Life update =)

Posted by on Aug 16, 2010 in Uncategorized | 2 Comments
Hi guys, hope you are all well, things on my end have been going really well, and I judge this well-ness by how I am feel­ing these days — top of the freakin’ world!

I’m not earn­ing a hell of a lot of money as I am spend­ing a lot of time on a per­sonal com­mis­sion that is time con­sum­ing but very impor­tant to my client, so I want to do a very good job on it as I know it means so much to him. I’m treat­ing it as a fan­tas­tic oppor­tu­nity to also prac­tice my char­coal and graphite which I have not had a chance to use for a while. I’m hope­fully going to fin­ish this off by this week.

I am also going to be doing a cou­ple of indie title box art pieces this week and I’ve also started to reg­u­larly teach a few peo­ple pri­vately which is lovely fun. All great peo­ple of all dif­fer­ent ages all want­ing to learn art, it’s really enjoy­able. I am look­ing for­ward to doing more per­sonal art work in the com­ing weeks as well as hav­ing the time to solicit more per­sonal and com­mer­cial jobs heh.

I’ve become really inter­ested in delv­ing into my cul­tural back­ground as of late see­ing as I have never done that before, so I have pur­chased some books on Chi­nese and Japan­ese art and I am tear­ing into it so that it informs my work a lit­tle bit more. Also, I have become a lit­tle more inter­ested in Bud­dhist teach­ings and mediation.

Sketch­group has been going really well, we’re hav­ing new peo­ple join all the time, seen new faces just about every week, been pretty awe­some, recently had some new dudes turn up, they’re great artists and great peo­ple too, I have a feel­ing that they will become good mates.

2 Comments

  1. Chris (Hive_minD)
    August 17, 2010

    I was won­der­ing, do you man­age to sur­vive solely off of your art since becom­ing free­lance, or do you have a job on the side? I am still not there yet, though my mind is think­ing about it a lit­tle already.

    Big smiles, and best wishes from Norway!

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    • Darren Yeow
      August 22, 2010

      Yo Chris, since becom­ing free­lance I have been able to sur­vive, through numer­ous avenues, such as teach­ing, doing some free­lance work in games, pub­lish­ing, etc. For my first cou­ple of years my main objec­tive is just to improve my art, estab­lish con­nec­tions to art directors/buyers and not dig into sav­ings too much! Heh.

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