So...

I now have a BFA in Illustration from the Rhode Island School of Design.

Also, the knowledge that I do not, in fact, want to work as an illustrator. Thanks, art school.

I don't regret going---I met my closest friends and my partner (!!!), networked with some amazing and awe-inspiring artists, and grew immensely in terms of my technical skill and visual problem-solving.

But right now, I kind of hate art and don't really want to do it. So I'm taking a break. I don't know how long the break will be. I'm hoping that once art isn't work anymore, the itch will come back and I'll be able to make things for myself again.

I'll put a few of my last efforts into the gallery, and then I'll probably disappear for awhile. Not that I'm really a big presence here anyway.

A word of warning: I sometimes get people emailing me from DA to ask about applying to RISD, or art school in general. I've really enjoyed talking with you folks, but DON'T EMAIL ME RIGHT NOW. Honestly, I'm too burned out and bitter and I will probably tell you not to go. I've just spent four grueling years there and reached the end of my rope and I don't have a lot nice to say right now. This doesn't mean that RISD isn't a fantastic school and that I didn't enjoy it (I did). I'm just goddamned sick of it and not a very good spokesperson. Talk to somebody else, maybe somebody who's still attending, or somebody who really and truly wants an art career.

So here's to hoping I can get back the artistic itch that art school killed for me. I'm pretty sure it'll come. Maybe soon. Everything is different now, and I'm already feeling the change.