Just to let the few of you who do watch me that from now on most of my art will be updated to my new site, rather than here. I'll still put stuff up from time to time, but most worthwhile stuff will be at [link]

It's still under construction as of me writing this, but hopefully will be finished tonight!

I literally just came upstairs from watching 'Lost Land of the Jaguar' which, although I only saw the latter two episodes has just been fascinating to watch, just watching it has given me an urge to go off to a rainforest and just take photos of every single animal I see there until I just can't do it any more, just the idea of so many species... I mean I've been in Cornwall this last week and done a fair bit of searchign for animals, I saw just in the way of birds:

Herring Gull, Great Black Backed Gull, Lesser Black Backed Gull, Peregrine falcon, Kestrel, Buzzard, Fulmar, Stonechat, Rock Pippit, Meadow Pipit, Robin, Wren, House sparrow, Oystercatcher, Cormorant, Fulmar, Sandwich Tern, Woodpidgeon, Garden Warbler, Swift, Swallow, Sand Martin, House martin, Gannet, Skylark, Pied Wagtail, Turnstone, Curlew, Song Thrush and Dunnock

Now if I can see thirty species, and there will be some I've forgotten or couldn't identify, just in a rather limited habitat like moors and cliffs and gardens, there must be thousands upon thousands of things in the rainforests.... plus millions of insects, dozens of mammels (I saw both grey and harbour seals and thats about it on this trip) plus a ton of reptiles and amphibeans (in britain we have 3 snakes, 3 lizards, 2 frogs, 2 toads 3 newts and the occassional sea turtle) it must be just brilliant, and the thought of loosing all of them is just frankly terrifying... I must admit being slightly jealous of all the wildlife my brother got to see, having just returned from his trip to Uganda...

At the end of this last show however though, they revealled that the Guyanan government is willing to not log ANY of its jungle whatsoever should it be given financial aid by other countries to compensate for not logging, which is entirely fair enough.

So I came straight up to my computer to go to the government petition site and found the appropriate one, so I urge every single british person who reads this to go straight to
[link]
as soon as possible and sign it, and help save a whole countries worth of unspoilt rainforest!

I'd known for a while that the colours on my monitor where wrong... my poor old chunky monitor - it was second hand nine years ago when I got it with my first computer belonging just to me. But now writing this on my nice new 19" flatscreen - considerably bigger but considerably less desk space, I'm horrifed at the kind of work that the thing lead me to work.

With a more accurate colour palette a lot of my digital work looks rather dire as they were done on soemthign with rather different brightness and contrast....

Portal, Warlock on the Moors and Scholar of the Arcane in particular need to be redone... or "digitally remastered" , which works out as fix the brightness and contrast

Urgh.. how embarrassing....

Well, I've just wandered around and done some house-keeping stuff on my profile - I now have a new icon (my One Million Masterpiece Image) and a new Literature Tag - having used a technique I came up with for my project but that didn't work as well as hoped for that, comes into play here well.

Plus a nice new character drwing, which beyond one dubious elbow, I'm quite pleased with.

Well, another disparate update today - this time to say I've finished my first year of my Game Art Design Degree, yay. Hopefully I got a good mark, anyway.

Also a slight further note - I've got rid of three earlier pieces as they don't really stand up properly against my more recent stuff, or even, stuff from the same time. None were favourited so I don't think they'll be missed.

Alex