Cutting down and going up

The internet steals from you. It’s a naughty little sod and it needs a clip ’round the ear.

So says the guy who has finally resolved to stop being distracted by message boards and social networking sites and use his PC time far more productively. It’s so damn easy to lose track of the time, or even get caught in a loop of certain websites. You know, MySpace, Facebook, your e-mail account, DeviantART, Newsarama, back to MySpace (in case you got a message), back to Facebook (in case you got a message)… and so on and so on. If the internet isn’t thieving time off of you, it’s at the very least aiding and abetting procrastination and that still carries a sentence.

Today was the first day of my self-imposed exile from this kinda stuff. I will keep up to date, maybe on weekends, and I’ll check my e-mail every so often, but my screen will be full of work for the vast majority of the time from now on. Time to get serious.

So, today was good. I made some progress on a comic I’m illustrating, organised my time for a colouring job, scheduled time over the weekend for a small job and still managed to be ready to go to work tomorrow, with ironed shirt and everything. It’s a great feeling, not scrambling around all of the time. More hours in the day than some would have you believe.

So here’s a little taster of a warm-up vectorization I’m working on as a tribute to one of my artistic heroes when I was growing up. Teaser, more than taster, I guess. I’ll post the whole thing soon enough.