I don't hang out enough. That's the theory anyway. I think about all the authors and artists out there who gleen stuff from their day-to-day interactions with friends, colleagues and strangers. It's really a tough call because in all actuality I'm caught between the discipline of 'always' producing work and having to have a social environment in which to express myself as a human being.
I'm not sure why it's so difficult to do. I think I worry about sitting idle and knowing that I have projects to get out the door doesn't help either.
It's funny because when an excursion comes around that I've either voluntarily or involuntarily signed up for I bemoan having to go. I think I've unhealthily conditioned myself and I need to uncondition myself if I have any hope of seeing beyond the studio and nourishing the soul.
I could stand to be a little less ambitious and to lower my expectations. I wonder how I can do that and feel good about it?
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Shane,
Let me start by saying that you are more dedicated to your craft than anyone I know, and I have the utmost respect for that.
After reading what you wrote, I think you might find the balance you're looking for if you focus your efforts on the projects you really, really want to do. By that, I mean the ones that excite the kid in you that first started reading comics and learned to love to draw. I think if you make him your prime audience and can entertain him, you'll satisfy yourself.
That might mean turning away from some projects or just letting some ideas live half baked in your sketchbooks, but you'll have more time to go out and live a little and absorb more of the world around you. When something does some along that really gets you going you'll be fresh and ready to give it your all.
That's just my rambling 2 cents. I'd love to see what you would come up with to entertain that kid in you though!
You're a nice guy, Pav.
That kid you talk about...doesn't live here anymore. :)
Seriously though...it'd probably be that colossal script you just read...mixed with time travel. At least I'm halfway there.
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