I am two months shy of releasing a youtube speed painting illustration at the start of each month for three years. Well, I am still doing that. However, I had some issues with the latest illustration itself and then youtube is as usual unreliable. So it released on the second rather than the first. I think from now on, I am going to focus on illustrations that focus heavily on a single character. The background on my latest speed painting simply took too much time. The issue isn't that it's just painting it, it's the editing afterwards to remove all the times that I look at references. This latest speed painting itself may have taken me 80 to 90 hours.
Now if this was all I had to do, I wouldn't have minded it as much. However, I am and have been working on a project I'm writing that's very likely going to fail. However by the small chance that it succeeds, it needs a certain amount of my time every week. I'm in that weird creepy place where I am optimistic and realistic at the same time.. it's.. it's weird. A lot of its work is going through some final stages and if things go smoothly which a lot of the time don't happen, I might finally find out if this was all worth it or all for naught. I have been working on this for three years and the last year has taken a lovely amount of my time. I've cooled off even on freelance work for some time for this reason.
Anyways, the last speed painting, the last two-three days I wasn't having fun and that's not why I do this. I always do things that I love, that's why I put an average of 60 hours a month on a project that makes me zero money. I don't monetize any videos. Of course I do have in the back of mind my mind that if a video blows up, it could open up a lot of chances for easy freelance options. That doesn't escape my mind. Anyways, I will be focusing more on characters for my illustrations to save me 20 hours worth of time.
Sunday, 5 April 2015
Saturday, 4 April 2015
Overreliance on Technology
I recently had some issues with my internet service where it was practically unusable for nearly a week. I called my internet provider they explained that for two months there have been issues and now it's gotten worse. There was a small conversation on why they were taking their sweet time and all that jazz, where I rightfully got 50% discount for a certain amount of time.
Without a proper internet, I then got a taste of just how much I rely on it. I always listen to podcasts or youtube videos while painting, and I was painting my latest speed painting at the time as well as writing. In regards to music, I listen to grooveshark and in this computer I barely have any actual music downloaded. So the choice was to either to paint in silence or listen to the same 10 songs over and over again. Not being able to look for any images as references hurt a bit, as I had to make due in some occasions by finding them while I was at work. Why not use your cellphone for data you ask? Well because I only have 300MB of data per month. I pay 40$/month which is perfect for peasants like me that use WIFI at home and at work while not having much money to afford a better deal.
For me, it is a bit terrifying how over-reliant I am on technology. I think as a society especially in North America, we all rely on it. Husband and wife being in the same room and looking at iPads, cellphones and computer instead of talking more to one another, kids looking down at their cellphones texting instead of actually speaking to the friends they have next to one another. We can't even go a bit away without looking at our phone even when we're driving, which has become such an incredible health issue in North America. Louis CK goes over this subject in a manner that's much better articulated than what I'm doing on the youtube video above.
Without a proper internet, I then got a taste of just how much I rely on it. I always listen to podcasts or youtube videos while painting, and I was painting my latest speed painting at the time as well as writing. In regards to music, I listen to grooveshark and in this computer I barely have any actual music downloaded. So the choice was to either to paint in silence or listen to the same 10 songs over and over again. Not being able to look for any images as references hurt a bit, as I had to make due in some occasions by finding them while I was at work. Why not use your cellphone for data you ask? Well because I only have 300MB of data per month. I pay 40$/month which is perfect for peasants like me that use WIFI at home and at work while not having much money to afford a better deal.
For me, it is a bit terrifying how over-reliant I am on technology. I think as a society especially in North America, we all rely on it. Husband and wife being in the same room and looking at iPads, cellphones and computer instead of talking more to one another, kids looking down at their cellphones texting instead of actually speaking to the friends they have next to one another. We can't even go a bit away without looking at our phone even when we're driving, which has become such an incredible health issue in North America. Louis CK goes over this subject in a manner that's much better articulated than what I'm doing on the youtube video above.
Friday, 3 April 2015
Speed Painting 34: Game of Thrones Season 5
Here's my new speed painting for the month. Came out a day late. I'm going to find out the programmers who work for Google/Youtube and fight them. Ok, I need to calm down a little bit pretending to be an internet tough guy. I won't talk about the description or my process too much as it runs into 'have you seen season 4 of Game of Thrones' territory.
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