Chris Malgrain wrote:
| Your motivation seems to be huge. |
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Thanks Chris. My motivation is actually my downside! I started, as we all did doing this to become a better artist. I tried hard to get into the industry at a time when my art was very poor. Marvel or DC wouldn't get six months without another fifty page package in their respective post from me. I was still drawing on the wrong size paper and sending in original artwork, rather than photostats! That is how naive we are talking here.
Anyway time passed and I got to "one-more-convention" and heard the same stuff about "There already is a John Byrne", "Try and pull away from looking like someone else", "Why hire you if we can get the real deal?" All of this was taking it's toll. I couldn't see that the advice being given was pertinant. I only saw the advise as short sightedness on their part.
So I stopped applying, knuckkled down and got a real job, wife and family. However I've always drawn. I could count the days I've missed putting pencil to paper on one hand from out of the last 25 years...including Saturday and Sundays!
Here-in lies the problem. My mind-set has never changed from, "I do this for me to be a better artist" to "This is my source of income". Compounded by the fact that my lifestyle allows me to keep my family and drawing habit!
I've long since lost any will to be published by anyone. I'm happy so long as the next drawing is a good one. Does this mean I wouldn't want to do published work? "No, of course not" but I'm more than content to let the professionals do the job they do so well.
[Nice long answer to a relitively simple question huh;-) ]
Chris Malgrain wrote:
| Have you shown your work to any editors to get their opinon? |
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Kinda answer this above. A lot of people have seen my work, or saw it during the mid-to-late eighties and very early nineties. But since maybe 1992 other than people who may have happened upon my stuff online zero professionals have seen any my work. Particularly "serious" stuff from me. All I seem to do these days are pieces taken far enough to "glean" that little piece of learning from and then the piece is pretty much dumped and on I move to the next one.
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