Hi everyone,

So in the interim of me finding a job, I decided to make a Facebook group called The Artists' Salon with the intention for artists of all mediums to come together and talk about the Arts, as well as to promote your own work.

That means visual, communicative, comics, film, dance, music, and theater are always on the table. So feel free to join and post your work. It just opened up a few hours ago, and I'm hoping to create a postive, growing atmosphere for artists!

Again, the facebook group is called The Artists' Salon.

~C

Working forty hours a week as a graphic designer while trying to also be an illustrator, is exhausting. I'm finding that I have no time to work on the things I love, and all the time in the world to work on things I hate

How do you manage your time, fellow artists? Do you bring your work with you where ever you go? Force yourself to make time? Work through the exhaustion? Hook yourself up to a caffeine I.V.? Make a to-do list? Or accept that you may not have the time to work on everything you want, and instead, should work on what needs to be done?

All the above is leading to a sort of creative-artistic block where I shudder when I see a blank page and I can't get what's in my head down on the page.

Oh the woes of a cartoonist!

~C

So here's my lame website: [link]. It's pretty lame. Prove me wrong, you won't be able to.

So I'm redesigning it once and for all, but I can't think of what to do. It'll be in HTML and CSS so that everyone can view it, so no Flash at all.

Should I have it be themed a la the deity, Cocijo, whose name I use wantonly? (He's the Aztec god of Rain and Thunder, by the by.)

Or, should I do something all together different?

CHOICES!

So I've decided to work on some pieces of art to try and get them into a gallery somewhere. Not sure when, where, or how, but I have decided this.

~C

So I have a job as a designer of wedding photo albums! It's exciting because every day I get to see two photo sets of two separate weddings and maliciously tear them apart in my head. It's really fun. In a really evil sort of way... occasionally I see nice wedding's but their never the ones that are expensive looking. There always the ones where you can tell the couple are in love with one another, and that's all that matters.

That aside, I've been working on BoMB. I have 14 pages written (all trash), but at least it's something. I hung out with a friend last night at a bar and then we got some food. I found it exceptionally stimulating on an intellectual and creative level, so I rushed home and tried to capture that energy on paper. We'll see if the Muses were at all by my side when I get home today after work and re-read what I wrote.

This weekend is going to be BoMB central with a flood of character designers and posters. I'll upload all of them when I get a chance, but right now I need to draw Ege, Sabin, and Dinn. And maybe eve Bellerophon, but I'm not sure.

For those of you who don't know what the fuck BoMB is, it stands for "Ballad of Mushroom Boy" and details the adventures of Sabin, who is an adoptive prince, and Ege, who is a washed-up-on-shore thief as they go through a desolate land known as Laccaria discovering who they are, the history of the land, and why there are deep scars in the Earth. It's a story about the power of words and coming to terms with who you are. It also has wicked humor and lots of half-naked guys.

I'm looking forward to completing this story. I've been writing the world of it for the past two or three years without ever knowing what I was going to call it.

I'm also sketching out some postcard designs centered around Greek Mythology, specifically Edith Hamilton's "Mythology". I really want to have each of the heroes have their own unique image, and maybe do a set of five for the Trojan War. I'm not sure yet, since it's all in the works right now. Lastly, I'm working on even more images for Shakespeare plays.

So I have a lot on my plate, but BoMB is first and foremost!

~C