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After ONLY a bit over 6 weeks of construction and dozens of hours of cleaning... My renewed studio is up!
The place is still not ready, there are many small (and not too small ) details yet to be done, like painting and putting up the batroom door, but I MUST restart on my illo work before I get more stressed...
This little construction took away 6 weeks of my time illo time, for it's was not only construction that needed to be done, but also lots of purchasing construction materials and movinng the furniture around. I had to ask for a lot of off-work permission hours to be present at the construction and supervise the whole thing, that was the price I had to pay in order to make this remodelation affordable. Lots of things went wrong, most of them got corrected. The whole thing remained withing budget, but in the end, I ended up without money (actaully, in red numbers) because I just couldn't get down to work and thus no work was completed and I couldn't get paid... Now not only I haven'tfinished my work, but I'm very close to losing many jobs because I'm much overdue on deadlines.
Why I couldn't get down to work? I had to move all my stuff around and half my home was in "ruins", and the other hal was packed up with the stuf I had to move to empty the rooms that were under construction. Also, when the workers left, I needed to clean my whole place up so that the place was liveable. Between the cleaning and all the extra shopping I had to do, I had precious to no time to sit down on a dusty corner to try and get some work done.
Now the contractors are gone, and my place is still unfinished, but mostly there. Enough at least for my to put my desk and laptop down to return to illustrate all my duties. Why the urgency of this construction and the obsessive need to clean up? I have HUGE news on the personal and illustration studio side that I'll share with you in a couple weeks more
Back to the drawing board!
The place is still not ready, there are many small (and not too small ) details yet to be done, like painting and putting up the batroom door, but I MUST restart on my illo work before I get more stressed...
This little construction took away 6 weeks of my time illo time, for it's was not only construction that needed to be done, but also lots of purchasing construction materials and movinng the furniture around. I had to ask for a lot of off-work permission hours to be present at the construction and supervise the whole thing, that was the price I had to pay in order to make this remodelation affordable. Lots of things went wrong, most of them got corrected. The whole thing remained withing budget, but in the end, I ended up without money (actaully, in red numbers) because I just couldn't get down to work and thus no work was completed and I couldn't get paid... Now not only I haven'tfinished my work, but I'm very close to losing many jobs because I'm much overdue on deadlines.
Why I couldn't get down to work? I had to move all my stuff around and half my home was in "ruins", and the other hal was packed up with the stuf I had to move to empty the rooms that were under construction. Also, when the workers left, I needed to clean my whole place up so that the place was liveable. Between the cleaning and all the extra shopping I had to do, I had precious to no time to sit down on a dusty corner to try and get some work done.
Now the contractors are gone, and my place is still unfinished, but mostly there. Enough at least for my to put my desk and laptop down to return to illustrate all my duties. Why the urgency of this construction and the obsessive need to clean up? I have HUGE news on the personal and illustration studio side that I'll share with you in a couple weeks more
Back to the drawing board!
Back to the Start
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.
Back to the Start
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
Radio Silence
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
September's Schedule
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 workworkw
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Huzzah! I just got my studio all set up, so I'm right there with you buddy!