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The following are actual (edited) excerpts from my private journal.

Saturday, November 05, 2016, 1:00 PM
The other day I was in a nostalgic mood and felt a desire to draw a pic with a bunch of Disney characters in it, sort of like I remember seeing on book and comic book covers and record jackets when I was a kid. So last night I put together a collage of Disney characters to use as a guide. In the process, the futility of such a project started to dawn on me. I can’t draw the Disney characters better than official Disney artists, so the whole thing started to feel like a waste of time.
Sunday, November 6, 2016, 1:55 AM

Looks good so far, but again, what’s the point? I could be putting my own spin on the Disney characters or better yet, trying to develop my own characters, but instead I’ve just blatantly copied a bunch of clip art. It seems like such a pointless exercise. This is my least original "artwork" in forever.

3:28 PM This piece has me thinking about how people would occasionally predict I’d end up working at Disney one day. Now look where I am. [I'm not sure working at Disney was ever a goal of mine, but I'm about as far as you can get from that.] I suck.

Sunday, Feb 19, 2017, 12:47 AM
Possibly because I saw Dumbo a week ago and Aladdin this weekend, I decided to finish up that Disney piece I started and abandoned back in November. The most challenging part turned out to be airbrushing the tourists out of the stock photo I'm using as a background.

Cinderella’s castle photo by : fav.me/d1n9dg3

Description

The following are actual (edited) excerpts from my private journal.

Saturday, November 05, 2016, 1:00 PM
The other day I was in a nostalgic mood and felt a desire to draw a pic with a bunch of Disney characters in it, sort of like I remember seeing on book and comic book covers and record jackets when I was a kid. So last night I put together a collage of Disney characters to use as a guide. In the process, the futility of such a project started to dawn on me. I can’t draw the Disney characters better than official Disney artists, so the whole thing started to feel like a waste of time.
Sunday, November 6, 2016, 1:55 AM

Looks good so far, but again, what’s the point? I could be putting my own spin on the Disney characters or better yet, trying to develop my own characters, but instead I’ve just blatantly copied a bunch of clip art. It seems like such a pointless exercise. This is my least original "artwork" in forever.

3:28 PM This piece has me thinking about how people would occasionally predict I’d end up working at Disney one day. Now look where I am. [I'm not sure working at Disney was ever a goal of mine, but I'm about as far as you can get from that.] I suck.

Sunday, Feb 19, 2017, 12:47 AM
Possibly because I saw Dumbo a week ago and Aladdin this weekend, I decided to finish up that Disney piece I started and abandoned back in November. The most challenging part turned out to be airbrushing the tourists out of the stock photo I'm using as a background.

Cinderella’s castle photo by : fav.me/d1n9dg3