Any ailing artiste worth their salt will tell you the hardest thing to overcome concerning output is procrastination by way of alcohol. The alcohol being key here because it gives you an excuse for wasting two days instead of just one, yet still gives you a sense of being some sort of Bukowskian genius whose creativity will bloom just as soon as you're sober enough to hold a quill...
For my part, no thanks to alcohol, I'm becoming increasingly conscious that my extra-curricular productivity is dwindling to nothing. As such, when a colleague at work announced the self-publication of their vacuous biopic about online dating and approached me to draw the cover I figured this was a small project I could easily use to achieve some post-work productivity, and also probably achieve while drinking.
The brief was somewhat limited aside from she wanted something featuring herself smoking and drinking with simple flat, blocky colours and a lo-fi feel. In two sittings I managed to come up with something as of this evening adorning the 8th best selling 'love sex marriage' publication on Amazon UK.
The only truly subjective contribution from myself was the introduction of two hitherto unremarked upon flowers in a vase, one of which is in full bloom, the other of which has wilted - my subtle and un-noted testament to the fact that one cannot truly have, without having not had, and just as one cannot truly appreciate life without the concept of death, one cannot truly love, without a knowledge of loss... my tribute to the great cyclical Tao.
I can't say I've read the book, or that I will, but, I suppose, as the final photograph shows of my free copy in lieu of actual payment - someone with Socrates' Defence on their nightstand probably isn't up for finding out more about the tinder generations 'dating game' or indeed the intended target market for this sort of literature. So I guess I'll just shut the hell up and definitely get back to work on these two dozen self-initiated 'work-in-progresses' I got going on and definitely, definitely, definitely intend on finishing... one day.
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