Posted in Everyday Life, Paintings on October 16, 2010 |
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My work table today.
I’ve been a little offline these past days because Fernando and I are working on a small new project: creating comics together. Fernando has always loved writing fantasy/supernatural/horror fiction and lately he had been complaining that his writing skills were a little rusty, so I suggested him to write a few short stories and I would turn them into comics. He loved the idea so here I am, drawing, inking and photoshopping :).
I have been told that I should be a comic artist more times than I remember – but you know, I am just the kind of person that, the more people tell me that I should be doing something, the more likely I am to reject it with a passion. First, because most of the times it’s just people projecting their own ideas about themselves over you, but also because as a child I was told too many times what I should be (and never ended to be), so I’ve developed a reflex of running on the opposite direction of any kind of advice. I’m sure that reflex kept me from becoming whom I didn’t want to become, so I do not regret it, but I’m quite sure that said reflex also put away lots of good and sincere advice.
I have made single page illustrations for fanzines, and once tried writing a comic about five years ago, but that didn’t go anywhere and got tired of drawing the same faces over and over very quickly, mostly because I wasn’t good enough as I never had any formal art training and had to learn everything from scratch, on my own and without Internet for references. But, as I was making the first sketches of this new piece, I realized that The Hoodoo Shop has turned me into a real hard worker. I do not skip details anymore, I do not mind working several hours in a row on just one drawing, I am completely focused while I’m working and really eager to see the first short story finished – I want it to be as good as I can, and I’m determined to show it to others. Without notice, shopkeeping has taught me discipline, commitment, patience, deadline managing, and of course Photoshop skills :) ; it has made me a better crafter, a better artist and a better business woman, and for that I am deeply thankful. I want The Hoodoo Shop to keep growing and it still is our first priority, but being a daughter of Eleggua, change is something I need deeply to keep balance and I’m not afraid of switching careers – what this shopkeeping has really taught me is that whatever pays the bills, that’s where I’ll be working.
I hope to have the first story finished this week, but I can’t promise anything because on Wednesday 20 I will have the final medical procedure and that one will keep me a couple of days off from all duties. My work is 99% old school and it takes around two days to finish just one page. I am considering publishing it on a separate blog to keep this one on topic, and I would like to keep it as an online portfolio for my all my paintings and drawings. You will be the first to know of course!
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