3 posts tagged “hockey”
Slowing down. Another pin-up sketch I'm afraid. I have been filling my free time with Comic collective meetings, apartment hunting, and dating one of the greatest girls on the planet. Hopefully there will be another comic, and some news on my new girl coming soon.
I've been settling in well in Vancouver, naturally with a few missteps along the way. The one thing I wish I could focus on more however is my art. Part of why I left Japan was to get into more creative grounds, yet I still find myself procrastinating from creating. Not that that's anything new. I'm starting to think the only real difference between me and the successful illustrators out there is that they spend every free moment drawing. Whereas I find all number of distractions. Like spending all of last night watching the Canucks play Dallas for what turned into a five hour freaking game! One of the ten longest hockey games ever I believe.
Ah well, I'm tempted to further fill this journal with more lamentations about my failings and limitations, but I think that is the root to the whole problem. So for the future I'm going to try my best to accentuate the positives. As well as try to have fewer expectations in my pursuits.
In an effort to get the creative juices flowing I'm going to try to blog some artwork once a week. I'm making this resolution while at work however which means I've nothing to post today I'm afraid, BUT I highly encourage any and all of you who would like to see my artwork to pester me about this promise as much as possible.
Expect the first weekly improv this Saturday!
Rather that leave this blog mired in 2010 indecision and politics completely, I'll try to lighten things up a little in future.
This weekend I'm heading to Seattle for the Emerald City Comicon. Where I can hopefully ad to my comic artists sketch book, and rub elbows with some editors. Number one on my list of people to meet will be Mark Bagley. He was the first artist I ever really took note of, and is still one of the few who has the work ethic to carry a comic month to month without delays or fill-in artists. I'm also eager to meet David Mack again, especially after reading his phenomenal new run of Kabuki. And just to rationalize to myself that I'm not a total geek I'll be spending an extra day in the city to see the space needle and perhaps EMP. After 26 years I think it's worht really seeing my neighbour to the South.
Tomorrow I'm going to see the Giants in the playoffs against Chilliwack. I'll be taking some of my new Japanese friends from Clubhouse language exchange.
More news to follow.
