1. 31 Dec


    It’s a few hours before I’ll head out to spend New Year’s eve with my sister and our friends, and I’m beginning to see some of these resolution lists popping up. I don’t have a concrete list, myself. I’m not big on solid rules as they don’t address the fluidity of ones situation over a year, which is really a lot of time. However, there are some things I want to do differently in 2012. My goal in 2011 was to ‘say yes’ to every opportunity. I started a blog that now gets 4000 hits a month (pretty good?), was in several shows, helped found a silk screen studio, and met SO MANY creative people who have become close friends and who I can turn to for opinions and inspiration. I met many artists and food writers, people who make their own success. I feel that I’m becoming a better writer/artist/eater from them. However, my biggest disappointments came from saying yes to things I couldn’t really afford, and then having to back out. A few trips fell through because of that. I also told myself ‘I will live off illustration by the end of the year!’, which new perspectives make me realize was a crazy unrealistic goal. It is that sense of fear that has continued to hold be back. I think 2012 is going to be much, much better in that sense not only because my day job is better, but because illustration seems to be picking up. Today as a kind of celebration of 2012 being my ‘fearless’ year, I dyed my hair a fiery red. I’ve grown less adventurous in wardrobe and attitude over the last years, too concerned with opinion to be bold. Even though it’s a little thing, going red was scary…in 2012 I don’t want to let a little fear hold me back from anything! I am less concerned with pushing hard to be a freelancer, and am more interested in launching another long-term project that I could potentially live from: my web comic ‘Meat&Bone’ which is well on the way to starting. Pages are drawn, now it’s a matter of inking, colouring, and getting a schedule I can stick to set up. The comic is my main goal this year. I have other goals as well, mostly small. I’d like to be able to run 10k in under an hour, I’d like to participate in a comics anthology, I’d like to table at TCAF. I also finished my official post-long-term-relationship-year-sabbatical, so I guess dating is on the table now too. No rush there, I’ve got a lot of art to do. I think these are reasonable goals. So, with a few hours to go, Happy New Year’s! Set realistic goals, and have a fun and busy year.

    It’s a few hours before I’ll head out to spend New Year’s eve with my sister and our friends, and I’m beginning to see some of these resolution lists popping up.

    I don’t have a concrete list, myself. I’m not big on solid rules as they don’t address the fluidity of ones situation over a year, which is really a lot of time. However, there are some things I want to do differently in 2012.

    My goal in 2011 was to ‘say yes’ to every opportunity. I started a blog that now gets 4000 hits a month (pretty good?), was in several shows, helped found a silk screen studio, and met SO MANY creative people who have become close friends and who I can turn to for opinions and inspiration. I met many artists and food writers, people who make their own success. I feel that I’m becoming a better writer/artist/eater from them. However, my biggest disappointments came from saying yes to things I couldn’t really afford, and then having to back out. A few trips fell through because of that. I also told myself ‘I will live off illustration by the end of the year!’, which new perspectives make me realize was a crazy unrealistic goal.

    It is that sense of fear that has continued to hold be back. I think 2012 is going to be much, much better in that sense not only because my day job is better, but because illustration seems to be picking up. Today as a kind of celebration of 2012 being my ‘fearless’ year, I dyed my hair a fiery red. I’ve grown less adventurous in wardrobe and attitude over the last years, too concerned with opinion to be bold. Even though it’s a little thing, going red was scary…in 2012 I don’t want to let a little fear hold me back from anything!

    I am less concerned with pushing hard to be a freelancer, and am more interested in launching another long-term project that I could potentially live from: my web comic ‘Meat&Bone’ which is well on the way to starting. Pages are drawn, now it’s a matter of inking, colouring, and getting a schedule I can stick to set up. The comic is my main goal this year.

    I have other goals as well, mostly small. I’d like to be able to run 10k in under an hour, I’d like to participate in a comics anthology, I’d like to table at TCAF. I also finished my official post-long-term-relationship-year-sabbatical, so I guess dating is on the table now too. No rush there, I’ve got a lot of art to do. I think these are reasonable goals.

    So, with a few hours to go, Happy New Year’s! Set realistic goals, and have a fun and busy year.

     
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