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Procrastination, Life Updates, Goals 'n' Shit by sonderjen

Putting off commissions for a few minutes to write a journal about nothing in particular, I guess. Life update time, I guess?

2014 was a good year. I feel like I got back on the art horse after the 2012-2013 backslide. MFF 2013 was a great kick in the ass to get things going again.

Stuff that happened:
-I quit the day job early in the year and have been focusing on freelancing since. I can't fight it, I'm a cartoonist, not a production artist.
-I've been a father since the beginning of August. That turned into a full time job, which is why I've only added a page to this gallery this year (but that's still better than some previous years, so whatever).
-I stopped giving a shit about video games (aside from Minecraft - which feeds so many of my anal-retentive, creative and adventuring gaming needs that it's a hard drug to kick). Hardly anyone makes interesting games anymore, and I've exhausted replay value for almost everything. The good news, I guess, is that I don't feel the need to slap down a bunch of cash for new systems/gaming rigs (FREEDOM).
-I'm sort of developing some kind of theological framework after 30 years of not giving a shit. Nothing in particular, and even though I get annoyed by those who cherry-pick "spirituality," I find myself doing the same damn thing. It's more of a logic puzzle that I'm playing with than a subscription to any of the existing fairy tales that most of the world seems to subscribe to. I've only done rudimentary research, but Zen Buddhism seems to be the closest match even though I'm painfully negligent in the disciplines.

Stuff I want to happen:
-I want to focus on storytelling in my work more - even if I don't have the time to work on my comic projects, I want to make a point to tell some kind of story in one-shot pieces instead of just drawing characters standing there looking bored. Bad habit, that.
-I wanna step away from commissions a bit and see if I can get a Patreon or something going. There's a bunch of pieces I want to work on right now, but I have a bad (great) habit of ignoring them until I finish my queues. I figure a good milestone would be something like "do this and I can start paying for child care and focus on comics even more". I even have one set up ready to publish for Chit-Chat, but I want to get a few more comics under my belt to build up hype.
-I still need a couple more people to fill in the ranks of my peer review art group. I wanted it to be members' eyes only, but Tumblr sucks and I had to make it public so we could reblog sufficient comments - we just started up a few days ago, check it out if you're interested: onyourmarkgetsetart.tumblr.com

Okay, that's enough wasted time, back to work!

Procrastination, Life Updates, Goals 'n' Shit

sonderjen

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