call for entries

Communication Arts has put out the call for entries in their annual photography and illustration competition. you know, the one that's the most prestigious illustration competition in the world. yeah, that. i'm thinking about entering, and looking back over my body of work from the last 12 months.

...that was a good laugh.

the deadline's march 13. i've got roughly a month to come up with something suitable.

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on that same topic, in order to not suck nearly as much as i do now, i'm going to be spending my alternative days off going down to Studio 2nd Street and working on my drawing skills. the places i'm currently spending my energy are all good places, but there're just too many of them (improving my painting skills, improving my drawing skills, karate 3x a week, meditation class once every 2 weeks, studying for the CCNA, improving my photography skills, paid freelance work, and working on building my portfolio... and then of course, my real job). i've got to cut something out besides sleep, but i don't know what, exactly. the problem with self-improvement on so many different fronts is that it's extremely slow progress on each front you attempt.

wiped

so add some self-flagellation in there, though i don't know when in my life i'd have found enough time to get rested enough or good enough to paint something personal or thoughtful or meaningful. no, there was no time, because i stupidly spent my hours working at the day job, doing favors for friends, or other pro bono work, when i wasn't in classes or on the freeway, or helping friends and family out. this is exactly the point at which i hit one of my moods in which i glower and swear that i will never do another nice thing for any other human ever again, and those grasping assholes who only speak to me because they want something from me can just go fuck right off.

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action shot

but here's an action shot of me looking at matchprints for the limeproject calendar: each sheet is really freaking long and all the sheets came rolled up into a tube, which i'm trying to balance and not drop as i take the photo and hold the matchprint so you can see more than glare. a closer shot of the cover section of the matchprint: the real cover, generated from the original art: there were a couple of errors when the PDF got output to the printer's imagesetter, so i had to give them a new file this afternoon and sign off on the job with the noted corrections. all things considered, a couple of errors out of the 300+ possible errors is pretty Not Bad.

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