
Happy 1/1/11!! This post is a little delayed - but I'm happy to say its because my first weeks of the new year have been off to a busy start. When I wasn't working on freelance, I was doing lots of planning for what I want to do in 2011. After two weeks of deep thinking and sharing ideas with friends and family, I've finally squared away what my goals are for this upcoming year and I thought I'd share! I typed everything out instead of scanning my personal journal though... It was a little faster, plus the drawings in the post are the same thing in my journal (printed out and pasted in.) Enjoy!

My personal goals
- Stay active - I've started a daily exercise and stretch routine, and weekly hooping classes. I'm so excited about the hooping classes since I've been wanting to try this for a while and have finally found an instructor I enjoy.
- Save money - This past year was an adventure with finances, so now that I have a good idea of what my income is freelancing I'd like to start saving money again. This one is going to be tough but I'm confident I can make it happen!
- Have fun - Very important to always keep this one in check! I get wrapped up in business a lot sometimes and forget to take breaks for myself. This year I am going to try to make more time for relaxing, having fun and going on exciting trips. Nothing is set in stone, but at the moment I'm looking at visiting family and doing simple things such as watching more cartoons or drawing at the coffee shop more often.
- Take care of yourself - aka - Don't stay up so late!! Hahaha - yes, I actually am making "going to bed on time" a goal. I am not a late night person but somehow end up working late hours often. This year will be the year of waking up early!
Business goals
- Start Online Classes - At the moment, I'm planning for my online classes to start in March. I'll post more in February about what classes I'll be offering, what you'll need and the cost per class.
- Restart Live drawing on Ustream - This will be starting up again real soon... estimated timeframe is February. I'll announce more soon!
- New blog schedule and website design - I'm updating the site design (finally) to work better with my portfolio, and a new blog schedule will be happening this year too! At the moment, it looks like my weekly posts will be on comics (replacing Things I love Thursday), WIWT drawings + outfit photos, and art posts. This should mean more updates - hooray! I'm going to shoot for one of each a week, but it'll just depend on my workload. Tutorials and photo updates will still happen, but they wont be a weekly thing since they take longer to do.
- Grow my career - This one is a constantly evolving thing, but by 2012 I'd like to expand my career to include character design and illustrating children's books. I'm doing a lot of research, and seeing what I can do right now on my own... but also being open minded to new ways of achieving these goals - such as possibly working for a company again. I'll just have to see!
- My Web Comic, "Skeleton Dreams" - I've been working hard on this all last year and I'm almost done with the writing the first book of this series! I'll be posting it online later this year in the form of a web comic - but not sure what month... I'm pretty sure it'll be sometime after March - I'll post when I know more. A lot of you have asked me what it's about, what the characters names and personalities are, etc. so here is a sketch of the two main characters, Celia and Kate:
Favorite 2010 photos and a recap of the year after the cut.




































