As an artist, sometimes it can get very difficult to break new ground. Right now, I am having a very hard time coming up with original designs worthy of a drawing. As anyone who has viewed my gallery knows, I am quite prolific; most of that has to do with the technique I developed of editing works, increasing my productivity tenfold (literally-every new design I make gets edited into nine additional variations). Sometimes, this produces some real gems; mostly, it produces a lot of repetition. I sometimes can't tell my own works apart, save by looking at the names. Anyway, not every design produces good edits, and I try only to submit the most worthy ones here (you should see some of the crap that didn't make the cut...). When it comes to drawings, I have to consider both the original design and the edits. I can churn out digital works in a matter of minutes sometimes, but drawings require more concentration, time, and effort, so they must be good works of art on their own merits, irrespective of how good the edits look. For this reason, it's hard sometimes to produce original, worthy designs for drawings. I have considered revisiting old designs, notably Shogun with a Shotgun, and simply executing them differently, but I worry that that's too derivative-like trying to reuse toilet paper. I generally only get one use out of a design, although I have taken digital designs and used them in drawings. Usually, the end result is different enough to warrant a second usage. Furthermore, my work concerns overlapping and interleaving patterns, and there are only so many ways to do that. I sometimes feel as though having a distinctive style like my own limits my thinking, keeping me from considering options that my style cannot support. At any rate, right now I cannot seem to come up with a workable design, so my next drawing will probably take awhile.