O.o Holy cow! Where did all the time go?! I guess that's what happens when you work full-time. Anyway, just thought I'd update you guys since I haven't posted here in forever. I will eventually put up some new art.

I've had a couple of things published in the last year, so I will put up some samples from those books, as well as examples of commissions I've done. But right now, I'm working on my portfolio so I can try to get into Art Education. I think going back to school would be the best thing to do in this economy. So just sit tight, and I'll have some stuff up before you know it.

-A

I put some pictures of the Con in my scraps if anyone cares to look at them. It was a good time.

Don't expect any deviations from me soon. This whole 40 hour work week thing has sucked the creativity right out of me.

I was looking over some of my past journal entries today. I really like to complain about my life. At first I thought it was a bit immature, and I sounded like some emo highschool kid who is just craving attention. But then I realized that writing is one of the only avenues I have to vent. So, maybe it's not all that bad. You all don't have to read any of my entries, and/or care. I just want to put my thoughts out there. It makes me feel like I'm storing them in some safe place so I don't have to carry them around all the time.

So, as some of you may know, I haven't submitted anything on here since last summer. I'll tell you why... I guess I don't really consider myself an artist anymore, to be honest. Sure, I went to school for art, but that doesn't really mean anything. Will I ever get a job in the art field? No... probably not.

After working at FedEx and lifting 1000 boxes an hour for the past 2 months, I realized that I should've thought more about my future before I made the decision to switch to art. There are not a lot of jobs for artists out there. Sure, there are tons of Graphic Design jobs! But as an Illustrator who was not good enough to get into the Design program at Uconn, and knows nothing about website building, those aren't really options for me.

I just got a new job at Foxwoods, which is actually a downgrade from FedEx. Less pay per hour, but less work too. FedEx is awful. Don't ever work there. I'm serious. The job is crap.

And as I was job searching, I realized I will never have a decent paying job. Even with a college degree, unless you have some sort of valuable skill, the real world does not give a crap about you. One thing is for sure, I should've learned HTML and CSS. Because most of the art jobs out there require some sort of previous knowledge/experience in said subject.

So needless to say, I'm seriously regretting my switch from engineering to art in my college days. All you highschool kids out there, I don't mean to make you nervous, you can do anything and be successful if you put your mind to it. All I'm saying was that, I wasn't a very good artist when I switched majors, and I never really made much of an effort to improve myself, so I ended up screwing myself in the long run. I guess my problem was that I always thought I was an awesome artist until I got thrown into art school and saw that everyone else was much more original and had more drive than I did. But I didn't want to admit that people could be better than me, which is probably why I never applied myself. *sigh* So... I guess what I'm saying is, a person should be more careful about falling into that envious, denial cycle otherwise you might end up like me; working at FedEx, and downgrading to a less stressful job. Cheers guys. I hope your futures look much brighter than mine, and sorry if I depressed anyone.

So, I'm afraid to check my messages now. I've gotten like 10 notes from spammers on Devart telling me to click a link and get free ringtones. Or some will say "I love your art." and then in the subject it will say something like "You should check out this site because they have art similar to yours." And then it will bring you to some advert page.

...I'm really pissed that spammers have finally found their way here. I think devart needs to implicate a blocking system so I can stop those users from sending me notes. This sucks...

Sorry there's nothing really going on with this site, guys. I just moved into a new apartment so I've been busy unpacking and finding roommates and whatnot. It's a really nice place and it's very quiet. It's so much better than the other apartment I was in. It's less "college kid" oriented, and there are a lot of families living there.

School starts for me next week. I really want to get some art up before then, but everytime I try, I seem to be so tired, and I can never finish anything. It's been a really busy summer for me.

I still have all my prints available and the dragon hasn't sold yet. Please let me know if you are interested in them. Thanks