Forward: Last year, I was on an illustration tangent for about 45 days during the holiday slowdown. As with many goals, I put forth a ridiculous amount of effort and got burned out shortly thereafter.
This was one of my more interesting pieces (created in late December of last year) ~ two characters are wandering through a mountain pass on a rickety old model-T sled when they see a dreaded New Year approaching.
Sketch Mode
If you really think about it, don’t no one care about isometric art no more… but there I was creating it. Isometric is a scam, a fake-out… make-pretend 3D.
It’s CRAZY - I’ve monkeyed around with 3D for a VERY long time but never got very good at it. In early 2022 I plan to take some heavy-duty 3D training courses so I can finally get marketable skills in that realm.
Vector draft mode
As all of you know, my hiving has been crippled for a long time by a demanding full time job. It’s such a huge relief to have steady income now, but while I used to have ample time, but lacked ample dollars, I now have next to no time (and more, but hyper-inflated dollars). Seems my best option is to remain a corporate monkey for now, work and train like a mad dawg and keep investing toward full financial freedom.
Add to the mix my goal to vlog or podcast, my need for home repairs and my goal of homesteading and I’m overwhelmed. I’m thankful I can/did even make this post. I’ve been wanting to for a while now… but with no time for content creation, I had to pull art from my dusty vault.
Final Result & more ramblings
The demands keep stacking up at work… I’m tasked with making cool animated gifs for regular company social posts as well as building and maintaining the company site… I’ll also have to low-key work through most of the holiday week to create a 3 minute tech explainer video… but it’s alright I guess, as long as I manage to keep up…
Conclusion
2021 wasn’t quite the disaster I’d thought it would be, at least for me… I still have many prior year’s headaches, but now it seems I have a chance to erase them all… (providing WW3 doesn’t pop off or my nation of origin becomes even more of a gulag) if I can manage the dizzying juggling act I have going on.
On a personal note - about Christmas - I’ve been getting a lot of texts/DMs asking what I’m doing for Christmas… I no longer observe it. I still consider myself a Christian, but the holiday itself no longer interests me. I can’t really get into all that at the given moment.
Goodbye for now, hopefully I’ll be back in April or sooner with some positive developments. Have a Merry Whatever and Happy Holograms.
