The Drawing Room: February 2001

12 February, 2001

SpikyChain.com

thomas wrote:
SpikyChain.com
its gonna be a non-profit site. it will list and review rock clubs in the london area. cheers. i wont restrict you with a description of how i want it to look. use your imagination. all your pictures are amazing

03 February, 2001

I Beg Your Pardon?!

Corinne wrote:
I know you are snowed under, but I have a suggestion- you know when you are talking to someone and they say 'Ibeg your pardon?' in a very terse way- as if you have upset them, could you do that please- I mean a visual representation of the phrase 'I beg your pardon?!' very late felicitations for new year blah blah, David sends his love, I am very very excited.NB keep Fri 3rd August free, the free spirit in me must be represented!

02 February, 2001

Skaters Doing The Wicked Thing

s.pyle wrote:
A group of skateboarers doing the wicked thing on the ramps.

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Between 2000-2006 I ran a website, www.thedrawingroom.biz, where I drew pictures from ideas submitted by the public. It was a fun way to generate the motivation to draw, taking inspiration from a huge variety of visitors. Word of mouth soon led to hundreds of requests per week and after a while I went from drawing every suggestion I received to selecting only a few.

I found some success in selling A4 prints and temporary tattoos of the designs I had created, and eventually began to charge for each request, on the basis that the buyer would receive their choice of product once the drawing had been completed. The site grew larger and larger, holding a massive archive of illustrations, with reliable hosting from Net2. Then Namesco took over the company, bringing with this change a sudden implementation of charges for the high amount of traffic my site was experiencing. Their lack of technical support (relating in particular to suspected bandwidth piracy), coupled with the distraction of pregnancy, led to the decision to cut my losses and cancel my contract.

Now, with my time devoted mostly to my son, I don't want to maintain the same level of commitment to The Drawing Room. However, I do want a record of all that work to remain on the internet, instead of letting it sit forgotten on a back-up disk. So I will grab a few moments here and there to upload the 'best bits', probably working chronologically through the back catalogue. You never know, I may reach the most recent effort and find it in myself to start taking requests again ...