So I have been browsing around lately online. Kind of getting lost in looking at old doll sites and stuff. My muse has been absent for literally years now. Maybe it was creating too much, too fast, for too many years… or maybe it was just a natural fluctuation of artistic desire but either way, my muse has been gone.  I do mostly regular pixel stuff now but I started as a “doller”. I sucked when I started and now when I look at my old dolls I giggle. So horrible. I keep them though because they remind me where I started and how amazed I was to even create those. Time and patience taught me to draw decently. Not wonderful but I was happy with my creations as they came.  It’s been so long since I have been inspired by dolls. It’s really partially my fault because I wasn’t actively looking. I was just tired of pixels for awhile.

The thing is that while I was browsing I found lots of the old sites that originally inspired me. I remember seeing Angy Chan’s site for the first time many years ago and thinking “wow, I want to do that”. There was so much detail in such a small graphic. I was amazing, awed and inspired. Then I found other sites and artists like Xandorra, Dhaling, Mochidelicious, Pinkland, SCA and others.  Most of the original dollers that were around 10 or more years ago aren’t around anymore. They have either moved on to bigger projects or have lost interest and their sites sit, untouched. Then I found dolling forums like Realm of the Forbidden and The Underground and I think my head exploded. It was a giant grouping of people who loved to doll. I was sooooo inspired!

So my question to you is, if you were/are an artist, who was your inspiration? Which artist made you think “I have to do that”? Do you still do that type of art or have you evolved into other art forms or interests?

I just thought I would post and say I am still here. I have decided to slowly work on getting this back up. I don’t know how long it will take but I am here. Hope you all are well.

I have just tossed this up out of laziness. Hopefully I will get something up and running that is better than this shortly. If not well, youre stuck reading this lol.