Happy New Year 2010

Happy New Year! Feel refreshed? I think I do, though I’ve picked up bad habits in the month off. Luckily we are due back on Monday (weather permitting), so I can start getting up in the mornings again. And going outside. Actually screw the last bit.

I have to admit, the start of 2010 has been terrible so far. PS3 broke shortly after New Year, and… snow. SNOW. What the hell? I’ve been waiting for t shirts from DesignbyHumans for ages it seems, thanks to the adverse weather conditions. I need them, my wash basket is brimming.

I’ve been thinking about a few resolutions for the year. Kept it short and sweet, which will hopefully make them easier to accomplish. In no particular order:

New Year’s Resolutions

Print my first T shirt design
Build my first website using PHP
Start building a brand
Not to work at weekends
Learn to drive

I got a few things over Christmas which will hopefully help kick start the year. I got a lovely new scanner and mechanical pencil. Also, a personal present from me, to me: an electric eraser. My girlfriend also got me some nice frames to hang up some inspiration on my empty walls. Finally I can put up my Dan Mumford screen print and Wesley’s Ice Cream Man.

Reflecting on 2009

2009 I think may, without thinking too hard about it, of been the best year yet. Musically it was jam-packed for me. Particularly the latter half, which included two festivals (Download and Reading) and 11 bands just in the last month before Christmas.

I also started drawing a lot more (well, it is all relative) and starting to enjoy it in my spare time. 2009 was the year that I started to try and think seriously about what I want to do. I’ve discovered that there is only one thing I want to do: whatever I want, when I want. I want to be flexible enough to try out various paths and then decide what area I enjoy most. I do love my animation course, don’t get me wrong, but the initial reason I signed up for it is no longer an interest to me. That said, the course is still completely relevant and I will try to push the projects which I enjoy most, as hard as possible.

Christmas Drawing

Not such a ‘Big Christmas Draw’ this year, though I did get a very important drawing done. A few years ago I was asked by a family friend’s son to draw Spiderman, while we were on holiday. I said ‘yeah sure, I’ll draw one as soon as I get home’. It kept getting put off and I was getting a bit worried about what they would expect after such a length of time. Just before Christmas, I spent the best part of a day doing a few poses for him on an A3 sheet.