The Tape is Now the Music
It’s pretty damn easy to be deemed a workaholic when you have a habit of juggling anywhere between four to five illustration projects at a time. Whether or not I can deliver on all of them is yet to be seen. I’ve kept most people happy so far, so let’s see how long I can keep that up. Big smiles make food happen, after all. I think it was Remender who said on Twitter that you shouldn’t worry when projects don’t push through, that is after all why we overcommit. He went on to say that it’s when projects all push through that you should start sweating bullets. I didn’t know how true those words were until this past week.
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Random oblique strategy card says: “The tape is now the music.”
Hnn.
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Skyped with a coupla artist buddies last week about finding focus in their respective arts and how to avoid the demons of distraction. You wanna get into animation? Great. You wanna do game design? Do that. Just fucking make sure you actually do the work. And no matter how hard it gets, don’t let it be about the money. Because the fact of the matter is, if you don’t quite love what you’ve made your artlife out to be, the money will never be enough.
Let it be about the work. It’s not just lead on bright fibers, it’s your soul on a medium. You can’t put a price on that.
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Fuck you, Counter-Strike.
Fuck you, Call of Duty 4.
Fuck you, Quake III Arena.
“I can’t quit you.”
Aaaaaaaaand… back to work.
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