Daigohji

I'm currently pouring all my creative juices (eww) into writing my second novel, hence the lack of new artwork in the last couple of months.  There's still loads of my older artwork that I haven't uploaded, so that may appear soon.  I'm also tempted to sketch some armour and costume designs for the characters I'm writing about at the moment.

Over the next few days I will be uploading some of my older artwork, some going back up to the 90s.  Keep an eye on the Older Work folder in my gallery to see what has and hasn't changed over the years.

Always back up your files, it's the most basic of the basics.  I admit to becoming complacent sometimes, say, when I'm using a new PC.  You just don't expect a three month old PC to suffer total hard drive failure...until it does.  I kept telling myself that I'd buy some blank DVDs to back up my files, but I didn't, and lost everything I've done since October 2008 when my PC suddenly stopped detecting the hard drive.  The master files for the last four paintings I posted on DA are gone, along with the first chapter of my new novel and two unfinished musical compositions. In a way it's lucky that this did happen after only three months, as I