The iPad, and this program completely upended my previous pipeline, and in doing so has spoiled me. Now I love the flexibility of digital drawing and animation anywhere I feel like. Since I’ve made these purchases, I’ve been drawing a lot more. In the process of making all of this art, I have also bought a lot of procreate brushes.

Hello readers! This is something I’ve been thinking a lot about, and have wanted to write on this topic for some time. Criticism and how to do it, is something that seemingly no one talks about, and you can tell because there are many people who struggle to inform, and come from an emotional place where their points get garbled up by their incoherence.

So 2020... it has been a year hasn’t it? It really has been a wild ride. I want to take a little time to reflect on all of it. Everything has been moving at such a weird pace that I find myself getting caught up with other things, and neglecting my desire to reflect on just exactly has been happening. I want to talk about what the heck has happened so far in my life, what’s currently happening, and what I think will happen.

Over the last few years, I have been the most productive I have ever been when it comes to creating work. When you count my shorts, illustrations, commissions and the full-time work I’ve done, it becomes pretty clear I’ve been fairly prolific. This level of work comes at a severe cost though, which is last year I went through the most severe burnout I’ve ever had. I’ve wrote about burnout on this blog before, so I won’t go into detail on this post. 

Hello friends! I had the idea for this blog after I started up on several new hobbies. Several you say? Why yes! I’ll also be adding to that as well. Recently, I’ve started to learn how to play and make music, started studying Cinema 4D, and started learning calligraphy and lettering. I’ll talk more about my experiences with these new hobbies in a future blog and as I develop, but the content of today’s post is simple. If you’re new to something, you’re not going to be good at it.

This blog is a change of pace from my usual art oriented content. While the title of the blog might make me sound like an alcoholic, I assure you, I do not have a drinking problem (of course, maybe an alcoholic would say that, but...). I was more on the line of “social drinker”, were I to be categorized.

I think it’s very important to learn new things and push yourself to your limit and bypass it. One of my mantras is to “always grow”. There are some things I learn out of curiosity, some I learn to connect with others, and so on. The point is to keep your mind moving. The more you learn, the easier learning new things becomes. So here’s what’s been on my learning agenda for 2020.

Hello friends and readers! This blog is going to be a bit more wide in it's scope as I feel the contents are relevant to life at large. This is a thought I've been ruminating a lot on as I enter my 30s.

Getting work is, obviously very important, but I feel that animators aren’t really taught what makes a good reel. Not good as in “wow that was fun to watch”, but good as in you’ll become gainfully employed from it. The reel is the most important asset in your arsenal as an animator, but many have a hard time putting together the right content to maximize its utility.