Live Artcasters Chat #5 - Time Management

Wednesday, October 14th, 2015

Hi all ... its time for the Live Artcasters Chat with me, Kevin and Scott. Today we talk about time management, the way we do it and how we'd live to do it better.

Check out my co-hosts youtube channels, they do a lot of cool stuff.
Kevin Cross - https://www.youtube.com/c/KevinCrossart
Scott Serkland - https://www.youtube.com/user/SERKWORKS

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Thanks everyone and see you next time.
-Jeff
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4 comments:

Jeff Lafferty said...

Todays Live Chat
Samuraiox
Brad Utterstrom
Brad Utterstrom What's up guys? Good topic today, time management is the #1 thing holding me back as an artist right now
Brad Utterstrom
Brad Utterstrom I do it the opposite way...I do well if I write down everything I've done at the END of the day. That way I'm documenting the progress I'm making by sort of making a checklist in reverse
Melanie Darling
Melanie Darling Good evening everybody :)
Samuraiox
Samuraiox Hey there Melanie??
Kevin Cross

Kevin Cross
Hey all!
Melanie Darling
Melanie Darling I'm lucky to live with my boyfriend that understands that when I work on art or comics I need my space and time. If I'm working all night on coloring some pages he'll cook and leave me be etc.
Jim Settnek
Jim Settnek People bother me too cause I am home all day, even neighbors. It's annoyingly funny sometimes how they act like I am not doing anything.
Jim Settnek
Jim Settnek A few times recently I didn't answer the door when they knocked another time I just opened the door quickly and said I can't talk right now I am in the middle of something and then closed the door.
Samuraiox
Samuraiox I think friends and such are getting a better idea when I announce that I was only able to get done so much with putting so many hours in on it. Sucks but glad they are seeing how much work i do
Jim Settnek
Jim Settnek I feel guilty if I don;t work over the weekend
Mike Emeritz
Mike Emeritz Hope I didnt miss much
Samuraiox
Samuraiox Yeah i think he said it just the other day because he just picked up everything and went to nyc
Samuraiox
Samuraiox Yeah, its just a different drive. My brother and me are complete polar opposites. He's fine with jobs and structure...I just can't do that
Will Terrell
Will Terrell I love Casey Niestat
Samuraiox
Samuraiox Hey Will! glad to see you're back around too!
Will Terrell
Will Terrell Hi Samuraiox!
Brad Utterstrom
Brad Utterstrom Will I really miss your vids bud. I rewatch some of them often to hear your inspiration tirades
Will Terrell
Will Terrell Aww, thank you Brad!
Mike Emeritz
Mike Emeritz same here. I love your vids and your art
Brad Utterstrom
Brad Utterstrom you just reminded me Scott, I better check my email. I haven't checked it for almost 10 minutes
Will Terrell
Will Terrell Hey Ox, congrats on making through your second round of 100 days of making comics! That's impressive man. Just a few days left to hit the goal!
Will Terrell
Will Terrell Thank you, Mike!
Samuraiox
Samuraiox Thanks Will! Really means the world?? It was with a few pushes from a few artists like you, Kevin here, and Jake Parker I started my own comic!
Samuraiox
Samuraiox Actually scanning in the 4th issue while I listen!!
Will Terrell
Will Terrell I wasnt made that way. If I dont keep my inbox empty it comes crashing down.
Will Terrell
Will Terrell that's awesome Ox! Keep it up man! Very impressive!
Mike Emeritz
Mike Emeritz ox, you finished? I thought I watched your most recent video today.
Samuraiox
Samuraiox Just scanning the actual comic pages in, still have sketch pages and preview of 5 to do until 4 is complete!
Mike Emeritz
Mike Emeritz no, your 2nd 100 days :)
Samuraiox
Samuraiox lol I think its 89 today...numbers and stuff lol
Mike Emeritz
Mike Emeritz I can't focus on tv for longer than 30-45 min before i get the creative itch
Samuraiox
Samuraiox Yeah Will, if you hadn't mentioned Kevin in your videos I wouldn't have ever found the 100s! many thanks!!
Will Terrell
Will Terrell aww... that makes me happy. I love Kevin. He's one of my favorite people. He needs ALL the fans!??
Samuraiox
Samuraiox You both are incredible and I've found even more great artists like Scott and Jeff here too!
Brad Utterstrom
Brad Utterstrom I watch a ton of TV, but 90% of the time I'm drawing and just listening to the TV. I've been running through Breaking Bad episodes, for instance

