so i've gone through my gallery and taken down a ton of stuff. i've left just about everything that anyone else has ever colored for me up. even where i feel my linework is absolutely sub par, i think it would be disrespectful to take any piece down that someone else worked on. i left up some of the pencil work that i find still holds its charm, even if it's not exactly technically amazing - which my pencil work never is.

my recent attempt to shift to all-digital, from sketching to coloring, is a very satisfying endeavor for me. i've been stagnant in my art for quite some time, and in looking through sketches over the span of several years, i'm not sure quite how or when it happened. for years my artwork showed a lot more dynamism (is that a word) - with tons of action and tons of different styles and influences. and then at some point, i just got stuck in a rut of drawing the same basic face or two, from the same basic angle or two, with the same basic hairstyles and with the same basic outfits... it's more than a little disheartening.

but in reading the always-amazing ImagineFX and really opening my eyes to what others are doing and what i am doing myself, i think there's progress that's brewing. and while the first couple Colors! NDS pieces i've posted have been basically in that same vein, it's just reverting to that comfort zone to try to get used to working on a (sort-of) new medium. my goal is absolutely to break free of the constraints that i've forced on myself.

so now i have Colors! for NDS for portable digital adventures, and of course PSCS3 EXT for base-of-operations activity, as well as Painter X (which i still find intimidating.) and of course, i have a small stash of pens and markers and pencil and paper... my first love, so to speak. as well as canvas, and paints, and brushes. really, i'm just trying to make myself into more of the artist that i think i should be.

and to that end, i've actually gotten out of hard core MMO gaming, where my WOW addiction once stripped my creative energies, i think playing any MMO type game on a CASUAL-ONLY basis is what it's going to take for me to be able to continually progress and create. we'll see, time will tell.

if you've read up until here, you get some kind of prize. i don't know what. why don't you ask for something?

love always,
K