My Make Time, Not War Rant

Make time, not war is an anti-procrastination slogan that I just made up from nothing and commonly associate with my feeble claims of not having enough free time for illustrating. The war reference? I suppose that symbolizes my anger over my perceived lack of time. Or it could be something from the 60's, but that's complete crap of course because over the length of a 24-hour Earth day I have plenty of opportunities to get some drawing done. I just don't have those opportunities in large and consecutive blocks of time that many full-time illustrators (and the full-time unemployed occupiers) are blessed with. Oh, I doodle the hell out of the legal pads here at my day job desk. I also sketch on Starbucks napkins when I'm waiting in line for an expensive and complicated drink to be made. I draw on the backs on envelopes containing promises of lower rate credit cards and magazine subscription promotions I have no interest in because they offer a clean white canvas for the idea for a new character I had just an hour or so earlier. I even illustrate on my iPod Touch now, using the freshly downloaded SketchBook Mobile X App and my index finger. I figured out how to save the image to my iPod photos folder and then email it to myself in case I want to place it in to Illustrator or to use/post it as is. I've also been sketching on those extra receipts or sometimes napkins at restaurants lately, adding a "Thanks for the awesome lunch!" voice bubble from a caricature of myself or my son or a random penguin or a pirate with a full tummy. And I always add my web url because hey, you never know... 


So the time is there, and actually the results are there. I suppose I need to shut up now and gather these napkins, legal pad pages, receipts and iPod finger paintings together so I can combine them with my creative powers for the good of the picture book industry. But where the hey will I find the time to organize of of these papers and files?


Just kidding.


So where do you guys and gals find the time?

Way sexy beach sketch of me and my lovely wife.

Stay drawing, my friends.