There have been some changes for me since I last posted.
Most notably: I am gainfully employed in my field.
Yeah you heard that right! I have a job! In art things!
I'm working for an upscale grocery store making hand drawn and hand painted signs and displays that go all over the store. I work with a small but cool team and while everyone else in the store has to wear dress-codey clothes and take breaks at approved times, we pretty much DO WHAT WE WANT and hang out and paint and chat and listen to music in our cool little loft. It is pretty freaking groovy.
Not to mention I will be getting a paycheck again. Which is a bit of a relief.
On the downside, rather than at the branch of the store that I could almost hit with a rock from my apartment, I'm driving all the way across town, but maybe that's because they don't want me throwing rocks if I get angry at them.
But I've already made some signs, and I'll probably post photos of them soon, as long as the bossman says it's okay.
I'm also currently working on a second really cool project: a good friend of mine has taken over ownership of a bookstore and is partnering with a (somewhat well-known!) author friend of hers, and they are renaming and rebranding. And I'm their designer.
I have already put together a bunch of roughs for their new sign and my friend likes them a lot and has sent them off to her business partner and his manager to get feedback. Hopefully they like them as well. I will probably wait until stuff is final before posting any of that though. But once I do, I'll even post a photo of the sign in real life which will be super exciting.
And now, because I've told you about a bunch of things but refused to share any pictures, here are a couple quick photo studies I did last night to get some anatomy and pose practice in. Umbrellas are the bane of my existence.