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Samuraiox
Samuraiox Yeah I was getting close with Issue 4 and just had to blow off steam with gta the other night!
Mike Emeritz
Mike Emeritz that's more accurate, Brad. I do spend a lot of time listening to movies and shows and podcasts like this
Jim Settnek
Jim Settnek I love that Greedo has a DRI patch
Kevin Cross

Kevin Cross
Thanks, Jim!
Will Terrell
Will Terrell Kevin needs avacation
Kevin Cross

Kevin Cross
Also, Ox & Will... you make me blush. XOXO
Will Terrell
Will Terrell How many pages are you doing on this graphic novel Kevin?
Will Terrell
Will Terrell how many pages a day?
Will Terrell
Will Terrell or a week?
Mike Emeritz
Mike Emeritz man, that's how i get too
Samuraiox
Samuraiox *WHEN your comic takes off
Samuraiox
Samuraiox ??
Brad Utterstrom
Brad Utterstrom I agree with Scott, deadlines first. But what I've been doing recently when I don't have a super hard deadline looming, is I try to complete one of my medical (boring) drawings first, and then switch
Brad Utterstrom
Brad Utterstrom to sketch cards (fun)
Samuraiox
Samuraiox another thing that helps me is putting deadlines on things, but getting to the stuff I really enjoy like painting the covers and whatnot
BigJyeTV
BigJyeTV don't do anything to your hard drive you may be able to get everything back with software.
Kevin Cross

Kevin Cross
I get 5-6 pages done a week, Will. All full color.
Will Terrell
Will Terrell How many pages a week could you do of Monkey Mod if you were doing that full time?
Tristen Grant
Tristen Grant Hey everyone!
Will Terrell
Will Terrell Hey Tristen!
Mike Emeritz
Mike Emeritz hello
Tristen Grant
Tristen Grant Hey Will and Mike.
Tristen Grant
Tristen Grant I sent you an email Will.
Samuraiox
Samuraiox Hey Tristen ??
Scott Serkland
Scott Serkland Hey everyone. The chat is hoppin' today!
Matthew Mossman
Matthew Mossman Nothing works...the internet hates us all
Fynn GB
Fynn GB hey everyone ??
Tristen Grant
Tristen Grant Hey Samuraiox
Will Terrell
Will Terrell I saw that. Thank you, man! I appreciate you.
Tristen Grant
Tristen Grant Hi Fynn
Fynn GB
Fynn GB hey will, i just wanted to thank you for all your videos! they helped me a lot to keep working and to think about my view of certain things.. I wish you all the best and I wish you all the best!:)
Thomas Clemmons
Thomas Clemmons I find that not sleeping saves a lot of time. Sleep is overrated anyway??
Matthew Mossman
Matthew Mossman Will Terrell is THE man
Fynn GB
Fynn GB ups I doubled the end ??
Will Terrell
Will Terrell double the awesome, thank you, Fynn!
Will Terrell
Will Terrell Thanks, Matthew!
Tristen Grant
Tristen Grant ??
Will Terrell
Will Terrell I feel like the only way to get it right with time management is to find the right motivation. If your goal is off, you wont be driven to do it. But if the goal is strong enough, nothing will stop you
Will Terrell
Will Terrell howdy
Mike Emeritz
Mike Emeritz Solid advice, Thomas lol
BigJyeTV
BigJyeTV yes sir you pronounced it right
Will Terrell
Will Terrell Jeff is a badass machine
BigJyeTV
BigJyeTV A clean room will cost A LOT of money. You'll only need that if the drive is physically damaged.
Mike Emeritz
Mike Emeritz a lot of times you can just pop the bad drive into an external to access your files

