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Re: How do you balance work vs personal art vs family vs friends?
Monday to friday, I work 9 - 5. I leave right at 5, then drive to the gym and work out for an hour (530 -630, usually). Go home, make dinner and eat by 730. I told my family and friends that during the week, I am available from 730 on. So ive made the gym a priority. I have a girlfriend that I see a few times a week.… -
Re: How do you balance work vs personal art vs family vs friends?
Its a way of life for me, not a 'job'. I love what I do even moreso now than ever before. I'm very lucky in that I have a wife that is equally passionate about games / game art and working on games - This helps! I also guess it depends on how making art resonates with you as a person. I've crunched for 14 - 16 hours a day… -
Re: How do you balance work vs personal art vs family vs friends?
On a normal day I work 6am-3pm, like Swizz pointed out, its a job and they pay me for 8hrs a day and that's what they get, sometimes a little more. I don't try to turn work into a social hang out. Work isn't jr high and I'm not getting paid to socialize and make friends, I can still have fun but work is job number one.… -
Re: How do you balance work vs personal art vs family vs friends?
Well, naturally, not putting ANY time into art, it goes without saying that you won't improve. And making excuses not to make art is not going to help you get better. But the implication that someone who doesnt force themselves to draw even when other stuff in their life gets in the way is somehow inferior or just 'doesnt… -
Re: How do you balance work vs personal art vs family vs friends?
I never said you have to go nose to the grindstone 24/7. All I was saying is that if something is important to you, you make the time for it. If you don't make time for it, then maybe you need to rethink if you actually want it or not. There is a huge difference between liking something and being passionate about… -
Re: How do you balance work vs personal art vs family vs friends?
Cool thread :) Me, I feel like I'm heading in the opposite way as some here. I'm a extremely outgoing and sociable person, to the point that I felt that it held my work back a bit. I'm about to turn 28 and I'm nowhere as good as some guys in his 22s. I used to go out with friends or even by myself and making random… -
Re: How do you balance work vs personal art vs family vs friends?
I just go with the flow and do what I want to do, I sometimes do overtime because I'm really enjoying what I'm doing. Other times I'm passionate about personal work. But I personally take a fairly laid back approach, I do what I want when I want. I can sometimes go weeks without doing any personal work, other times it can… -
Re: How do you balance work vs personal art vs family vs friends?
These are totally the kind of threads I enjoy be a part of: they exemplify the Polycount community as one of good nature and integrity. But really I usually have nothing to say since I don't have the experience to back it up. Especially in a thread like this where I am clearly a bad example, with hardly any of the… -
Re: How do you balance work vs personal art vs family vs friends?
I know where you're coming from JFletch. I'm lucky enough to have a job where once I've got my 40 in, I can go home. When I am home however, I have that horrible self-loathing voice in the back of my head, criticizing me for not working on personal stuff. In my mind, any second not spent working on art is a second wasted.… -
Re: How do you balance work vs personal art vs family vs friends?
Earlier in my career (and even while I was still in school), I sacrificed a lot of personal time toward focusing on improvement. Like other people have mentioned, I had the mentality that if I wasn't working, I was wasting my time. If you can imagine how hard it was for me to juggle a dating life with this mentality....…
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