Projects 2014

New projects for 2014.

1) I wrote a novel. I was thinking of creating just a blog for it but I already have like a zillion blogs so I think I'll just post any information about it here.

To be honest, I don't want to talk too much about it because it's not published or picked up yet. So I'll just call it: 'The Book' and report all of the progress I make on my journey to the Great American blah blah.

I can share these character illustrations I made using a Walcom pad:

I guess the first step for publishing the novel is I need to fish it out to publishers, I think submitting anything in any form to people outside the art community is probably the most undesirable activity for an artist next to getting root canal from a blindfolded chimpanzee with hook hands. I really don't have the mental ability to deal with 100s of rejection slips so I think I'll limit it to 50 before I just publish it myself. Those who have read it, have really enjoyed it if people enjoy it, isn't that what the most important think about a book?


2) Add Hawaiian shirts to my Etsy site. I have absolutely no idea how to see shirts so this is going to be interesting. I don't really care about the Hawaiian pattern of the shirts, just the style.

3) Finish yet another novel that I don't want to give any detail on. (I know, why even mention it.)

4) Get my Etsy stuff into an actual store. The things I made do a lot better when people can pick them up and see the quality I put into them.

5) As you can tell by  the digital drawings, I want to do more illustrating. Perhaps I'll start a site on Deviant art when I get really good.

6) Be in more than one art fair. Again, my stuff sales when people can touch it.

7) Be in at least 2 art shows. Art shows are a real ego boost for artist.

8) Learn to play guitar. I know this is technically not an art thing, but I just want to do it. And I think it makes you think better, playing music.

9) Go to more galleries. We all need to do this. To inspire us, to break us out of normality and to lift our spirits.

10) Network , network network. I need to make connections because that is how you make things happen in the art world. This is along the lines of the chimpanzee dentist thing. It's what artist hate and is probably why artist are successful when they are more social. Its because they are usually more introverted and therefore spotting one out of the wild is like a rare occasion, like a unicorn walking in a shopping mall.


These are the 10 goals so far. Wish me luck.

That's all. A