Second piece of stock art done and submitted

Yay. I completed my second piece of vector art Tuesday night and submitted it for approval. Hopefully it will be approved soon. I’ve posted my first submission on my comics site and altered the look to fill a 700×550 space. i could make it bigger but the point is to sell it on iStock so I purposely kept the detail art too small to scale larger, but if you want to see it without the iStockPhoto watermark, it’s at comics.jsmind.com. Once my second piece gets approved, I will post that to the comics section as well. BTW, for those of you who have been wondering, the little witch looks like Joon, but it isn’t her. I’m going to try to make it a point not to actually use any of my j’s mind characters in stock art, but then again, all my characters look the same so one or two of them are bound to end up in stock art eventually.

All of this drawing has really gotten me wanting to draw a new comic but part of me is too lazy to attempt it. Drawing a single frame image isn’t as time consuming as drawing a series of panels, especially since I try to do each panel from a different angle. I guess I should try to economize and be one of those artists that use the same sketch for EVERY frame and maybe tweak one detail, like the eyes and mouth so each frame just looks a little different… Blah. It’s funny. I’ve had comic 107 written out over two years ago and actualy have the pencil sketches for it, I’ve just been too lazy to convert it into vector art.

Blah. I’m sitting here now stuffed form over eating and too lazy to go to the gym. I saw a job posting on LinkedIn and applied for it. I normally wouldn’t mention it but the job was located in Boston. I don’t think I’ll get a call back but it looked like a great opportunity to go work with a fairly creative group of professionals and it would be a nice change. I’d be closer to the nephews too so that would be a plus. Sometimes I wonder why I stick around. If I don’t want to end up as “the babysitter,” for everyone else’s future children, I better find something to do with my life.