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Landscape study, 3-19-09

Jason Embury — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 14:59:00 GMT

50 minute study in PS from yesterday.

Custom Sketch card commissions are open!

Jason Embury — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 15:32:00 GMT

you can visit my personal blog for all of the details!

http://www.jasonembury.net/blog/

Virtual Comic book convention

Jason Embury — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 22:51:00 GMT

figured that I’d set up a virtual table for the upcoming Facebook Comic Convention in March. Head on over to my page and join up, Jason Embury’s virtual table for the Facebook Comic Convention.

not much time for that much rambling right now. Working on Take a Chance #5 right now, as well as starting colors for 1001 Arabian Nights: Adventures of Sinbad #9, cooking dinner and taking care of a sick wife, running kids to basketball games and practices, and trying to find time to get some gaming in still. Not to mention planning out the rest of my year so I can get some personal projects completed too. and boy is that Prince of Persia for PS3 is addicting for some reason (i’ve got to get back to it some time soon here), and I’ve found myself playing some OLD SCHOOL Castlevania lately on the Wii. Who needs sleep right?

Update from the studio!

Jason Embury — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 15:05:00 GMT

Not sure if I can split my post on here, but this is a LONG one! :D

Life becomes infinitely MORE hectic once you have kids, I’m convinced. However having YOUNGER kids is nowhere near as crazy as it is when your kids get to be of an age where they’re gone at sporting events every night of the week. I’m not the type of dad who is going to miss TOO many games that my kids play in, I rarely have an excuse to not make a game since I work from home. The wife and I have decided to trade off going to the away games this year for my daughters bball team, simply because I don’t feel like shelling out $10 at away games and subjugating my son to have to travel and sit through the away games as well. The season is roughly half over, but….on the horizon is track season (and having run track and been pretty successful at it, I think I’m going to have to venture out to see how those meets go too) as well as “conditioning” and “training” that my son wants to start for football this coming fall. In addition to the time that the kids want to spend on basketball. I won’t complain, at least not right now when I don’t have any deadlines creeping up on me. My kids are healthy enough and have the DESIRE to go out and play sports, and really, that’s what is the most important I guess.

Been a LONG week in the studio. Wrapping it up by saving out high rez files and getting those uploaded today, and enjoying a semi-day off here. If I can manage it. Going well so far though. One the agenda for the weekend are 2 pages that I have to get colored by Monday, need to help with taxes (which hopefully haven’t become too complicated being self-employed), and I’d like to do some other things over the weekend as well. Need new biz cards designed and printed, need to update my portfolio with new work since it hasn’t been done in MONTHS now. Saturday is going to be an all day bball tournament for my son, so I’m planning on that entire day off as well. more after the cut….

Need to get a few more things done yet before I sit down and get pages uploaded to the server for Take a Chance 4 though. This book has been like a breath of fresh air for me to work on really, because the artwork that Ardian Syaf is going is so stunning. He’s going to go places in the comic industry, I guarantee it. Also, it’s great to actually read the script, it’s a really GOOD story (I’m sure Catie would agree with that assessment) I usually read scripts enough to get what I need from them to do my job, color keys if there are any for characters, time of day settings, things like that. However I’ve been lucky enough the last few months to read some really GOOD stories, by not only Catie, but Dan Wickline, Raven Gregory and Joe Brusha…makes a difference to ME at least, when I get a book in my hands and I actually LIKE the story and not just the artwork.

Landscape studies. What started as a goal to do one landscape study digital painting a day, has obviously fallen off track already. With the way my deadlines creep up on me and with being a family man as well, there are days that I just don’t HAVE an hour to spare. However….I’ve adjusted this goal to now reflect something more attainable. I’d like to complete 200 landscape studies this year by the end of the year. I have roughly 196 to go yet by my count. Wish me luck.

Comics. Been writing and developing some of my own ideas so far this year as well. Not sure where they’ll go, or if I’ll have time to get anything more than just a framework setup for stories that I can come back to a few years down the road and dust them off to get moving on them, but it’s more than I’ve done in the last 5 years so that’s something at least. I’ve been debating the merits of changing the way I approach projects as well, moving towards an online distribution and creation aspect much more, and possibly bringing in a partner to help get some things moving forward. I’ll have to keep you updated on that though, it’s much like being a freelancer in a lot of ways, it’s an always evolving-very fluid process.

