I realized something yesterday, I cant do everything...
I have six basic components to my art, Pen & Ink caricatures, Event Caricatures, Aviation Caricatures, My two webcomics, Missed Approach and Cosmic Fowl and of course my blog (this is what you're reading)…oh and there’s my side gig, fueling airplanes. So yesterday at 3:30am, while waiting for the FedEx 757 to arrive…
I realized that some of the components of my art are suffering, because of my overreaching on other components of my art. After this self realization at 3:30am (while listening to rough idling sounds of a 10k in desperate need of a tune up),
I decided that I can't do everything and I need to make some changes in the prioritization of my art.
My art is the priority, however for the time being (because of the fact that I need to eat and have a roof over my head), fueling is a close second. That being said, I decided to do some math. Life gives me a total of the 168 hours each week (still haven't figured out a way to increase the total umber of hours in a week). Fueling airplanes takes approximately 40-ish hours of the 168. That leaves 128 hours remaining. I sleep approximately 6 hours a night. (I know I should sleep more, but that will come eventually...hopefully), that leaves 86 hours a week. Life in general (eating, cleaning, marketing my art, shopping, drinking coffee, driving to work, watching Frasier…) probably takes an average of 5 hours a day (35 hours a week), that leaves 51 hours a week for my art. This means that I have approximately 7 hours a day to distribute to all facets of my art. That may seem like a lot, however when I divide that into 6 different categories, that leaves about an hour for each category. Considering the fact that it takes me approximately 4 to 5 hours to make a good drawing (i.e., a drawing that meets my expectations) the arithmetic doesn't work
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As such, I CAN'T DO EVERYTHING!!!
So I decided that I need to trim down the roster. Although, last week I made a decision to bring back one of my webcomics (Cosmic Fowl) to three days a week, given time the time limitations, it was an incorrect decision. Also, given the fact that one comic takes approximately 3 hours to complete, combined with the fact that I wanted to post three days a week, left the caricatures (my specialties) and the Michael Hopkins Cartoons Blog (an important promotional tool) suffering badly. So I’m rethinking the Cosmic Fowl, three days a week thingy. Until have have more hours in my day to draw (i.e., I no longer need to fuel airplanes to survive), Cosmic Fowl, will be posted once a week... let's say, Sunday. This frees up a lot of time for the caricatures, while still keeping the webcomics alive (albeit on life support).
Speaking of my art, lets look at the newest stuff...
Retirement Drawing
Cosmic Fowl #23
"Larry David"
I tend to make decisions on gut instinct and occasionally forget to consult the brain on the decisions, which leads to rethinking decisions…
Life goes forward...
