Let us become mentally impared!

A few years ago, I dont think I could imagine a scenario in which I would be listening to a song entitled "Let's get Retarded", but here we are. Damn you Black Eyed Peas for your infectious melodies.

Its funny to think that at one point I had the time to update this blog every night, and didn't simply because I had nothing new to say. It seems that now I have to resort to blogging every two weeks or so. So I better make this time worth while, here we go...

I've been through three weeks at the new job. I'm enjoying it, despite the fact that it is exhausting. I have to get up every morning at 6am to get to work by 7:15. I am by no means a morning person, most artists aren't, and this has taken alot of getting used to. It has also become pretty obvious that the kids don't want to be working on art at 7:15 any more than I do. I guess it's better than working on AP Calculus at 7:15.

There is this thing that happens when you surround yourself with talented people, you tend to become incredibly inspired, even if at the same time you feel alittle discouraged by their gifts. It seems the converse is also true. When you are surrounded by people who are bored with art, and create mediocre work, you tend to feel drained and are left generally uninspired. This has been the transition from my college experience to my current job situation. There are some kids at Berkley who are truly gifted and generally interested in creating cutting edge art. But for every one of them there seems to be five kids who just want to sail through the classes with as little effort as possible. I guess it's to be expected, it has just gotten to be exhausting. I tend to come home most days feeling like I want to sleep the rest of the day away. I've been trying to force myself into working on my own stuff, for no other reason that I need to get out of this state soon. I think California or Washington seems to be an inevitability at this point. Maybe New York if I can get a Marvel job.

I'm beginning to feel all grown up, despite the whole living with the parents thing. I have Friday's off, and I actually got up before 10am. I was out of the house before Noon and spent most of the day paying bills, and running errands to places like Kinkos and Office Depot. I was feeling all responsible and old until I made a stop to the local comic book store to pick up the issues I'd been missing.

Speaking of comics... here's yet another Batman. I did this sketch entirely on the Wacom tablet, just an experiment that turned out much better than I originally thought it would.



I guess thats all for now. Thanksgiving this week, good food and hopefully some contact with friends, should be fun.

Pat