I have recently been interviewed for a website about children's litterature! And so has vixie87!

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It's all in Ja Du Ja Du but if you can't read it there's some artwork there too, that you might not have seen.

There's something I've been thinking about lately. Throughout my kiddy years, up till, say the first year or two of high school I used to regard drawing primarily as a tool for telling stories, or expressing/venting feelings. Teen-angst art with lots of claws and blood, anyone? Trust me, I did ton-loads of that... Luckily, for your eyes and my dignity, it was before the age of internet art sites. The dream, far in the future was, of course, to become a comic artist. I was blissfully unbothered of the actual quality of my stuff, it really didn't matter as long as what I did felt important and meaningful to me.

What happened next... it all went black for a while there... I guess I was hit by a buissness car. Or, without silly metaphor, got some publicity and changed my way of thinking. Arting turned into being more about creating pretty pictures. And I did get really good at creating pretty pictures. But the spontaneous, whimsical, this-will-never-get-finished,-but-who-cares-when-its-fun story telling, the essence that had driven me from the beginning kinda got lost in the process. I have seen this change as a sort of "growing up" thing for me. I stepped out of the dream world to start building something in the real world. And now that I feel quite settled in the real world I kinda long for the dream world again. I do get back there on rare occasions, to the extatic kicks of inspiration where I can sit up all night and doodle/write, but yeah, it's very rare. The question that cuts me off every time is "is this good? Enough?" It is a sensible question alright, but there is a counter-question to consider as well: "does it really have to be great for me to do it?".

Having said that I would like to note that I think I'm going to try and pull my personal art in a more story based, conceptual direction. Chances are no one but me will notice any difference but well... telling you. The Hedgehog painting is a good start. I loved painting that one and I think it's exciting to look at because it has content.

Create a Brute and fight my Brute because it gives me XP, raaaaahhhhh!!1

Because watching little chibi warriors battle is strangely entertaining.

Dreamer.nu 2.0

This spring I finally made an effort and rebuilt my formely very purple and quite not working website. And learned that Wordpress is a quite a very lovely thing, in the process. There's still some things to work on, like writing descriptions for the galleries and pictures, but heck, I'm so tired of spending hours on the computer now. It's up and running, so please take a look!

I just finished the hedgehog painting! It came out very close to my original idea. I have found that things often do nowadays. The excessive work that kept me busy the last two years have really sharpened my illustrative skills. It's wonderful when hard work gives back both money and EXP.

Hedgehog will have to follow me to work on monday so I can replicate it. It's too big for my domestic scanner.


In other news, I am rebuilding my website. It's been my priority task for the last two weeks and it's coming out nicely. Might even be ready to launch at the end of this weekend.