ShadowsFall

I did it. And I didn’t think I would. I painted one (or more) painting for every month of the year of 2011.

You see, I was balancing finishing up the semester, releasing some software, and dealing with the holidays. I looked at the canvas I had started at the beginning of the month and thought “There’s no fucking way.” I’d almost thought of just saying that it was good enough. I’d done eleven and that was decent.

I sucked it up and did this in two hours. I want to do this with oils. I think white will be the color for 2012.

I started 2010 with the resolution to complete one painting per month. I also wanted to explore oils and more representational painting. I think I’ve done a pretty good job of following through with my resolutions.

Completing twelve paintings has been tough (and I still have one more to do). I admit that a few really didn’t work. But I’ve had many more successes than disappointments. There are some paintings that leave me unable to replicate the technique. My own work is a mystery.

Plenty of times I was unable to start a piece until the last few days of the month. Imagine what I could do if I could really take some time with the paintings. My first and favorite oil painting was done in the span of thirty hours over the course of two weeks.

I’ve tried my hand at some self promotion and have put up a store. So far, absolutely nothing has happened on that front. I think that will be my goal for 2012 – to sell something.

Anything.

It’d also be grand to see one of my paintings on a derby poster. I think 2012 will be the year of the action paintings.

I started one of my very few commissions this month. A co-worker asked me to do a painting of SpongeBob for his daughter. He didn’t want anything fancy but I’d be damned if I wasn’t going to do something serious. So far it’s going well.

I’d love some free time.

I’m hard at work on developing art for my video game design class, as well as doing some card art for a fellow student and their capstone (below). I need to pay attention to my painting though.

Work In Progress: Ogre Brute. Digital Painting

The ad went down well enough at the WFTDA NC Regionals, with one of the skaters whom I had painted giving me a very nice compliment. That, in a way, was payment enough, ya know? Website traffic spiked and people at least looked at my work. But I was hoping for maybe one or two poster sales. It’d probably help to actually have a table or something.

Here’s to trying. I’m going to have to keep doing that.

On one of the nicest weeks of fall weather you could expect, I’m sick. At least I finished my painting for October. I admit it though, I half-assed it, but it’s still pretty decent. I think.

This week-end is the big WFTDA regionals event in town. I’m throwing some dice by placing an ad in the program book for my portfolio site. Linked from my portfolio site is my store. Ya see – I don’t mind so much if people don’t buy anything, and I want that to be the point. Even though I do want to make a living from my artwork at some point in this short life.

I’d rather not beat people over the head with it.

So yeah – I guess I need to get on things. I need to come up witha  quick “like me on the facebooks and win a print” contest. I think you need to be able to “like” something in order to comment on a post, right? Enh… I’ll figure it out.