OK, so it's been more than a year since I've updated my journal here.  And, to be frank, I haven't created a whole lot of new art during that year either.  Obviously, that's something that shouldn't stand, so I'm going to try to be better about that.  See if I can get into a rhythm where I can produce at least a couple images a month.

The slump has been for a few reasons.  Creative endeavors that haven't always gone correctly, which of course sours one on the whole creation process for a bit.  Lack of inspiration and/or energy at other times.  Lack of time.  The usual excuses.

A large part of what's taking my time nowadays is that I've started a review blog, mostly for movies but occasionally other things.  If you're interested, you can check it out at Morgan on Media.  Finding a balance between that and everything else I do has been a bit tricky, but I'll hit equilibrium eventually.

In the meantime, there is some non-3D artwork that is due to be hitting my account soon.  Since somewhere around 2003, I've been making wallpapers of various superhero logos for a forum that I was a member of at the time.  That forum's membership split (amicably), and I went with the second group to a new forum, where I continued.  Recently, that forum has closed down.  So now I'll be uploading those wallpapers here, as well as continuing with more of them from time to time.  It's possible you've seen some of them elsewhere -- quite a few of them were re-posted by other people all over the internet (and occasionally even used for bootleg merchandise... scumbags).  So, since the genie's out of the bottle, as it were, I figured the least I could do is make sure there's a place where they're easily found and where I'm getting my proper credit.

Most of these are simple, almost minimalist vector drawings of the logos.  Some get more elaborate, especially the ones from later years (where not only was I starting to get a little bored with the simple ones, but am also starting to run lower on mainstream recognizable designs anyway).  I'll be uploading them in packs of various sizes, and sometimes with various color variations in a single pack (I see no reason to upload all the color-flips of the Shazam! symbol separately, for example.)

This may take a while.  If superhero logo wallpapers aren't your thing, I won't begrudge you hitting the "delete" button when they start turning up in your message stack.  There are over 350 wallpapers currently, and I think only one of them is currently on my dA account (the Legion 3D Symbol wallpaper).  We're looking at a lot here.

Plus, I have a bit of work to do on a lot of these.  Going through the FAQ, it looks like dA prefers that the wallpapers not be in GIF format, which most of mine are in.  So they'll need to be altered to PNG (JPG is not advisable for vector drawings; artifacts suck.)  Further, although I'm not really going to sweat it if people spread them hither and yon (too late, in many cases), I will be putting my mark on a lot of them.  Usually it'll be pretty subtle -- in fact, in most cases, it'll only be possible to find it if you know how to look for it (the exception being elaborate ones such as the Legion 3D one, where it both warrants the extra "protection" and a watermark doesn't mar the experience too much.)  Also, since the FAQ lists some recommended sizes, I'm going to be creating new versions in 1920 x 1200 (for all but a few) to really cover the widescreen format, and 1280 x 1024 for "standard" resolutions.  Each pack will also contain 1366 x 768 wallpapers, since that is the resolution of my screen, so that's what I've been working at in most cases.

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Please don't upload these elsewhere without permission.  I know people will anyway, but I hope most will be respectful.

You may use these in your own images provided you make significant changes (not just a color swap), aren't just doing something I'm likely to do (such as neon versions in my style), and provide credit and a link back to the image page.
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If you have any questions, feel free to ask them here, or on the pages for the individual wallpapers.  I do ask that you please hold off on requests until I'm finished uploading all of these.  As I said, it may take a while -- and there's a very good chance I've covered anything you're going to ask for already.