I don’t know about you, but 2007 wasn’t good enough.
Between working a full time job, doing freelance design projects for various clients, and family obligations, there wasn’t enough time for those pet projects swimming around in the back of my head. Don’t get me wrong - pouring out my valuable creative juices into someone else’s goblet certainly pays the bills, but it’s those personal projects that can rejuvinate our creative juices. They weren’t created for money, or with someone else’s vision and input, but they came into this world from the seed of our own imagination. Inspiration was allowed to run free, rampaging up and down the canvas with wild abandon. So, it is with grit and determination that I vow an upturn in my creative output for 2008
This site will chronicle a years worth of personal projects, from brainstorming, sketching, to final creation of each project. Hopefully you’ll find a little bit of inspiration you can use to tackle your own demon project, or gain some insight into someone else’s methods (madness). Now that we know the ‘why’, let’s find out what exactly we’re doing…
The majority of my day job involves marketing, creating brochures, business cards, running a website, with an occasional video project thrown in. On the freelance front, website design consumes most of my time. The one thing I don’t get to do anymore is illustrate. It’s rare I get to lose myself in a drawing, or spend time experimenting with some vector art, or try out some digital painting techniques in Photoshop. So this, our creative-year ground zero, will begin with an excursion into illustration utopia. That is, after I get this Word Press theme looking halfway decent. Oh, and I get my new laptop up to speed. It comes in tomorrow.
