First Post

99% of what I do is for work.  And all of that is covered by Non-Disclosure Agreements so I can’t post it here.  It’s been a LONG time (like high school days) since I actually worked on something just for my personal enjoyment, and I’m hoping that having an online sketchbook that I’m posting in twice a week (fingers crossed) will spur me to dust off my personal creativity and develop some of the ideas bouncing around in my head.

As a freelancer, it’s hard to justify working on anything that I’m not being paid for.  There are always jobs available, and I somehow feel that if I have time to invest in my personal work I have time to take on more clients.  That’s not true of course, and I’ve started to realize that the lack of personal exploration has stymied my artistic development.  By sending my sketches out into the ether of the internet (and ideally, having friends and strangers alike enjoy it), I hope to give my personal work more weight in my subconscious.  Besides, if I have to post twice a week it gives me an excuse to wedge 10 or 20 minutes into my schedule between paying gigs… which can only improve my mental health.

Speaking of mental health (or lack thereof…) let’s start this sketchbook off with a little Lovecraftian goodness.  This is way more developed than what I’ll usually be posting here - generally you’ll see little more than scribbles - but it’s the first image I’ve created in a really long time that was just for fun.