Ok, so I didn't keep up doing the daily life drawings... Mainly 'cos I've been so busy after work and not even been at my house, but that's not the only problem. Even nights when I have been home I haven't really found the motivation to draw nekkid ladies.

Maybe the problem is that I was trying to do it because I felt I should get better at drawing people, more for other people than for myself.

I've found it quite hard doing my own projects the last half a year, since I started my full time job doing Flash animation. The main problem is my hobby is exactly the same as my job, so I've already been doing what I want to do at home during the day. I really love my job, but it's creatively draining and is having an impact on my projects.

I've found the only way to manage this issue is to make animating at home as little like animating at work as possible. So that means not pressuring myself to regularly work on something every day, and not to give myself deadlines or be too self critical of what I'm doing. I find the only way I progress at home after work or during the weekends is if I just do it for fun and go at the pace that best suits me at the time.

Also, after talking to some people, the general feeling was that I should work on Bored Aliens and my other animation projects, because anyone can draw naked ladies, but only I can do Bored Aliens -- and there's so much I want to show everyone. So the only thing I'm feeling inspired to work on at the moment is Bored Aliens.

Because it's animation, there will be a wait, and I won't be updating as often as people who upload still images into their galleries. If you want to know how things are going, just say hi if I'm on MSN and if you ask nicely I might show you how it's going.

I may upload some work in progress stills to my scraps.

Also, HBAS 2 (Hiylea Bored Aliens Short) is the first proper animation that I'm doing in Toon Boom Studio. So I'm learning as I go along, but it's a really nice program to animate in.

See you all around!