has it really been that long?

almost two years since i updated the DA account... where the hell did that time go...

so, almost two years, anyone who followed me for a while knows i have my ups and downs in life, dark periods, shadows that plague me. not much has changed there to be honest, although i did go through a brief period where i thought i'd got the better of it...

not so, and to be honest i doubt i ever will... but with acceptance, even of the bad, comes some peace strangely.... so even in those dark times i'm doing better than i ever have done.

anyway...

now i have that out the way, i plan to make a return to DA... for anyone who cares or is interested...

but i need some help... no, not an account, i'll sort that myself in a few weeks...

inspiration. thats what i need help with.

my work has got stale, i struggle to draw anything, anything i do draw takes me far longer than it ever has all in all, artistically im in trouble.... its not just affecting my artwork, its affecting my job and my personal life.

so, heres what i need, i need suggestions, mainly in the form of single words, character names a little like the 100 lists people were doing a while back. no scenarios... nothing like "spiderman swinging through the city fighting doc oc, whilst dropping off his dry cleaning" i want this to really push me to think about the image...

the images with be done over one or two days, i am going to dedicate my first 60 mins of work to this every day, no image is allowed to take more than two days, so no longer than 120 mins per piece, eventually i'd like to get it down to 90 mins an image.

any suggestion thats not a character name i will use one of my own characters somewhere in the image, even if just standing idly in the image...

so there we have it... any and all help would be great appreciated, if i start to get a lot of suggestions through i will have to find someway of filtering down the suggestions to stop me from being able to chose the one i fancy, to push me to deal with the word thats there... but i'll worry about that if i get bombarded with words...

so, i will be updating more often, i will post the images from the previous week every sunday, updating my DA page and maybe a blo or two at the same time... i think some structure should help get my creativity back in line a little...

hope everyone is well... more from me soon.... maybe with a little art as well... i'll check the gallery and see whats not been posted yet...

back tomorrow...

me

ok a quick update to the post, responses came in a lot quicker than i thought, is nice to feel wanted, thanks guys

ok, doesnt need to be a character name, can just be a word, anything to get me thinking really. pluck one from the dictionary if you like...

anywho, back to sorting through the mess that is my DA account... lots changed since i was last on...