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Jesse Granat
Jesse Granat I had a drive once that kept clicking and wouldn't access correctly, I turned the harddrive over (or the tower) and it seemed to catch long enough for me to grab the stuff off of it...
Mike Emeritz
Mike Emeritz man, I lost all my photos from my college years due to a bad drive. Pretty sad about that.
Thomas Clemmons
Thomas Clemmons I suggest Dropbox - send it to the cloud!
BigJyeTV
BigJyeTV I've been in IT for 13+ years. I'll make a video about recovering data.
BigJyeTV
BigJyeTV you can make a schedule for yourself from the time you get up to the time you go to bed and see where the bulk of your time is spent.
Brad Utterstrom
Brad Utterstrom dude you should check out Skyrim or Fallout
Scott Serkland
Scott Serkland Awesome BigJyeTV I'm subscribed so I'll check it out!
Brad Utterstrom
Brad Utterstrom they won't timesuck your entire life or anything
Mike Emeritz
Mike Emeritz I've tried setting a time limit, but then it turns into, "well... I'll just get to the next level and quit" Then, "well... I'll just find that thing." Fast forward several weeks... lol
BigJyeTV
BigJyeTV :)
Tristen Grant
Tristen Grant I'm off to work. See you all later.
Mike Emeritz
Mike Emeritz I haven't played a game all year now, and I'm ok with that.
Mike Emeritz
Mike Emeritz Later Tristen??
Mike Emeritz
Mike Emeritz SHAME!!!
Will Terrell
Will Terrell I bought a TV for the first time in a decade and a PS4 just so I could play the new star wars battlefront game
Samuraiox
Samuraiox SHAME!!
Will Terrell
Will Terrell lol
Will Terrell
Will Terrell totally worth it
Mike Emeritz
Mike Emeritz haha, nice! I just saw a trailer for that and felt so tempted to get it.
Will Terrell
Will Terrell I played the Beta this weekend. IT is SOOO GoOOD!
BigJyeTV
BigJyeTV I came up with a reboot story for Blankman but the studio that owns the rights never got back to me??
Will Terrell
Will Terrell Hoth AT-AT assault is the most fun I've ever had playing video games
Samuraiox
Samuraiox wait til you get Kratos' wolf gloves!
Samuraiox
Samuraiox I think that's the second one though
Brad Utterstrom
Brad Utterstrom they got any vintage star wars or gi joe action figures at these flea markets Kev? I don't know where any flea markets are in Portland
Will Terrell
Will Terrell So at 2-3 pages a week you would need 2 months to finish an issue
Thomas Clemmons
Thomas Clemmons I just started playing the free-to-play Wildstar mmo and it kind of scares me because being a hardcore WOW zealot, I know I could get too lost in Wildstar??
BigJyeTV
BigJyeTV what games do you guys play that inspires you to draw?
Will Terrell
Will Terrell Kevin, your body will take a break whether you want it or not, lol
Mike Emeritz
Mike Emeritz I don't think many games have ever inspired me to draw, I just like admiring the game art, and getting lost in the world
Will Terrell
Will Terrell you gotta schedule for it, haha!
Will Terrell
Will Terrell same here, Mike. I love playing games, but they're more a distraction than for inspiration.
Will Terrell
Will Terrell I played a lot of that Assassin Creed Pirate game, so pretty! I though it would be inspirational... and it was.. but I was too distracted to do anything with it.
Matthew Mossman
Matthew Mossman C'mon Kevin...Gears of War is THE game...nowhere else can I shoot people AND chainsaw them with the same weapon! Get with it Cross!
Brad Utterstrom
Brad Utterstrom you guys wait in line at the post office? I got this great little shipping place, I just walk in and drop my packages off and they ship them and bill me at the end of the month

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Mike Emeritz
Mike Emeritz Same here, Will. I think i got #4 for free with my graphics card. It was beautiful
Matthew Mossman
Matthew Mossman F' Dig Dug!
BigJyeTV
BigJyeTV I played star wars the force unleashed 2 and the artwork in that game made me want to break out my rusty dusty art tools lol.
Brad Utterstrom
Brad Utterstrom well if you do drive to Portland Jeff stop by and we can have a beer
Mike Emeritz
Mike Emeritz I used to love Jet Set Radio. That art style was so cool
Fynn GB
Fynn GB i haven't played a lot of video games over the last years but the artwork that was done for darksiders is amazing!
Matthew Mossman
Matthew Mossman Where's the love for Qbert?
Mike Emeritz
Mike Emeritz No... lol😀 There's a special place in hell for Qbert
BigJyeTV
BigJyeTV what will be the next topic?
Thomas Clemmons
Thomas Clemmons Good show guys😃
Samuraiox
Samuraiox \m/ great show guys, lovely chat as well!
Matthew Mossman
Matthew Mossman Time Management (12 steps to dealing with your video game addiction)
Samuraiox
Samuraiox lol
Mike Emeritz
Mike Emeritz awesome show as usual. Thanks guys
Brad Utterstrom
Brad Utterstrom nice job guys. It's more fun to catch these live. It almost feels like I'm hanging out with you guys!
Fynn GB
Fynn GB bye guys!:) and keep on working guys! you're all doing a great job on your projects:)
Will Terrell
Will Terrell Byee!