This is going to be a quick thought, but I’ve been digging around a lot of galleries and their respective websites. I’ve bought and sold numerous vinyl art toys and I’ve come to the conclusion that if you want to be successful as an artist in this new boom, choose your subject matter carefully.

The morbidly cute or sweetly horrific images seem to be selling the best. You only have to look as far as Luke Chueh, Camille Rose Garcia or Kathy Olivas to see what I’m talking about? Mix some Barbie with Ozzie Osbourne and sprinkle with fairy dust and you’ve got an instant winner.

As I’ve been fiddling around with my sketch pad recently, I’m troubled to find my vision, my muse, if you will. I have a tendency to draw the macabre, but I every other half-assed, would-be artist can draw a skull with a cigarette. Making it unique is something completely out of my league right now. Frustrating, but I’m determined. Wish me luck.

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That’s what I need!

I swear, I don’t know how many times I’ve told myself to get off my butt and get down to business with my art. Granted, it’s not really art at this point since I’ve been away from it for pretty much 7 years now. I’m afraid if I don’t start soon, I may forget how. Have I done anything about it though? No, because I suck.

I don’t really suck at art, at least I hope not. My suckage comes from the constant procrastination that seems to eat it’s way into my head at any given opportunity. Meanwhile, Kathy Olivas, a very young artist, is selling her pieces for thousands of dollars. Now, I’m not claiming to be anywhere close to her talent, but there’s got to be a chunk in there for me somewhere, or am I getting to old to be relavent?

I don’t really believe that last statement. It was merely a device to get you to keep reading, and so you have. Honestly, I believe I’ve got a lot of creativity left in me. It doesn’t get much action these days, but it’s hybernating. Besides, if old dudes like Frank Kozik and Ron English can make major headway on the other side of the hump, why can’t I? I’d rather be rich now, but I’ll take rich later if need be.

So what does all mean? Nothing really, except that I’m putting down this laptop and cracking open my sketchbook. Mom would be proud.

I totally fell off the face of the planet and for any that might have checked in here, I apologize. I was overextending myself with too many blogs, a job, a wife and any kind of life I had outside of that. I burnt myself out and shut down completely, but I’m back now.

To kick this off, I want to talk about a couple site I have been introduced to recently, both art related for different reasons. First up is Blue Flip Art, a site that sells low cost art prints from alternative artists all in the name of charity. There’s some really great stuff for cheap and the artists get to use 10% of the sale to the charity of their choice. Check it out and buy lots of stuff because you’re contributing not just to the charity, but the well being of an artist, and we need more of that.

My friend Mick Gow is a web genius disguised a talented designer. He recently launched a drawing site called RateMyDrawings.com where you can create a drawing on a flash based interface and then submit the drawing for people to rate. Now that he’s making a little bit of coin on the site, he’s giving some back each month to the top illustrations.

That’s it for today. Now go get your right brain on!