Lots of Fauna, Not A Whole Lot of Flora

Every time I do one of these Art-Dept promo pieces, they always end up a lot better than anything else I do. I guess that is a good thing, considering they are used to promote me. But it still gets on my nerves a little bit....I haven't done an actual job in a while that I am particularly happy with the outcome of.

I somehow did all the colors for this in one day (after photoshop totally crashed on me Sunday night). After staring at the amazing Jillian Tamaki's work for probably too long, I attempted to go a different route with how I actually laid the color separations...and while it ended up really successful, next time I am going to do it on a job where I have a little bit more elbow room when it comes to deadline. This thing nearly killed me.

I haven't given up on the ectoplasm drawing, just been sidetracked by work....or well, but a lot of things (and no, none of which are Super Mario Galaxy). I need to figure out a place to board my dog so I can go home for the holidays, and this seems to be much more of a daunting task than I was expecting.

I am starting to get irritated with everything again (top of the list is online personals). I think I need to take a break and just draw until my fingers cramp. Thankfully I have a long list of unfinished jobs to help me complete that goal.

It has officially gotten cold here, and there is supposed to be accumulated snow within the next few days. My short stint in St Louis somehow sucked my tolerance for cold out of me, I have even considered buying a coat (something I have never owned after 6 Chicago winters). I keep thinking about St Louis a lot, how it never really got cold...nothing ever really changed, and how I would wake up almost every fucking day wondering if it was humanly possible to asphyxiate yourself at well just by holding your breath.