The last few weeks have been consumed by making a lot of plans, and working out the bugs in starting, and working through some big projects. Some of them were good and came easier then others, but among finally getting to start the hard planning for Dani and my wedding, I also got my first honest to goodness paid illustration gig. I’ve been working on floor tile inlay designs for the newly to be renovated Plymouth Elementary School in NH. I’ve posted four of the comps that were sent out to the designs, and though they were further revised from this point these give you the idea of the project art style and the branding effort in the images. The illustrations themselves are going to be cut out of a polymer compound flooring and set into the floors, each of them will end up being roughly 14′ by 14′, and in the colors shown. Its been amazingly fun to work on this project as well as to get the ego boost of knowing that I had a hand in making something that is going to be built and stand out in the real world for everybody to see. That being said its also been very hard to become inspired and keep working on what I have going on because I’ve found myself in a kind of spiritual funk. A bunch of random and oftentimes completely unforeseeable events have conspired to make said funk, but I’m doing and have been doing all I can to try and break back out of it and get inspired to keep working and be less mopey. Though I cannot say I’m totally cured of it yet, if you do find yourself in a similar situation I can give the following advice, keep the people who love you close and try to do somethings everyday that you love even if it seems stupid or a waste of your valuable time.
PS : My fiancee is amazingly patient for dealing with her moody soon to be husband, and is pretty much the most awesome person on earth.
