I am right up against the end of my week because it has been a weird one. I haven't gotten much art done.
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aaaaannnnddd turns out that the coffee shop closes at 10:30 on Sundays, so now I am home and continuing this post here.
So, as I was saying, it was a weird week.
Freaking weird
Perhaps not as weird as Mark and Joanne trying to get the sound working for Marueen's spoken word poetry show, but still pretty weird.
On Monday, I went to work and read the email informing me that my company was planning to lay off 1500 workers worldwide. Later that day I was called into the leadership office and informed of my options, regarding the dissolution of the marketing department.
So, I am now a slacker unemployed artist.
And my hands smell like steak so I need to move my cat off my computer cord and go wash my hands before I continue.
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That's much better. Now they mostly smell like my roommate's peppermint soap, vanilla lotion, and almost not at all like steak.
Anyway, I didn't get any art done at Santa Rosa Toy Con, because i actually ended up pretty occupied the whole time, and due to the weird/stressful/uncertain nature of the past week, I didn't get a lot of art done since then. I have mostly been busy staving off crippling waves of panic and trying to decide what I want to do with my life now. And how to direct myself towards the things I think I'd like doing and making lists of things I need to accomplish.
That, and spending some somewhat irresponsible time going to concerts and music festivals and letting friends take me out to lunch out of sympathy.
But mostly the crippling panic.
Tomorrow I start working towards my goals in earnest. I guess I finally have that time I've been looking for to update my portfolio, and that's task one. I intend to camp out in my coffee shop and work on making a new layout and adding pictures of stuff I've done more recently than 2013. Streamlining to maybe exclude some stuff that isn't actually relevant to my strengths. Fleshing out the illustration and graphic design areas a bit. Taking deep breaths and reminding myself that at least I live in California and if I become homeless, it doesn't get too terribly cold at night.
But in the meantime, since I don't have anything new to show you of my own, I'd like to show you some art from a couple of spectacular artists I chatted with at ToyCon:
Ken Berman --industrial inspired art
And Matt Gaser -- Illustrator/Concept Artist
Seriously, both of these guys have art so pretty I could die. Do yourself a favor and go over to their websites and take a look through their work.
Also, I WANT to post a link to the gorgeous poster I got from the Conor Oberst/M. Ward/Felice Brothers show at the Phoenix Theater last week, but I can't find any information about the art or the artist or any posts of it online, but be assured it is GORGEOUS and I have posted it right where I can see it from my workstation (see: bed where I curl up with my computer and cat and draw) and it can remind me to get off my butt (on my butt?) and make some art. And you wish you had one because it is super pretty.
That's all for this week.
I hope to have things shiny and new to show you sometime within the next seven days.
***EDIT***
FOUND the poster artist! I contacted the Phoenix and they sent me a link to his website.
His name is Charles House, and though the poseter is NOT up on his website, here are a few other examples of his work:
