Daily Sketches & Socio Economics

I’ve been drawing a bunch lately. Mostly sketches. Tidbits of finished pieces, really. It’s been refreshing to reclaim some time of my day for the exploration of non commercial work. There’s certainly a large part of me that wishes all my stuff was released Public Domain for all to share and mess with as they like.

I’m a vegan, Libertarian Socialist with Anarcho-Communist/Syndicalist leanings – this should hardly come as a surprise.

Given the nature of the industry (and the perception that giving away work devalues fellow illustrators -as if work is only worthy if it fetches a certain dollar amount) and the requirement that I eat in our “free market” economy, I’ve come to a sort of compromise. I’m going to offer personal work under a flexible Creative Commons license. The work I get hired to do can still exist in its rights restricted, totally unobtainable and unreproducible bubble. My personal works’ source files will be available as free downloads for you to share and print with as many people as you want. First, though, I need to actually create something that isn’t commercial work.

If anyone has a time machine…