Anime Central 2021 is canceled this year, which means I have no conventions or events to go to this year. It’s disappointing but not unexpected. I’m still going to give it a year before diving back into the public art life again.

Besides, not needing to go to cons gives me time to setup more print books. Right now, I have a print proof of my Pizza Man comic that I printed from Ka-blam. There’s still stuff to edit and get more scratch for a larger print run.

Overall, I’ve just been dealing with general life stuff: jobs, taxes, and hunting for a new car. There’s so many responsibilities out there that keep me from doing my art stuff. To be positive, I can say I’m taking a break from the artworks. But in the back of my head, I’m worried that I’m just procrastinating and letting life take away the career choices I want to make.

I recently saw an interview with Brad Rushing who’s articulated some thoughts that I couldn’t verbalize about on creative work. He reminds me that it’s okay to not be a psychotic work train to avoid the sad feelings and to take some kind of break. The work will be there tomorrow.

Timestamp 1:55 really shares my thoughts on when I get any compliments too. Compliments on my art mean nothing to me if it all just gets fav’d and forgotten!

Overall, I personally think don’t update this site enough, but I’m doing what I can to not worry about it. I keep getting myself in a dumb writing and rewriting loop with making a new blog tutorials. It’s mostly because I’m doing more irrelevant research on game stuff, so I’m too focused on that specifically.