Doing stuff requires time, whereas buying stuff only requires money.
On the other hand, buying stuff is a bit like foreplay to actually doing the stuff, so I'll consider it second best when it comes to my artistic endeavors.
Due to my lack of time in the pre-christmas crunch, I honestly haven't spent more than a couple hours total on my baneling or anything else (or writing new blogs, for that matter). I spent the last two weekends before christmas working through in order to be free over christmas and promptly fell sick over christmas itself (flu). Just popped the last antibiotic this morning. Combine that with uncertainty about the future (will be quitting my job in four weeks - of my own volition, though) and general fall depression. I feel thin, like too little butter spread over too much bread, if you know what I mean.
I'm trying to compensate by amassing new stuff I haven't had the time to try out yet. Hopefully I'll be able to when I'm unemployed -_-
I already talked about the equipment for creating copies of sculptures (still untouched, finishing up the baneling as a test subject first). By the way, I discarded the idea of doing fan art semi professionally, too many legal uncertainties. I might be doing comissions of original or other characters, but not advertising it or anything.
What I haven't yet mentioned is my brand new Woodpecker. It's an electric equivalent of a pressurized air-hammer, used for working in marble and similarly hard stones.
Really looking forward to using it on two stones I have had sitting on the shelf for far too long, a very nice sky blue alabaster that's unfortunately far too hard to effectively work on manually and a piece of gorgeous white italian marble.
The pieces are both in the 20 cm x 20 cm x 20 cm range. Please comment and give me your opinions on what I should do with them.