Working things out

So for the past few months, I have been working on a bunch of projects.  Six months designing for Fiasco Lab, a small animation project and pitching two shows to PBSkids.  I now find myself at a crossroads, plenty of projects to work on but unsure which ones to move on.  I am taking the day today to just let it filter in, something I haven't done in quite a while.  Letting it come out of the ether, and hoping for an answer.

It is a necessary element of creativity, to meditate, to close one's eyes and see what comes into your head.  What motivation?  What comes forward.  Looking forward to finding out.

Working on Fiasco Lab

Over the past, say six months, Mike Parker (web developer) and yours truly have been working on a design lab and merchandise store, Fiasco lab.  I have been designing nearly every opportunity I can and have been enjoying the challenge of designing engaging T-shirt designs.  Here are some of the more recent attempts.

Hard to be interestng online as an artist when all you have been doing lately is writing.

I love being a an animator, and an artist.  I love the physicality of drawing, painting and doing what I do best, making the visual come to life.  But there are times when pre-production has to take precedence and writing is a huge and necessary part of it.  I tell many of my students to concentrate on writing and continue to work at it.

For me, writing can both clarify and even create the visual.  It can give you a direct and valid direction and it helps you avoid trying to jerry-rig a concept to make your character work.  It is like drawing to painting or sculpture, you cannot create a a great painting or sculpture without the ability to draw it.  Drawing allows you to try your idea, twist your idea in a variety of poses and shapes and so does writing to concept.

So for now, I will keep writing, and getting things right before venturing into the visual realm.