Sorry to hear you haven't been feeling like drawing as much. It's probably a buildup of a lot of things...the change in environment, like you said. I imagine the problems you had way back when with that publisher for ROSE didn't help. Hopefully you'll be able to get over your artist's block before too long. There'd be nothing worse than your favourite hobby becoming stressful work!

As for the VAs for Slayers, agreeing that it's probably just been so long. I'm with Joanne in that I'm surprised they didn't do some practice runs to allow them to get the feel for their characters again, but oh well. The release date's coming up, too!