Beginnings

I'm starting a more personal blog to explore writing, ideas and images that are meaningful to me. My first thought was to incorporate this into my tumblr, but something about that didn't seem right. This is public, but the social nature of tumblr made me apprehensive about it, as well as the feeling that I'm suddenly exposing myself to an established group of followers. Here it can be a fresh project that can grow organically and have a life of its own. I even opted not to just start a new tumblr so I can avoid the cycle of reblogs and just browsing my dashboard.

I'm looking forward to shouting ideas into the void regardless of wether or not anyone is listening. Maybe I'll work out some thought here and then tear it down when I feel I can apply to some art. Regardless I'm going to try to make an entry every day. A fresh thought, not a reblog or a work in progress (maybe some works in progress). All very much personal. Let's see what's in there to let out, if anything.

One reason for moving over to blogger is that the tumblr world is starting to make me feel like my art needs to be a certain thing. Maybe it's time to think outside comics, think outside of making money from it, think outside of where my comics fit in within the world of comics (that's been a big one, I'll explore later)

Maybe I'll transfer some things over to my tumblr if I feel they'll fit. I've even thought of deleting all my posts and starting a blog like this, but it just feels like its become a creature of its own.

My goals are the following:

• Writing - expressing with words in a way that I'm not comfortable doing publicly. Forcing myself to be verbal.
• Photographs - My own photos, things that provide meaning and feed the soul.
• Sketchbook work, more personal drawings. No fan art or sci fi comics, that can all stay on tumblr.

Cheers,
Thomas