Tuesday, August 04, 2009

A Blog a Day?

I just looked at today's Blog of Note list. I have to say my favorite is An Apple A Day. It's awesome. Beautifully photographed and well written! Emerson's blog has inspired me to write and post more. The problem is...what to write and post about? I hate blogs that are just random...and I don't presume to be a great writer. I really admire the blogs that have a theme and stick to it.

I created this blog to have a place to show my artwork...my illustrations, really. So that's what this blog is about. I want to be a full-time, freelance illustrator. The blog is supposed to document my process and progress. I guess I just really have a short attention span, because in the past, I mostly would post some recent (or not so recent) work and then forget about it. But you can probably tell that from reading this.

So what is this process of becoming a full-time illustrator? Can I really do it? Will blogging about it help? Let me tell you what I'm doing so far...

1. Posting to this blog...committing to post at least once a week?!?
2. Posting to my second blog...http://www.trailsketches.blogspot.com...committing to update it once weekly as well.
3. Listing myself at several freelance sites such as: www.ifreelance.com and www.guru.com
4. Drawing, sketching, painting daily.
5. Working on development of my own children's picture book
6. Deciding on and executing a body of work (fine art) for a future gallery show.
7. Finding ways to market myself and my work.

I need to get serious about this if I'm going to make any progress before I'm old and gray! Ok, enough of my rant...now let's get to the good stuff...artwork!!!


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