Today I got offered my dream job, after being out here for a year feeling like I was going nowhere I finally got what I wanted. It's not in the game industry, but honestly I kind of prefer that at this point. I'll be doing commercial illustration on salary, so for a lovely 40 hours of week from 9 to 5 I'll be painting pretty pictures in photoshop, and my god that's all I've really wanted to do after trying out so many different kinds of art. The office is a really awesome place up in Belltown, which is just north of downtown Seattle and is where the space needle is, as that is only 4 blocks away from the office and I can see it reflecting in the building windows in front of the work desk.

I start on the 28th and I have a feeling that this is going to be an absolute blast.

On that note, I quit the goddamn tattoo industry. I'll only handle clients that I've already worked with or friends and family in a private setting, but I'm done with everything else. No more working in shops dealing with those kinds of people anymore, abuse in many forms shouldn't be expected when you go to work or when you're in a given industry. I enjoy the activity of tattooing, but I can't deal with all of the extra baggage. Frankly that doesn't make me weak, it just means I know when to put my foot down on shit I shouldn't have to deal with.

Just blew through the gallery and removed a lot of the ancient relics and such, about time I cleaned all of that out of there.

Will be updating some more stuff fairly soon.

So I'm finally in Seattle now, just got settled in to my apartment even though I'm waiting on a few more boxes of stuff to come in. I have a bunch of artwork I did before graduating to add to my gallery here that I just haven't gotten around to, but I haven't really done anything new besides that what with the cross country move and all. I'm really liking the area around here already, cloudy, rainy, but with ridiculously mild weather. I've been so busy filling out my apartment that I haven't had much of a chance to explore the city yet, but I'll get around to it when I have the chance.

As for the job market, I'm keeping my fingers crossed that I snag something good, and I'll keep everyone updated as it goes.

Changed out my avatar today, figured it was about time to get some art in there rather than just a smaller version of my picture. Made a quick gif based off of a dream I had the other night, I'm actually going to incorporate it into my graphic novel since it was relatively cool and it was one of the few times I actually wrote down what happened so I could actually remember everything later on. Hope no one gets confused since I changed, I know the old was up for so friggen long...

Just went to see 300 tonight, and now I have a new favorite movie. I love the movies that are art in motion like that, so go see it, you won't regret it, trust me...