Month: November 2022

Three mediums I used are watercolor, photography, and Posca paint pens.

I sit on top of a dragon with a long body that stretches into the darkest behind it. The flying is fast and erratic. He is flying me through a portal that starts dark and scary but leads into a golden light. I am unsure of the path but the dragon is very familiar. His flying maybe fast and crazy but his attitude is confident and calm. I am on a wild ride but I know that as all as a hold on I will be safe and the future is literally bright. Just like this program, at first I am scared and nervous but will learn a ton of valuable things as long as I stick with it.

My whole life I have been a very cautious person. I not huge fan of boats and airplanes but I have never let that stop me. Most of my family lives in Hawaii so to visit them I have to sit in a flying tube of metal miles in the air over the Pacific Ocean in a tiny little seat. Do I ever regret it? No way!! My people are in Hawaii and I always block out the plane ride anyways, yes I am the dramatic. That being said I am always over thinking and trying to make the best moves. So trusting the process is a little difficult for me, but I believe in the universe and I know that I will get to where I need to be going. I will learn the lessons I need to and I will be happy along the way.

Moving to seattle has to be a big trust the process moment for me and it still is. But if I never said yes to hanging out with someone, I wouldn’t have never ended up with this whole life I have created for myself.

I met up with a childhood friend for the first time in many years. He texted me out of the blue and asked if I wanted to hang out. I was on the fence because he could have easily been a creep but I decided to do it anyways. Turns out we had a ton in common. The one thing we had most in common was wanting to move north and not being able to find anyone who was committed enough for the change. In 4 months we were in Seattle. I said yes to the that one text and it kick started my adult life. I know live in my dream city, have my dream found family, have done a ton of traveling, and now I am going to school for something I am really passionate about.

I still struggle with say yes to things, but it is crazy that one yes can lead to a million of them and suddenly you’re not that beach bum kid any more but maybe just little bit at heart.

This blog question is pretty interesting. When I first started art I wanted to be an animator. I wanted to make the 2d cartoons that I was watching on tv at the time. I soon came to understand that if I really wanted to work on shows like that and get into the real meat and potatoes of it, I would have to become a storyboard artist. So with that career path I wanted to inspire a large number of people and teach good values to kids. but now that my path has changed I am not to sure what I want now. Working with a large company that is stable sound very ideal but also working for a small start up where I can get really close to my teammates sound way more full filling. So I think that my current aim, I want to end up working with a small team for a specific audience. Something that has to do with product design for climbing, video games, or even animation.

So the positives for a small audience, are not having to appeal to everyone. Another positive is the small specific audience becoming a large specific audience. Lets choose climbing for example, there are very few big name companies for climbing but they are all very recognizable. So recognizable in fact that you don’t see many ads for them. Climbers are the ads themselves. Showing off their gear and clothes. Ask any climber and they will recommend you their favorite pants to climb in or their favorite down turn shoes. Climbing is now so popular I am sure your cousin if not brother loves to boulder on the weekends.

Another positive is being more intimate with your work. Bigger companies have to pump stuff out very quietly to keep appealing to more people and many corners can be cut or not a lot of love is into mass production. I am sure you still have to meet deadlines and what not but being able to work with a video game for many years and making it the best it can be sounds very nice. That being said a lot video games have corners cut all the time.

A down side of working for a small specific audience is that audience is one too specific or two just simply goes away after a few years. I feel like it is a lot like stocks, you start small and want it to grow. Investing doesn’t always pan out and that’s sad but it happens. So that a down side, your audience being too weak or not growing. also maybe not a ton of pay to start out with. Also not having your band name to back you up yet. You have to get out there with a lot of work and the can be fruitful but also can’t be.

As long as I can find something I am passionate about or something leads me to that I am happy. At the end of the day I want to be proud of the things I do and be able to have a good work life balance, work hard, play harder.