#just everything

I also said the time it takes me to do my photoshop stuff has increased a lot, because I’m more interested about the quality and technique, whereas in the past, it was lots of posts of nonsense that took little time as copy/paste.

So… this is a really difficult thing to explain.

Photoshop is my paintbrush. My method of self expression. I don’t necessarily think of it as a hobby. My blog is the hobby. This is my art. And it is funny or silly or mostly jokes but it really is how i consider it as art.

It varies of course. Sometimes what I do is more about a little joke or a quick replacement image. Whatever. I doodle too, with Photoshop.

And my wife asks me what if I did different kind of subjects. And… I don’t know… I’m not sure how to answer that. The reason I stick with BBC Sherlock stuff is because I’ve just been doing that for a long time and maybe it is the colour paint I’m interested in.

Mind you, I don’t share everything I photoshop or design for fun. And I do oodles of that. I made a logo today of a fictional IT company headed by a ninja turtle called “Donatello does machines” (I’m still congratulating myself for that one, I might share that sometime)

And I STILL get people asking me why don’t I monetize my skills, and dude, I fucking do. That is my job, I’m a designer, and a big chunk of that is making tweaks to pictures and changing art and cleanup. I layout textbooks, I just did a l learning module for a dying language to teach to kids, I made a book about birdwatching and I’m making a political campaign for a pretty cool guy. When I’m done that, I put funny hats on Sherlock and cats on Lestrade because it is fun.

I had a friend’s mom tell me when I was in high school “nobody likes work. Work is work and it will always be terrible.”

That affected me for years, i thought i was wrong and I probably shouldn’t be a graphic designer as a job, because I love it so much. So I went to school for a poetry/psychology degree because I thought I’d be a teacher. When I finished school, I realized I would make a shitty teacher. What I wanted to be was a graphic designer.

So i did. And every paid job I’ve had since I was fifteen has been in graphic design. And I’ve been making nonsense photoshop side-projects for just as long.

My fun stuff is my blog, because I get to make my little dolls dance and play in the playground I create.