EPIC Project Chatter

[ElectronChaser]

I haven't opened up Photoshop since the tournament. Longer was the break before that. Nothing provides me with inspiration.

I look at Fark contest with a measure of disgust. What was once my motivation for learning Photoshop has become a mind numbing field of cut and paste. I hold it no ill will. At some point I decided I wanted to pursue the "artsy" aspects; I joined PSC. After a while the pressure to perform and the comments on some hard work caused me to look at source pictures with trepidation. The ideas faded away from me. Still it isn't entirely the sites or the members. Work and raising 5 year old twins leave me little time for anything anymore.

I haven't seen an idea in a source picture for as long as I can remember. Even the tournament entry was simply "fiddling" until something came to mind. How I even came up with something intelligible, much less placed in the top 3 I will never know.

I am currently hand drawing a picture for a friend. I hadn't even seriously picked up a pencil and paper in over 10 years, but I was inspired. Hopefully I will get to the point where that finds it way into Photoshop, and I can deliver on that promise. I have my doubts.

I will sign up for EPIC, and I will always support my fellow Photoshoppers; most of all, a very kind Panda who can always find words to encourage, but I can make no promises to what I can produce. I will not bash Fark at all; as much as I hate what has become of it and the midless drivel I read there. Fark started me on my journey and I will pay it my respects for that. I try to never regret what is, only to enjoy what was.