So, back to active duty!

I'm usually considered a pretty active guy. I've known I've wanted to be an artist since I could probably read this sentence. I've pursued it into getting an apprenticeship and basically sacrificing all my leisure-teen time for the sake of having a career. But as of late...I've kinda gotten complacent. I've stopped pursuing, and instead I've just been going through the motions.

In other words, honeymoon's over.

Yep, that's right. I've compared my fledgling career to marriage. At first its new, its exciting, its filled with first-time moments and long stretches of excitement, possibility, and *cough*magic.

Yeah, I said magic. Shut up.

Anyway, this year has been hard on all of us here on this side of eternity, and that helps me realize something. This is that point in the relationship/career/life-in-general where I decide if this is really what I want. Here's where I knuckle down and COMMIT because of sheer determination...or I quit.

Now, heck, I'm not gonna go for cheap suspense and lead y'all to believe I'm going to quit. I'm not. I'm going to pursue this thing. But that means being an illustrator, and sowing seeds of future jobs, but acting now. And not just in the Studio of His Grace, Michael "MOTU" Davis. I need to chase this down on my own, using all my resources. Other people don't have the blessing of an experienced mentor to guide them, but that doesn't mean I can slack off. I need to work just as hard to go THAT MUCH FURTHER.

So from now on, this is an active blog. Ideas, stories, questions, doodles, works-in-progress...it all gets seen here.

Don't miss it!