Missing Champions League on Tuesday/Wednesday due to work

The hard life.  There's people in Africa that don't have enough food to feed themselves every day, but it's me who suffers more.  Me.  In my previous job, I worked from home and handed in my work via email.  It was great!  Horrible segue aside, I am a football fanatic.  By football, I mean the sport that the entire world calls football other America and Canada, who decided to be "different" (or self-centered douchebags, who am I am to choose between the two descriptions). 

The struggle is real.

The greatest club competition in Europe is the Champions League, where the games are played on Tuesdays and Wednesday.  Now in Europe, those games are played roughly around 5 or 6PM, after everyone has finished their basic 8 hour shift.  In North America however, all those games start at 2:45PM.  Now the conundrum is that my new job is the typical 9-5 job, which means I can't watch Bayern Munich play.  Sometimes, in the Bundesliga (German league) they also play on Tuesdays/Wednesdays when they have two league games per week, which adds to the burden of the tough life that I have to live.  What is the point of this post you ask, what's this have to do with design, or is this maybe some small piece of information informing students who read this of the unfortunate events of having a steady 40 hour/week job?  No, no, lets not be silly.  I just feel like venting and since no one actually reads my blog, I allow myself to write any nonsense that pleases me. It's also a good stress reliever. 

Bayern Munich will be champions of this year's Champions League (will edit later if it doesn't turn out to be true & if I don't forget).

Speed Painting 25: The World Cup 2014

If you have been living under a rock that's living under another rock, you may have missed that the World Cup has started in June. It's located in Brazil this year, Russia in 4 years, and the slaves of Qatar are ensuring that stadiums are ready 8 years from now. Before I start going on a rant that the entire population of two people that will ever read about this post on the Qatar bid, let me just try and get past the ADHD to get to the point. I love football (or sawker as the only two countries on the planet like to call it) and decided to make a speed painting about it. I created a bunch of characters and added a bit of flavor to the story to attempt to make it interesting to watch.

This is just a note after you watch the video. I had Suarez sketched up 1 day before a certain incident happened. If you would like to know what my thought process was in regards to the speed painting, head to either my youtube video and read the description, or go to the videos section of my website. I wanted to try something different as I sometimes do and instead of copying and pasting the entire description on my blog, I would instead talk a bit about the project from a different angle.

Football is my passion. You take the work I do professionally (illustration, design), and you get 1/2 things I'm most passionate about. Hopefully that passion translates in a fun 5+ minute youtube videos for the two people that watch the video! I don't want my massive following to be disappointed.