life is hectic
April 6th, 2006
What have I been working on?
A brochure for the fictional product Man-picker ®.
A Moby paperdoll.
A comic on domestic violence (without any dialogue).
A poster about … birdwatching.
An illustration for a children’s book story featuring a green meter-man.
All this for applications. For the schools to decide whether they’d like to see me in entrance exams or not.
These past few weeks I’ve been working sixteen hour days, sleeping six hour nights, only going out to buy food, not seeing friends… In fact, I think I’ve last been this tired last spring when I was doing school projects, renovating our flat and moving!
But enough whining. This has been a good thing as well. These assignments have made me break out of my comfort zone with drawing, trying styles that I never would otherwise. I have dug out my watercolours after not touching them for years (I have some serious practicing to do before the entrance exams, if I get in any). And the most important thing: I love this. I love how I have these crazy ideas and wacky characters just waiting to be drawn out.
So we’ll see…