My personal financial situation isn't something about which I've spoken publicly, I was always taught that money is a private concern. Whenever I asked my parents if we were rich, their answer was always a particularly cryptic "we're comfortable" (which, come to find out many years later, means we were scraping the bone to keep going). I always had a kind of laissez-faire attitude about money, spending my allowance as quickly as it would come, borrowing against future allowances to get that Really Big Toy that I wanted. This way of thinking about money has followed me into adulthood, and to no good result.

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For as long as I've been working as a freelancer, I've had trouble keeping my portfolio updated, current, and organized. I find it hard to motivate myself to work on projects specifically aimed at putting them into the portfolio, and some of the work that I've done isn't represented there at all, because it doesn't really fall into either of the categories there.

So, my plan is to take a tip from the Jeff Fisher episode of Escape from Illustration Island, and turn my blog here at lunarbistro.com into more of a 'blog-folio'. I'll be posting work-in-progress, finished artwork (largely ancillary art for my webcomic, The Adventures of Ellie Connelly), sketches and studies for upcoming designs, and commission information for potential clients.

I will, however, need to pretty much scrap all of the current entries here at the blog. I'll try to be careful and find a way to move them all into a 'legacy' category, so nothing gets lost. And if the entry featured artwork or sketches, well, that'll just be moved into the appropriate category.

So, basically, look for some changes to take place here, and I'll try to make it as painless as possible!

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