Worst Timing in the WORLD!

[T!M]

It really sucks. I wish I could just sit at my computer all day long coloring everything under the sun. Unfortunately you need money to survive. And the term 'starving artist' is something that's heard all too often.

I was asked by a group of people I admire very much to join their commission group as a colorist. Cool right? RL kicked that in the butt. I recently applied for a PART TIME job and was going to hold my trials until I started working so they could get a better idea of my turn around time. Well I didn't get the hours I wanted, I was put on Full Time hours. Freaking GHEY! But, I need the job. Luckily I only need it for a couple months.

To make matters worse I was asked to color a COMIC BOOK with Brandon McKinney as the artist! How freaking cool is that! But, the job blew that out of the water. My timing sucks balls. I can't even make a PayPal account. I don't have a credit card.

Being apart of a team that I admire, coloring a Comic Book by an artist I admire. Man that would have been so freaking cool to do before I went into the service mid-2007.

Fuck you Uncle Sam and your HORSE!

p.s. This doesn't effect the Guru Project. Only those two things I would have loved to do.

[Blackbat]

That sucks man. Sorry to hear about the trouble.

As far as Paypal goes, you can set it up with just your bank account as your primary funding source. I did it that way and didn't add my credit card until later.

[Poison]

Sorry to hear, T!M. I'm on the starving artist side and know too well how it is having to decide between mostly terrible, but money making and fun, but usually breadless projects. I colored 2 comics this year for free and have to prostitue myself for other stuff in return. :/
I swear, I' be the happiest guy if I could just work on art and not have to worry for a moment about money.

[razoras]

You passed on a chance at coloring Brandon's work for money? C'mon now, you're a big man with lots of muscle. I'd say you'd be able to survive at least a couple weeks of starvation, which would be plenty of time to color... right? Yep.

[iggy880]

As much as I may regret this, you could put some of the Guru Poster coloring on hold to do at least some of the comic in between work and sleep, I wouldn't mind.

[T!M]

I appriciate the gesture Igz :)

The Guru poster was something I volenteered to do in my leizure. It's a bit different when you're being paid to do something; you make that priority.

Brandon is doing 3 comics with 20/30+pages. I would have to balance that with the commissions. You'd never see the Guru poster colored cause keep in mind my free time come around May/June will be non-existant, I'll be gone to basic training. (knock on wood)

I suppose I could do one but it's like asking a kid to choose only one toy at Toys R' Us. Even then free time would be something that I just wouldn't have. Although I would be enjoying every minute spent on what I would be coloring.

On one hand I could always post-pone my enlistment until next year. But at twenty-two years old I really need to get started on a career.

[razoras]

It's not necessarily a bad thing that you have to keep colors as a hobby rather than employment. I can count on two hands the friends I've had who turned their hobby into a career and it just killed it for them.

[Poison]

I totally agree with Raz. I have hardly drawn a pic just for fun this year. Luckily there are commissions like the poster that I enjoy, else I'd be wondering what I'm doing. Heck, I still do...
You're doing the right thing with the academy, believe me. You will be happy there and can still enjoy your art in your free time (which you'll have).

[iggy880]

Yeah Pois, if it weren't a source of income for you I'd say take a bit off, maybe just go back to doodling for fun, or just whatever type of sketches you did in your free time in your pre-commission days. But that can be the trouble with work, always takes up time for good stuf, but glad you enjoyed the Guruverse poster.

By the way, is it just me, or would it be cool to have like a Guruverse symbol, kinda like what we used to have for PCity here, but better, I mean, we do say it a lot.