A few years ago I got the itch to start painting again. Real live painting, with real live actual paint. Not the computer painting I do today but with an actual brush in my hand. So I did, and it felt amazing. So I did it some more because that’s what we artists do. We paint. 

 

You see, I’ve spent the majority of my career as a digital artist but it wasn’t always that way. I used to paint every single day and I was good at it. Really good. I painted highly detailed, intricate illustrations that I look at today and think, I must have been insane to try and do that with a brush. But that’s what I did, for a living, everyday for the first ten years of my career.  

 

I was no wannabe with a hope and a dream. I was the real deal and as I climbed the ladder I got to work with companies like Disney, Cartoon Network,Nickelodeon and many more.

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Something happened along the way however. I got busy. Long hours and constant deadlines turned my passion into a job, a job I loved, but still a job. One day I looked up and was surprised to find for all my accomplishments I had very little ...(continued)