I seem to be rounding the corner of this massive attack of Con Crud that has kept me drifting in and out of feeling human for the last two weeks. Thank you to everyone who has asked after me, sent emails and texts, sent me little care packages and entertainments so I didn't go mad staring at the ceiling while I was awake, they are all much appreciated.
On with the post!
Weekly Words
It has been said, 'time heals all wounds.' I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens. But it is never gone.
- Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, 1890 - 1995
We are all the Walking Wounded to one degree or another. Our scars shape us, give us the depth to understand an others' pain, give us the clarity to learn from an others' mistakes, give us the drive to to make things better, to shield our selves away from the hurt or to open our selves to another, to just keep living.
Current Project
As I said above, I'm still a bit under the weather from the bout of Con Crud I've been battling since the end of AFO, but I'm definitely better than I was last week. That said, I've been a commission completing machine (when I've been awake and hand-steady enough to sit and work.)
So, first up:
A commission for a repeat customer who always comes to find me at AFO. :) She requested a red-headed man with purple eyes wearing a mix of traditional Japanese clothing and modern Western clothes, joined by a cat wearing a skeptical look. It was fun! I managed to get this out in the mail the other day, so here's hoping she likes the finished product!
Next up:
I've got line work for another b&w ink wash commission taped to my boards waiting for me to get started!
Near Future
More commissions await me, and as time waits for no artist, I need to get started, Con Crud or no Con Crud.
I know it sounds early, but I need to get to work on a Holiday card design so it will be ready to go to the printers no later than the Thanksgiving holiday. I'll have a card request post up later in the year, most likely sometime in late October/early November.
I'm hoping to attend Necronomicon in mid-October, but that depends mostly on the travel situation, which, without a car, is difficult to plan in advance.
I'm hoping to get that 2012 Sketchbook Kickstarter project going soon, but I have no idea what I'm doing, how I'm going to go about it, or how to even begin laying out this book... O.o
Somewhere in there, I'm also hoping to get some personal art squeaked in.... O.o!
Thank you for joining me for another State of the Artist update, I hope you are all well and that you join me again next week!
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