Last year, I said I'd be back. I wasn't.

In the mean time, I've been shooting some photos. I've uploaded a few, maybe I'll get some comments. Maybe I'll upload some more.

I have been out of this game for more than 3 years. I never expected to update my journal here.

On total impulse, I bought a new Wacom today. I walked into a random computer store, and before I knew it, I was walking out of it 5 minutes later with a Graphire 4 XL in a bag. Not sure why I did, but heck, seeing as I have it now, I might as well try and make something.

See you around.

Rik

There is always a time of coming, being, and going. Coming is the past, and for me, so is being. My time here on DevaintArt is over. DA is a closed chapter for me. Why? Lately I have been visiting DeviantArt less and less, mind you, it's not DA's fault. I have been too busy to be able to do two things: Be active here, and be active on graphic-forums.com. So then I had to choose. This choice was quite simple for me, GF would be my place from now on. DA has made me an artist, DA has made me meet many great artists, but there was one thing missing. True friendship. For that DA is in my opinion too large. Too many people, too much art submitted per second, DA is a place where one is not capable of viewing and following everything that is happening, unfortunatly. This however, is just my own view. So yes, this is a goodbye. This is a goodbye to DeviantArt, a place wich I have always enjoyed.

I will be active at Graphic-Forums: [link] , so come see me there if you feel like it. My art here will be left up for all of you who enjoy it, and so will the rest of this account.

Goodbye.

Rik Elmendorp,
digitalmind

Exactly at this minute, 1 month ago I posted here that I would take a break. This break has brought a lot of changes, some for good, some not. One thing is sure, my style and skills have pretty much warped completely. Not so much my style as my methods. I have learned and seen new things, new methods, new ideas.

Expect something new soon, atleast I hope

Well, here I am, sitting, writing this. Just what is this? Some gathering of bits and bytes, producing a couple of pixels, displayed on some wacky tv screen. Does it have a meaning? No. Does it have some point? Not in the closest. All I know at the moment is that my path is blocked. Blocked by a giant artists block.

Over the past few weeks I have been sitting here, with Photoshop open, trying to create something new, trying to create something different. I failed. Do I want a different style of art? No. I love planetscape, that is, I love different planetscape. Truth is, I haven't seen much of that over the last few weeks, just more and more of the same. Yes, I do create planetscapes. No, not all my work is as original as I want it to be.

This is exactly why I am writing this. You see, I need a break. I want a break. I'm pausing the upload and showoff of images as long as I feel needed, till I am able to create something truly unique and new. You might say that everything has been done before, well, I don't know about that, but if it has, I'll come to realise that over my period of pause. And then, well, I think I'll try to find something else. We'll just have to see how long it takes.

So yes, this is a goodbye in one way, and in the other, it's saying hello. It is a goodbye to my standard style of planetscape. It is a hello to something different, probally still connected with planetscape in one way or the other, but not completely the same. Only time will tell what it will be.....



In the mean time, check out GF at [link] . You won't regret your time spent over there.




I will be back, just count on that.

Rik, digitalmind