All Good Things In This World Take Time
All Good Things In This World Take Time.
When you put in the work people will begin to take notice, but it doesn’t happen overnight. It takes time. What y’all see here and on social media that looks so effortless in time lapses and stories has taken years of discipline and study to do. Its the result of many long hours alone, honing skills and doing the work that no one else wants to do in order to get good at your craft.
Then you have to put it out into the world, where it might catch a few eyes and a couple of nods before people move on to flashier things. Once that brief moment of attention fades you get back to work in silence and grind to do it all over again and again and again...
Eventually through this process you get to a point where people can’t ignore you. Bit by bit though you start to get traction. It won’t be much at first, but if you keep going more and more good things start to come your way until one day you realize you’ve really got something special in front of you. You’ve finally creating the thing that matches your vision and feels unapologetically your own. In the process you’ve become who you wanted to be and done the things that everyone else either quit before they got to do or didn’t have the balls to even try in the first place.
I’ve been drawing for 10+ years and late last year was the first moment I really started to feel all that long, slow hard work paying off. 10 years is a long time to hang on to something. It’s a lot of lessons learned, wrong turns and getting distracted by listening to people that didn’t have my best interest at heart, when I knew the path I wanted to take all along.
Recently I landed a dream project designing a vinyl record package. It’s inspired by the photos above of a lonesome highway somewhere in the middle of West Texas and I’m still pinching myself a bit, but couldn’t be more excited to share it with y’all as it evolves. I also want to thank every one of you that’ve been there over the years, cheering me on in silence, sharing my work and lending advice...y’all are the reason I’m still here fighting to make this long shot vision of mine a reality, and for that I just wanted to say…