Get To Know Silent Outsidr

Since you’re on this page I take it you want to know more about the person than the art itself. It is a long story, so I had to cut some things out for brevity. I’m an artist who has the desire to earn a living using my creative talents making what I enjoy.

I wasn’t going to leave you with a one sentence summary. That’s just cutting out a bit too much.

My journey as an artist started when I was little and I enthralled with the world of cartoon illustration from animation, comic strips, comics, and even video game art. To me the sheer fantasy and imagination of how characters looked, behaved, and their stories showed me that an imaginary world can be and do anything that you wanted spurred my imagination to pick up the pencil and draw. I drew epic battles between the forces of good and bad in a variety of universes, created a slew of my own characters that also existed in those universes, and spent time drawing my favorite characters.

The big turning point came in my life when I started to get into computers. I found computers intriguing because they could do all kinds of things. Little did I know how well they could be used to create art and give new depth to creations. That was until I saw Toy Story. Sure I knew that computers could edit video, create things like brochures and even illustrations, but computer animation was in its infancy. Toy Story involved everything that I loved, great characters, an imaginative world, and computers. It was shortly after that I wanted to pursue art as a career and focused on animation. However as time progressed and other life events occurred my focus changed.

I pursued computer animation in college and learned a great deal. During that time though I also started my first job and internship. It was at my job that I started a new pursuit and diversion from animation, which was graphic design. I began learning to how to build websites from scratch and designing various marketing materials. I didn’t change majors but after completing my degree I found that there were a few more jobs for graphic design than animators. So I pursued graphic design as a profession.

Working as a graphic designer was fun and enjoyable because of the different challenges that each project provided.When I completed my degree I didn’t stop learning and I immersed myself into the world of web design. Making websites used a different kind of creativity and I loved the challenge and reward that writing code that worked as expected on screen provided. However as time passed something was missing. For a long time I couldn’t put my finger on it, but design wasn’t fully satisfying. I desired to be more creative but after a full day of design my creative energies were drained. So I didn’t want to work on any of my personal projects. It was a rare instance that I had the desire after a day of work that I spent time in a personal project. The ideas didn’t stop but became trapped inside my head and added to some of the daily stress.

Over time the stress from holding back my ideas built up and effected me in a variety of ways. The biggest was it creating a recurring cycle of getting a new idea adding it to the long list of ideas which and with each new addition it seemed like it would nothing was ever going to come off it. Not only that I had others adding to that list of projects as well, and I deemed those more important than my own at the time. The more stressed it caused the less I wanted to do and tried to escape the stress by doing things that was anything but the list of projects. It wasn’t until a couple of years ago that something began to surface. I had an ever growing desire to do more with my art and creativity than to simply make something that is designed to sell some product or service. As I started paying closer attention to that desire I began to realize and recall what I had wanted to do with my art as a youngster. That was to create things that entertain and please others.

It was that realization that caused me to focus on my art again. My day job situation had changed and I found myself in a role at a different company doing General labor and nothing mentally or creatively taxing. After sometime being away from design I had no strong desire to return to it because the work was not fulfilling to me. Having recognized that I had no desire to do design work on a full time and regular basis I focused on what I wanted to do instead. Eventually I settled on just doing my own thing and selling my creations whatever those may be. So this website was made to share and sell my work online to help me pursue my dream. I want to bring my ideas to life and earn a living with those creative ideas.