An update on nothing, really

I felt the need to post a new journal, but got here and realized I didn't have an awful lot to share. 

I finished two-and-a-half weeks worth of illustration for work, and it was glorious while it lasted.  It was exhausting, I responded to my coworkers in grunts or not at all and really mostly didn't interact with anyone (except for the day on which we played with stilts), a couple times I ended the day with my hand in cramped knots after hours and hours and hours of small detail rendering, and a few times I had rather violent battles with my skill level vs. what I was trying to portray, but let's be honest -- I loved every minute of it, and though everything was a little rushed and I wasn't 100% happy with 100% of my work, I got the chance to push myself with style, technique and accuracy, to good effect, I feel. 

But, right before lunch time yesterday, I finished all of the last of the last minute tweaks (until they get sent back for more, of course) and now I'm back to package design.  Which, I still enjoy, of course, but not with the rhapsodic joy I do illustration.  I mean, when I was in school and queried about what kind of job I wanted to have, my response was always that I just wanted to 'get paid to draw pretty pictures'...which package design can include, of which illustration is the pure, distilled form.  

I'm still working on studies and will hopefully have more to post soon.  

I am moving forward with my packaging freelance project, and will probably post some of my thumbnail roughs tonight or tomorrow, while I'm working on refining and expanding upon the direction my client has chosen.  

I don't have a lot more to say or to share.  I've done a few doodles lately but nothing really for posting anywhere but my tumblr.  It's been a busy couple weeks.  Hopefully that will change in the next few days.