Jaime, I must admit I was having that long artist/colorist block. it started around the time I was drawing my second request. Before that I was doing well because with each picture I was discovering something new and making my art better, but during that block phase I sort of lost interest in drawing. or the themes themselves, I don't know...
They "improvement feel" comes from the fact I was really in the mood to draw and was interested in the theme and colors. Do you know when you dedicate yourself to something and put your soul into it . That's all it is

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Ah, well I'm glad you finally got over your coloring/art block. As for your response to the improvement I noticed, I figured it would be something like that. You're an artist who does a lot of requests, which is very cool, but I imagine if you do to many requests, sometimes you could get easily burned out. For me, and my songs, I do my best composing at random times. I can, but it's just not the same when I sit down, and demand myself to compose a good song. I imagine if someone requested for me to compose a song for them, it wouldn't turn out as good as I would of liked it to. Of course if someone asked me to compose a song for them, and I was in the right mood before they asked, it might turn out okay.
Have you heard of the songwriter/vocalist Steve Poltz? He lives in my city, & used to work with Jewel a lot when she was living homeless in San Diego. Anyways, recently someone from 1 of the native American casino's in my town asked, & payed him to compose a jingle for 1 of their new TV commercials. Well, he had 1 week to come up with something, but it just wasn't happening. So anyways, time went by fast, & when the deadline came up, he still hadn't came up with anything. Well, had they payed him quite a bit of $ to do this up front, so he had to come up with something. Well, on his way to the casino he randomly came up with something simple right before their meeting. Luckily, even though he didn't like what he came up with, the people @ the casino loved it lol.