Hope you're all social distancing and safe!

And I mean that from the bottom of my heart.

I’m an “Essential Worker” so I have to keep showing up to work, which isn’t anything I’m complaining about but watching the cul-de-sac with no activity gets boring.

Friday night I was so overwhelmed with boredom that I was unable to decide which activity to pursue! That being said it gave me some time to reflect on what I should prioritize, or whats “really important.”

So I’m pursuing my degree with a bit more “oomph.” I’m carrying my textbook with me to work so I can refresh my memory on chapters and homework past as I get ready for September. I figured I might as well do something now instead of going into a term, guns blazing and prepared to fail. My school even has a tutoring program setup online where you can virtually sign in and take lessons, so I may take advantage of that as well.

That being said, I usually go for a walk on Saturdays but there’s a lot for me to do in my own home. From Gundam kits to LEGO’s to a stack of some odd 50 poetry books to pour myself over I have project after project just piled up and waiting for me to sink my teeth into, but I’m trying not to do too much at once, and abandoning everything in the end. Poetry isn’t exactly hard to read however, at least I don’t think it is…

So, in conclusion I also want to start up again on this blog with the “Question of the day” type format, from “The Book of Questions” that I did WWWAAAAAYYYYY back when, and I thought I was going to do that right now but I might save it for tomorrow. Updating this blog once a month feels good and I’ve finally stopped feeling sorry for myself when it comes to my visual art, my drawing. I finished an abstract piece a week ago and I think I’m going to take digital art lessons on that platform “Domestika” or something like that, as soon as I finish building Voltron from LEGO’s and get through the rest of the things crowding the dining room table. It’s a lot but it isn’t too much, but also another artist in the building I manage is having a hard time being creative as well, SO IT AIN’T JUST ME!!!

Anyway, stay safe, wear protective gear, please throw away disposables in the trash and not on the street and I’ll see you next month if not sooner.

Peace & Love.

I'm all over the place!

Hey party people in the place to be it’s me again, coming at’cha with a brand new never scheduled sporadic blog entry, HOW’BOUT DEM APPLES?!

I’ve decided to go back to school and my 3rd book “Lovers” has been published! I haven’t received any physical copies yet myself but this little announcement here with pre-date the one on social media. Speaking of social media I haven’t updated with a drawing in a while, and now Apple is announcing a new ipad and I wonder what I bought mine for to begin with. I love the thing though, I use it every night just not as I thought I would’ve.

That being said I still watch video tutorials for Procreate so some art/drawings should be coming out soon, I’m still on the Plateau of my creative life and in that vein of my creative life I will be attending the Boston Art Book Fair again this year, at least I hope so.

That’s all there is for an update as of right now, the side bar on this website has been updated so you can go check out “Lovers” right now!

Thank you and good night!

Back at it again and failing miserably

For a second there I wasn’t able to type… jeez.

Anyway hi, hello, how are you? Me? Well, I’m not so hot.

With the inevitable realization of my mediocrity I’ve fallen into a rut. Now, I’m not one to give up on things, let alone my artistic endeavors but I’ve realized I put a lot on my plate trying to do 5 creative things a day and WELL. I’ve failed to keep up with my goals as many more things that activate the reward centers in my brain surround me and the average but not unusual stress of life and work also weigh me down. That being said I think that I will give myself maybe a month or a few weeks of art creation and updates that I will post to this website and social media maybe starting in March, as I’ve decided February is the month I try to focus on working out more.

So where is my creativity going you ask? Video games! Of course! Specifically Dragon Quest Builders 2, where the game lets you craft and build towns and villages on your own personal island. A buddy of mine asked if I was going to collect all of the Trophies for the game and while I said no it’s actually turning out to look a lot more like yes.

I wrote down bullet points on what to blog about on a piece of paper, but in my head as I was thinking about it I felt I had a lot more to say than what I actually typed here. Like I planned to go on and on about how I wanted to build my village into the cliff face surrounding a forest but like, that’s really all I had to say. I’ll add the picture as proof so you know I’m not lying.

