Lately I’ve spent a lot of time drawing and painting for myself. This past two weeks I’ve drawn five illustrations and painted two. The first one was the Bounty Hunter (see below) and the second was a fun pin up I had drawn of the Amulet series awhile back that I had never painted. What was so rewarding about this is that I have never really allowed myself to just do this stuff for the sake of doing it in years. Since I graduated college I have spent most of my time drawing and painting as a career thing, to one degree or another. While I’m still doing a lot of work for projects that are coming up, this has been a really refreshing time for me. I’ve always wanted to spend more time working on building up better single image style drawing. Over the coming weeks expect to see a lot of one off drawings here on the board. I’ll post my Amulet piece once the book comes out. I don’t want any spoiler type things at this point, but I was really happy with it. So a word to all of you hard workers out there. Take some time to splurge on yourself creatively. Mentally you need it sometimes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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