Chi Art Energy

I generate so much raw power and Chi in my surroundings whenever I draw art and get into that sort of inventive mentality. For an American level of Creative Psychic Energy and Chi, mine's pretty high. Other people can literally sense it if I'm having an active period.

Having Tiger Eye Gems in my pocket keeps to help me focused, and my willpower high, so instead of not having Tiger Eye Gems in a bag in my pocket, I keep a stash of Tiger Eye stones to keep my eye on the prize.

Submissions Rejections List - You Only Live Once

The following are places I've submitted my various main projects to. I was  rejected by all of them, but I was proud of myself, as I'm finally submitting my work to studios, companies and publishers now....

Places I've submitted to (but that said "No thanks")

·        New York Nonfiction Mainstream Literary agencies

·        SLG Publishing

·        Titmouse Inc.

·        Microsoft

It's never easy finding active literary and cinematic publishers and studios that match up with my personal style (including ones I don't work with but might like to), but I still make the effort to be on the lookout for new opportunities. 

"Popular" Artist?

"As popular artists, we get too many individual messages to respond to everyone"?

Checks inbox: 0 emails from people wanting to be my friends.

That's funny, that article almost gave me the impression a lot of people are approaching ME to be my artist friends. 

Oh please. No one does that. The only artist who are even CLOSE to that level of popularity and busy-ness are the artists and animators who work full time at a studio. Or who you notice attend cons, or whose webcomics actually have more than 2 readers. (All of which I am none of the above. I've ALWAYS hoped other artists will approach me for friendship. I'm not famous or popular enough to say otherwise). If I was getting approached by a lot of people wanting to befriend me online, I'd have mentioned it in my blog a long time ago. Such is not the case. Not with me anyway. Sometimes I wish more people would figure out it's okay to talk to me directly and become my art buddies.

I get zero comments on my tweets and blog BECAUSE no one is approaching me to become their mentor and friend. I don't know why some artists are so touchy and temperamental about being approached for friendship online. I'm certainly not above being approached, and neither are a lot of artists. Well, not the ones that are unemployed anyway. 

Say. Why HAVE you been avoiding me all these years anyway..................

.......NICOLE.

Ahhhhh yyyyyeeeeeaaaahhhhh

Jay's Brain: Ahhhhhh yyyyyeeeaaahhhhh.

That's the goooooood stuuuuuuufffff

The knowledge of my  book library. It FEEDS ME.

Don't Call It A Comeback...

So it's the 3rd of November, on a Monday, when I had my first productive drawing session in a whole 2 to 3 weeks since I quit comics art lessons. But I recovered, and now I'm back and badder than ever. Busted out a good 20 whole pages  of art sketches today. I have to recover from the blow to my ego from learning, in terms of art, though there's always someone worse off, I'm nowhere close to being as good as I thought I am. That was a blow to my ego and self confidence. That realization, weakened and depressed me. Like any time things get really difficult in my life, I once again considered quitting and retiring from comics ("They don't need me...") but I'm starting to get back on my feet to stand and walk.

I did some push-ups, drew one character sketch, then the next day my recovery accelerated and I drew 20 pages of rough abstract sketches.

The strength of Ten Grinches, Plus Two.

The Sad Tale of My Birth Mother

My birth mother, Mary Gaynor, died only a week or two after she got to speak with me for the first time in her life. I heard some of her last dying words on the phone before she passed away a week or so later.