Hi folks,

You might've noticed that after a very productive start to this calendar year, my workrate has significantly dipped in the last couple of months. Truth be told, I think I'm going through another bit of an art block. Not as severe as some I've had in the past, but enough to hamper my creativity in the past 6-8 weeks or so.

My car broke down on the way to work a few weeks back. I have bought a new one now, but the search for it proved rather drawn-out. For much of the last month, my weekdays were largely spent either working from home or looking for cars on the internet, then my weekends were lost going out and browsing at car dealers. It was, frankly, tedious and depressing, and until I had found a new motor to get me to work each day, I felt guilty using my time for anything other than dedicating myself to the search.

As such, I've generally been feeling a bit down and have lacked any real motivation to get into artwork again. I am, as ever, overflowing with ideas and works-in-progress, but even now I have got a new car, I have so far been unable to force myself into putting pencil to paper again. I literally haven't bothered doing anything artistic for at least an entire month now, which is very unusual for me. And it's annoying me, to be honest. Especially as on occasions I have had ideas that have gripped me sufficiently to feel like I want to draw, but then I sit down with the paper and think of all the effort and irritation that is likely to occur in the process of making that idea reality, and suddenly I can't be bothered.

Oh - and the hot weather isn't helping either!

I'm not sure what it'll be that gets me sufficiently motivated again, or how soon I'll be able to rouse myself out of it - could be a week, could be three months or more. But for now, don't expect any imminent artwork from me. Sorry.

One other thing I wanted to mention whilst compiling this journal entry - I've had a number of queries in the last few months about my Rexar & Mike: Snapshots series. More specifically, people have been asking whether it has finished, or whether there are more instalments to come.

No, the series is not over. Yes, there will be more instalments.

I had tried to clarify this already in the description for the most recent entry in the series. The six instalments to date were the product of my desire to show more background and depth to Rexar and Mike's relationship. Future instalments will focus rather more on the physical nature of their relationship, though it will not be exclusively so by any means. I have already done some drawings for upcoming instalments of this nature, but I did them some time ago and I'm not happy with the anatomy on them anymore, so I might decide to re-do them.

But of course, that will only happen once I'm in the mood for artwork again.


RRRex