I wanted to remind my readers to follow me on Twitter! I post quite a lot of art, Vinny, and website-related material on my feed, including snapshots of what I’m working on at the time! It’s a fun way to see what sort of things I’m up to in between posts here on my blog.

If you have a Twitter account and would like for me to follow you as well, make sure to let me know. I like keeping in touch with all my friends.

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I’ve just given JoieArt.net another facelift in favor of something a bit more professional. I know blog aren’t supposed to change their look this often, but JoieArt is still a relatively new blog and so hopefully it will only have positive effects instead of negative.

This particular theme is more streamlined, professional, and easier to organize. It also forced me to revamp my categories and add tags, but that’s something I should have done to begin with. I’m still tweaking and adding things as I go, but hopefully this can be a theme I can stick with for quite awhile.

This theme was designed by Samk.ca, and is quite lovely.

The realization that I had been treating art like a hobby instead of a career blindsided me early in the morning last Thursday. There I sat at my day job, wondering why all of my efforts to make art a full time venture just weren’t working. Wallowing in thoughts about if I was made of the right stuff to make this successful and what I was doing wrong, it hit me:

A career is the way you make your money, survive in the world, and create your livelihood. Ideally, it is supposed to be something that you truly love and cherish; something that makes you eager to get up in the morning to do.

A “hobby is an activity or interest pursued for pleasure or relaxation and not as a main occupation.” (1) (continue reading…)