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A Fresh Start Through Art

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I am a digital artist that would like to get back into my art in a big way.  I have had a lot of struggles in my life would like to relaunch my career into the art business.  I have done some small things that I have shared with friends and the RPG community I am in on Google+ and I have decided to make my dream a reality and turn my talents into a legitimate job with the hopes of being able to make a career out of my life-long passion.  Below is more about how I got here and what I want to do.  I am confident that I can make this dream come true.  thanks for your time, likes, shares, comments, and donations.  I view them all as equal, they are support that's helping me create a better life for myself.

Hello~ my name is Corey Brin.  I am a 32-year-old single father from a small town in KS.  I am on disability for BPD(borderline personality disorder), ADHD, Anxiety, and depression.  I am currently living at my mothers and have my son on weekends.  I am a suicide survivor and after losing my father, both his parents, my best friend(a gentleman that was wheelchair bound with MCT), and having my ex-fiancee l that I share 50/50 custody of my little two-year-old son Owen with leave me within the past 3 years I had hit rock bottom once again.  I reached out to friends on google+ and was going to have this gofundme be to move to another state because I was blaming all my issues on my surroundings and feelings of not being loved.  A friend on google plus offered to help me make a business out of my art and help me maintain it after I was moved and settled in.  I started reading a self-help book on how to attract women but noticed the information applied to my entire life.  I had a massive revelation.  All my problems and loss of love stemmed from one thing.  Lacking confidence in myself, hopes, dreams, and relationships.  My BPD was created from childhood abuse both verbal and physical that made me feel like I would never succeed and never be good enough for anything or anyone and my priority in life became being in a relationship.  at 22 I started doing digital art with my first computer and a wacom tablet that was a gift from my mom(shes the best in the world) as something to keep me occupied and out of trouble.  I spent 3 years churning art out daily and had quite the following.  I had near 3000 followers on Myspace and a ton on Deviant Art(even getting deviation of the day), was selling art, selling handmade and screened t-shirts, and had a completely sold out art show at a local gallery walk.  Then my 2 year long relationship ended and I gave it all up.  I never had the funds or any clue of how to run a business so I treated it as a hobby.  I have kept up art and it's my favorite trait about me and also something people have never stopped admiring.  I still have people asking about art and t shirts to this day.  

Confidence.  The book talked about and made me realize that by putting the need to feel loved and be in a relationship before myself my entire life is what was destroying it.  I lived through others and not myself.  I equated being loved only to being in relationships and have been in 3 long term relationships ranging from 3 to 4 years and many short-lived ones.  Like banging my head against a wall repeatedly and expecting change  I have spent half my 32 years of life repeating the same cycle and getting the same result.  I realized I have tons of love and support.  I was ready to leave this town and state and after breaking down and telling my Google+ friends my stories of abuse and mental health issues they were willing to help me and suggested gofundme and threw me so much love and support.  I have an amazing mother that has always accepted me for who I am along with a stepfather that has always been here for me through thick and thin, 3 siblings, two little nieces I adore, and most important of all my little two year old boy Owen.  He is a little torch that guides me through my darkness.  I have so many people that love me and care about me enough to do anything they can to get me out of the huge rut I am In.  I was going to leave all this love without realizing it was just running away.  I have an experienced  business coach that has worked with artist in the past offer to help me plan, execute, and relaunch my art career at no charge. When I found out Owens mom had a a serious health issue I knew I could not leave Owen and that I need to finally for the first time in my life put myself first and worry about rebuilding myself and life step by baby step so I can be the best dad I can be.  I need to return to my calling so I can get myself together mentally and financially so my son has a dad he can be proud of and not worried about.  I am 100% confident that this will improve all aspects of my life and my mental health issues and also let me be finacially stable doing what I have always loved.

A fire has been started and If you would like to help me we can turn it into a blazing inferno.  

My disabilities cause such bad anxiety that I can't really maintain a normal job and I also do not like driving so I am limited to working in my very small town of about 2400 people.  I live off of $600 in Disability that took me 10 years of my life to obtain.  My goal is to start a business with the guidance of the experienced business coach I mentioned and my artistic talents to be successful enough to at least have a livable wage when combined with my disability and eventually be able to not have to be on disability to survive.  With   Any donation will be greatly appreciated and my son and I will be forever grateful for helping improve the quality of our lives.  I will make a personal piece of art for everyone that donates.  Below is the breakdown of what I will use the funds for.

1. Macbook Pro
2. Wacom Tablet
3.Business Start up Funds

My most recent art venture was creating digital art for the tabletop RPG "Into the Odd".  My artwork was well received and many were shocked to learn that I had created it all on my iPhone alone.  Digital art tools are my forte and that is why I am wanting funds to get those tools.  My main client base has always been online and I cant deliver quality digital work long term just using my cell phone.  

I plan to offer professionally printed T-shirts, Stickers, and high quality signed and numbered prints.  Anything over my goal will be used to purchase a nicer model wacom tablet and the rest will be put towards to business funds which will be spent building up my business through marketing, making products, etc.

If you made it this far I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart even if you just read all of it.  I am ready to live my life for me and for the first time In my life I'm 100% confident that with the support of others that I can not only make my dream come true but feel like I am a productive member of society and a dad that Owen will be proud of.

All my love and thanks to everyone that believed in me enough to get me this far you have all helped me get to this point and I am excited to relaunch my art career and I am confident that It will be an amazing ride.

xoxo

corey and owie



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Corey Brin
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Plainville, KS

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