Continue to push forward, look upwards, and walk, run, and soar towards your dreams.
The Journey has only just begun.
-Jesse
“A person is a success if they get up in the morning and gets to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.” – Bob Dylan
As time passes, and I get closer and closer to launch date, I’ve begun to worry about just how much of my goals I’ll have completed by the time everything goes live. The goal of having a Website/Blog/Store/Portfolio and having a decent selection of T-shirts to sell by New Years seems further and further from reach. Everytime I sit down to review my progress, I tell myself I’ll work harder, cut more hours from other activities, etc…
I’m so tired of everything I want being second to everything else.
I’m ready to blast outta here and hit Xscape Velocity.
-Jesse
“Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.” – William Shakespeare
-Jesse
“If you always do what you always did, you’ll always get what you always got.” – Tech proverb
Over the next month or so I’ll be transferring my wordpress dot com to a wordpress dot org. So, don’t panic if I break it in the process… making omelets and all that jazz. :)
-Jesse
P.S. ~ Just seen this while looking for a quote on twitter. GrutBrushes.com has 4 free Photoshop BallPoint Pen brushes for free. Limited time offer, only a couple hours left.
“We should all start to live before we get too old. Fear is stupid. So are regrets.” – Marilyn Monroe
Going through withdraws from having not drawn anything in a while… I have been sketching, some rough ideas/concepts, more brainstorming than anything else. But most of my time has been spent in RnD phase.
My brain needed a release.
October will be a good month
I just got this feeling
-Jesse
“The Shadows of Clouds, Passing Over Mountains.”
I’m enjoying the Inky Leak Brush set I scooped up from GrutBrushes, I have an idea for a whole series of illustrations with them, but that’ll be for another time. For now, I’m just experimenting and getting a feel for what each of them do.
When I sat down to create today, I initially started to make another series of thumbnail/paintover/explorations, but I got distracted by some of the earlier stages and just started having fun. Before I knew it I had something that was really catching my eye and I just rolled with it.
A previous version had her blowing air bubbles out of each sides of her mouth apparatus, like deep sea divers might. I’ll probably revisit the idea, putting her under water, with hair flowing and maybe some pipes/chains flowing out and around her.
Time will tell.
For now, it’s bedtime.
Journey before Destination
-Jesse
“Keep your face always toward the sunshine – and shadows will fall behind you.” – Walt Whitman
I wasn’t sure where to start.
I had this idea (unclear as it was/is), but just couldn’t seem to figure out the best way to express it. So, instead of sitting around thinking about it, I just started creating.
Creation turns out to be a great place to start creating.
Expect to see more thumbnails in the future while I’m sorting through my blueprints and gathering tools.
The Journey is becoming quite exciting!
-Jesse
“Let my soul smile through my heart & my heart smile through my eyes, that I may scatter rich smiles in sad hearts.” – Paramahansa Yogananda
Not sure where this came from, but it was fun to create.
So, many colors!
-Jesse
“You are imperfect, permanently and inevitably flawed. And you are beautiful.”
–Amy Bloom
I decided to do things a bit differently this time around.
For starters I kept my brush at 100% Opacity.
Secondly, I only used one brush (the Horse Main brush from the Impasto Brushes from the GrutBrushes.com).
Thirdly, I choose my color palette prior to starting this painting, which felt weird, but I had already chosen the reference image and had some inspiration. So, my color choices were based off of those feelings and ideas.
Lastly, I did my best to think before placing each brushstroke, focusing on if using a vertical or horizontal or diagonal stroke would be best then choosing the appropriate color, then making the stroke.
All in all, I didn’t waste as much time and energy fixing mistakes or changing things and I felt like the painting as a whole came together far smoother than previous paintings. I can’t wait to use this technique again.
-Jesse
“Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” – Theodore Roosevelt
Big yawn and misspelled words informs me of my bedtime
Reaching my early middle years
A gentle reassurance that I still have time
-Jesse
“I haven’t failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work!” – Thomas Edison
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