Oct 27 2008
A Children’s Book
I am illustrating a children’s book, one of my favorite things things to do. It is a very simple story about a boy who likes to play in the mud. The story is written in Spanish which of course I can’t read, but a translation was provided. I gotta say that drawing all that dripping slurpee mud brings out the boy in me. I wonder what the Spanish word for ewwwww is?
I am also currently working on a website e-commerce site and a set of corporate presentation kits for Intermax, and a POP display for the local library, a logo for a Zen Buddhist fellowship, and of course I have grading falling out my ears that needs to be finished.
My MMORPG has taken a back seat to my real life. I hate when that happens!
Perhaps too personal a question so don’t answer if you don’t like, but are you paid for your work?
Well, that can be taken a number of ways; Do people actually pay you for this drivel; or Do you have problems collecting payment on the work you do; or Do you accept payment for your work?
Interestingly enough, the answer to all three is yes, although I try and keep the collections part down to a minimum.
Yes, I am paid to illustrate. I am also paid to teach, which came as a bigger surprise to me than discovering somebody would actually pay me to draw. I am also paid to do advertising design. I am also paid to do sculpting … from time to time … depending on my workload. I also dabble in web design, because, let’s be frank, there is money to be made in this field.
People often ask me what I enjoy doing doing the most? I think in an ideal world, where money was of no importance, and fulfillment was the measure of a man, which was somehow deposited into an interest bearing credit account, thus eliminating all worries and stress; I would illustrate books for children and teach.
I also like to write, which I do regardless of my inability to form coherent sentences. It is a joyful task at which I continually poke with a dull stick, hoping someday to stir something meaningful to life, thus adding a new skill to my list of preoccupations.