My mom is allowing me to use this camera dad bought her for Christmas back in 06 that she has never used. She says its too confusing to figure out so I am reaping the benefits of her avoidance of technology. It's a rather simple, compact camera but it has twice as many megapixels as mine, 4 times as much memory, a higher sensitive macro zoom, and is able to take pictures in HD. My amateur photographer mind is just squeeing over the delight of this little gem!I've been going around taking pictures of select subjects and marveling at the detailed shots I'm able to get of objects the size of specs. From working at the art gallery, I have learned what subjects are the highest sellers so I'm going to try to gear my art towards that and see how well it sells as an artist who hasn't made much of a name for herself yet. I regret being too shy and nervous in the past to push my name out there but I plan to change that.
I haven't drawn anything besides my comic projects in forever. It's been so long... it's sad, I don't even remember when was the last time I drew anything on paper that I could actually sell. Anyway, last weekend I pulled out some of my inks that have been sadly sitting in a dark drawer for years and began doodling and experimenting. I needed to get the feel of them again. I feel a little rusty, but I'm eager to get back onto my feet in regards to my painting abilities. Here are two kitties I created for fun. I'm currently selling them on ebay hehe! I don't know what else to do with them and god knows more money for grad school tuition would only help me. I've been told they'd make great children's book illustrations. I'm saving them as high quality images on my computer and possibly printing them out for my records or to show illustration companies if I ever need them. I'm trying very hard to have a more positive outlook on my "smaller" artworks now. I've been whacked over the head and yelled at, "It doesn't MATTER if you can do better, that piece you did is soooo pretty on its own!" I'm soaking these comments in instead of allowing them to bounce off me like I have in the past. Wow, why did I do that??
Now I can appreciate them more thinking, "They ARE very cute... :3"
Whenever I post something on ebay, I usually end up hovering around the listings way too long. Waiting for bids, seeing if anyone has any questions! I get myself so worked up and excited haha! This time I'm going to just try to stay calm and allow my email (that I check every day during business hours) to alert me if anyone has any questions and try to only check the listings for new bids once every other day. @_x
I've recently signed up at Etsy. I'm not sure what to make of it yet. It seems like a fabulous site and the calling of posting a listing for only 20 cents for 4 months is VERY appealing!! It's new territory, but I hope I will be as successful there as I have been selling things on ebay.
I was also asked to become a pixel artist at another one of those avatar sites that are similar to Gaiaonline. It's really strange... I had wanted to be a pixel artist for such a long time but now... I don't know, my priorities just shifted. I'm now no longer interested, so I turned down the job. I really don't have much time and I need to decide what is the best use of my time.
