It's been a long time since another update to my journal, I tend to forget it's even there for this! xD
I'm just writing to keep those who read up to date with what I'm doing (and to occasionally set reminders for myself lol). Been on summer vacation since sometime early May, I decided not to really update since I was shifting from wrapping up finals work to focusing on commission work. Aside from really needing the money for said finals, it's about time I started doing commission work, and I finally felt comfortable enough to do it in the first place. I was fortunate getting the commissions I've gotten so far, and want to thank the people who helped me and commissioned me! It's really a lot of fun working with people's characters and develop pictures for people in general. As I do these I hope to constantly grow as an artist and steadily improve my work, and even over the course of this year even I can see a definite improvement! So I'm pretty pleased with this, but I can also see I have a lot of work to do.
All that said, I've fallen into a bit of slump these past few weeks; I planned to have a lot more artwork done in general (I've even got a few WIPs sitting around) but many complications at home have prevented me from focusing well. I don't really like to get into personal matters, but basically the past few years have been particularly tough, and the economy and such has had its fair share in making things worse. In short, working against this has been tough and sometimes I won't be as productive as I'd like. But hey, can't work myself to death, so I try not to beat myself up about it and take things easy
Anyway, won't make this too long, sometimes it's easy to make ridiculously long journals lol! This vacation has been pretty sucky, but trying to get through it and enjoy what I can. Been playing a lot of DS games when I can (currently playing Zelda: Phantom Hourglass!). I'm pretty excited about the lineup of some future games too, Tales of Xillia is actually getting localized, which is incredible news for Tales junkies like me! But, I'll save all that for a nonsensical/random update journal. I'll probably talk about future personal projects I'm planning as well, since there's a lot of 'em.
Welp, hope everyone else is having a decent summer! If anyone managed to read all this, feel free to post about your summer/life/whatever!~
And thanks to those that have commissioned me again!!