Welcome to BT’s Life
Get used to this face. For the next two weeks, PNCA.edu will be featuring a comic blog by yours truly. Read, enjoy, peer voraciously into the life of a former art school dropout returning for another go at the bigtime (pun absolutely intended). And hey, if you do or say something to me that is worthy, maybe I'll put you in the comic too!
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Feb 27, 2007
That’s it folks, my last comic as the “featured blog” for PNCA. I’m sure you’re all quite tired of my shaggy mug showing up everyday, but it’s been pretty fun, hasn’t it? I know it has been for me. If you’d like to learn more about the man that is BT, you’ll have to do it the old-fashioned way by talking to me, no more of this fancy internet comic means.
Goodbye. I love you all. Yes, even you.
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Feb 26, 2007
It’s true, I severly dislike oil paint as a medium. I can see the appeal for some people, but their reasonings are usually detractions to me. Never has an art supply caused me so much frustration, headaches (literally, the fumes make me sick), and anger. It is in no way a reflection upon my painting teacher, whom I highly respect as both an artist and instructor. It is solely my stubborn aggression that makes me feel this way about oil paint. In about two and a half months, I will never have to use oil paint again, if I so choose.
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Feb 23, 2007
Today was supposed to be the first comic in a three-day story, but after doing some planning, I think I need four pages to tell it properly, so it will have to wait because I only had three (now two) comics left to do for PNCA.
I had a group art show opening at Random Order Coffeeshop in NE Portland last night. I totally forgot about it until the morning of, when I received a reminder email. It was a fun opening though, lots of chatting with friends whom I don’t get to see enough, but I didn’t sell my piece. It’s ok though, it’s a self-portrait show, and does anyone really buy self-portraits? I don’t think so.
If anyone is interested, it’ll be up the rest of the month, so if you find yourself in the vicinity of NE 18th and Alberta, stop by Random Order and see “me” because let’s be honest, you just can’t get enough, can you?
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Feb 21, 2007
I really do miss my Robot-A-Day a lot. I started it at a time in my life when I was unemployed and needed a way to keep myself creatively motivated, and it totally worked. It got me working on something every day and also let me have an archived record of my improvement as an artist pretty much.
There are always mixed feelings though. Robot-A-Day, and the artistic inspiration it created in me, is the reason I decided to go back to art school. At the same time, PNCA, and its workload, is the reason that Robot-A-Day is now dead.
Shameless plug: I do still keep the site running, it’s just not all about robots anymore. It’s more of a general art blog and includes most everything that I create. RADROBOT.ORG if you’re interested.
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Feb 19, 2007
It’s actually about 38 hours now, and I’m finally ready to sleep. Luckily, I only have a 3pm class on Tuesday.
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Feb 19, 2007
Today’s comic was initially going to be about how I thought we should get President’s Day off from school, but I really couldn’t think of any reasons why, beyond just wanting an extra day to work on homework and drink.
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Feb 15, 2007
Getting paid for doing what you love to do is an amazing feeling (and as much as I hate to admit it sometimes, I really like drawing comics). If it’s not something you’ve yet experienced, I’d highly recommend it. Gather up your portfolio and hit the streets, get a show booked (FYI: I book art shows for The Acorn coffeeshop. If you do small to tiny-sized art, we should talk), snag some freelance work, design a poster for a friend’s band so you can get into the show for free, something, anything.
I went to art school when I was 18 years old and promptly dropped out less than three months into the first semester. I returned eight years later because art is the only thing I know how to do well that can also hold my interest as a career option for longer than six months. I assume a lot of us are in the same boat on that last one. Over the years, I’ve heard from too many artists that cannot bear the thought of selling any of their work, and yet are confused as to how to go about making “a living” as an artist. Emotional investment is fabulous and everything, but seriously, get over it. If this is what you want to do with your life, make it happen. There’s a hell of a lot of people in this world. If you’ve created something you like that much, chances are you can find someone else who will find just as much meaning in it as you do (although it may not always be the same meaning). If you’re lucky, that person has some extra cash to throw around. Take it from them.
And with that, I step down from my soapbox until tomorrow…
PS: I’d like to hear a lot of chatter on this one. Someone please tell me I’m wrong, and tell me WHY in full detail.
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