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I've been delayed with 100% of my artwork and I believe I owe an explanation to my commissioners.
For pretty much all of 2013 I've been a little quiet. Very few uploads compared to previous years and precious few professional publications too. This is because I'm supposed to be wrapping up a lot of commissions from previous years, something I'm yet to acomplish.
This past July I had a nice two-week vacation where I planned to finally finish my due work, and I did achieve it to a certain point but no way near what I wanted, because then came the dreaded CONSTRUCTION!...
For over a year now, I've been planning the construction of a bathroom and several other "small" stuff in my home, and part of this planning included securing an affordable cost, which luckily I got. This construction was supposed to take two weeks and to start around mid august (by then I'd clear my commission slate) but the contractor was ready to start by the third week of July and if I let it pass then I'd miss the opportunity to do the construction, so I had to move and start to purchase all the required stuff for the construction detailing (batroom furniture, water heater, lamps, tiles, etc) this took a lot of driving around for choosing nice (and cheap!) stuff, checking prices, placing orders etc. A week after the construction started I found out that part of the deal of "affordable contruction cost" meant there will be no foreman at place, so I needed to be on top of the construction workers or else I'd risk having stuff built not how I needed it or where I needed it (or both!). Also, I never considered that the construction mess would spread to 75% of the house and the couple rooms I didn't lost to construction stuff/mess I lost'em to storage space to cram the rest of my stuff, which left me without a proper drawing place... Then I had to be supervising contruction stuff deliveries and taking care that my two doggies would run out the all-to-often-open-front-door when the contractors were taking materials in... All in all I needed to be "there" all the time until the workers left for the day, and then clean up so that I could get some illo work done, which killed most of my drawing time...
So, vacation time slipped by without much work done, now the so called 2-week construction time has turned to 3.5 weeks (and counting!)... My wife and I (and my doggies!) are growing a bit desperate of the increasing and neverending mess. I had to ask for several off-hours at the dayjob to be at home and continue to supervising job, something that will come around and bite me on my ass when I have to pay back those off hours...
Now the rightly-so eager commissioners are starting to circle abode me...
(a couple pics of what used to be our computer/tv room-studio a week ago. As of today the place is TEN TIMES MESSIER)
I'm SUPER happy that I finally got this construction project going (it is SUPER necessary!) but the consequences are turning a bit dire... At this time I'm reaching a stressful breaking point and I needed to explain myself to my commissioners for this delay before throwing myself at their mercy...
I hope I don't run out of luck!...
Peace out
For pretty much all of 2013 I've been a little quiet. Very few uploads compared to previous years and precious few professional publications too. This is because I'm supposed to be wrapping up a lot of commissions from previous years, something I'm yet to acomplish.
This past July I had a nice two-week vacation where I planned to finally finish my due work, and I did achieve it to a certain point but no way near what I wanted, because then came the dreaded CONSTRUCTION!...
For over a year now, I've been planning the construction of a bathroom and several other "small" stuff in my home, and part of this planning included securing an affordable cost, which luckily I got. This construction was supposed to take two weeks and to start around mid august (by then I'd clear my commission slate) but the contractor was ready to start by the third week of July and if I let it pass then I'd miss the opportunity to do the construction, so I had to move and start to purchase all the required stuff for the construction detailing (batroom furniture, water heater, lamps, tiles, etc) this took a lot of driving around for choosing nice (and cheap!) stuff, checking prices, placing orders etc. A week after the construction started I found out that part of the deal of "affordable contruction cost" meant there will be no foreman at place, so I needed to be on top of the construction workers or else I'd risk having stuff built not how I needed it or where I needed it (or both!). Also, I never considered that the construction mess would spread to 75% of the house and the couple rooms I didn't lost to construction stuff/mess I lost'em to storage space to cram the rest of my stuff, which left me without a proper drawing place... Then I had to be supervising contruction stuff deliveries and taking care that my two doggies would run out the all-to-often-open-front-door when the contractors were taking materials in... All in all I needed to be "there" all the time until the workers left for the day, and then clean up so that I could get some illo work done, which killed most of my drawing time...
So, vacation time slipped by without much work done, now the so called 2-week construction time has turned to 3.5 weeks (and counting!)... My wife and I (and my doggies!) are growing a bit desperate of the increasing and neverending mess. I had to ask for several off-hours at the dayjob to be at home and continue to supervising job, something that will come around and bite me on my ass when I have to pay back those off hours...
Now the rightly-so eager commissioners are starting to circle abode me...
(a couple pics of what used to be our computer/tv room-studio a week ago. As of today the place is TEN TIMES MESSIER)
I'm SUPER happy that I finally got this construction project going (it is SUPER necessary!) but the consequences are turning a bit dire... At this time I'm reaching a stressful breaking point and I needed to explain myself to my commissioners for this delay before throwing myself at their mercy...
I hope I don't run out of luck!...
Peace out
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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I'm sorry to hear that life's getting in the way again/still. I really do hope things get sorted out quickly so you can get back to doing what you really love.