my family's.

Not anymore.

Last month I decided to do one last willpower/self-steem 30 day exercise and I'm through with flying colors. I'm ready to start dropping the focus on my persona (thou family focus will always remain a priority, gotta stick to true values!) and move it into artwork. I'm confident now that my still-developing personal habits are strong enogh to keep me rolling without using energy so that I can mind my art commitment and return to proper professionalism.

So, you'll see a considerable change of pace artwise stating on June the 1st, Starting with delivering the looong overdue artwork and with new habit-forming exercises that I MUST do in order to improve my game.

Ready, get set...

PS: Again, thanks for sticking around and to all my still-hanging commissioners THANK YOU for your patience!
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