Direction. I’m struggling to find direction in my work right now. There are different paths that I think are in front of me still, and I’m still sort of standing around waiting for the wind to blow one way or another and move the crickety little arrow signs in the direction I’m supposed to take. I already KNOW that I won’t be doing what I’m doing right now, just coloring comics, 3 years from now, because I don’t think comics will be around in the capacity they are now in that time. Knowing that is the case I’m trying to figure out what to focus on. Every path you take on the road to being an artist is different, and unfortunately, each one requires a SPECIFIC portfolio of work. I need to be versatile and able to do a bunch of different things, but at the same time, SPECIALIZING is really the best way to get noticed in any one thing. That being the case, it’s almost like you need to have a portfolio for EVERY possible thing that you can do. Which of course, requires a SHITLOAD of work to put together. Nobody is paying you for portfolio pieces, nobody PAYS you to take time off work to get better at anything as a freelancer. You have to work usually twice as hard most times if you want to add a skillset to your artistic arsenal because you can’t justify taking time away from paying work and deadlines.

So on top of all these decision, I’m also factoring into the equation…that my daughter is going to be graduating high school 5 years from now. There are things that I don’t want to miss out on, and things we want to do as a family, before that happens. We don’t get this time in our lives back. There are things that I can do now for my kids, that they will likely remember the rest of their lives as we get older. I don’t want to make sacrifices on their behalf, or my wife’s, just to make money or make myself a better artist. That opportunity will be there forever once the kids have grown up. So…likely I’m talking myself into many more sleepless or nearly sleepless nights here. Because yeah….in 5 years we’ve got a kid likely going to college (and like everyone else in America, we’re basically starting over with retirement and college savings now)

So if you know me, if we talk, email or whatever…and I seem cranky sometimes, it’s not you, it’s not really the way I am, it’s lack of sleep and stressing over things like that which are on my mind. I still like you (unless you’re one of the 3 or 4 people I think is a total ass, in which case you probably aren’t reading my blog anyways) honest.

The mandatory New Years post.

