But not living on a prayer.

After months of living here I decided to finally get my office tidied up and have thrown out loads of crap I either no longer needed or forgot I even had. Soon I’ll actually be able to get at my drawing desk and not just my computer desk. It’s slowly getting me back in a creative mood but I’m still finding it hard to get motivated back into drawing daily. I needed more of a muse than just a picture of Audrey Tautou and a card advertising Marvel’s Civil War, so I’ve made my own little “mood board” of pictures and photos I like to help start motivate me further.

This afternoon I watched Two Days In Paris, which has also helped stir the creative juices within. Admittedly I bought the DVD purely because of my obsession with Paris, but I’m so glad I did. The synopsis on the back of the box really doesn’t do the film justice, but then I guess it’s a hard film to sell as nothing really happens, it simply follows a couple as they spend two days in Paris visiting “her” parents before they return to “his” home of New York. The cultural differences are played up a lot, often for laughs, but the main thing that impressed me was the script between the two main characters. They talk and argue like a real couple, it’s scarily realistic. The narration, from “her” point of view, is also spot on. This is certainly up there with Amelie and The Science Of Sleep for me.

So this has helped renew my faith in my own work and helped me steer some of my stories in a certain direction that before I was maybe a bit afraid of going in.

Now, just need to get the other half of the office cleaning finished and I’ll be ready to go!