The Drawing Room: August 2001

25 August, 2001

Hammock Snooze

kimberley wrote:
i envision a sleeping little girl outside in a hamock, white daisies in her dirty blonde hair

13 August, 2001

Surfer Girl and Turtle Shadow

Cassie Kahana wrote:
a wave breaking on to a shore, with a surfer girl coming down the wave, the background will have a sun setting, in the picture I would like to have a turtle figure taking up the picture but you can't really see it... sort of like an overshadowing.

07 August, 2001

Cyndi, in Graff

Cyndi wrote:
somethin with the name "cyndi" on it..in sorta big writing...maybe graf. or somethin neat..and also something in the background to add a little more to it.

01 August, 2001

4-dimensional Sphere

Alison wrote:
Could you please try and draw a 4 dimensional sphere, preferably with a few frogs in the background. This is something I have been trying to picture in my mind for ages, but have never quite achieved it. Ta.

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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 ...