Website and More...

Things have been crazy since I moved from New England. Life in what is basically a suburb of D.C. is remarkably different. Every road has at least three lanes and every store is in a strip mall. Not to mention that the traffic is horrendous. However, the fast-paced, industrial lifestyle of this place cannot help but become apart of you. Adapt and survive and all that. Here I find myself working harder than ever on my Illustration career.

I have been working with an up-and-coming author on a book cover. I have to say that there are few things more exciting than working on a commissioned project. He has been a terrific client to work for and I urge everyone to go out and get his book when it comes out. I'll post some some updates soon. I have also been working on some RPG related projects as well as some promotional pieces. With that I suppose the real exciting news is.....

I've finally found my home on the web!

You can now see my work at joeacone.com (I know, I'm clever...)

I was able to scrounge up some money for some cheap hosting and have been playing around with Indexhibit (thanks Evan). As apart of my new career plan, I would actually like to break into the Advertising and Editorial market. So I nabbed what work I could find and posted it under the subject Institutional. This will prove to be an interesting shift in my work considering I spent most of my days at school warping my assignments to include some kind of fantastical element. This has been mainly inspired by a great discussion I had with prolific and renown artist Dave Seeley. This is a guy who has found a great balance between doing Genre and Institutional work. This way he is able to satiate his creative compulsions and his pockets. I have to say thanks for the advice Dave.

So big things on the horizon aaaaaaand I'm not really sure how to end this post. It has been a bit of a ramble. I guess I'll end with stay tuned on the blog and check out my new, very new, website. All the best.