Exposition

Hi, I'm Braden.
Until August of 2009 I had a perfectly nice job doing desktop support for a perfectly nice biomedical research institute (which does things like research cures for cancer and AIDS). But it was just a job, and I needed a career. After much soul-searching and mystic-bone-consulting, I decided to leave the job and pursue art.
I've been doing illustration, comics, and animation on the side for years now, but only recently did I realize that this was what I wanted to do all along. But in order to make a career out of it, I needed to hone my skills to professional level, put together a good portfolio, and make some contacts. This meant going back to school.
So now I'm attending classes full-time at the Art Institute of Boston, doing a 2-year illustration certificate course. I'm just a few weeks into it, so it's a little early to judge anything, but I'll let you know how it goes. More importantly, I'll be using this blog to show you some of the art I'm working on in class and out of class.
Please enjoy.