Always happy to see more of your work! Kiteless told me you were still drawing but just didn't post them. <fans the flame> :)

I am beginning to realize that I have too many irons in the fire; I need to focus on the one thing that I really like and that is art. The rest is distraction from what I like most. Now it'd be great if I could make a living from it, but... I'm not so sure if that would be a good thing or would kill the joy in creating things for fun and novelty sake. Any thoughts?

That is one of my problems also. I am into 3D animation, sculpting, model making, drawing... The list goes on. When I try something new, many of my fans tell me I need to get back into drawing. I also have a ton of drawings I have started and never finished because my attention span is incredably short and if I don't finish it right away I lose interest and never finish it.

I used to think drawing for a living would be a bad thing for the reason you describe. I thought being a programmer would pay well and give me the opportunity to enjoy my hobbies. Now after 20 years of doing the same job, I find I am stressed out more and too brain-dead to be creative in the evenings. The bright side is my house is almost paid off and I recently bought a top of teh line 50" plasma TV.

My new rule, is just do what you enjoy and try not to stress over any or of. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.

HUGS!

Thanks! Love your animated avatar! I've wanted to get back to my animation roots as that is something that I can do without a crew. Stop-motion animation is actually more prevalent than it used to be and the set up is relatively cheap. The only drawback is the consumables, but there are ways to bring that down. I've got an idea or three and am working towards building a few characters in that ancient technique; I have no patience with the interface of the one animation package I tried, too complex. But, it did modeling, rendering and pretty much everything necessary for only $300. But I just couldn't wrap my head around it and it was not intuitive like physically sculpting and molding stuff was. I'll give it a try in the future one more time, but in the meantime I plan on getting my hands dirty in good ol' clay!

Ah, yes. the on-going debate over physical vs digital. I love sculpting and want to get into it more:
http://www.furnation.com/wookiee/2001/W_rider.jpg

I started playing around with ZBrush: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/1372879/ but like you, I am having a difficult time wrapping my head around some things not to mention noing nothing about rigging a sculpture for animation. There is something to be said for just playing around with Poser and jsut having fun without having to do a lot of work. Sure it may not be 'real art' but it's fun none the less:
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/1034429/
http://www.thedragonsden.ca/Poser/M.....oftheNight.swf

Your animation project sounds like fun. As much as I enjoy CG animation I LOVE stop motion work. Just watched Nightmare Before Christmas over the hollidays. :D

You ahve a great sence of humor and I enjoy youe design sence so it would be great to see what you come up with.

*grins wide* Awesome! Missed your work

More of your art is always a good thing. ^_^

Thank you! I need to practice more, and not just with singular subjects. Also must learn to be more confident with my line work; it's always been a bit hesitant, a few erasure marks and shaky lines, but I feel that getting what I am aiming at is creating what I see in my mind and that can be a difficult thing to get on paper.