December 26th, 2009
No, not that many. Feels like it, though.
Next year is going to be very, very busy. I’m always very busy, but this is a step up. Here’s what’s on the roster:
- Summeryear graphic novel (EDIT: Won’t have time, sticking to just one graphic novel at once)
- Starting The Art Academy on deviantART (http://theartacademy.deviantart.com/) with two of my best friends (Kieke-boe and TakaiWolf). If all goes well (we’re doing votes for the teaching positions to be fair) I’ll be posting weekly classes in at least one of our courses along with some administrative stuff as co-founder.
- Music project with another friend. Not much to say about it yet, in its early stages. We’re planning an album, only a vague idea of the sound and no idea if we’d continue it beyond the one project. We’ll see.
- Banshee (possibly, depending on if I decide the graphic novel is a much better medium for me. If so, I’ll put Banshee aside to redo as a comic like I’m doing now with Summeryear) (EDIT: replace ‘Summeryear’ with ‘Pastel Sun’ and it’s still only half true. Not possible this year, but someday.)
- Ashen (Another graphic novel idea. This one won’t be considered as a novel, the themes are too visual) (EDIT: Changed the name to Pastel Sun, this is the main project for the year…and the year after)
- Hoping to update here more frequently as well with short stories and thoughty gobbets.
I have less free time this year than I did during 2009 now with the new day job. Stepping away from the starving artist cliche, but that means slightly less time to work on what I’m passionate about. I plan on getting better at time management.
Speaking of time management, I’ll just note that the graphic novels mentioned will probably stretch into 2011 and I wouldn’t be all that surprised at finishing sometime in 2012. With my digital painting style instead of traditional comic art these are going to be enormously time consuming projects.
I think that’s it for the major schemes.
Cheers for now, and happy holidays.
