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Part One
On personal stuff:
I start and include this on my Illustration site mostly because my personal life pretty much dictates how fast my illustration work proceeds. If you read my last few post you'll now that life got a bit intense with my newborn child 's delivery and both my wife and son's health. Those were somre rough 3 weeks but all is calm and stable now.Before this there was a bit of drama due preps tfor delivery, which in the end was more than adecuate because our baby came 2 weeks early., so, this was around 6 weeks of almost no illo work done.
On Commissions:
I'll put the queue back next week along with an offer for current commissioners. I've much to apologize for my unprofessional tardiness and it's about time I dealt with it on a more efficient way, and also offer you a second option to deal with my huge delivery-time issues...
On Professional Work:
Well, besides freezing the client hunt for 6 months now, Butterfrog Studio is running quite good, 'cause sometimes clients come to you without looking for them, the latest clients included Monte Cook Games and Paizo again
. Right after I finish the commission queue, I'm going to go back to revive the Field Guide to the Butterfrog by including the winning entries and adding a bit of artwork to it. I'll be shooting to bring some print copies of the guide to PaizoCon.
On the sad side of professional artwork, I just got thrown under the bus on a epic fail of a Kickstarter... It just happened a couple days ago and it raged bad, but it's already starting to fade and apparently few people actually bought what the KS author tried to get out of blaming me. If anything, I think this ended up beign a positive thing since it showed me the true colors of many people and how the RPG industry is very supportive of their own... Thank you all for believing in me! This was quite a Milestone in my illustrator career so I owe it a lenghty post, something I'll do right after I deal with the commission queue journal.
Saludos!
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Part One
On personal stuff:
I start and include this on my Illustration site mostly because my personal life pretty much dictates how fast my illustration work proceeds. If you read my last few post you'll now that life got a bit intense with my newborn child 's delivery and both my wife and son's health. Those were somre rough 3 weeks but all is calm and stable now.Before this there was a bit of drama due preps tfor delivery, which in the end was more than adecuate because our baby came 2 weeks early., so, this was around 6 weeks of almost no illo work done.
On Commissions:
I'll put the queue back next week along with an offer for current commissioners. I've much to apologize for my unprofessional tardiness and it's about time I dealt with it on a more efficient way, and also offer you a second option to deal with my huge delivery-time issues...
On Professional Work:
Well, besides freezing the client hunt for 6 months now, Butterfrog Studio is running quite good, 'cause sometimes clients come to you without looking for them, the latest clients included Monte Cook Games and Paizo again
. Right after I finish the commission queue, I'm going to go back to revive the Field Guide to the Butterfrog by including the winning entries and adding a bit of artwork to it. I'll be shooting to bring some print copies of the guide to PaizoCon.On the sad side of professional artwork, I just got thrown under the bus on a epic fail of a Kickstarter... It just happened a couple days ago and it raged bad, but it's already starting to fade and apparently few people actually bought what the KS author tried to get out of blaming me. If anything, I think this ended up beign a positive thing since it showed me the true colors of many people and how the RPG industry is very supportive of their own... Thank you all for believing in me! This was quite a Milestone in my illustrator career so I owe it a lenghty post, something I'll do right after I deal with the commission queue journal.
Saludos!
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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Hugo, congratulation son the Numenera Character Options. Beautiful work! Anyway, any word on how you plan on handling the commissions?