for the past few months i’ve been tired and bored of my drawing style and obsessively focused on changing it. which is why i haven’t done much else. so for now it looks like this, and although it might change again, i’m hoping i can cling to this one.
i’m working on a new art-o-mat project. it’s going to be a short comic drawn with colored pencils. each will be an original, so not a copy. they sell for $5 and i make a whopping $2.50 per item sold. meaning with shipping costs and the cost of boxes and the fact that it takes about an hour to make each, i’m really not doing this for the money because there isn’t any to make. but i think it’s a good way to get people to know me. here’s a few sketches…
i might also start selling these on etsy.com, but they’ll be slightly more expensive. they also will be original drawings, each being a little different. i got the idea from the shitty products print, which i removed from my site since it looked kind of awful. and i don’t need to have both a print and a comic saying the exact same thing.
so i just launched my new website today, actually it’s more like a blog. i’ll probably try to improve it some more, but for the moment my scanner doesn’t work so i can’t do very much. i’m hoping it didn’t just die on me… i must give all the credit to my boyfriend for setting this up on wordpress, i couldn’t have done it without him.
we worked on the design together because two heads are better than one, but he came up with the idea of having a character in the corner that looks like he’s drawing the whole website. thanks boyfriend.
it was tough doing this because i had to go through all my old drawings that i’m really ashamed of. when i started trying to be an artist about two years ago i was having pretty bad health problems, and then during the last year i’ve been doing this hard-core raw food cleanse, which i’ve talked about before. i think it helped me get through this, but didn’t necessarily give birth to nice pieces of artwork. might sound like a lame excuse but it’s just true. since i became a lot healthier in the last few months, i’ve started improving very rapidly and now i’m starting to be a little prouder of my drawings. my sketches are a better representation of my current skill level. i think i’m going to have to re-draw all the rest. or just leave it there to rot. i just hate having those bad drawings hanging out on my site, they are not welcome here.
the old site had been designed by me about two years ago when i had no clue as how to do any coding. but i did learn a lot about web design this way. so the set-up was really boxy and even though i spent a lot of time trying to make it look pretty, it never really worked. i guess if you don’t do something well from the beginning it will end up slapping you in the face sooner or later. i’m really happy with it now, i hope you will be too.
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