You know, I think I can recognize my body saying things to me. Like, you can’t handle cheese and milk like you used to. I’m on the shitter for a long time as of late. Also, when the little Scotty wakes me up after an hour or two of sleep and I try to stay awake to get 1-3 hours in at the table, its just taking its toll on me. So I decided to kinda ease back on myself a bit. I know I am on deadline but fuck man.. I feel like I’m killing myself here! But I cannot stop...
I mean this year it was work, tour, draw all of Pleasant Life trade, commissions, submissions, writings, Expendables 2, Outcast art, etc. Just man.. its time to kinda slow down and take a mini vacation before I freak myself out and burn out hard. I've been desiring to watch more movies and even play some video games too. But I sold my NES games recently to get some cash. Not that I miss them, I just am saying that my priorities haven't been on video games lately.
So I decided on my first day off today just to veg out and watch some DVDs. The Scotty woke me up with only around 5 hours of sleep. But that’s okay. I sat and watched some Star Trek and re-watched Casino Royale in preparation for the new Bond flick in the theater this week. Also I did a lot of surfing. I never get to do that. Just to get lost in links and see what I can find on the internet. Ever do that? You start by going to wikipedia and looking up what so and so is doing now and then by the end of it, you feel like you’ve seen ALL of the internet! Ever have a day like that? Well, I did today.
I just got done feeding Scotty again and vegging out to more Star Trek TNG and now I am typing a blog. This week, I got to finish a script for a one shot story that a pal and I are doing together. (Luckily, I don’t have to draw it!) But I am excited to do that. So maybe stepping away from art for a bit might help me out. Keep my center, etc.
My diet is doing pretty well. I haven’t wavered on it at all. Slowly but surely I am changing my habits and lifestyle. Goal is to drop somewhere around 50 pounds, and then see what I want to do next. I’d like to just get back down to being a “fat guy.” So, that’s my goal.
Still keeping my mind into music for the most part. Been movie scores and soundtracks lately. The new Metallica album, despite its step in the right direction has sorta made me fatigued with it, so I dunno how much the love affair I would have with it would last. I’d like to start watching more obscure horror flicks with the wife, but we barely see each other now that we are both working. Kinda sucks. I miss her.
Tomarrow, I plan to get some laundry done, some more grocery shopping and find my winter clothes. Then some work on the new script for the new project and then penciling. NO INKS! I gotta focus on slowing down on my penciling. I think also I’ll try working on my wife’s PC some more. I think I may be able to start word balloons on Pleasant Life now and save me some time.
Lastly, I reorganized my original artwork last night. I pulled a bunch of pages I plan to list for sale online at my website. Also, looked through some UNRELEASED pages/projects I have on the back burner to finish in some capacity one day. Man, I’ve come a long way. I found this page I did from Pleasant Hymns ashcan #3 that was always one of my favorite pages. I used to think it was a perfect page. Well, I haven’t looked at that page in almost 4 years. I saw it and immediately saw all the flaws and how I would have changed this or that and made it better.
I was told that when you get “professional” you can pick out the flaws in others and your own work and do it in an objective way. Well, I think I just reached that point.
Wish me luck with the tone down!
LuvsT
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