Jason Embury — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 15:28:00 GMT

I know, I know, it’s almost a week late. I’ve been extremely busy, which is of course a good thing in these troubled times. I had to go back and actually check the blog from last year here to revisit my goals I had set for 2008, and to recap them a little bit. Funnily enough, I sort of KNEW from the start that they would be hard to accomplish because life is in flux so much of the time, however I think I came away from the year having done just that. I’m going to just update my last year goals first here. 2008 goals revisited. 1- Find more time to create art for just me. CHECK. 2- Finish losing the weight I wanted to lose last year. I lost 15 lbs in 2007, I have about 10 more lbs to lose to get to where I wanted to be in 2008. CHECK. (although I seemed to gain quite a bit back between Thanksgiving and New Years :D ) 3- Become a better digital painter. CHECK! 4- Learn a new software program. HALF-CHECK. picking up on Vue 6 somewhwat. 5- Paint the elvish script around the decorative ceiling shelf in our living room for my wife, and include a large celtic/elvish design motif painted on the ceiling for her. FAIL. we put off painting the living room until this year. so it’s not exactly a fail I guess. 6- I have a comic coloring related goal I don’t want to mention really. CHECK. 7- Make more connections. CHECK. 8- I want to start to step back a bit and give my kids more freedom. CHECK. 9- Relax more. HALF CHECK. 10- Become a better person. Don’t get me wrong, regardless of the few people out there that may think I’m a jerk, I’m really a good person. There are certain things I want to work on though for sure. I think we probably ALL have this goal somewhere deep down, for some it might be buried in their sub-conscious, but the bottomline is just being the best person you can be. A better dad, a better husband, a better friend, a better brother, a better son, a better artist, a better citizen….that’s a lot of hats for any of us to where, and yet finding the BALANCE is the key. CHECK. 2008 in review. Now on to the recap. Talk about a crazy year. Work was erratic, which was complicated by an erratic financial situation as well. Through it all though, I accomplished more work wise, and had my best year financially as a freelancer. SOMEHOW. So in retrospect, I’m not going to complain about any of the problems that arose, as they were overcome through good fortune, grace, and perseverance. This was the LAST year that I coach for 6-7 months out of the year though. I think I’ve decided that I’m scaling back the coaching to JUST my sons football team for the next 2 years, and then I’ll be done likely as not. That proved to be quite an added amount of stress trying to juggle all of that responsibility on top of the hectic and sometimes crazy deadlines of a freelance career. There were times that I was completely worn out looking back. Thankfully enough football coaching came last and was high energy enough to keep me going until the end. The kids have taken huge strides this year in finding their own independence and discovering what they’re made of. My daughter is going through a lot of adversities and what not as she navigates the waters of middle school but is managing fairly well thus far. She really enjoyed playing on the MS volleyball team and the competition, and the team had a great year. She’s just now starting basketball and is loving it, I think :D My son had a really good year of baseball and the team did really well. This was also the first year that we decided to get him into football. He’s been bugging for a couple years now and the timing seemed to be right, in addition to the fact that I was asked to help coach his team. I think there was an adjustment period at first, but it was definitely something he enjoyed. He learned a LOT about himself, and I learned quite a bit about him as well from the entire experience. He seems to welcome the challenges and responsibilities that come with playing quarterback, and he’s determined to make himself the absolute best player that he can. He’s already started his off season conditioning for NEXT year, and if the kid wants to go outside and throw a ball at targets when it’s 5 degrees outside, I can respect the heck out of that sort of commitment and determination. It will lead you down all the right sorts of roads in life. My wife and I enjoyed our FIRST anniversary away all by ourselves in 12 years this year as well. Needless to say, we don’t get enough time with just the two of us when we’re running around everywhere, but it was nice to spend time together for a change without having to be anywhere at a certain time, or do anything in particular for a while. It’s amazing still, that we can both work from home and not end up at each others throats all the time :D Honestly though, we are both extremely fortunate in today’s job market to be able to have that kind of luxury. It’s one of the incentives for working hard all the time I think in some ways. I would go get a real job in the outside world again if I really had to, and I’ve been pretty damn close to having to over the years, but it’s hard to imagine having a better job than I do right now. In general, we just really kept ourselves busy, tried to handle all the obstacles that came our way, and enjoyed our time together with family and friends. So a big shout out to all of those friends and family that we enjoyed spending time with this year. You helped us get through a topsy-turvy year whether you realized it at the time or not. We don’t have anything to REALLY worry about, and our lives continue to be filled with nothing but AWESOME for the most part. On to 2009… So as the New Year gets underway, I have some of the same goals I had as last year. I’d like to lose another 10 lbs, 15 if I’m lucky, that would put me at the “;perfect” weight. Plenty of things to get done around the house obviously, when isn’t there. I’d like to really work on the RELAXING bit more I think too :D Finding more time for my own artwork, and really get at least one of my own projects off the ground this year, regardless of setbacks. Aside from all of those things, after having spent 2 years coloring comics for a living now, I’d really like to land some work at DC or Marvel I think. Something related to, or including Batman is my goal. It may not happen, but looking back on my past goals the last 5 years, there is very little that I have NOT accomplished if I have set a goal to do something. So I figure I’ll get that out there in the Universe somewhere and see what happens. :D

Monday morning musings.

Jason Embury — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 13:58:00 GMT

Was a busy weekend decorating the house, setting up the xmas tree and working here. Wanted to take as much time AWAY from the studio as I reasonably could with a deadline only 2 weeks away here. Still a few things on my mind this morning as I prepare for another LOOOONNNNGGG day in the studio here.

First off, I didn't get a chance to sit down and really express what I was thankful for this year, even though I may have done that in my head the last few days. So here goes...I'm incredibly thankful for such a beautiful, loving wife (even though when I say that out loud it always sounds like kissing up or sarcasm it's not, I genuinely mean it) I'm thankful for the 2 kids which have caused me to age prematurely, start losing my hair, turn the hair I DO have still to gray..just kidding. I'm incredibly thankful to have 2 very intelligent, well mannered (when they want to be) talented, loving children. It makes the difficult job of parenting that much easier, because everyone knows I'm unfortunately not the most patient person in the world, even though I try to be.

