Business as Usual

So after the nice little break of Thanksgiving, it's back to work. Nothing much to report unfortunately. I've begun work on the anthology piece for Mullins staring Stardust, which looks to be a lot of fun and a submission for a Lovecraft comic that looks to be, hopefully, Lovecraftian.
More to come on these once some suitable art appears.

In other news, I'm working on starting up a branch of Burrito's Abode called Red Bird Studios. The studio specializes in single piece illustrations, black and white, with a single red bird in each piece tying it all together. Meant to be a banner for commissions, I'm hoping to work the ideas at craft shows and to use it to beef up my layout/landscape portfolio. At the moment, I'm looking for avenues to begin building its name, hopefully I'll find a few.

Nothing much else to report. Unfortunately, it seems the scanner I had intended to purchase, given its low price tag and 12x18 scanning size seems to have gone off the market, so, for now, no new art. Hopefully I'll be able to find another way to get stuff up here.

Namaste,

Jon Jones

Aftermath

As the dust settles around the close of my final quarter at SCAD, I set about to making some new goals for myself, not to be a work-a-holic, but more so to help convince myself that I can make it to my goal of living off my art, hopefully by the time I'm twenty-five. For now the goals are simple, as I have been known to bite off well more than I can chew, and with school behind me, I'd prefer to not bring all the stress of trying to overachieve down upon me. Don't get me wrong, I by no means intend to slack off, get lazy, or put out shitty work. I simply don't want my last quarter to be a foreshadowing of the rest of my career.

That being said, my goals for this upcoming year are as follows:

Fill 1 sketchbook a month.
Update and Revise Web Page (January 24. I have a list of about 21 major and minor fixes, plus over fifty pages worth of content updates, woo)
Finish Book 1 of All I Want is a Brother (October '08)

Aside from these basic goals, I'm not planning much else. Book 1 looks to be between 80 and 120 pages, or so I think, so that should certainly keep me very busy, while the sketchbooks will keep me in artistic shape. Other than that, I would like to get a start on my danger stories, so I can have more content to add to the site over the course of the year, plus if I can manage to get a scanner, the Daily Burrito will start back up at the beginning of the new year. I haven't quite figured out whether or not I want to keep doing themes or if I just want to put up whatever Burrito comes to my head. In any case, the year looks to be busy, but much less stressful than the previous years in school.

Namaste,

Jon Jones

Six Weeks in Hell Pt. 10: The Final Cut

So it ends, so it ends. My final quarter at SCAD came to a close yesterday, bringing conclusion to my six weeks in hell. All in all, it was a helluva run, with a constant, heavy stream of work, little food, less sleep, and way too much caffeine and nicotine. But I finished, best I could, and my apologies for not keeping everyone with me for more steps of the way.

With the quarter, as mentioned, being my final quarter, I feel a certain amount of relief, mixed with satisfaction and fear. But most of all, I feel relieved, relieved that I'm finally done and able to work on whatever the hell I want to work on, not just the assignments given to me.

To close the entry, I give you my final two assignments: a preview of All I Want is a Brother (a test of the style etc.) and a short comic from a story I wrote.


Namaste,

Jon jones