So the new Computer Arts issue is out. I guess I’ve got a love/hate relationship with this magazine. Generally speaking I can’t wait to get it and when I do it takes me a total of 2 days to read through EVERY SINGLE page, and get annoyed by the corporate whoring of EVEYRTHING. I guess being a jadded about corporate culture can do that to a man, but when they put a thumbs up for Quark City or whatever the fuck they’ve called buying a small town in India, as a good idea I kind of loose patience.

See I approach design and graphics and illustration from a completely different angle to them, but then I can afford to do this, I’m not a professional graphic designer, in that I don’t do this for a LIVING. I do this because I love to illustrate and design and learn new programs. My favourite parts of the magazine are the interviews and the showcasing of people’s work. I spend ages going back to something I saw in there and grabbing some sort of inspiration.

One of my original ideas last year was to create 12 images in one year and have them put as a calender. Now I did a bit more than 12 illustrations, however not nearly as many as I wanted. So I’m going to set myself a new target this year. I had said I want to draw more this year, however I never actually got round to specifying the number. Well I think this will be the hardest thing, but at the same time it will teach me to really hone my skills to accomodate for speed and pressure. So I’m going to set a target of 1 illustration a week for the year of 2005, except when I’m on holiday.

Currently I’m 3 behind, although CoCo up there does qualify as an illustration, just need to retweak an A3 image with him in it. So I’ve got to do 2 this week and then one every week after that. It could potentially be one of the hardest things I do in terms of keeping up the work, but after 1 year I will have an emmense body of work of which I can actually have a very decent portfolio.

I’ve got a few more tweaks to BK I need to get round to completing as they were originally part of the design, it’s just I’ve been taking a breather from it all and realigning my ducks as it were and gaining a bit more forward thrust of this crazy year.