Kuro-kuma

I'm still here, alive I mean.

In fact, I'm just so immersed in other aspects of my life that I dont have much free time to burn painting.

On the life side: I got a job, I work for a typeface organisation, its pretty swanky, I'm not a designer, but I'm around them a lot. Nice folk

Music: My band are playing some gigs this autumn/winter, we hope to record a single then an album, then another EP.

Art: I've got Painter 12 installed on my macbook, I'm sketching now and again. Fixed a little bug that was discouraging me from drawing, so I'm kinda back on that.

Writing: I've been writing a short story project in a fantasy setting, I stepped outside of my 'usual' sci-fi oriented writing and jumped into fantasy, turns out I prefer writing that. There's far less constraints.

DA: I've hit an all time high of 14k messages. 90% are going to be deviations from groups, I tend to delete those by the stack now, I'd love to go through and look at every picture, but honestly I dont have the time.

My weekends are comprised of band practice and the pub with friends and after work is about 4 hours of whatever, sketching, practicing guitar etc. I'm working on managing my time, but music really is my priority.
Being a musician and working is like having 2 jobs, and my paid work is full time!

As for my next piece? You'll see it when you see it I'm afraid; I havent quit though, I cant.

Ya'll enjoy yourselves now!

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I've been away for a while haven't I?

A great deal is going on in my life at the moment, not much of it good unfortunately but that's not why I've been avoiding DA, or art in general.

Really, I've been letting my fear of failure get in the way of even basic sketching, I've been scared to take a minor risk and start another project dispite huge inspiration because of all of these pictures I've started but not finished.
Its something that is getting in the way of everything I do, even off the internet, and it's ironically turning into a 'self fulfilling prophecy'.

I realised all I can do to curve it is to get on with it, to take the risk and live with the consquences.
I can't guarantee when my next peice will be up, but I can guarantee that I will work my hardest to get through it or achieve my fear and fail because of my lack of assertiveness with myself.

I haven't forgotten all of the kind people on here who have encouraged me toward being the best I can be, if you're still interested, check back now and again.


Mucho Love.

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