Well it's finally starting to happen. I've been working on the details for Mianol for a while now and things have finally started slotting into place over the course of today.

For those who don't know, Mianol is a new world I've been creating. I've always been searching for somewhere that my characters truly belonged and I think this is it. Its a medieval type world although is more comparable to the Final Fantasy series than real life. Magic is common and all that. For those who have been reading my recently submitted story chapters, that is Mianol. Could call it a prologue of sorts.

The real works of Mianol will be done in comic form. Yes its a big step but its the only way to do it justice I feel. I'm currently sketching out initial character concepts which will be airing in my scraps gallery at some point today.

I've got the actual world itself sorted out already along with general culture, beliefs, magical workings and similar things. All I need to work on is the plot and that has also started to take shape over the coarse of the day.

Might be a few months before I post up anything solid but watch this space for more info. Oh yeah, and in case no-one noticed, I've changed mediums, say hello to MTP in Prismacolor! ^^

I'd like to open this journal with an apology to everyone who has, is or was watching my gallery. To say that I've neglected this place is an understatement and I've lost touch with just about everyone who I knew or spoke to here at DA. Can't say the number was very large to start with but still, I don't want people to think I've just forgotten about them.

My last update in terms of journal posts was back in June last year but even then I wasn't updating regularly. Perhaps it was the ways of life eating up my time or maybe I just got into one of my slumps that I never got out of. Either way I pretty much vanished off the face of the planet baring an occasional art post here and there.

I still don't post much art even now. My style has started to stagnate and I feel as if I've slid back a few steps in terms of forward progress. Still, that's how it is and I've got to deal with it right?

For the last year I've been settling into a new job in London and it has eaten a great deal of my time. My creative drives have also changed, I don't tend to draw as much but I'm starting to pick up fiction writing again.

Recently I've been working on a new piece of work set in a world entirely of my making. It's not complete yet but I've decided to post it up here as well as my Fiction Press account. I have ideas of turning it into a series but the work is very slow so I'm not sure how realistic that might be. But I will try.

I need to start working on this place and making it all pretty again, I had a go a few years back but it didn't work out too well. Still, gotta try yeah? Later people.

I just created a new word! XD

Anyway just a quickie. I've decided to stop doing coloured art for now. Why? Well at the moment my life is always busy and I don't often have time to sit down and draw. This hasn't stopped my creative mood from thinking though and that presents a problem.

No matter what I do I keep getting ideas for new pics or characters or whatever on an every few day basis. This doesn't play well when it takes me on average about 3 or 4 weeks to do a complete colour pic from initial idea to finished product.

See while I'm working on a pic I like to stick with it until its done, I hate leaving things half finished even if for just a little while. So the ideas keep coming but the time I have to draw is tiny. So a lot of my ideas back up and then they all hit me at once. When this happens I get very disinterested in the pic I'm doing and generally put it down for weeks at time.

Thus I've finally decided that I need to speed up my drawings so this doesn't happen. Not to say that I'm gonna rush them but by not inking and colouring I can knock loads of time of each one I do. Besides, with 90% of my drawings I think they look better as a sketch or a simple pencil drawing rather than a full colour one. Either because the scanner rapes my colours and shading or I fluff up when inking or other random events.

So yeah, I'm gonna work on pencil drawing instead. 'Sides I'm interesting in experimenting with pencil shading and stuff so it could be rather fun. ^_^

Well its been a while again since I uploaded anything. Work has had me tied down badly what with Xmas and then moving stores and all that. Nightmare, my creative mood has been left in a box for moods.

Then last weekend disaster struck...well sorta. My computer blew up. x_x In the end all it needed was a new power unit and everything else is fine...but it left me without a computer for a week while it was fixed. That in turn led me to dig out my creative mood, brush the dust off it and then take it for all its worth.

Three pictures later and I've got my computer back! Mind you I've still got that creative mood and a week and a half off from work! W00t! So yeah, more pictures are likely over the next week or so....if I can think of anything. I need to redesign Links....yes again! Can't think of what to do with him yet but it will happen!

Its been a while hasn't it.....in fact its been a fricking eternity. Since May I've not done a single piece of drawing and, well its its been bothering me. I've just not had a creative spirit at all, in fact little has mattered to me in the last few months. However I think I feel a change in the wind. New hopes are springing up in my life, new oppertunities....and with it my creative spirit is starting to recover.

I'm not saying its going to be a regular thing like it used to be but you can expect an odd piece of work from me when I can fit it in around my work. So yeah, the fox is back, well sorta. ^_^