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- scarabin0
this is my fire staff teacher messing around with a sword
- Horp0
I stopped being an illustrator about two years ago now. Since then I've been working as a culture analyst and strategy boffin.
I got bored of the 'scene' of illustration. I got tired of wondering about how to keep the work relevant and I got tired of sitting on my own. Most of all I got tired of the commercial grind. The crap you have to do commercially takes up all of your time, and what you love doing as personal work doesn't ever seem to get commissioned.
I haven't done a single bit of illustration over the last almost two years, and I haven't looked at any of my old work either. Its been a really good time. It was great to leave all that stuff behind completely and make a totally clean start in a new direction.
I was just looking at something on Thee blog, then remembered Diego once asked about putting some of my work on there, so I had a look and found it. I looked at the examples of work he pulled out almost as though for the first time (not that horrible way you usually look at your own work: overfamiliar, from the inside out) and I got nostalgic.
Its rough and ill-drafted and all that crap (I'll never like the way I draw things), but I suddenly got a pang to be doing some of that once more.
What's the world like out there for illustrators at the moment? Is it a good time to be an illustrator?
- sounds like you care too much about what others think********
- Sounds to me like I'm interested in what the world is like out there for illustrators, and whether its a good time...Horp
- ... to be one. But the pang was fleeting. I got an old sketchbook out tonight. Had a go, still can't do it, no love lost.Horp
- sounds like you care too much about what others think
- ********0
is it just me or is youtube dog shit slow lately? every thing else seems quick vimeo, soundcloud, etc. even flickr videos but youtube is at a frustratingly slow snails pace. grr
- Sutteklut0
Cant sleep, dont understand why and how or anything...
- ********0
this is funny
https://twitter.com/#!/search/%2…
- inteliboy0
not sure why I did.... but clicked "comments" on a foxnews article... wow the amount of absolute fucking inbred retards that america has is astonishing. It's a real dose of reality to see we are far far far from being a modern civilised society with the masses of morons like that plagueing the earth.
- autoflavour0
urgh.. so hungover
- Hombre_Lobo0
i really wish you could move all guides as one item in photoshop...would make life a lot easier.
- I really wish that I could get images to actually lock on the guides @ 100% in PS.utopian
- oh man, the guides! you put your marquee tool on the guide, click... and it doesn't fucking align. 1 pixel off!! :@Hombre_Lobo
- make the canvas huge, select all the layers and move layers instead?********
- Complexfruit0
http://www.goodbysilverstein.com…
I really liked Goodby's monogram logo until I came upon this:
http://typeverything.com/post/75…
Not sure the story behind it, but now I don't like it so much.
- monospaced0
54500SFA
- inteliboy0
offered a CD role in London... turning it down though feel insanely anxious in doing so. Would have been good for the $. Just not fancying the idea of uprooting to go live in the UK - especially as I don't know anyone there and the company who's hiring aren't exactly very creative (freelancing with them on/off for a while now)
- Hombre_Lobo0
what an email -
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- them0
Permalink. It Stays.
- utopian0
It goes.