I put this moment here
Dec. 31st, 2010 11:39 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
reflectedeveSo this was a year.
If there’s one thing 2010 hasn’t been, it’s boring. I can't really get into all the ups and downs, which have been considerable, but one thing does stand out. I spent a good chunk of this year really committing to the work I’ve been faltering towards for years: in some ways, I’d say that I earned the right to call myself a cartoonist. Not in the sense that I’m getting PAID, or that much of anyone has heard of me who wouldn’t have for other reasons, but in the most important sense: I made comics and art, continuously, and I started working to put it out where people could see it. That is … an incredibly significant shift, one I’ll need to keep building on.
I'm leaving this year with a fair amount of pride and a sizable chunk of regret; for once, I have some actual resolutions to fulfill, and I mean them. Whatever else 2011 brings, however, I am quitting my job and going to comic school, and that's more than enough to be excited about. Before that, I get to have concerts, and I've promised myself more fanart. After all, I need to relearn how to take breaks. ;) And I've missed fandom all year.
Of course, I have to make it through one last January admissions hell first.
I hope the New Year is good to all of you amazing people (the old one, I know, was not what many of you deserved). ♥ I am, as always, grateful to know you to the extent that I do.
I'm not sure it's even worth doing a fanart roundup this year, but it's short enough to tuck in here, so why not.
-four illustrations for Only Going One Way, byjjtaylor and ataratah
-untitled Star Trek: AOS band AU art, for![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
trekreversebang
-writer’s block (featuringjjtaylor and Brian Schechter)
-The Dragon Of The West, Victorious (Again) for![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
scribbleomania, for yuletart
(Also a number of locked pieces that were published somewhere under my real name. This secret identity business is kind of a pain in the ass.)
If there’s one thing 2010 hasn’t been, it’s boring. I can't really get into all the ups and downs, which have been considerable, but one thing does stand out. I spent a good chunk of this year really committing to the work I’ve been faltering towards for years: in some ways, I’d say that I earned the right to call myself a cartoonist. Not in the sense that I’m getting PAID, or that much of anyone has heard of me who wouldn’t have for other reasons, but in the most important sense: I made comics and art, continuously, and I started working to put it out where people could see it. That is … an incredibly significant shift, one I’ll need to keep building on.
I'm leaving this year with a fair amount of pride and a sizable chunk of regret; for once, I have some actual resolutions to fulfill, and I mean them. Whatever else 2011 brings, however, I am quitting my job and going to comic school, and that's more than enough to be excited about. Before that, I get to have concerts, and I've promised myself more fanart. After all, I need to relearn how to take breaks. ;) And I've missed fandom all year.
Of course, I have to make it through one last January admissions hell first.
I hope the New Year is good to all of you amazing people (the old one, I know, was not what many of you deserved). ♥ I am, as always, grateful to know you to the extent that I do.
I'm not sure it's even worth doing a fanart roundup this year, but it's short enough to tuck in here, so why not.
-four illustrations for Only Going One Way, by
jjtaylor and ataratah-untitled Star Trek: AOS band AU art, for
trekreversebang-writer’s block (featuring
jjtaylor and Brian Schechter)-The Dragon Of The West, Victorious (Again) for
scribbleomania, for yuletart(Also a number of locked pieces that were published somewhere under my real name. This secret identity business is kind of a pain in the ass.)
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Date: 2011-01-02 09:09 pm (UTC)Ooh, that sounds fabulous. I'd love a link; I'm not sure I'm going to have time to read the fic right away, but I definitely want to at some point!
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Date: 2011-01-02 09:32 pm (UTC)