Skullairy Ink & Design

      It is finally time, no more extensive courses, just pure grind, and work. It is what this journey and this blog that logged it has been leading up to. The plan of attack in action. Brand Identity and Niche     Remembering color theory courses and the meaning behind them I decided the Monarch orange harmony, with black and white as its contrasts would fit my idea of toon-like creative graphics that show off aggression and beauty. My portraits drawing has led me to love skulls and skull art is moderate traffic of interest in others according to my market research. To give a unique approach to this I remembered how attracted I was to the butterfly wings exploring watercolors. Just like that my true enjoyment of art came out and with a manageable niche I found uniqueness in my future designs. The skullairy! LIke a bat-winged avenged sevenfold cover these monarch wing skulls the size of faeries would be little terrors of beauty. All to feed the crimso...

  Well, I have to say. Since I started my Artistic Journey I sure did oversimplify the difficulty of actually marketing out my talents and bringing in that remote income I needed at the time. I suppose that is why companies outsource all their work. I Guess two hands learning and doing it all is time-consuming and difficult, and though I was always in the supportive homeschool dad and homemaker role, I now find myself as being the one supported by all those around me. My gratitude could never be enough to make up for their hospitality. My thoughts feel great to have it, but the shadows parts make me feel more of a burden. Hopefully, if I can make my passion become a reality, I can then support them to make theirs come true too.         My masters and mentors list never really talked about the money side of things as their goals were to get you the talents to either land a job or freelance out your talents. So it was back to LinkedinLearning to scour ac...

  Tshirts, every day I am passing shirts and never realized earlier last month during my career searching, that the answer was right in front of me. Lots of online artists are selling merch with their illustrations and getting in on turning even my sketches into something someone could buy would be the end I needed towards financial freedom. Even my online portfolio and website would still need to sell digital assets and prints at the least. I did not know the amount of info I would need to endure and push through but I am glad to have gone down the rabbit hole too as my son’s homeschool laptop, though limited, was able to pull off a miracle. With proper mouse work and dedicated time inking my sketches. I was finally able to transfer into the digital workspace. Opening up a whole new medium of graphic design, covering; Inking and Vector Art.     I will be making several new shout-outs as I finally divided into graphic design via LinkedIn Learning Since none of the me...

  Well, January was one hell of a way to start the year, it was time to lock down the exact ways I could make an income doing what I love. Now If you probably thinking storyboarding could be an obvious and with that you are right, however during my times of study I have come across many ways to make money doing art, even if the amateur skills I felt held me back from committing yet, maybe it’s the inner perfectionist in me that doesn’t want to go public until I'm “good enough”, but I have spent a lot of time since the day I picked up that chalk. Studying, exploring, and experimenting with all different forms of Art. I need to make a more stable line of commission work and not just under the digital-table work for a buddy here and there.     During my watercolor studies, I found out a real money maker doing commission work comes out when you begin adding color. Well, you see this hyper-realistic eight-hour plus rendering job for just portraits goes for about $15 which...

  Color. Even when I grabbed that chalk I was scared of it. Grayscale has been my comfort zone, & specialty throughout my artistic experiences. My high school role model was M.C. Escher and his black & white illusions. Even now in the last several months from when I first grabbed that chalk, finding storyboards being mostly grayscale with just 3-4 values. I looked at it as an opportunity to stay within my little realm of knowledge. This was the holidays and got me thinking about how artists survive income-wise thinking how they get the most of their commissions because my amateur skills can’t come [pete with a hyper-realistic 8+ hour pencil drawing for only $15. Searching through gigs and coming up with options it dawned on me. Color is where that money is, and rightfully so I found out during this time of studies, as it requires another set of skills I have yet to embark on.     So back to the masters and wouldn't know it, my main mentor was to the rescue wi...