New Blog

In January 2009 there was no Instagram, so I started this blog with the idea of sharing and documenting my creations. Anything from character design, life drawing, doodles, animation and crochet dolls.  Some years were better than others and it’s not because I wasn’t creating something.

Somewhere in the way I lost sight of why I love art and crafts. And even though I was creating stuff I didn’t think they were worth sharing. I think I got scared of being judged so I judged my creations too harshly before anyone else had the chance to do so. In that process “my creativity got so beaten up that I got scared of creating altogether. Tough luck if your paycheck depends on that!

Some months ago I realized that I needed to get back creating for myself, just because I love it. I’ve been researching, looking for a way to recover my love and passion for art and how to make a living of it in a healthy way. In that process I’ve found that a lot of people go through the same or they are at risk of the same downfall.

At the same time, I’ve been learning how to jump into freelancing. It’s true I’ve been working as a freelancer for about 6 years, but really I was employed by different studios or business for long periods of time. It’s just very recently that I’ve had to “find” clients on a regular basis. So I want to share that knowledge.

I’d love to share what I’ve found with the world. I want to help others find the resources and knowledge that we don’t get in school (any school) about work, clients, professionalism, freelancing, artist’s block, etc.

In order to share everything I’ve learned and keep finding in the way, I need another kind of platform. Something more flexible and with more resources. I’ve been working on a brand new corner of the internet.

Thank you Blogger! you’ve served me well but now it’s time to say goodbye. I’m moving!!

 Visit my New Blog!! / ¡¡Visita mi Nuevo Blog!!

Updates

I stopped updating the blog again a couple of months ago, but I kept creating mostly animations and I spent a while uploading them to my You Tube Channel. I made the huge mistake of not posting the animations as I created them,either here or in You Tube, so all of the sudden I had about 30 animations just sitting there.

It's true that they are watched, since the Animatron platform is a bit as a You Tube channel that allows people to watch my content and follow me, but I wanted to share them beyond Animatron. Anyways, it took a couple of weeks to render and post them but they are all in You tube now.

In this time I've also designed and put together my website, after a lot of dueling on it, I did it! So I published it two days ago.I'm very proud of it even though I want to replace the video with an updated version of my demo reel. The last one I have is from 2014, which gives me another project.

Now that I think about it, a lot has happened since the last post. I moved to Sweden so I'm still adjusting to the new place, weather, darkness and everyday life here. Where I live is kind of far from civilization so it's taking some getting used to. I brought my cat with me so she's been through the same process and it's been fun and alarming to watch. She was a street cat so keeping her indoors because of the weather has been challenging for both of us.

Anyways, I want to take this blog more seriously. I don't want to limit it to my artwork, since I have other interests. I have my knitting and cooking for example, and recently I'm hooked with brush lettering. I have been practicing and learning from Skillshare.

Going back to the blog I want to post at least once a week, and that would be an actual post and not just an image here and there. Lets get started!