I'm also very thankful for the job that I have, even WITH all of the ups and downs that come with being a freelance artist. I'm afforded the luxury of working out of a beautiful home, having my own studio right off the upstairs living room, and being able to spend my days coloring comics, creating artwork and painting. It's been a hectic, rollercoaster ride of a year here, however I am looking at my 5th straight year of growth since I started freelancing, and I'm actually making more money than I have at any other job I've ever had before. It's encouraging to keep setting the bar higher and higher, and somehow finding a way to get over it. It's not easy by ANY means, but it is rewarding.

other things that I'm trying to file away this morning....I've got 14 days to get 41 pages of comics colored here for 2 different books, and a painting to finish before Wednesday. Lots of work. I can do it, but thankfully we got the house decorated for Christmas over the weekend, the tree is up, and all of that is out of the way. The only other real tricky part over the next 2 weeks is this Wednesday. Taking my daughter to get her braces in the morning (which won't be nearly as bad as she thinks), then am headed down to Ford Field with my son to catch the MSU vs. North Carolina basketball game which doesn't start till 9pm. Going to be a LATE night. Then it's JUGGERNAUT mode until I'm done with deadlines and hopefully, HOPEFULLY, a little time off this year for the holidays. I've got a staircase and railing in the basement that needs painting, and some other things I'd like to get done around the house, in addition to being able to just relax with the family this year.

k, time to get things going this morning, finish the page I started at 7:30 and find a groove.

Quick random thoughts for Tuesday.

Jason Embury — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 13:32:00 GMT

I'm groggy this morning. I have a bit of a headache as well, which doesn't mix with being groggy very well at all. The good thing is, that I don't have to go anywhere today to get to work. The roads are a mess my wife informed me after dropping the kids off at school. So once I imbibe enough coffee this morning to actually start functioning I'll be set.

Flipping through a book I just sold on ebay as I was getting it ready to mail out, I came across a great little quote by Normal Rockwell. It went something like this, "Painting is like throwing a ball against a wall, it never comes back to you as hard as you throw it. So throw it hard!" Such sage like advice there.

Colored the cover for issue 4 of my Dabel Bros./Del Rey book Take a Chance yesterday, in addition to more pages from the Grimm Fairy Tales Annual. Superheroes and fantasy in the same day, it doesn't get a whole lot better than that :D I'm hoping to get a great deal of stuff accomplished today as well, since I was planning on taking all day Thanksgiving off. Which means I have to work that much harder before and after to make up for that of course.

I'm trying to ignore the news lately, as it manages to frustrate, depress, and anger me all at once. Hard to escape that sort of real life stuff though. What would help is if checks would come in the mail on a more regular basis. Speaking of just such a thing, there SHOULD be a rather sizable check in the mail today, which would make me happy. So I'm hoping when I walk the 100 feet down the driveway through the snow to the mailbox, there's actually a check in there. Because freezing your giblets off to get the mail, and having it not contain anything to warm you up like money (or the new Victoria Secret's catalog) feels like a waste, you know?

Alright, not a whole lot else on my mind, it's sort of cluttered still a bit, and as I said, groggy. I may have to make a second pot of coffee today after I get around here. It just feels like a 2 pot of coffee sort of day today.

Batman Sketch Card!

Jason Embury — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 14:02:00 GMT

Finished up this sketch card of Batman while watching election returns the other night. About a half hour, done mostly in watercolor, with some ink, black prisma marker and a bit of colored pencil. You can follow the link below to the ebay store and bid on it if you're interested. Hoping to get a few more sketch cards done this week yet, but I've got a cover to finish for Zenescope and a 10 page short due before next Friday, in addition to some color studies and some submission pages. Going to be another busy weekend! :D

Batman Sketch Card on ebay!

Sketchcards for sale!!!

Jason Embury — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 01:47:00 GMT

the first of my series of sketch cards is up for sale on ebay now. Done in colored pencil, ink, acrylic paint and prisma marker, and sprayed with krylon clear coat to prevent smudging, featuring YODA and SPIDERMAN!!!! Going to be doing a variety of different cards over the next couple weeks, Star Wars, LOTR, Transformers, HERO BY NIGHT, and other superhero cards as well. If you're so inclined, <a href="http://cgi.ebay.com/Star-Wars-Yoda-ACEO-sketch-card-by-Jason-Embury_W0QQitemZ250320154314QQihZ015QQcategoryZ99990QQtcZphotoQQcmdZViewItemQQ_trksidZp1742.m153.l1262">
head on over and start the bidding war!! </a>

<a href="http://cgi.ebay.com/Spiderman-ACEO-sketch-card-by-artist-Jason-Embury_W0QQitemZ250320277086QQihZ015QQcategoryZ37894QQtcZphotoQQcmdZViewItemQQ_trksidZp1742.m153.l1262">
Spiderman in the rain!</a>

Almost There!

