The Year of Thunder
Sup, dude. Been a while, huh? Like... uh... almost four years... yeah, things changed. Lost some stuff, kept some friendships despite not being around, learned a lot, grew a lot! So, I guess it'd be best if I start from the top. 2018 was the year of clouds because I spent it growing, building, watching the sunset and making every day matter, but 2019 was not the year I wanted it to be. I ended up crashing and burning out really hard that year. I was pushing really hard to learn everything I could to get higher and go further and be more. I told myself I had, HAD, to make something that felt like a comic to prove to myself that I could hang, and I did. I did Journey June on instagram and I finished it! Then I got tired in July and I slowed down, and every month since then I got slower and slower until I stopped. Like an old horse that had a bad fall and got a limp I became obsolete. I lost my touch, fell out of touch with the friends I made and shifted gears to making money at dead end jobs. In 2020 I got hired on in a grocery store in January. You can imagine how 2020 went for me... spoiler: It was as stressful as it was lucrative. Thanks to that job though I moved out of my parents place and rented an apartment in Western New York in the winter of 2020. I've spent this past year working in a different grocery store and making rent regularly. But I found my life missing something, missing people. I hated my boss, I felt like my job wasn't appreciating me, I found the people I was working with providing me with companionship that didn't fill me up in the same way Twitch had. That went on till the end of the summer, until I watched La La Land. You know that movie is actually really funny, and weird. It's not written, in my opinion anyway, it's not for the normal person. It's for the guys scrapping by, it's for the ones making it to the next day to light the fire again, it's for the dreamers, the believers, the wishful ones. It was for someone like me... someone who wanted to be more. I forgot that feeling for the last couple years, but I found it again. I thought I lost my touch though, I thought I lost my people, that I lost my way, but the thing is it doesn't matter how lost you get if you find your way back. And I did. Walking to work one day I realized I didn't like my job, but that it never occurred to me that the job I worked wasn't the end all be all of my life and that I had something better in my future. I had art, I had storytelling, I am an artist, I am a storyteller! So I decided to change everything and rededicate myself to the life I wanted. This year I'm calling The Year of Thunder because I want to be loud, I'm gonna be loud! I'm not a broken horse, I'm a dark horse thundering out from nowhere! I'm still young, I'm still scrappy, and I'm still hungry. I'm making a portfolio now, I'm gonna open commissions this year, and my goal this year is to make money with my art. I'm getting stronger with every piece. I'm executing everything I've learned in these last eight (almost nine) years and I'm not gonna stop. No matter how hard it gets, no matter who sees, no matter how small I might seem I'm gonna make some noise this year. This year's gonna be thunderous. See you out there! Abrazos Amigues Robert the Lore You Can Find Me In The Storm: https://linktr.ee/Bestevaer
The Year of Clouds
Hello! I haven't kept up with my online presence in a bit, so I will catch you up to speed. The last piece that you saw me upload was on October 27th, and it's been... about 4 months, a week, and a day since you've heard from me, and that is on me. That's a bad, I'm not gonna lie. So what happened? Well, on November 1st, I spilled water on my laptop, and that put a hard stop on my arting. The last journal update I gave said I needed a break, well I got one. XD I was put on a break unwillingly due to my own stupidity. However, my break lasted longer than was desirable. I was without a personal computer for a month, and ten days. I got my new laptop in December, on the 11th in fact, and that was thanks to my seasonal job at a JCPenny's, which I procured in mid October. However, as seasonal jobs will do, it picked up heavily in December, and I was unfortunately forced to extend my break from art. I lost my job two months ago now, on January 5th, and since then I have been trying to get back on the horse. I'm at a point where I want to draw, but I don't know what to draw. I lost all my references for studies, and pinups on the old laptop, and while I think the hard drive still works, I don't have the money to get the information from that Hard drive,so I'm moving forward. I haven't been as prolific this winter as I have been last summer, and I'll say fall because I don't really know what I want to make. But, I'm still hungry, and I still want to make stuff.
Now, for the big news, I'm not quite back yet. You see last year was The Year of Pinups, where I created the most Pinups ever in a single year. While that was fantastic, this year is going to be more quiet, and introspective. I'm creating a really big project, which I hope to release come next summer. I've been practicing more with perspective, and I've been honing my skills with ink, to make this project a really good one. Some of you, who've been following me for a while, may remember me talking about comic projects I wanted to do after Volpe Argentata, one of those projects was Disciple. That is what I'm working on right now. I won't go too into detail right now, partly to keep you surprised, and partly because I'm still figuring things out. I do know, however, it will be something wildly different from both The Three Muses, and Freedom's Lust. My point in all this is, I'm taking a hiatus from posting art on here or any other social media. Because of my unwilling break though, I'm going to upload the art I made in January, and February, and the piece I just finished today here within the next few minutes. Occasionally I may spam art, like today, here on DA, and Instagram might see the random study from time to time, but for the most part I will be completely off the books, and out working. When I do come back you'll have something new to sink your teeth on hopefully. So this isn't so much a goodbye as it is a "till next time."
If last year was The Year of Pinups consider this year The Year of Clouds because clouds are a wonderful thing, and a sign as well. Clouds means there's moisture in the air, and if you're somewhere hot clouds form together to drop rain. And right now the clouds are forming together over this drought of an artist, and pretty soon it's gonna rain creativity. So, till next time, Lore-ites.
Edit 16/10/18: Even though today is the fifth anniversary of me starting drawing (Jesus, I honestly can't believe I've been at this for five years), I've kind of outgrown the idea of anniversary week. I'd like to do something to celebrate this day in the future, but as a whole the idea of celebrating this week has lost its flavor for me. Artwork, and project wise, I'm still up in the clouds this year, but storm's coming! Stay tuned, and thanks for being here. 
Cheers to new projects!
From Robert the Lore.
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Paris Comic Con, I need your help!Hey everyone!
Today, I have the opportunity to showcase my art for the very first time in a convention, the Paris Comic Con wich will take place the 27.28 ans 29 October!
This is an invaluable opportunity for me to meet editors and professional artists.
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