Well its been at least a month of actual work for me, with bits and bobs stretching back over the last year, CAD, 3D design, Graphic Design, and long train journeys but my first real work project is reaching culmination. Firestorm Armada launched today, it has started shipping to distributors and shops, with product on shelves in time for Christmas. The last month has been pretty busy with late nights and no weekends free but its done, I have a lot of work to put in my portfolio and more to follow soon enough.

It feels good to actually do a real project, sure uni work was just as bad at times if not worse, but nothing beats the actuality of a commercial launch. And if all goes well it may lead to a full time job, designing spaceships, tanks, gunships and all sorts of fun toys for people to paint and play with. Its really quite something.

So I'm back home after nearly three weeks away at work, with a nice break to relax, but since I've been pushing photoshop for most of that time away I feel like continuing, I want to do some art, not just some packaging graphics, or some wallpapers, cut and pasting bits here and there, just something....pointless.

Not that art is pointless, just making something without a goal, without a destination, commercial or otherwise. Which gave me some inspiration. I always have ideas, my brain is constantly abuzz with stories and images, but I don't have the patience to actually write anything of substance, so I'm taking the easy way out. I'm going to make a cover for one of the many nonexistant books/films/comics that reside in my brain. Now all I need to do is pick one...