Jason Embury — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 18:21:00 GMT

few more hours and I’ll be done with my latest painting and it’ll be available to order as a print. here’s a peek at just a small section of it though. enjoy.

it was half past 8 in the Batcave....

Jason Embury — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 14:03:00 GMT

it's actually half past 9, roughly. Have a completely insane weekend coming up here, not much time for sleep. Have a ton of work to get done (a TON), have a ton of family stuff going on, a back yard that needs mowing...blah.

so, I wrapped up colors on Take A Chance issue 2 on Tuesday, been working on some newsletter comic coloring for an energy company in Canada and that's due next Thursday, and I've got to start really cranking out pages for Dragon Cross issue 6 starting today. That's all the stuff at the top of the list since it's what pays the bills right now, but here's something ELSE coming soon.....

"me and my friend made a comic book and guess how long it took?" well, it doesn't take long because that's all that me and my friend do, is make comic books. So, I'm pretty sure that this coming Monday, June 9th, will be the launch of our NEWEST comic <em><strong>RISE OF THE FLOBOTS: ARCHITECTS OF CHANGE!</strong></em> So yeah, this is going to be an OFFICIAL comic project for one of the absolute HOTTEST bands out there right now period, <a href="http://www.flobots.org">the Flobots</a>! If you're hungry for a GOOD webcomic, if you're hungry for CHANGE in the comic world, they you absolutely can't MISS the debut of Rise of the Flobots. Brought to you by the two newest Flobots, Flobot 13 and Flobot 22. DJ Coffman and myself, are going to be bringing the same voice of change that the Flobots are bringing with their music to the comic scene. These are going to be stories about YOU the people, about a new direction, a new AMERICA, a new HOPE. We've got a TON of surprises in store, an amazingly intricate backdrop of sub-plots that are going to be woven into the stories of REAL people. It's time to leave behind a lot of the archaic ways things have been done before, and just start blazing a NEW trail. Social commentary is about to COLLIDE full force with the energy and creative power of bomb. <a href="http://americawillbe.com">"If you've got a dream and a lot to do, put your hands up!"</a>

More to come on that, but believe me, this is going to be BIG.

<a href="http://americawillbe.com">AMERICA WILL BE!</a>

Online store is LIVE finally! Canvas prints available now!

Jason Embury — Wed, 28 May 2008 17:28:00 GMT

Finally found a good printer to produce my digital paintings on canvas in spectacular fashion. I've spent the better part of 6 months looking for just the right place to produce high quality work, at an affordable price. There are only 2 paintings up in the store now, however I will be producing on average hopefully 1 new painting each month (maybe every other month) for the rest of the year, most fantasy or sci-fi based works, branching out into different color schemes, themes, etc.....

Visit the store now!

So, the store is now live. High quality canvas prints are available on matte canvas, gallery wrapped and constructed with sturdy wooden frames. Vibrant inks, fade resistant up to 100 years. I'm also going to be offering commissions on various themes, genres, etc....so if there's a particular type of painting you're looking for, feel free to get in touch for a custom quote.

Visit the store now!

new site, new direction

Jason Embury — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 17:39:00 GMT

the portfolio site has been updated with the start of the new direction that I’m planning on heading in here in the studio. New colors, simpler (I hope) navigation, and a soon to be expanding digital painting section being featured. The first of my new canvas prints is scheduled to arrive today via Fed Ex, so I’m eagerly awaiting that. Hopefully all will be in order, and I’ll be getting another one set up for printing and delivery this afternoon. I’m pricing and comparing canvases this morning for my mixed media piece I need to start. We found this great iron grill at an antique shop last weekend that I’m going to mount on painted canvas and do some nifty double framing kind of stuff with.

Also, I’m weighing options this morning. Every artist goes through times where money is tight, and right now, money is TIGHT. It’s closing in on being dangerously tight, and problematic actually. So I need to get creative here, without getting stressed somehow, and find a way to get some money in here in the next 2 weeks. I’m already lying awake at night trying to brainstorm things to do here, and thankfully I’m not being worn out by it yet, just worn down.

