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Arrested development… thwarted!
Every freelance artist knows the pain of trying to be a business person when all they really want to do is make art. The whole “getting paid” part is more about a desire for spending all your time getting to create instead of having another job to pay the bills. It’s a tough proposition. Either you spend more time ( a LOT more) operating the business-side of freelancing than one would want, or, like me, you end up getting another job so that the art-making doesn’t become just amount the money. There’s many pitfalls with either, and the one I have fallen into for the past few years is spending so much time working elsewhere that my freelance efforts have suffered.
Recently, however, a series of events have coinciding in my life, giving me a second wind, and I feel a powerful push to do more freelancing. One of those events have been an inexplicable upswing in commissions, encouraging me to keep going as well as giving me a good reason to draw more!
So, I’ve been in my studio a lot more lately, and I feel the desire to finish old projects as well as really dig into new ones. In keeping with that, I want to start making available the long-awaited issue #3 of Father Robot:
Want one? Well, you certainly can right here!