Well well it has been awhile since my last journal.
When I left you last I had just moved to Oakland CA and was still adjusting and unemployed. Well so far I am still sort of adjusting, it is hard to live in someone else's home on their couch while I wait to save up money to move. I am also having a hard time adjusting to the fact that the love of my life is so far away from me. It's a long story on how things ended up this way. We are holding strong and can't wait for the day that we'll be able to live together. We joke this time is good, after all we will have the rest of our lives to spend together. A bit fluffy as a thought I know, but we are a strong couple that suit eachother well, and if anyone can do this, we can.
As far as employment goes, within a week of posting my journal I had not one, but two jobs. Both retail and both in the same San Francisco Mall. One of the two jobs promoted me to assistant manager, but alas, one of the very first jobs I applied for gave me a call and offered me a full time position with a set schedule, good pay, room for advancement, raises, and the best of all - health insurance, a damn luxury now-a-days. So I took it. With this I will now have more time to plan out and devote to my art and furthering my education. Both important things that were being impeded on by balancing two ever-changing retail schedules that barely gave me the equivalent of one full time job.
I am very thankful for the chance to have these sorts of options, I can say I have worked enough terrible jobs to earn this one good one.
In other news:
I want to give a big thank you to DistortedSmile for granting me a DD about a week or so ago. Go check out her work, she has been a very active and helpful member of this community. She was running clubs before there was a club system! As well as taking time to do features and forum posts.
--The coloring books
Long awaited by some and long overdue by me, I bit off a lot more than I can chew. I am not going to lie. Making clean line work in Photoshop off of my style of art is difficult, I have to omit some details from time to time. I have been trying new techniques to get the lines I want, as there are ten ways to do the same thing in Photoshop, and that is what I am using. So hopefully this new technique will solve the problem. I am still going to put them out they are just taking a lot longer than I wanted them to. Those that have pre ordered will be getting something special with their order, and if I can swing it every order will come with a free 5x7. I apologize for the wait.
---Modeling
Yep this section is back, I am looking for new people and teams to work with in the bay area. I did a shoot yesterday that is scheduled to appear in a magazine here soon, I will be sharing the link when it goes to press. I will be posting some shots from that shoot as they are given to me.
Well that's some of the new stuff.
before you go:
Here's a feature:
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