The Drawing Room: July 2002

28 July, 2002

Night Owl Moon Shadow

Courtney Miner wrote:
Backround is black and fireflies inthe dark sky, the bright white moon makes so many shadows in the night owl ohing, windy is making the trees rustel in the night allyou could see the senery around you and not feel yourself stading there.

23 July, 2002

Cheshire Cat Smiles

Tasha wrote:
I'm a big Disney fan and I was wondering if you could do either the cheshire cat from alice in wonderland or tinkerbell and tigerlily from peter pan. I love your work and I can't wait to see what you come up with

20 July, 2002

Get Knotted

Renee wrote:
celtic dolphin with flames around it - lots of colour

18 July, 2002

Wheely Very

John O'Hara wrote:
I have a site that helps Arts Poets Bands Models Writers Photographers Comedians And Fashions.
The name is Turboa Publishing.com
maybe and idea is a character on wheels that helps bands if its made facing the left of pc screen i can get it to move acrooss to the left.
I also would like to add your site, and exchange links.
the addys is http://arts.turboapublishing.com
main site http://www.turboapublishing.com

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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 ...