Consider this a new chapter in the story of my life. HAHA !!

My employment status is a bit iffy at the moment, I'm currently taking time to cram in a few years of drawing experience into (hopefully) a few months, or (miraculously) a few weeks. Like, if my life was a role-playing game, this would be the part where you wander around, encountering random monsters, slowly building up experience points up so it won't be so hard when you get to those normally difficult baddies.

I've recently discovered once again that nothing is as straight forward as it seems, life does not give you a break, you have to earn it. Makes you kinda wonder how much Lotto one must buy to win.

After a torturous week of playing the victim, wallowing in a nicotine-stained ashtray of a room, scratching away on a piece of paper 'til my fingers are nothing but nubs, I've come out with 3 new philosophies to getting what you want out of life. They are:

1. ALWAYS TAKE CRITICISM AND DWELL ON IT. Even if it kills you inside. It will probably make you insane, but makes you a better person.

2. BE GOOD AT WHAT YOU DO AND IMPROVE ON IT. If you don't get better a what you are supposedly good at doing, then STOP. And I'm talking about going back through your sketchbook and looking at stuff you did last week. If there is no improvement, you're obviously not learning anything by doing more of it. HAHA!! ( I just thought of someone funny I knew...)

and...

3. DON'T JUSTIFY WHAT MAKES YOU SHIT. That just makes it alright. You know what I'm talking about.

Also, another one, consider it a quiet 4...

4. DON'T TALK SHIT. Let your work speak for you.

I'm sure there are alot of people thinking, 'what is this guy rambling on about?', and I'd commend you if you contribute this all to just another one of my brainfarts, it most certainly is, but the truth be told the years have jaded me, I'm a very bitter person who no longer puts a happy face on in the morning because he has to.

So go eat it.

Laters.

(p.s. my need to master my art is eating away at my insides like a cancer, but I wouldn't have it any other way.)