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[aeonsbeyond]

Well so much for that job. These weirdos asked me to do their accounting cause their last accountant quit, except Im not an accountant...and they certainly werent paying me accountant's wages...and it was never discussed or optional just a command...so I said no I'd rather not,you hired me to this and that what I agreed to, and they fired me.

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[eyeofterror]

my own master plan seems to never bear fruit. I must get a portfolio together. Right now I wouldn't even call myself an artist. I rarely ever take the time to create anything anymore and as far as finishing any work that I start..well...let's just say that I am not going to be hired by anyone to draw for them any time soon.

[aeonsbeyond]

Nice icon! You sound like me talking to myself about my art. Yeah I've been extremely disillusioned with my art (well everything including my art)as well, with really long stretches of inactivity since 2000-2001.

Truth be told, I've been painting 40K minis all this time! (I confess Inquisitor, I love the Imperium more than my Slaaneshi-inspired ravings! Really! OW!) But in the last year there's really been no where to play in a 50 mile radius (the two closest stores dropped their 40K nights...theres a GW micro-store in the mall but its only got 1 4x 4' table..Im jonesing for a game so bad).

So with my new resources I figured Id try to self promote a bit more than I have, cause this was the step in the process Id never really done, printing samples to send out to potential comissions and doing the convention circuit to get seen. Ive never been to GenCon or Dragon Con or San Diego or any of the big cons at all, where according to whispers in the warp, people actually get hired/noticed by the big art buyers...

[eyeofterror]

I suffer froma total lack of initiative. A friend of mine, who was manning the pokemon booth at Chicago and San Diego, met up with some famous creators. Most note-worthy being Frank Miller and Jim Lee as well as DC's editor in chief, Bob Shrek. He acquired their email addresses. With him having his foot in the door of the comic book industry, you think I'd be trying a bit harder to get some kind of a career going. I guess I'm just in the wrong mind-set and rutine. I really need to buckle down and produce something. Stop waiting for this 'devine inspiration' and just squeeze out some quality, professional looking pieces x 40. I feel like I am good enough, especially by today's standards, to go pro. I just don't have the mentality of a pro. Someone needs to light me on fire...and that someone is myself.

[aeonsbeyond]

Hm. A lot of the greatest art is still 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration dood, its quite true. But I think your lack of initiative shows youre secretly being realistic in the face of absurdity.

Lets look at the facts: to be a true comics pro you really have to pump out 3-4 full finished pages a day, all day every day, for several decades without hesitation with substantial underpayment. And thats just for the corporate books-if you want creative freedom and go indy youll be eating ramen FOREVER.

This is why I dropped my comic-creating imperatives long ago to concentrate on straight illustration, there just doesnt seem to be much reward for the Herculean efforts required of the creative spirit in the mass production circuit, unless you are Jim Lee or Frank Miller.

Though in this age of TPBs, I suppose its not that hard to knock out a graphic novel or two if youve got a hardcore story, and then youre done.