Again, no real idea. This is fun.
A day later and I’ve had no time to actually do anything here. Maybe this weekend I’ll sit down and learn the intricacies and mechanics.
Anyway, for the time being, here’s my mission statement:
I’ve spent thirty years on this planet. In that time, I’ve been overwhelmed by the urge to create. Since I was about six or seven years old and my mum bought me a Transformers comic (the UK edition, issue #4, if you’re wondering), it’s been my goal to be a comic artist. I have no idea why, I certainly didn’t have a career plan, and to some degree I still don’t. All I knew was that I loved drawing and writing my own characters, thinly-veiled rip-offs of Transformers, Masters of the Universe and Thundercats though they were. I may post some of that early stuff one day.
While that single-mindedness has meant that I passed into my thirties without really achieving much outside of refining my art, it’s also forced the realisation that I’m too far in now to stop, too far gone to return to the humdrum everyday existence without that creative spark.
Whether I write, draw, colour, assemble, design, film, capture, play music, create an interactive property or a simple black-and-white photocopied scrawled ashcan, I will create until I die. Life’s too short not to spend it basking in the things you love.
So what to expect from this blog?
I’ll have regular comic pages. You’ll see new ongoing properties, in arcs. I’ll post one-off humour strips, posters, portraits. In all honesty, I’ll indulge myself far more than is healthy, but believe me, I’ll make myself pay for it by working stupidly hard to entertain. If the mood strikes, I may post prose, poetry, and a proliferation of pointless ideas and thoughts. Well, that’s standard for a blog, I suppose. Photos and videos may well become a part of the assembly line of awesome. After spending a year or so trying to figure out my focus as far as creativity goes, it just makes more sense to do a bit of everything, and make the focus ‘to entertain’. I figure this blog is the best way to start.
Still awake? Yay! That means I’m not boring!
Now for a sip of red wine and some pondering. Watch the step.
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