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Date:

March 18th, 2007 10:46 AM

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Another Grab Bag Gallery update!

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>sigh<

While the rest of you are doing super-cool and sexy comics and cartoons, I'm dividing my time between one of the most boring dayjobs/temp assignments I've ever encountered (technical writer for a small airline) and some exciting, complicated illustration work for a good friend who's launching a new line of wargame miniatures. (More details to follow when said product is ready to hit the shelves!)

Anyway... I'm really proud of the work I did on the illustrations and how they came together as a collage that will appear on the cover of the miniatures box (though I'm showing them separately in the gallery). It took a lot of research, but it behooves us artists to do the legwork and work smart. Working with multiple sources, I managed to tease out details in a painting that weren't obvious from one or two different sources.

All of which underscores just how much I'd love to make my living off doing art, rather than other ... less-engaging (read: soul-numbing and tedious) work. Still, I have a family to consider. Does anyone else wrestle with this unfortunate cultural imposition to walk in two different worlds? How do you cope? Part of me hopes, though, that one day, the two needs can be met by one, engaging, satisfying, blissful endeavor. Maybe I'm just a romantic fool, but it gets me through the day.

Until then, I'll do my best to bear that yoke, while YOU get to enjoy the better fruits of my happier labors. So stop by the Grab Bag and check out General Washington and one of his finer moments. Feel free to let me know what you think!

Have a great week!

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