As evident by the theme of this site, I like to draw. I also like to paint and pretty much can get into any activity with an aspect of design. I have often wondered what it would be like to make a living as an artist (drawings, paintings, sculpture). It sounds great in theory, and I’m sure the possibilities are endless, but it would be tough not to succumb completely into doing commercial work and really just doing art for art’s sake.

The best-case senario would be to have complete creative freedom, be well-known, and be able to sustain yourself and live the kind of life you want to live through your work, so that the whole “job” aspect is almost like an afterthought. “Oh, wow, these people will pay $15,000 for this drawing? How about $20,000?” In the course of trying to reach that dream though, you will have to pass through a vast sea of other careers, opportunities, and distractions that would threaten to derail you from your original path.

The potential for commercializing your art or to having your creative talents sucked dry through commercial work is high these days it seems. I don’t think that doing the commercial-art-director-designer-thing is necessarily bad, as it is a means to an end (read: paycheck), but one can only spend so much time sitting in front of the computer doing digital artwork, or holding a pencil or brush to paper. There has been more than one occasion where I put off exploring my artistic talents in Fireworks because I already spent half the day doing a web page layout.

Ah well, at least I can still hang onto the fact that I have not veered too far from the path to the best-case senario. Hopefully one day I will be able to sustain my lifestyle strictly through drawing and painting, be it real, digital or both.

If you would like to help further my cause, all donations or other forms of support will be appreciated and remembered. ;-)