Incoming

I'm going through a bit of a rebirth here.  I have finally found an itch for space art again, but with a twist.  The hint for that is "Vessel."  The one thing that got me started with space art was not the "coolness" of it.  Hameed and I were among the first here in dA to really get the genre noticed and kept pushing the boundaries both graphically and conceptually.  Hameed is still one of my top, if not my favorite digital space artist here in dA.  

Anyways, if you're familiar with my work, you'll notice that the vast majority of my space work are scenes.  Static scenes with not a lot going on.  Just like a picture of a bunch of trees.  This was fine then, it was what I wanted to show.  Now it bores me.  Space "scenes" in general now bore me, save for a few.  I have been asked if I was gonna do terraspace, which I turned down since I dont like Terragen as a tool.  Its results are much too generic and I want to have absolute total control of what I do.  I do think that it can be a great tool for imaging, like some scenes made out of pictures of the martian surface.  But artistically, I dont like it.  

But thats not the only reason why I wont do that kind of work (typical landscape on bottom, space on top formula).  You see, the whole idea of space art or scenes in general was to depict places in which I wanted to be.  And I wanted to be in space, floating around and looking at the scenes, not on some planet looking up at the sky.  I can do that here, and nothing beats the sight of the milky way on a clear night sky.  So that criteria alone obliterates any chance of combining landscapes and space.  Either all landscape, or all space for me.  

Anyways, this rebirth was caused by a flood of "scnees" in which things are going on.  Not static stuff, but action.  Not super motion blurred action, but things happening.  Sadly, little or no time for those now.  I also have a few misc ideas for posters and a remake of my planet tutorial.  Way too many copycats are paraphrasing it without changing a single thing.  It needs some revamping and new information.  

But right now, my main project is (finally) my new site!  Oh its being built in flash and its fun but a bit tedious work.  I've already gotten to that state of having liked something but getting tired after looking at it for so long.  It always happens when I work on things for long periods of time.  A bit annoying, but thats how it is.  I wonder if its possible to work around that.  

So yea, hows that for a proper journal