So, I sorta drifted off of the map there for a bit? Mostly, I just had my nose down too much... I had the most amazing time at Illuxcon in late September, and it really changed how I was viewing things a lot, in a good way! I left feeling super inspired and encouraged, but subconsciously I think I was also a little bit intimidated by my own upped standards that I held myself to after all the great critique and guidance I got-- I wanted so badly to impress the people that I had gotten feedback from, to show that I valued what they had said. So I invested myself in studies for a while instead of new work, and then I had to shift focus to research for Nanowrimo, and then Nanowrimo itself-- all while working a new part time job, which has steadily increased in hours per week with the holiday season on. So, whew! I have been pretty busy.

But I think I let myself get a bit paralyzed by that desire to go forth and do awesome after the convention. In general, I've come to realize that I just need to let go of that sort of attachment on a lot of things and just let the work come, focusing on the process instead of obsessing on results. Doing it for myself instead of to impress anyone, etc... Been doing a lot of thinking, obviously! Anyway, I'm wanting to change the way I approach commission work in general, to meld it more with how I treat my personal work in terms of conveying emotion and atmosphere and character. So I hope that going forward I will be able to provide more interesting and soulful works.

Anyway, I just thought I'd drop an explanation for where I was and some of the stuff that is going on. I'm working on my goals for the coming year right now and I have a lot of exciting things planned that I hope to share with you in the months to come.