Welcome to ShedGFX. Who is Shed? What's up with that?

I don’t know where to start or how to start so I’ll probably rewrite this opening a million times. Hello! My name is Shedrick, I’m almost 40, and I’m a stay at home dad.

Before I was a father, I had a different life as a creative director and even a vice president of a fitness company, but these days, I spend most of my time talking to my son about whatever is on his mind. I was diagnosed with adhd as a teen so I never thought I would become a parent. In many ways, it’s a dream come true!

As much as I love my little guy and his mother, I still feel an uncontrollable urge to create new works of art. I started drawing as kid and I couldn’t stop now even if I tried, and yes, I’ve tried. But now I’m close to middle aged and I’ve been home so long that sometimes I feel as if I’ve died and started a second life. No one I know cares about my art (outside of my household) or really anything that I like.

Sometimes I feel alone and art is all I have. I know that isn’t true, but it’s how I feel. Sometimes, I’m unable to express myself in a simple way, so I ether say nothing or do something that others consider to be “too much”.

Unfortunately, I think about death all the time and I wonder how my son will remember me. When I decided to blog, it was important to me to just be myself and not put another mask on. I’ve been wearing mask for most of my life and it’s exhausting, so if you sub to me, I hope you don’t mind my brutal honesty.

I’m focused on animation but I love all art. Most of my career until the pandemic was photography and video, but that was a past life.

Welcome to the ShedGFX Gallery Blog and I hope you return for future blogs.