When I started doing my 7-7-Sunday artcasts, I thought it might last a couple of weeks and that would be the end of it. I had no idea if anyone would be interested in buying my convention-style head sketches off of an internet web show.
Two and a half years later, I'm still selling out every show and it shocks me every time I do. It's been an amazing ride doing these shows and I have no plans to quit doing them.
That being said . . .
I always told myself that if 7-7-Sundays ever stopped being fun, I wouldn't do them anymore. After supplies and shipping costs, I only make a few dollars off of every commission and the only reason I have kept up the Sunday night Otis Frampton Live tradition is that I genuinely enjoyed the interaction with my chatroom guests and saw it as a fun challenge to be given seven characters that I have to draw live and within a certain timeframe. For me, 7-7-Sunday was fun, and that was why I kept doing it.
But over the last month or so, I've felt frustrated while doing the shows and I've found myself just going through the motions while drawing. In other words, it stopped feeling like something I wanted to do and started feeling like something I had to do.
Now, I really have no plans to stop doing 7-7-Sunday artcasts. But I definitely feel like I need a break from them, at least for a little while. Absence makes the heart grow fonder, as they say. So, 89 7-7-Sunday artcasts in, I'm taking a break. I'm not sure how long the hiatus will last, but I know that I'll be back.
I want to thank all of my artcast viewers and everyone who ever ordered a commission during one of the Sunday shows. You guys have kept the weekly (okay, sometimes bi-weekly) event alive for the last two and a half years. If you didn't show up each time and place the orders, there wouldn't even be a show. So I thank you, and hope that when I return, you'll be there.
-Otis
