It's been a fifteen-year odyssey, from the first steps in 2009, when this blog launched -- when the art was simple, naïve, filled with the beginner's unavoidable errors -- to the present, when the work speaks for itself. I've wandered in and out of CG work, and these days I tend to concentrate more on digital painting ... in 2024, I'm still mostly a photographer, though writing is becoming more important each year, since I "turned pro" with story placements in the professional Science Fiction press. But I always find myself coming back to art, to painting. Yeeees, like everyone else, I've looked at AI. In all honesty, I don't really care for it, on so many levels, but on a "know thine enemy" scouting assignment, at least I took it for a spin and learned WHAT I don't like, and WHY. So here we are, fifteen years and more since the blog launched, and it's still here ... and I'm still here! We're both battle scarred, but the blog is currently in fairly excellent shape, after many, many hours of work to rid it of dead links, missing images, references to sites and blogs that no longer exist. Done. "Adventures in 3D and Digital Painting" is now firing on all cylinders. We're ready to roll -- and my new art gallery site is about 80% done too. I'm loading content, and it'll launch soon. 2024 is a whole new year ... I've promised myself, I'll try to make it a good one!