Anyone who knows me, knows that I’m not terribly high strung or mean spirited. I’m actually a pretty nice guy, who is fairly patient, and helps people out to the best of my ability most of the time. However there is also the part of me that knows when enough is enough, and realizes that being nice doesn’t always equate to being successful. I’m honest and upfront, sometimes to a fault. I speak my mind, and don’t really kiss anyones butt. Which again, doesn’t always equate to the best decision. But you know what you’re going to get with me, and you’ll know where you stand. It takes a lot to earn my respect, and when I respect someone, I usually tend to give them the benefit of the doubt when things happen as they do to all of us. However when something happens once it’s forgivable, when it happens twice, it’s understandable and forgivable, when it happens 3 times it’s starting to become a problem and you’re on your last leg with me, more than 3 times with little in the way of explanation and then I’m close to being done with you.

I’ve run my own business for 5 years now, improving my profits and success each year. I haven’t done that and been able to make a living being self-employed in one of the worst state economies in the country by making too many bad decisions. I’ve changed my company focus numerous times, from web design and graphic design, to marketing and advertising, to illustration, to business consultation and brand management, to comic books and concept art. I always manage to find a way to be profitable and somewhat stable while growing my business. Doing that does not come about by making too many bad decisions from which you can’t recover. When you’ve in a situation where things are not going well, you have to persevere but you also have to look at ways in which you can adapt and improve your standing. So that’s what I’m doing now. And I’m hoping that my next decision is going to be a good one.

Artistic Vision

Jason Embury — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 14:15:00 GMT

so every one of my books I'm coloring is on hold for one reason or another right now. I spent the weekend away with the wife for our anniversary and also contemplating my future artistic focus. Also spent the latter part of yesterday, and some time this morning doing the same thing-trying to figure out what direction to take. Every move that I've made the last few years has worked out eventually for me, and has met various levels of success. I'm not worried about branching out, or changing directions really. After all, art is art. Whether it's comics, painting, mixed media, writing, whatever. It all amounts to the same thing, expressing your creative voice and telling a story. I seem to be able to do that in a few different mediums, all with varying degrees of competence. Right now, I'm getting togheter some digital paintings for an exhibit next month, working on a mixed media piece (paint and iron on canvas, ) as well, and also picking some pen and ink drawings I have framed to go in said exhibit. Versatility isn't something I'm afraid of, and actually, it's probably one of my strengths as an artist. That, and selling myself. I'm not bad at talking up my work and BACKING up that talk. So I'm going to go with the flow here, speak my mind, follow that artistic voice wherever it leads, and see what happens. I'm not really afraid, I think it's more anxious/nervous kind of excitement more than anything. that whole, starting a new job feeling that you get sometimes. Of course, money is nice too, and I need to be VERY conscious of that, but I think that will work itself out for the best as well. Being timid doesn't ever get you where you want to go. Fortune seems to favor the brave and bold. So holding yourself back isn't a good option, but is a simple trap to fall into. I think in some ways I fell into that trap for a while, and I've been holding myself back. It's time to turn the table, break that mold and get some things done i think.

Lost in the shuffle.

Jason Embury — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 14:55:00 GMT

Been a strange couple of days here. I'm getting myself ahead of deadlines here this week, not sleeping well though. My thoughts have been greatly distracted by exploding planets, spaceships, dark alleys and lights in the night sky. Probably too much comic book information to process or something. Today is one of those days as an artist, where I'm questioning everything I've ever done, everything I'm trying to do, and everything I am doing right now. Not a good feeling as any artist will tell you. I keep coming back to the conclusion that I'm either destined to keep spinning my wheels and getting by comfortably, or that I'm destined for even greater things. However it's that unknowing, nagging feeling of uncertainty, that is hanging over everything like a giant rain cloud right now. Most days I'm firmly convinced that it's the "destined for something greater" route that I'm on, but days like today, I can't help but think that the path I'm walking on that is being obscured by heavy mist is in actuality the path that winds round and round itself with no beginning and no end. I know that's not the case, but I'm having a hard time processing it today. It's an overwhelming feeling really, and something that I can't really explain well, you either "get it" or you don't. All I know is that really good coffee seems to help, as does losing yourself in your work. I just wish ALL my work was easy to lose myself in. Back to hunching over the ol' Cintiq and hoping for a miracle today.