~ ABOUT ~ CREDITS ~ OLD UPDATES ~

~ ABOUT THE LION'S DEN ~

This is the boring page where I tell you how this site came about. If you just like looking at pictures, then go back to the Gallery.

If, by some chance, you're curious, keep reading!

I have always been keen on drawing and building things since I was a kid (and back then, a green smudge was masterpiece of a tree

and a black dotwas a bird. Or was it a plane?). I've come a long way since then. I never took any art subjects at school other than those

that everyone had to do to get through, and I don't profess to be the greatest artist that ever lived, but I'm happy with most of my work.

I mainly use pencils for the sole reason that they are easy to use and mistakes are quickly rectified. I occasionallyventure into paint

(but usually when this happens, more paint ends up on me than on the page). In 2006 I started to use PhotoShop to colour my line

drawings, and, as I mentioned elsewhere, I use snow when I can get my hands on it! Recently I've used pastel pencils on darker

paper for some of my drawings, and I like the effect it gives.

After hosting my work for several years on my own non-art websites, and in other peoples' galleries, the number of pictures I had increased

enough for me to justify setting up a website just for my art. The Lion's Den was born. I still have pictures hosted on a number of sites (and

you can find these in the Links section) but finally I have a site to call my own.

This is the third reincarnation of the site. The first version is hosted on a Geocities free account. I've nothing against Geocities, but the

adverts were starting to bug me. TLD 2 was a subdomain of one of my other websites, for about a week, before I was spurred onwards and

finally bought my own domain. TLD 3 now has it's own home at www.noweia.co.uk!

A few days short of this site being online for six months, I've had 2000 visitors from over 12 countries, including the UK, US, Canada,

Ireland, Germany, France, Spain, Australia, Sweden, Norway, Mexico and South Africa. Thanks to everyone for visiting and please keep

leaving your comments!

Now approaching a few years old, this site has reached 113 countries. Thanks to all for visiting my mutated corner of the interweb!

Enough waffle, go and look at some more pictures!

~ CREDITS ~

Thanks are due to the following people for helping to make the site what it is!

~ Elf for her continuing support and use of the scanner ~

~ Richard and Michael for the Snotter photos and the moral support! ~

~ Everyone at TNITB, TLKFAA, Deviant Art and Fanart Central, for their encouragement ~

~ Dad for the free website promotion! ~

~ OLD UPDATES ~

05.10.08

The Lion's Den is finally getting underway again. Updates are continuing, but most of the site is now back up and running.

28.06.08

The site is currently undergoing some minor restructuring so some of the menus and links won't work yet. I hope to be done in a few days so if you can't see what you want please come back later and try again!

25.12.07

Mega-update today, with 61 new pictures added to the site. Check out Horses, Animals and a new page - the 100 Pictures Challenge.

Now 262 pictures online. Happy Christmas all!

13.09.07

Two new pictures uploaded, one in Animals and one in Landscapes. Now 201 pictures online!

28.6.07

Big update. 13 more pictures under Animals! I have been so incredibly busy lately because of exams, hospital and work experience that I haven't

been able to update as frequently as I'd like. I've also had problems with the web server, which kept inserting random characters into my pages

every time I tried to save them. Hopefully this glitch has now been ironed out, but if you spot any lost 'Å's about the place, let me know! Also, I've

now had over 2000 people come through these pages, and I have 199 pictures up on the site. Please keep your comments and emails rolling in!

15.2.07

Just one more picture today, under Animals. I've also reorganised the Animals page - the different sections were starting to bug me, so all pictures

are now under one category. Also, in Snow, new pictures are now added to the top of the page.

25.1.07

First update of the year, and there are five new pictures on the site, in Animals, Horses and Snow.

9.11.06

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11.08.06

The Animals and Horses pages in the gallery are now up, the others will be coming soon.

29.06.06

Welcome to the new look version of TLD! This version of the site uses frames, so if your browser doesn't support them, then you can access the old

site here. However, the old site will no longer be updated.