So I haven’t updated in a while due to the rapid decline of the novelty value of updating my page every other day. Sure it’s fun to make a web page, but in order to keep people coming, and to keep people coming you need content, and to have content you need to experience things and perhaps even have a few thoughts running through your head that seem interesting enough to throw down. Quite frankly, that sponge that calls my skull its home hasn’t been doing much of anything lately. I’ve been having these mini-bouts of depression, or anxiety, or both, about just about anything that comes up and I practically have to shut myself down in order to function normally again a few days later. I’m hoping that this is a temporary lull in my creative processes, and that I’ll be churning out ideas that are too good to be flushed down my toilet sometime in the near future. Apathy is a dangerous thing. In any case, I figured I’d toss up a nice pencil rendering of a wolf that I made for a school assignment.

Ew. School. I don’t even want to get into that one. If you want to know how smoothly school is going, here’s a good example:

I was assigned to do a character creation project, where I make up an original character and a story and everything, and then make a comic with that character. Ok, so I spent two weeks making characters that I’d develop for a few days, and then can because I grew to hate each one over the course of their development. I finally got a character that I liked…the idea still seemed kind of iffy, but I’m working with it anyway. The next step is to draw the character entering through a doorway into its world, and render it realistically. So I spent a week procrastinating on that, and ended up drawing about 20 thumbnails of stick figures all of which were nearly identical, and then drew a little rat with wheels and some skeleton thing with crab claws. I put the sketchbook down and haven’t touched it since. It’s such a simple project, but since it was made into a project, I can’t do it. Or maybe I’m just incapable of doing it. This is either artist’s block, or hell. I’ll flip a coin and let you know.

-sullivan