Words of encouragement

So I have been feeling like I am not telling enough stories lately. It’s been a lifelong focus of mine, I have been playing games that let me tell stories since I was about 10 years old. Even before that my imagination was overactive and I was creating worlds and scenarios to play in every day. I am doing the weekly Lu & Dag and that is telling a story, but beyond that my playing and collaborative storytelling has been on hiatus for a while now. Mostly of my own choosing. I felt like i needed a break, to focus on something else for a bit. But man do I miss it. I have a lot of back burner stuff right now, some work related, house related, art related, story telling, exercise, honestly most of everything feels like its on the back burner. I had big ideas for the Grunge Punk line, it is still a thing but the momentum died out and I ran into some hard truths about my art journey. Well I say truths but what I mean is I gained some insight into where I was in my progress. This will seem all over the place but I have often not done something because I wanted it to be perfect, to match what was in my minds eye and my skill level was not good enough to meet my own expectations. Utter bullshit really. I am still working on Grunge Punk and about a dozen other things but its a slow process. I have been working in my sketchbook again and I did a full digital piece yesterday or the day before. Check out the gallery if you would like to see Miles Morales influenced by some 80’s movies.

Anyways I am not phoning in the blog post, last week felt off to me and I am trying to remember one important thing. I am writing this for future Guy mostly, I want him to have some way to track things, to see his progress and to know that past Guy was rooting for him.

It’s ok to be in a funk, to loose motivation, to take a break. It’s ok to trip and fall. But I get up and keep going, every time. This week I got to surprise myself with how well the first digital piece I have done in months came out.

So yeah, the story telling, the art, the exercise all of it really. I am getting there. I believe in myself.

Good job buddy, keep going.