So I finally finished it. I am happy with it, although I didn’t enjoy creating it as much as Abbey Road, but that might just be I prefer Abbey Road as an album, but in all honesty, it’s like comparing Van Gogh to Michelangelo.

Things have been crazy, we have been really focusing on our classes and also the development of Ollibird in general. Between all that, my current full-time job and helping Alma rear our darling baby boy, I find it nearly impossible to do anything ‘extra-curricular’ like this.

It is no secret to those that know me in real life, but I am making the move to freelance in about a month. Rubberball is shedding its remaining employees, of which I am one. I have worked for that company for almost eight years, and it feels like a part of me. So it’s a sad time for me personally, but an exciting one too. One in which I can finally be free to make a move to full-time freelance work.

I have dreamed, all my life of having a studio like James Christensen, my childhood self-appointed mentor. I have many happy memories, being utterly hypnotized with seeing him paint, any time my friend Peter and I would see his latest work I would just find myself all giddy and star struck. I know it’s what kept me drawing, and I’ll always thank him for that.

We have a lot of great things coming up in the pipeline.

Also, I am now working with Ed McCulloch on an exciting project. He is such an extremely talented guy. Working with him is like getting to know Wes Anderson before he became Wes Anderson. I guess that would make me Owen Wilson.

{Mike}