I glad to have my own site looking as good as it is. I was also pleasantly surprised by my backlog count. with still a few more of Paper Ninja to upload I’m sitting at 111 comics over 10 years of side work. I don’t have a sense of standard as I was always creating as best I could under time and circumstance, but after flipping back on my old art and rearranging the numbers to end up here feels like genuine achievement.
I always felt hesitant to refer to myself as an artist and it was never in a professional sense, I created and improved because it was simply an itch that needed scratching. Fame and notoriety were never important to me beyond growing and being able to divert more attention to my creations. But, because it was always minor in amount compared to others who have staked paying bills on their art I never felt like I earned the title. It’s easy to see others succeeding, or even just the illusion of success they portray across media or artist alleys and feel as if your not equaling that effort. Even if my work was good, had I spent enough effort, work and time on it? For those who read this, so long as your working, its enough. If there’s something you work at and feel a standard you don’t always hit, but do it again, you are doing enough.
For me, I have only recently felt a since of earning Artist, and it took a number of random skills I never thought I’d know, A sense of style that I feel is mine and recognizable from others and nearly 20 years of working at that. This is still in unprofessional sense, if looked at monetarily I have not hit a bench marker. But no one can take my work away from me by this point, I feel confident calling myself an artist with all I’ve achieved. On that confidence I start this new site, with any luck it can spread my art to those interested enough to have a look.
