Bear With Me

...i am typing around a cat. 

(she may not look like she's in the way but she's right where my elbow needs to go)

...and may have just spent an inordinate amount of time looking up which spelling of bare/bear to use in the title. 

The fact that this one shares a spelling with the animal resulted in confusion. 

I know I missed last week. Still adjusting to the new schedule and woefully behind in so many areas. I had planned to sketch at least one sketchbook page a week this month and here we are with November half over and I haven't done a thing. I haven't watched sketchbook videos. I haven't started the character designs I need to. Heck, I haven't even gotten up to take my meds and wash my dinner dishes -- but that's more due to being trapped by a cat than to my schedule. 

(Resists urge to go into detailed discussion of many things about my cat)

I continue to like my job. I had forgotten what it was like to have a job I actually look forward to going to. And no, I'm not just writing this in case you read it, Crystal. I have been working on cool projects. I have been getting to do the kinds of things I went to school for. And I work with really cool people. 

My own art, well...see above. 

But, I did finally finish the thing I was working on. I'm...honestly right now, I am not super happy with it, which is always annoying after spending a large amount of time on something...but I don't know if the dissatisfaction is genuine or due to being too close to it and seeing all the flaws. There ARE things I like about it. There are just other things I DON'T like about it. 

But...so there was this thing I heard. That artists are perpetually dissatisfied with their work because the rate at which our mental skill develops outstrips our technical skill by...was it, about 5 years? Not sure if that number is right...or if any of this is actually true...but it makes a certain amount of sense. 

But either way, here is my latest. It was a personal piece based on personal things. An exorcism of sorts. 

It just...it didn't come out quite how I thought it. And as I've mentioned, I fought with it some. And now that I'm looking at it there are things I'd like to change. Like...I would have liked her shirt to have a logo or design. Her face never quite came together for me. I'm still not sure about the green of the shirt with so much other green, but I experimented with changing the color and I think I liked that best. I THINK. I liked white, but the red light showed up better on green. And there are some things that are purely technical problems. 

But time to move on to the next thing. 

I need to do character designs. 

I want to work on an idea I had based on the song Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots by The Flaming Lips. Something poppy and exciting and fun. I really want to work on that. It will be horizontal and long. The background will be cream. Lots of primary colors and tertiary colors. 

Anyway, about bed time for this girl with a grown up job. 

Until next week (no, really).