Treyzuka

Today I turn 30. I thought I would go into what my art has meant for me over the last year, and why I have tried to so consistently post work on here. With a looming 30th birthday I started to reflect on my life. While in a lot of senses I have done a lot of interesting things and made some very meaningful steps forwards emotionally and intellectually, I have always found my art to be the part of my life that I was frustrated I did not achieve more. There were a lot of reasons for this but the most straightforward was the belief that I lacked the talent to do anything meaningful and the subsequent lack of confidence to prove that idea wrong.

So local Australian artists are participating in our version of the popular comic event 24 hour challenge where you have 24 hours to draw 24 pages. My recent uploads in the True Frontier folder are my entry. I finished and uploaded the 24 pages with almost two hours to spare. My key words were Crisis, Captain and Vacuum. A lot of the themes are based on vague culture references and the various group themes me and my friends considered [first western then fantasy, so I did both and chucked some both in cause why not]. Artistically I wanted to improve my hatching. The art is inconsistent partially because I didn't ink them in order, I jumpe

I forgot to do this on my birthday but basically I have a year until I turn 30. It is a funny time for a lot of people, forcing you to reflect on a lot of things like how far you've come in life and that you've been out of elementary schooling almost as long as you were in it. A close friend of mine once said regarding his turning 30 that he didn't want to hit that milestone being weak. So he trained and exercised and buffed up significantly. This profoundly inspired me, though getting healthy is too much of a pipe dream for me to humour. Instead I decided to focus on an area of art that had always eluded/frustrated me: digital art. I had a