Been doing a lot of thinking...uh oh. Not just about art, but about a lot of stuff. The YouTube fiasco that is going on that has some of my favourite Vlogs and Series in serious trouble...over the company itself not having common sense. Common sense is really becoming a super power. It got me thinking that I'm kind of glad I never really did start a Vlog. Even though I really did and still kind of want to do it, despite my lack of photogenic skills. Don't think that being photogenic is actually a skill, persay, but I'm hoping you are picking up what I'm laying down. It's just scary times for really talented and creative people that made a successful go at what they love to do.
More introspection...I did warn you to bring your eye drops. I have been really thinking about my place in the great world of the interwebs. It's a bit daunting sometimes being one tiny fish in an ocean of other fish that are artists' like me. Been researching and putting my noggin' through the wringer to see what I'm missing. I sometimes think the blog is more popular than my art at times...but without the art there really would be no blog. They are symbiotic in that way. I wouldn't really have a reason to blog since I don't go too far in to my personal life. I need it to be like that. I need that separation or I'd be crazier than I already am. Not sure how my noggin' got to thinking the thinks of introspection, but it's there. I'm just letting it wash over me like a really forceful stormy wave...yeah it's not a gentle wave.
Onto the arty art news. First and foremost Society 6 is having a today sale only, as far as I'm aware, they do sometimes prolong the sales, but they don't let the artists' know, so all I do know is that it ends tonight at 11:59pm PST. It's a really good sale to take the Monday blues away, if you have the blues...or if you like blues there are tons of pieces up that have blue or are mainly blue. So check out Society 6, there are 2 new pieces up there right now, just waiting for you to buy them. You don't need a special code, it's not a sneaky sneak, elite sale. This is a blanket store wide sale.
About those 2 new pieces on Society 6...they aren't brand new, they are ones I've been holding onto for a rainy day. I have been arting, but I'm also trying to free some of the older works that I really do like. I've done some weird landscapes, mainly this week, an abstract...not so much surreal. That rough sketch is still waiting. The thinking on the waiting isn't so much fear, just a brush set that could really take the piece over the top, that I'm waiting to go on sale. Meanwhile, during the wait, I've been doing weird landscapes and have a bunch of ideas written down on things to try. I'm not intimidated by the rough sketches, I just need some added tools to create them to the level I want them to be at.
Speaking of more art news that I always forget to blog about. My noggin' gets racing and things I want to say just go flying out into the void, never to return...this time one returned!! If you don't think Society 6 is your cup of tea but you still want to own some of my art, I do sell the files. There are stipulations to the purchasing of the files but it basically sums up to you can't make money off of my art as you won't have full rights' to it. Display, yes. Put on product from your own place, yes. Mass produce and make money off of them, no. Not without a full rights' purchase which will include royalties. I did want to throw that out there. I also still do take commissions for commercial art, graphic design, etc. Just wanted to throw that out there, and I think I'll be throwing that into the blogs more often.
In more, I hurt myself working out yesterday. Nothing serious. I have bad knees...which have been bad for a very long time...this time the badder of the two just gave...I almost fell. Stupid lunges. It swelled up and ice was administered. It's not as balloon like, but it still is a bit unstable. At least there was no serious injury like the majority of the time I move around. This is the first time I actually hurt myself working out. Somewhere in my noggin' I knew better not to do a specific lower body challenge...but the me that thinks she's indestructible said, "BAH! You so can do this." I so can't do it. The little lower body I get is PLENTY. I'm hoping to be back at it on Wednesday...with modifications and just a bit easier of a workout.
In other more more news, there's a gaming session coming up. I'm pretty much done with everything...need to go over a few things, tweak a bit here and there...maybe add on...not sure. I've been so focused on arting more than anything...it's where my noggin' really does need to be. That and it's been busier than usual in my world...it's slowly starting to go back to normal...slowly. I don't know how I feel about it slowing down...I kind of liked being busy despite hating it at the same time. I'm a contradiction like that.
On that note, and probably some moderate to severe eye strain...I warned you!! I will leave you here with the gentle reminder that Society 6 is having a sale that ends tonight. For the minions that made it through, I thank you and applaud your determination! For the rest of you, I totally understand if you didn't make it through...until hump day and hopefully a shorter blog, I bid you an adieu.