Hey all!

Just leaving a quick journal to let you know Dimbi hasn't fizzled out, it is still very much alive! I've just had a few rough weeks but I assure you the next eppisode will be up soon!

So the first "official" episode of Dimbi is finally up, I mentioned in my post that it was a real learning curve doing this, let me explain...

I've had a graphics tablet for a few years now but I've never been brave enough to actually draw straight into Photoshop with it...It's a shame really because it's a really nice tablet, a bit old now but it cirtainly gets the job done! It's a Wacom CTE - 640 I nice little A5 model.

Now that I've tried it, I'm pleasently surprised at how fluid it feels, the only major problem I have is that when I'm working on paper I can move the paper around to best suit what angle I'm drawing, I guess I'll just have to get used to drawing from different angles, so some of my images may look like a chimp drew them (I mean even more so).

In a nut shell, I think I'm glad I'm making the switch to Graphics Tablets, it should hopefully mean more art and sketches getting dumped on here.

Also, I found out that a new WoW expansion is on the way, "Cataclysm" will introduce 2 new races (Goblins on horde and Worgen (Squeeeee!) on the Alliance) and will feature Deathwing the black Dragon as it's main boss, Great!

I was happy with all the new stuff they plan to introduce, phazing zones, flying mounts in Azeroth, new quests etc etc... There is only one thing I'm not too sure on...New race/class combos...

Some of them are ok, I mean Human hunter makes sense really, even Gnome Priest...but Tauren Paladin? Nightelf Mage? Dwarf Shaman?! It all seems a bit odd to me..I mean I can live with it, I just won't roll that combo, but it just seems like an odd choice to me, if any race should get Shaman I honestly thought they'd give it to Nightelves...

But anyway, I'm sure we'll see more popping out over the next year or so and I look forward to it.

Laters.

Look! Look down there on the newest Deviation section, count them, four, FOUR new images...the're stamps I know but still, IMAGES!

If you read up on the info on the new Deviations, you'll notice I'm starting on a new project, namely Denora, a world building project, the cool thing about this is that I can't slack off because I'm being pushed along by four other people, this naturally means images will start cropping up on the page again, hopefully you enjoy them.

Life has been an...interesting ordeal lately, my new job is a lot more stressful than I imagined and...ok fine I'm wasting the rest of the time on World of Warcraft, hey I aint gonna lie I've been lazy on the art front, not updating images and going weeks without even picking up a pencil...bu I'm not going to give all of that "life is hard" stuff to palm off the fact that i haven't been drawing, no sir, I'm going to give you the Gods honest truth.

I've been lazy, there you have it folks.

But now that I have a group of individuals routinely beating me until artwork comes out I have no choice but to get off my Velcro seat and start drawing again and it feels good! I forgot how much fun drawing was, I'd spent so much time at a computer designing letterheads and business cards that I forgot that drawing was my primary vocation, it felt good to get back at a drawing desk and actually pump out some images!

Ok fair enough the latest four aren't necessarily my artwork but that isn't the point, the point is that for the first time in about 4 months I'm drawing, and it's good to be back!

-S-