“Gotta keep’em separated”

The Offspring song “Come out and Play” was the first thing that popped into my head when I saw this weeks topic.

The Offspring was one of my favorite bands during high school. Their style of pop-punk and rock were a big hit with me and my friends. It was really cool when we saw them play an ampitheater show in Cincinnati.

The odd thing though was when I did a Google Image search for some reference photos of them, a lot of their promo photos have them wearing sunglasses.

materials: brush and ink, Copic markers

So after a year of having my own hosted site I decided to take the less expensive route and come back to wordpress.com.

I know, I know. It was fun while it lasted but I was still too novice at CSS to make it do what I wanted it to do. Besides, with all the new upgrades WordPress has done here it makes sense to come back. That way I can spend less time coding and more time creating content and art.

So I’m gonna post this post, tweak my site a little more, and go make art.

Yes, I know I haven’t been on here in a while. The reason is that I have moved. No, not physically but digitally. I finally got a hosted site.

My new home is carlschanz.com. Is is going to be my portfolio/blog home for my illustration work. After I got comfortable fiddling around on here I made the leap. Now my am busy figuring out how to tweak the CSS so I can really customize my page.

So step #1 for me to get an illustration career is underway. Now I am working on creating more content and work for the site. AND I am also working on designing my promo stuff (postcards, business cards, etc.).

So now I must get off of here and go create.

Wow. I never really paid attention to the stats panel to the right of my Dashboard page until today when I noticed that I was getting visitors.

Granted, I do want people to check out my art and posts but not right now. This site is just a working prototype for me to get used to working with WordPress until I can get money together for my hosted site. And I want to learn some CSS so I can tweak it to my liking.

But to those who do visit, please leave comments and tell me what you like or don’t like about my site so far. Any constructive criticism is helpful. Thanks.