Happy Easter!

I’ve been trying to move the posting day to Tuesday or Wednesday for a couple of weeks, but I didn’t want to stop posting and now I have the perfect opportunity. 

I animated a Happy Easter card a couple of weeks ago but I wanted to post it in time for, well, Easter. This is actually my last animation, I don’t know if I’m animating anything soon, I want to, but I have many things planned.

Animated version

I’m already at week 3 of the Artist’s Way and it’s been an actual roller coaster, some days are good some days are horrible. But so far, I haven’t missed a single day. I’ve been looking for other ways to help the process, The Random Word Doodle Challenge is a good exercise (today is day 9!).  I re-read “Steal like an artist” by Austin Kleon, it's so inspiring, I find new things every read. Also, I’ve been reading “Art & fear” but for some reason I get very sleepy when I do.

Not long ago I read "The Crossroads of Should and Must" by Elle Luna, great read and it goes a bit more in depth than her post. If you haven't read her famous post you can find it here . If anyone has any more suggestions, please let me know. 

Thanks for reading, stay safe during the holidays and once again Happy Easter!

On My Way to Art Recovery

It’s been years since I can’t just draw for pleasure. I have been working and therefore I’ve been drawing and creating illustrations and animations. But I haven’t felt like drawing just for the fun of it. I tried many times, just to feel sad and frustrated after staring at the blank page.

I came across Julia Cameron's The Artist’s Way a couple of months ago, I read about it somewhere so I went ahead and bought the digital version, I started reading it and everything spoke to me deeply, so I got excited, I really wanted to start. And I found excuses, lots of them, so I put it off.

Last week, around the time I decided I was going to write in my blog at least once per week, I decided to follow The Artist’s Way program, it’s 12 weeks of exercises, that’s not too long compared to the time I’ve been feeling like a cheat because I don’t enjoy making art anymore.

I started the morning pages a week ago. I think I just needed to prove myself that I want to recover my creative spark and I will. So just morning pages and one artist date this week, I’m calling it week 0 since I didn’t do any other activity from week 1. Hell, I just read Week 1 today! 

It’s just week 0 and I feel much better because I’m taking action, and not just in the program, but because I started working on personal projects, more than one. That is a big win for me!! 

Since all my work from the week is still in progress I’m attaching an older piece (just a month old), to celebrate that Spring is coming.

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!