And this is as bleak as Joe Cornish's take on ubi-urbia, but well worth a read. Fellow illustrators take note. And forgive them the title steal from this humble blog...
http://www.frieze.com/issue/article/illustrate_this/

well it's late and it's like this. Having spent a fair chunk of this evening lying in the bath and wondering absently about whether planning a new wardrobe around a sudden obsession with dressing like Amy Pond is a good idea, and getting suds in the keyboard doing Google searches for that leather jacket, I'm doing some serious life planning at the back of this frustrated display of only thinly veiled geeketteiness.

You know those dreams you have where you feel like you can get away with anything, because you're away it's only a dream and it doesn't matter; you'll wake up soon enough? well I think I've come to the conclusion that life is very similar to those dreams, only replace 'wake-up' with 'die' and you're nearer the mark.

Have i quoted the cat from Alice here on this blog already?

that's the great thing about the unknown.

but is it uncertainty or fear of getting it wrong and wasting time that's stopping me making some real decisions? I think you can probably waste your life being scared of getting it too wrong and not being able to get things back...

inbetween the amy daydreams, and getting bogged down in the petty ridiculouses of 9-5 employment for a less than liberal arts college, I'm looking for a way to explore some of the US, if only for a short while, and pertaining to hanging around some reasonable indie comics shops. if anyone knows anyone, or anyway to help with this little dream fragment, please keep me posted. I could be the token redhead who hangs around the Onipress section wittering about the dearth of good indie writing now Alan Moore has become a Northampton bar-fly.

Too deep? If anyone has a cute leather jacket and a scottish accent they dont want, I'm right here, for a little bit longer anyway...

http://smokingmegaphone.tumblr.com/post/4617418230/cally-gibson

http://smokingmegaphone.tumblr.com/post/4617418230/cally-gibson

It's nice to find people like stuff, You don't get much feedback after college, but Google is like a pat on the back sometimes

Thanks Jim for the heads-up on this one :)

whoppie do! new hous, new studio, a sudden brainwave that the couple of children's book ideas I've had swimming around my head since graduation are actually one and the same story...
And the icing on the cake this week, my portfolio has been featured on the front page of illustrtionserved
http://www.illustrationserved.com/

Watch this space, illusive illustration career; you will be mine, oh yes, you WILL be mine...

oh and some weird drawings done on an online doodler

random

things I wish to post here...

so...
I look in my inbox today and I seem to have recieved an email xmas card from a mag I have previously worked for...featuring my artwork.

I did this piece for them a year ago. I was paid the very arbitary sum of £50. Re-use and copyright didn't even enter into it. I wouldn't have minded but I wasn't even asked!!!

Here's the rub, the lady who runs the mag has always been lovely and championed my work, so I don't want to piss her off by going mental about it, but i genuinely don't know how to make illustration work in favour of the illustrator anymore. I was 'hired' for a lucrative Tesco job two weeks ago, and then dropped to go in-house at the last minute after prelim sketches and Facebook joyous hype...I'm at the end of my tether.

If someone feels like giving me some advice I would just love anything right now that didnt make me feel like this is a complete mugs game

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