I’ve been working on illustrating a story about an ogre that I heard 20 years ago at Camp Aldersgate in Little Rock Arkansas.
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I have always doodled, but only recently focused on a childhood dream of being a cartoon illustrator. About 4 years ago I decided to develop a good foundation of drawing fundamentals. It hasn’t been as systematic or progressive as I had hoped. Moving 3 times, changing jobs a couple times, life happening…Yeah, I want to be way better still!
So, I decided to complete a project, create a product to focus my energy to continue consistently improving towards the purpose of my goal of telling stories with pictures included.
When I was a camper in the 1990s I drew & colored the photo backdrop for the dance held at the lake & worked on writing stories with the camp newspaper club. It was a nice opportunity to do the things I dreamed of as a kid but never knew how to pursue as a career. I don’t know why the idea of continuing my education towards those things never came up in all my years that I thought I simply needed to make a living & that’s difficult while trying to pay for school while learning something you can’t imagine people will actually pay you to do.
Now, I have more time than most of my life & simply want to create.