Bear with me...

Update coming soon!

Before you say anything... no it's not some personal fetish projetc of mine. I'm designing characters for a personal comic book project and I'm trying to make a chubby lady sexy

On a seperate note:

I had some paid caricature work on the friday just gone. This also involved me designing and producing a poster for the company that hired me:

This has lead to people asking for a few extra caricatures to be done and a possibility of some other companies, seperate to the one I worked for friday night, hiring me for their events.

*ker-ching!*

Also... there's a meeting I'm going to with an animation company this coming week. I shall say no more for now but could be interesting.

Finally.. This sudden surge of paid artwork, as well as my home and job situation finally settling, has gotten me into drawing more regularly. This means Andy Winter's Robots story will resume as well as some Scar Comics "Dead By Dawn" story I was given and started ages ago. Is Dead By Dawn still going? Time to catch up and progress once more!

MikeyB

TheArtyONE.co.uk 3.0 has been launched... or re-launched... it is Version 3.0 (that's web humour )

Click on image to go to site

  - Comics

  - Promotional

  - Character Design

  - Storyboarding

  - Caricatures

  ...and I have no started adding a "Services" section should anyone wanna hire me for caricatures or another of the other services I'll be adding. I'll soon be adding a t-shirt shop on there too.

Please spread the word and pass my details onto people who benifit from my "services"; *nudge nudge wink wink*

Hope you're all well!

MikeyB

www.TheArtyONE.co.uk

I recall starting this blog so people could follow my career plans and see how I get to where I wanna be and to maybe help other in the same boat.

Well.. striving for a difficult career has it's hard times too!

I lost a temp job a few weeks back and I now have no money, no sign of work and to make it worse I have to leave my current home as the two ladies who rent this house off the landlord, and whom I pay money towards living here, are moving on and there's no way I can afford the rent of a whole house.

The situation gets more and more hopeless everyday and I'm loosing hope and enthusiasm and motivation to carry on.

Why all these horrible things have suddenly happened to me I don't know but this is the worst my life has ever been since moving to Brum.

I've hardly drawn although I have emailed a few graphic design companies with a link to my site but the most I have got from that was that two companies have me on file should my kinda work be needed.

I should of found a permanent job somewhere years ago so I could be in a better financial position now...  my idea was that a "temp job" was only temporary until my illustration work took off... except I didn't realise how much of my time and energy would be taken by the "day job".

I'm still in fairly high spirits though, whih surprises me as many years ago I would of just been too depressed to move, but it does still hit me that I am in this situation with no hope of anything getting better no matter how hard I try to make it. It feels like an ultimate evil is pushing down on me and making everything worse...

I've gotten to the point of everything making me tired all the time and I keep sleeping in as I feel too tired to wake up when my alarms go off.

I am really lost right now... just as a tiny glimmer of hope shines through... it's like something blacks it out.

Someone once told me "The Universe only gives you what you need. All you need to is ask for it." ... ihave been asking for it... asking for help.. for something to happen or something to appear that I could use to make myself and my life better.

...but, like when I prayed as a little boy to God when I was younger asking for the bullying to stop, I get no answer... and like back then things only get worse

The Hopeless ONE!

P.S. I forgot to mention my bike is also broken.. which means traveling anywhere is costing me money. ...plus is taking away my exercise and daily kicks of riding fast down a road or pushing myself hard to make it up a hill.

Indeed these are the last Skizzens at my temp job as I had a call from the agency on monday morning saying that Floors2Go had suddenly decided to end their call centre project. So since Monday I've been jobless... and these days it's hard to find work... 

So see below my recent (and overdue to be posted) Skizzens...

Hope you enjoyed... I shall be uploading artwork to my blog as usual but at the moment I have work to find.

Almost had a commission to do an album cover... but that fell through. But there's a possibility of other album artwork in the future ...and just in case there is I'm currently working on doing some album artwork of a few of my fave bands on Myspace.

Stay tuned to see them.

Hope you're all well!

MikeyB

www.theartyone.co.uk