Also, taking care of dogs is a lot of work. I’m taking care of 3 right now, I’ve been doing it for 3 weeks now, going on 5 and I can’t wait for it to be over. I’ve warmed up to the animals for sure but I think I’m a cat person, or I just really love and miss my cat.

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An Update*

Not a lot happens in the wide world of Daniel Fairclough, or at least I don’t think there’s enough to talk about.

I’m thinking of moving to video work, vlogs, short stories as scripts etc and as the ghosts of the past still haunt me I’m going to push forward with these ideas anyway.

Speaking of ideas I haven’t pushed forward with, that whole “answer a question from the book of questions” kind of fell flat didn’t it?

I’m not really sure of what I want or what I’m trying to do yet. Like I give myself all this time that I don’t actually have and generate all these anxieties then publish these books and find a hot streak only to realize that maybe this, blogging (?) is easier to commit to during a work shift, rather than trying to focus my attention to an illustration.

I don’t know, what I do know is that I’m 50 Illustrations away from book number 3, please be patient with me and my mess.

Thank You.

Another Day, Another Dollar

So, I’ve been overworked, I’m currently overworking, with the hope that that will change in the near, if not, VERY NEAR future.

I’m working on wrapping up my 3rd book, full of old poetry and new drawings and hopefully closing the chapter on poetry and prose indefinitely if not at least for a while, a few years, maybe 10.

I’d like to get back into drawing regularly but the move is digital. I think about the large abstract pieces I could do at minimum cost but I’m not motivated to make them like I was when times were, worse than they are now.

Expressionism is great for those that appreciate it but I like concrete things, ideas, shapes, people, plants, animals, you know, something that when I look at it it makes sense, and I don’t have to guess the meaning.

Because at the end of the day, if it doesn’t have meaning, people will try to ascribe meaning to it, which, is part of the fun, but also, not my intention. I don’t want you to guess, and I suppose I should know if I give you want you want you won’t want it anymore.

sigh

Cleaning up my Notes*

So I just realized we live in a world aided by technology and apps and all sorts of things and that I don’t need to wait until I get home to start typing on my laptop for a blog post, or to check and respond to email as soon as I’m in the warm glow of my computer screen.

Currently I’m typing on my phone, a tool that recently won the ability to connect via Bluetooth to PS4 and Xbox One controllers time ease the nightmare that is a touch screen when it comes to mobile gaming.

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I have stuff like this written in my notes app all the time, but I think it’s true! “The World Ends With You” creates by SquareEnix boasted communicative gameplay to upgrade your player characters arsenal and the Nintendo 3DS found a lifetime of success with its populate street pass feature. I even discovered an active gaming community for the Nintendo 3DS, IN BOSTON (surprise surprise) that was named after the feature, now called “Switchpass and Play” due to the release of the Nintendo Switch.

When the iPhone first released a popular app was the “Bump” app that instantly (I think I never used it) traded contact information between people that used the app. So there’s definitely a future for communication and co-op play in the mobile game market.

i know what’s popular right now is cross play, and there’s even a video of a kid playing and winning a competitive match of “Fortnite” on an iPad VS a “MLG Pro” player on an Xbox one.

Still, I’d like to think that I could enjoy and play a game casually with friends as easily as it would be to call or text them… Nintendo.

The Regrettable Idea of Blogging about my Psychosis

What’s up party people in the place to be! My life is in FUCKING SHAMBLES.

Well not really just my head/mind/imagination(?????) I have Psychosis and I DONT want to talk about it.

So I won’t.

Instead Here’s my answer to the first question from the revised book of questions, as promised:

I would lose one of my hands and get a robotic prosthetic that can connect to my social media or something.

App

Added the Squarespace app to my phone! Gonna make it much easier to blog.