I was more or less successful in my goal of doing bigger projects for year 2 of #msaed. I made a year 1 video, sort of finished the book version, sold a couple mugs, went to New York for WOLFPACK!, had the sticky notes appear in the Mind-Thoughts zine, started a new queer zine for Chicago and put out two issues, re-did my portfolio site, met the internet, proposed, finished a terrible painting for my father that’d been sitting in my apartment for 3 years, did layout for my brother-in-law’s first published boardgame, did production work for three other boardgames, finally learned some Javascript and coded some web apps for the iPad, made it through another year at the day job with a reasonably positive attitude despite 3 awesome coworkers leaving, posted 9,000 things a day to tumblr, increased my Klout score by 23, got retweeted by @nprfreshair, got way too many notes on this and this, took too many photoboof pics, contributed to a calendar about large hairy woodland creatures, drew both too many and too few boys, made some mistakes, fucked up some friendships, got in troubled, made things better, repeated the process, finished resetting the type for the print versions of my high school webcomic, and made five too many wrap-up posts on this blog.

So, what’s in store for year 3? I’d like to explore some new mediums but also return to doing some more frequent drawings. I really need to start painting again. I also want to do more video work. I’d like to do better things with type. I’m feeling a little Bodoni’d out. The type above is Attic by YouWorkForThem. It’d be great to do more of my own chunky vectors and Topher type this year. I need to do more writing, but that should probably be private. I want to do some new comics. I’d like to do more traveling and see some things that aren’t Chicago or Minnesota. There may be some big changes this year for me. Or things may just get bigger. Only time will tell!

Etc. (& So Forth)

I was more or less successful in my goal of doing bigger projects for year 2 of #msaed. I made a year 1 video, sort of finished the book version, sold a couple mugs, went to New York for WOLFPACK!, had the sticky notes appear in the Mind-Thoughts zine, started a new queer zine for Chicago and put out two issues, re-did my portfolio site, met the internet, proposed, finished a terrible painting for my father that’d been sitting in my apartment for 3 years, did layout for my brother-in-law’s first published boardgame, did production work for three other boardgames, finally learned some Javascript and coded some web apps for the iPad, made it through another year at the day job with a reasonably positive attitude despite 3 awesome coworkers leaving, posted 9,000 things a day to tumblr, increased my Klout score by 23, got retweeted by @nprfreshair, got way too many notes on this and this, took too many photoboof pics, contributed to a calendar about large hairy woodland creatures, drew both too many and too few boys, made some mistakes, fucked up some friendships, got in troubled, made things better, repeated the process, finished resetting the type for the print versions of my high school webcomic, and made five too many wrap-up posts on this blog.

So, what’s in store for year 3? I’d like to explore some new mediums but also return to doing some more frequent drawings. I really need to start painting again. I also want to do more video work. I’d like to do better things with type. I’m feeling a little Bodoni’d out. The type above is Attic by YouWorkForThem. It’d be great to do more of my own chunky vectors and Topher type this year. I need to do more writing, but that should probably be private. I want to do some new comics. I’d like to do more traveling and see some things that aren’t Chicago or Minnesota. There may be some big changes this year for me. Or things may just get bigger. Only time will tell!

Etc. (& So Forth)

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