I'm an independent illustrator and artist. Here is the archive of my Weekly Wednesday Newsletters starting in September 2022
WWN: Vegas and Birthday
Weekly Wednesday Newsletter no. 109[GREETING GOES HERE] What's Going OnJust got back from Vegas last Friday! I didn't really want to go tbh, but I'm sort of glad I did this year Since Ben had that cocktail party again, I came just to catch up with friends and meet more people (also to help set up lol). It was cool that people recognized me, and we continued to develop relationships from last year. During the party, I had surprisingly good and deep conversations. I talked to this middle aged dude for a while, who was telling me how boring my life was. And as a naive little Christian boi that doesn't do anything fun, I can see how enticing a life of partying and sleeping around is, but also could tell how empty and deeply unsatisfying that was, even for him. Listening to his story, I saw the pain and suffering that he had experienced from the selfishness of people, causing him to take that path of quick pleasures and shallow, "this for that" relationships. I think if I were in his shoes, I might have done the same. Some fun conversations too though. Hanging out with drunk people is so funny loll And I didn't know at the time, but I also talked to some famous authors. The next day I attended a panel about revisions, listened to a talk from Kevin Smith where he yapped about himself, then got all you can eat sushi with Ben and friends. The dinner was rather nice, although they kept saying how this was the best sushi they ever had lol. Another reason I came was cause Ben wanted to introduce me to some people for the comic, but that didn't happen. So...uh I guess that's alright. I think all in all, pretty successful trip. Put myself out there, made some friends and got 20 bucks! Random DrawingWhat I've been thinking aboutI'm turning 25 on Saturday, so I wrote down some of my thoughts on success Would love if you could give it a read and let me know what you think! Thank you! "If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you. If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you." John 15:18-19 Next Newsletter is next Wednesday! |
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I'm an independent illustrator and artist. Here is the archive of my Weekly Wednesday Newsletters starting in September 2022
Bi-Weekly Wednesday Newsletter no. 127 [GREETING GOES HERE] What's Going On Art Help I was trying to post outreach for mudboard...and then I just started giving art feedback to people LOL. Am I just turning into an art teacher.... Someone asked "how do I draw this reference." It was such a bad question but I still took the bait lol: Mudboard I built a purpose statement. For the time being: Mudboard's goal is to help illustrators gather and reference visual inspiration without breaking their...
Bi-Weekly Wednesday Newsletter no. 126 [GREETING GOES HERE] What's Going On My own website I made my portfolio finally lol. It's not really targeted for work, but the structure resonated with me. It's kind of like a landing page for my life.https://www.andrwyoung.com/ I thought it cute to have all of the "chapters" have their own theme and stuff. So the all the colors and fonts change on click. I spent a good amount of time writing out each of the learnings Mudboard I think the launch went as...
Bi-Weekly Wednesday Newsletter no. 125 [GREETING GOES HERE] What's Going On Back to drawing I've been lowkey avoiding drawing. The context switching is a lot, so I've been putting off a lot of commissions. But I have to say that once I got to it, I'm pretty darn happy with how they turned out! Especially this one This one was nice too. Practicing those lasso tool skills This one was for myself. From a photo of when I climbed a mountain Concaly Idk if I mentioned earlier but I got 1...