Welcome to the blog, not sure if I like the blog title or not but I can play with that later. Well never been one to write this much about myself but I tend to take art personally, not sure if that’s good or bad yet. For those of you who have been around me, already know that I’m a real quiet and humble person. Mostly because I like to sit back and go through life at a slow pace, to absorb information and inspiration from others around me. Always been the kind of guy more interested in how another artist or animator works and thinks in terms of his or her own thought process when designing and creating.
The reason for a blog now is that I feel that it’s time to really refocus myself in terms of being an artist. I’ve always looked at art being more than a way to express yourself, but kind of like a journal of where you’ve been in life and the experience’s that influence your art style and ideas. I loved going to the Art Institute of Washington and having that feeling of wanting to hang out with people who had the same passion for making characters, stories and artwork that I did. I was always the kid that was good at drawing, when I was in 3rd grade I already know what I wanted to do in life. Knowing you have the edge in doing something better than someone else at an early age really shapes what you focus on growing up.
The self-esteem started going down for me after being dealt some bad hands in my career, the fire in me started to go away. All the job interviews not working out, to me feeling lost in the fact that I didn’t know what I wanted to do anymore were really starting to mess with my head. Then I’ve started having this competitive feeling again after some conversations with friends and my family. All of a sudden this sickening feeling of realizing that I’m throwing away all my potential hit me. And then one day I woke up and came to the realization that the only person stopping me was myself.
So I plan on using the blog to really open up my mind creatively, for all to see my though process in creating characters, clay modeling, animations, comics you name it. And to really show how much work an artist puts into making that character or animation look good. For those who have worked with me before know that art brings out the kid in me. So if you happen to follow me you can look forward to some interesting posts of me jumping around from drawing, animating, making clay models to painting. I have big plans on doing some things never done before, that I'm holding pretty close to the chest, but before I can get there I need to get myself back in the game.
THE RICHEST PLACE IN THE WORLD!
If I were to ask you, ‘‘Where is the richest place in the world?’’ I am sure that some would say the mint in Washington, D.C. Others would say Fort Knox, and others would say the gold and diamond mines that populate the African continent. But all would be wrong.
The richest place in the world is the graveyard! That’s right, the graveyard. In it lie all the people who had great ideas that would have made them wealthy, but they listened instead to some negative person who used the word ‘‘can’t’’ and they believed them. Then they took those great ideas with them to their graves! Their best song . . . unsung! Their best invention . . . undone! Their best book . . . unwritten!
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