TAKAdouglas

I've spent most of 2009 not drawing, but I've started to come back ever so slowly.
My last journal was August 09, almost an entire year.

I've recently left my old job, So I got a new job, which hopefully will lift my spirits up, and gives me a few days off a week so I can have some time to myself. Having no money has been a large source of inspiration for me.

I've been joining some clubs, and some of my artworks that have been forgotten about suddenly have favourites in the double digits. It makes me very happy to see something I spent a lot of time finishing in 2007 suddenly get a lot of attention. like 'Addled Impasse' going from 5 to 38 faves within a few days.

So I'm inspired to do some new stuff so I can keep contributing.

A keen observer might notice my complete lack of psychedelic art lately, and a shift into one fan-art after the other. This is mainly because I love fan-art, and I don't know if I can come up with any more patterns. If I do any more abstract art it wont be the same sort of mandala patterns.
This change is also because I met Karissa, and she seems to love fan-art just as much as I do.

I know fan art isn't original and therefore shit according to some people, but I really like it when its done well, and there are some truly epic art on deviantart. I'd like to try and make some.

Okay, it really has been a while now.

I noticed that the last thing I uploaded was in March, and that was a coloured version of an older deviation. The last new original art that I uploaded was waaay back in February!

I think the PS3 has had drastic effects on my creativity. I've been playing 8 or 9 different games over the past few months, and enjoying every high defined moment of it while the Wii just gathers dust.

The biggest problem with doing new artwork is that it takes a lot for me to be inspired, and for me to actually go ahead with it long enough to actually be proud of it is another story.

It seems like its getting harder to be original, especially with such amazing stuff already out there.
In terms of an artistic style I guess I do just like to draw the same simple thing over and over until the page is overflowing with said simple thing.
I used to do this a lot when there wasnt much else to do.
I've found my life getting a lot busier, as I'm starting an apprenticeship at work, and my time is shared with someone else, whom I've been spending a lot of time with since the start of this year.

I found the time and inspiration to start another one of my Sonic fan comics but its doubtful I'll ever get around to finishing it.
I would much rather be doing something that is original and catches people's attention. Now that I've seen how amazing HD looks, the bar has been raised far too high for me to catch up to.

I'm going to keep thinking of something that might look cool, and if I stick to it, it may end up looking as good as I want it to.

My highest viewed deviations keep switching between the Kingdom Hearts Neoshadow Battle takadouglas.deviantart.com/art… and the South Park 8 animation takadouglas.deviantart.com/art… I did many many years ago.
Its nice to keep an eye on the art that people like the most, but it is strange to me that it happens to be those two. I was considering recolouring the Neoshadow picture, and possibly losing all those favourites in the process. I think the rough colouring suits it, but it could use some retouching.

If anyone has some suggestions or even (O_0) a commission, feel free to let me know.
If I know theres some demand out there that will definately give me some motivation to get something done.

Ive just been spending so much time browsing through dA. There really is some incredible stuff on here, and its very inspiring. I have only just starting using a tablet pen thing which doesnt take long to get used to. Now I dont even know how I used to draw with shitty erasers that don't erase after its been smeared deep into the page.

I would really like to go over some of my old artworks and hyper-polish them with Corel Painter X.
If only I had made them digitally and they would be a lot more colourful and crisp instead of blurry.
I have scrapped a whole heap of stuff that i am horrifyingly ashamed of submitting. I may take the rough idea and redo them entirely airbrushed. It looks so much better.

This all opens up the idea that I could be developing this as some sort of useful skill. If I actually got off my arse and attended some sort of lame class thing I could maybe get into that concept art field of work that I've always wanted to get into. Get into it!