Pressure

"Hermits have no peer pressure."

~ Steven Wright

 So. I'm still pretty vague about this Blog "Thing". I think mostly I do it because Other People do so I should do too... Right? That is pretty much the reasoning as well that put me in the position of focusing on an art career later rather than earlier in life. For me, there was always this feeling of society pressuring me to have a "real" job to make enough money and live "decent". Even though it was entirely myself pressuring me with what I thought were other people's perceptions and expectations of me. I think a lot of it was thinking it was necessary for that whole Love and Relationships thing.

I finally decided (a couple months back) that perhaps jumping from one unhappy unfulfilling job to another and getting no where with either a real job or the art was probably not so conducive to being happy (and secondly, for success). So for now, I'll just be happily working a few days a week in a bookstore (Chapters) and focusing on art. Finally! Although, I still keep having this urge to go back to full-time just because of a potential love interest... But I've resisted my past stupidity so far... *cough*

And the art...!

The first one I did for a friend's birthday. I haven't actually titled it but it generally gets called "Tabi's Tiger" in all my filename organization [Oil, 11"x14"]

The second is "Diesel".  A portrait commission [Ink, 8"x10"]

"Tabi's Tiger"

"Diesel"