The Forced Look

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You know life has a funny way of forcing you to take a different look at it. Sometimes that look requires a complete rethinking of how you move forward in it. Over the last six months this has happen to me. This isn't the first time and I highly doubt it will be the last. Those of you who have known me over the last few years and enjoyed my skins and so forth have probably thought I have fallen off the face of the earth. I assure you I have not. Rather, I've been forced to rethink how to move forward. I have not been skinning, or doing much of any graphics as of late. A different direction has been called for.

Admittedly, I don't really mind either… meaning nothing personal to anyone or anything. In the beginning it was all in fun something fresh, challenging and new. I'm not sure when that changed but it mutated into something else… something more like a chore then something I enjoyed. My art has never been that and I didn't actually even realize it until my recent absence from it. On the flip side of all this I have started to feel the urge to do 'something'. What? I'm not sure. But, it is a feeling I've had before and I know what it is. Its a building up of a need to get an idea out, an image, to create a 'thing'. Is this good? Of course it is, after all I'm an artist and its what we do right? I've stepped away from my art on several occasions in the past and this always seems to happen. No matter what you can't stay away from it forever.

What to expect now… I've had a skin on the back burner I was working on as a 'Master Skin'. Recently I've reopened and reexamined it. It was nearly finished with only a small portion needing to be done. At this stage I'm thinking of finishing it off for Vista and checking some of the 'new stuff'… once done I'll release it as a free skin. Yes free… mostly because I've been away for awhile now but also because you great people deserve something… plus, if your anything like me you started all this for fun… and paying for a skin is ok but not paying for one is (in this crappy economy anyway) just that much more pleasing.

As for after that…. we'll see
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What ever you end up doing in the future, I'll always support you.

You do realize, that I have you to thank for the progress I've made as a skinner. You always have made time for me when I nagged you with my questions and I'm very grateful.

Keep in touch, Shawn


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