A Fresh Start

This has been a crazy year…and my first blog post in quite a while since 2019! It feels good to be back blogging.

So I think for most of us this year has been wild. With Covid hitting and the global shutdown, its not been easy. Since in March I’ve been working remotely for my job and its been pretty solid. The drive to the studio was a really long one I had to do every day, but fortunately they decided to switch us to a work from home approach where now I can avoid that nightmare. I also had to skip going to Comic Con, which I had been going to for the last 3 years in a row since Covid shut down practically everything.

I’ve not been working on art much since I’ve been quite busy with work and also, I think its healthy to take breaks every now and then which is something I find a lot of artists don’t really do. The mentality is often to keep forging ahead and while I can understand doing that because you don’t want to lose momentum, I think it can hurt more than help in the long run because of burnout risks and you miss out on the chance of simply taking a step back to observe where you currently are. The principal is really the same thing as doing an art piece. You could work on a big piece for hours in a row, but doing so often leads to tunnel vision where you miss mistakes that you can easily catch if you step back for a bit, then come back to work on it later.

Also I’ve decided to create a new Twitter account (same username). I felt my old one was getting stagnant and wanted to a fresh start. Perhaps from time to time I’ll add announcements on my website too. I find Twitter is great for getting the in-the-moment messages out, but its not that great when it comes to archival purposes. A website will do that much better than Twitter and frankly any social media ever will.

I’m not expecting much for blog posts for this year as there’s been a lot on my plate, but perhaps next year things will get back to more normal circumstances and I’ll be in a better spot to do blogging.