Multimedia 4's. Quadrant studies.

When I started training in multimedia arts, I set a goal for myself that I would work to become the first or one of the first artists to become proficient in the 4 multimedia: Book, Comic Book, Film, and TV, supervising both the story, script, manuscript, and art aspects. I wanted my Mastery Training to be Quadrants if at all possible. But the main problem with pursuing this field is the fact that if you pursue Four Quadrants, you won't be mastering one individual field, and there's less supervision. I wanted to Master the Four Quadrants, primarily because no one else did first, or bothered to. Become proficient in Quadrants.

BCF's: Best Careers Forever

The scary part of entering the comic book industry, and animation industry is that, it's not just awards and perceptions, it's a long running event. It's for life. Creators might seem transient, but they're real people with real lives we normally don't see, too You have this brand Identity for Life. Chances are. You're associated with that small handful of colleagues for life. There isn't any turning back once you're in it, and sometimes you have very little freedom over the whole thing. I'm probably going to be the YouTube and manga-End Times guy for my whole life, till the day I die. That's a long time!

But on the bright side, that eliminates the element of a deadline. You have your whole life and the rest of eternity to hone your craft. A long damn time, 2-4 decades at least. 

Mistakes We Knew We Were Making

I've made some mistakes in my day. With no small element of those mistakes being the way I presented my work. One early mistake I made in online publishing was to hide a lot of my best drawings in favor of showing mediocre drawings I just did, in what comes across as some odd, and sloppy misunderstood attempt to show my audience my process in motion, and just assume my audience was in on the communication's joke.

They weren't. They had no clue those were some of my weakest art pieces from my sketchbooks, and not "The best effort I could do". And due to this misunderstanding, some of my audience judged me pretty harshly for it. 

Lesson learned.