GirlGlycerine

I cannot believe how long it's been since I've posted anything.  I'm still alive, I'm doing better mentally and emotionally (for the most part, lol) and my focus has been getting my life on track the best way I know how.  It's been a really rough and hard road.  Still not where I'd like to be, but I'm much better than I was a few months ago.  That's about all I can say on that.

Unfortunately, I haven't really picked up a pencil since this year came in.  I've been so focused on other things, that even when I do try to sketch, nothing comes out.  I stare at the page and wish I could just pop the necessary images I'm thinking about onto the paper telekinetically.  However, the novel is coming along okay.  There have been complications something serious, but it's still in my top primary focus.  Also worth mentioning, I've been away from home A LOT in recent times.  I had an awesome and eye-opening week long trip to a tiny, quiet town in (DEEP) South Georgia with an old god-brother of mine --- good times with good, kind super-country people .  Also, I have been spending much time in country/suburban Douglasville with my big sis and her flock.  While it's been nice to get away from the crackheads and pollution of my city, I'm still a city girl when it comes down to it and the country air can get a little too fresh at times.  Never thought I'd miss the hood-- but not too much, lol.  At best, these trips have been like, desperately-needed Lysol for my once dingy soul.  Done a lot of thinking, planning, and soul-searching, and I'm gaining unbelievable clarity for which I am truly thankful!  Also, recently, I've been told to start planning for a trip to South Beach sometime between July and September-- and I've already got two bikinis ready for the occasion!!   Knowing me, there will be pictures taken

On the truly outrageous good news I can report, I have lost 30 lbs since the beginning of this year, and for that I am a happy camper!!  I plan to lose 20 more before my birthday.  By hook or by crook, you WILL see your girl cosplaying as Kaze before the end of this year.  There are many plans for that as well, and I am excited.  (If I can find a suitable Reiko cosplayer to team up with, that would be the cat's meow for photo ops!)  Plans, plans, plans!!

So hopefully, in the next, say, 3 months or so, I will have artwork of interest to post.  I'm still in a bit of a rough patch here (I hope it'll be over soon), so that's the best I can predict for now.  I truly miss each and every one of you deviants!  I wish I could at least be around to offer some support, but I don't have decent computer access for now.  On the plus side, though, I'm not as plagued with depression as I used to be!  Maybe that'll help me focus on getting some more artwork done.  Oh yeah, my subscription will be over in a couple of days, so the pretty page will be going back to *blech* and plain.  I hope to get that fixed in the next month.

my dA friends!

Til Next Time...

Okay.  I'm officially swamped with stuff to do.  Not in that cute productive way, either.  We're nearing migraine territory.  No complaints, that's just how it is for now-- and as always, I am doing the best job I possibly can, staying positive and focused, and holding my head high with my massive rack poked out to draw attention away from everything else, lol.

So I'm backed up on pics to do.  I'm still trying to get my comic book up to snuff (and fighting the urge to just trash it and start over on it... AGAIN, *sigh*), 3 other personal pics to do (one of which I've been working on since May), a color job for , a weekly comic to work on with , tattoo commissions from some old classmates, typing up on a novel version of the book, and I have to re-design Reiko's battle gear... AGAIN-- which is why I'd be better off scrapping the old comic and just starting the hell over, not to mention a handful of other requests I just had to turn down, as well as life outside of artwork.  If it wasn't all muggy outside and I had the energy to spare, I'd be tearing my hair out by the handfuls, lol.  Sometimes I just don't know where to start! {Side note: To anyone who dares to judge me for my stress-managing vices, go suck on a whale's cloaca!!!}

So, that being said, if it takes me forever to respond to any of your kind and lovely comments, I implore you to not hold anything against me!  They say idle hands are the devil's workshop, but what's the adage for when you're juggling a lot of things?  My mind is in 5,000,000 different places right now, and that number isn't quite the exaggeration you may think it is.

Okay, so, once again, my comic is ON HOLD.  I'm not going to touch it anymore in the next few months, and when I DO pick it back up, I'm going to just start it all over from scratch... AGAIN.    It's for the best, and you know what they say-- Third time's a charm (I hope).  Two of my three personal pics are on hold.  Reiko's battle gear re-design may begin in the next week or three, as I won't even THINK about coloring it.  On top of all this, I'm still trying to finalize my cosplay for Dragon*Con. I had finalized preliminary sketches for DualMask's Jet Jam, but haven't been able to work on it beyond that, so I will regretfully have to wait for the next go round. *sad face*

In the meantime, I do have some character designs of yore that are still pertinent to my book, but they will simply be the scanned sketches, no colors.  I think there are a little over 20, and I'll revive a pic I posted last year, as she is the official design for the character now.  I may be able to post them and give you pinches of their histories.  Thank GOD for copyrights.

Alright, I gotta get out of here and run an errand.  See you guys around when I see ya, much and respect!


Til Next Time....

Meh... the last few weeks have been odd.  The best way to describe them is just a test of my strength and the bringing forth of my latent desire to never throw in the towel.  Like a whirlwind of crummy news and crappy situations.  But you know what?  I'm still here, doggone it, and no matter what, I always muster up enough faith to keep myself afloat.  Faith that things will get so much better in ways I may never be able to imagine.

All that aside, I recently found an animated gif of Jupiter's rotation... and before I knew it, I was searching around for facts about the planet.  I know it's strange, but when I was in elementary school I LOVED science and astronomy.  Like, a LOT.  I borrowed every book I could about the planets in our galaxy that I saw in the library.  I loved seeing the gorgeous images of the planets on those slick pages, and there wasn't a fact I couldn't recall.  *Thanks, Atlanta Public Schools, for knocking me off track, lol*

Seriously, though, I was all up in Wikipedia, re-learning stuff I'd learned ages ago, and some new stuff, too...  Way back when, Jupiter was known to have 16 moons.  Now, it's 63 confirmed!!   What a difference several years makes...  I had never seen the animation of planetary rotations, never saw them in such detail... I even found pictures that put the size of this planet in its place.  It was mind-blowing, and I couldn't stop going on and on about all the new things I'd learned.  I was asked if I had worried about any of the BS going on in my life while I was burying myself in my astronomy refresher... and the answer was no... Seriously, I didn't have a single care in the world!  Aside from feeling a little ignorant because of some of the less familiar terminology, I was happy as a clam.

Since my younger days, I've had very unusual astronomical dreams...  Mostly involving the Moon, Jupiter, Saturn... I've had some dreams that Earth actually had 3 moons, and it was like, wow...  I couldn't imagine what that would be like in reality, but the dream was pretty.  I had to pull myself away to eath, lol.  But I'm done-- for now-- because I have pictures to finish up so let me come back from outer space. :abducted:

I am working on a piece for 's Jet Jam, two of my own pics, and have recently been recruited on other work.  So I'm staying busy...  I have gotten a request to post one of my old modeling photo shoot pics, and I need to decide which one.  Lots of work to do, and nary a complaint.  I'll be around to support my other deviants in the meantime, but I couldn't tell you when I'll post some new work.  So hugs to all... and a little piece of advice: don't be afraid to pick something back up from your childhood days.  You never know what you'll learn

Til Next Time....