So. The hiatus continues, and I'm plugging along on my book. 150 pages in, and so far so good. Also, I had a meeting a couple weeks ago with a literary agent in town, who is currently reading the previous (finished) book. We'll see how that goes. Not getting my hopes up, as even now I'm considering the current book I'm writing to be much stronger, at least from a writing and focus perspective. So if she doesn't like the one she has, I'll send her the new one when it's done, and rejigger the old one next.

Anyway, since I'm not foreseeing any activity on DA here in the near future, I was wondering what you lot thought of an idea I had. The prime reason for the hiatus is to keep focus on the work at hand--namely, the book. Making deviations is a LOT of work. A lot of thought and time goes into finding just the right stock photo (oftentimes photos), and then hours are spent cutting and assembling in photoshop to make it look just right.

So here's my thought. I go back to the beginning of the gallery...just post the sculpts. Untweaked, no background, just the sculpt itself. The alternative is wait till the book's done and hope that time and inspiration permit me to go back to the exhaustive photoshop route. At the moment, I imagine I'll be heading straight into outlining the followup book, or, if necessary, re-tooling the previous book. But who knows? I know it kinda takes away what was more or less unique about my gallery (can't say I've seen too many other artists making digital scenes out of sculptures), but for the time being, at least I'll have stuff posted from time to time. And, who's to say I can't update these later on?

Yea or nay, anyone?


P.S. Just got the full set of Final Fantasy IX Play Arts figures! Way overpriced at $30 a pop, but at least we're not getting toasted like we will with the FFXIII figures--$40 a head.




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PROJECTS IN PROGRESS

Non-FF Fanart Sculpt #1: Jade, Beyond Good & Evil...[link]
OC Character from my book: 100% sculpted, 100% painted.
Non-FF Fanart Sculpt #2: 100% sculpted, 100% painted.
Anime Fanart Sculpt: Idea's on hold...
Non-FF Fanart Sculpt #3: 100% sculpted, 100% painted.
Next sculpt: Which piece of his is (still) undecided.
The Book: Complete()
Prequel Book: 95% planned--currently WRITING!

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