We'll try to stay on topic with the title...so all the ducks' are nicely in a row...no smacking around the ducks to get them in their proper place...they can be unruly sometimes. I blame me for them getting out of line. I digress, Society 6 is having it's last 2 days of sales to get your loots by Christmas. So make sure you go buy some stuff for your friends, families, imaginary friends, yourself, whoever pops in your noggin'. The sales are good...and they'll be ending soon, well until Boxing Day, I would assume. I'm really not sure as I don't set said sales...Society 6 does that. There's 3 new pieces and there is plenty of product to choose from. I give them a lot of credit for the new product that they keep adding. It's quite impressive. Since I joined Society 6 there has been at least 7 new products that entered the scene. I've been set up on a lot of stores in the past, and none have actually added new product. Plus, on an even better note the product isn't crappy and cheap. It's really good quality stuff and it's not outrageously priced. Again, don't have control over that, either...but they are fair to me when you do buy stuff...and that is rare for a store like Society 6 as well.
Onto the arting...the mid-art crisis is still kind of happening. I actually did some pure abstract pieces and they did satisfy me. For now. I say that because I know they will stop doing that. I've been doing some experimenting, not enough, but I think I'll dedicate today for that. There are a lot of ideas' stuck in the noggin' but just not sure how to go about it. I'm also thinking of actually doing some character design that aren't beasties. Crazy, right? I had some idea's churning...and I do miss cartooning. I really do. Realism, I realized, isn't my cup of coffee or tea. I'm craving doing some creepy art, which really I have been pulling away from. I think my noggin' gets a bit too creepy and I start getting self-conscious. I think I may be throwing caution to the wind and letting my noggin' do the creepy stuff and actually publish it...come what may. It'll be interesting at the very least...could bite me on the ass. It's my ass, and if that's what the noggin' is craving, then it shall have it. I really do think this is partly why I'm having an mid-art crisis. I'm afraid to offend, to lose all of you, to fail, so I've been trying to do the trending pieces and the ones I get a lot of good numbers on. As I've said in the past 2 blogs, that ship has sailed. It's time to unleash what I want to create, not what I think everyone is going to like. Art is a very fickle beastie...some love a certain style, while others' hate said style. It's all very subjective. I've been trying to play the game and jump through the flaming hoops with gasoline soaked jammies that I lost my way somewhere. It's time to get me, as an artist back. That's the plan. Oh and growing as an artist, too.
Wow, that was a long paragraph. Sorry. Oops. I have been having the deep thinks and kinks in said thinks. I think I'm on the right track and there are less kinks, and more clear ideas...along with just the pure abstract, which I was enjoying on my quasi-weekend of weekendness. I'm ready to create what I want to create, not what I think the masses are going to like. I feel like when I do that I cheat myself out of the whole being an artist experience. Yeah, I'm a bit afraid on many levels...the what if's are for sure having a raucous party in my noggin'....but it's something I need to do for me. As I've said before, arting is a very selfish thing...unless you are doing commissions, then it's not. I do miss those...I still am open to doing them. So, if you do want something personal, contact me. You know via Facebook, here on the main page are the best places.
In other news...it's been a lot about arting...really. All consuming...that and getting ready for the holiday. It's been chaotic busy and that's okay...one day at a time. This weekend is my last D&D gaming session for the year...so there will be a bit of that taking time away from the arting...while I have the session, it for sure needs tweaking. As my entire group is still learning, including me. It's a very interesting and fun ride...and I do think my demise is going to be choking on something from laughing so hard...thankfully we have a few people in the group that know the Heimlich maneuver. That or ginger tea is going to spew out of my nose and it's going to burn like the dickens. It is a very fun group to run for. The break between will give me time to cook up some ideas and for the peanut gallery and I to flesh our world out. Always fun. Anyways, I don't think you came all this way, through 10 feet of snow, in barefeet, both ways with bears chasing you, to read about my D&D life...even though it does inspire me to do the arting.
I hope all of you have a wonderful week. I'm not sure if I'll be blogging on Friday...I will lean towards no, but who knows, maybe if I have some arting news, I'll head on over here and entertain you, or give you eye strain. Muhahahaha! On that note, dear minions, I hope you have a quick rest of the week and a lovely weekend if I don't see you on Friday! Toodles!