Created in 2011

Friend: Why did you stop your illustrations?

Moi: I don’t know.. I got distracted with work?

Friend: You no longer work there so why not start again?

Moi: Don’t know why…my heart isn’t in it right now.

After my response, I took a painful gulp, and faked a smile.  I did get distracted with the job I held at the time. I lost focus on what I loved doing, creating art and designing, instead I was working on daily reports or inventory, sitting in meetings, buying, displaying, complaining, some more ings occupied my life, putting my illustrations into an untouched file on my external drive.  Some of them waiting to be finished others, completed but never published.

It takes one person who I least expected, to bring it all to the surface.  An old fan and buyer of my illustrations reaching out to me like a long lost lover.  I never meet the person face to face, but his email was so touching, it made me take another gulp, this time it was a gulp filled with guilt. Guilt for not doing something with my God given talent. Guilt for browsing through countless magazines, looking at images which could of been perfect starting points for my illustrations, and not doing anything thing with pages.  Not scanning them for future reference.  Not altering them to my liking.  Not creating my own visual stories from those that Elle, Harpers Bazaar and Vogue try to tell us within their glossies.

So this weekend, I’m taking a leap of faith on working on an e-store to sell some my illustrations. I’m also going to work on some new pieces by browsing, scanning, cutting, some more ings and I will have a new piece completed before the end of the weekend.

To create the type of illustrations I did, over a year ago, will not happen overnight, but I have to start somewhere and the process begins with applying the first layer to an image.