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  1. I got rid of my CafePress shop this morning.

    May 7, 2011 by Collin

    The entire account, in fact. I opened it in 2004 and never really had that many products sold. I figure I’ve spent around $792 on the shop, and maybe made $100. Definitely a loss, that I blame on a mix of my total lack of marketing skills and the crap that I tried to sell. If I ever come up with anything that’s worth selling, and find a decent place/way to sell it, I’ll be sure to let you know.

    I also haven’t made any new designs for Split Reason in a very long time, and my current designs aren’t selling worth a damn. This month’s royalty check was the lowest I’ve gotten since starting. What’s more, I have a feeling that I’ve closed that door to me as well since Brian hasn’t responded to my emails. Drats.

    I’d hoped that by doing a sketch a day for a year that I would break down my creative blocks that have been growing since I was laid off two years ago, and improve my drawing skills. I’m 126 drawings in to the year and so far I feel like neither have happened.

    I’m stressed damned near all of the time with no good end in sight.

    Gotta keep smiling.


  2. Sketch-a-Day #94

    April 28, 2011 by Collin


  3. Sketch-a-Day #93

    April 27, 2011 by Collin

    I’ve decided to start posting at a larger size. This is going to be the full size now, so there’s no need to click through to the image to see it better. WordPress wasn’t giving me an option between “small”, which is what I’ve been posting, and “full size”, which used to be 800px high by whatever the width fell to. “large” was grayed out. So my options were too big or too small and I went with too small so it wouldn’t be overwhelming. No more I say!

    Anyway. Let’s move on to my duck…ish…thing.


  4. He’s as funny as he is tall.

    April 26, 2011 by Collin


  5. Sketch-a-Day #92

    April 26, 2011 by Collin


  6. Sketch-a-Day #91

    April 25, 2011 by Collin


  7. Sketch-a-Day #86, 87, 88, 89 & 90

    April 24, 2011 by Collin

    It’s not that I’m lazy, I’m just tired of removing pages from the sketchbook, trimming the spiral edges off, scanning, cropping, resizing, and uploading. My laziness barely enters into it. I’ve kept drawing though, and tonight will be #114.

    That said, here are the next five.

    I have one more ready to go, and the rest scanned. The ready one will post tomorrow.


  8. Sketch-a-Day #83, 84 & 85

    April 9, 2011 by Collin

    Here are three to make up for my slow and sloppy posting skills.


  9. Sketch-a-Day #82

    April 6, 2011 by Collin


  10. A poll… of sorts.

    April 6, 2011 by Collin

    I’m polling sorts. No. Wait. I’m polling visitors, and testing out a service that we might use for a client project. Let’s see how well this works.

    If it works well, I may come up with more polls, quizzes, etc. to inflict upon anyone unfortunate enough to stumble across my subbasement home on the internet. At least I don’t skin you and wear you around.