Creative Inspiration

[CURRENTLY LISTENING TO: "Til I Hear It From You" by Gin Blossoms]

I think it's maybe time to update my blog here.

Rather than the standard, "what have I been up to since my last entry" sort of update (most that know me, already know I've graduated by now)....I figure I'd kind of toss out some creative ideas that have been rolling around my head these days.

I recently completed building my new website, but I still feel this NEED to do something incredibly awesome and artsy with my downtime of unemployment. Yes. I will be pushing forward with my job searching now. But hey. Who says I can't do other things too?! ;o) Truth be told...for the past couple of years, I've greatly lost any desire to do much of anything artsy that didn't pertain to the job I held for a year and a half, and then school related design/art projects. I've essentially been in a funk for roughly 3 years or so. Gosh. Feels weird to say that. It doesn't seem like that much time has passed.

But I hate that I allowed myself to grow apart from something I loved doing. And I'm hoping to change that...and to continue with it through my future endeavors ;o)

Some weeks back, I purchased two 14"x14" canvases from Hobby Lobby. My intent is to paint something that could potentially sell. I have this habit of holding onto everything I create, and I don't want to do that anymore. I haven't thought of what I would like to paint on the canvases yet. But considering how my Chuck Taylor shoe paintings went over real well...I almost want to do something just as fun and quirky.

In the mean time, to kind of get my creative juices flowing again, I've recently started a digital movie poster project. Just for fun! Nothing more. Maybe sometime down the road I will find a way to sell prints of my work and I'll make that an option too :o) That's something I would have to research and look into.

But I thought it would be fun to combine my knowledge of both Illustrator and Photoshop together. Right now, I have been focused on the vector art of it. Once that is all complete, then it will be brought into Photoshop for additional effects to be added to finalize the piece, which the goal is for it to appear vintage.

Anyway. This is what I have done so far in the span of 2-3 days. If you're a Jim Henson fan, then this should look familiar. Let me know what you all think!