Pandemic Update (And Where to Find Me)
Yes, still alive during this pandemic, things have gotten difficult trying to find time to do art nowadays. It doesn't help when you're living in a state where Covid-19 cases are up the wazoo, yay...
I became much more active around Twitter and Discord, not a fan of DeviantArt's current site design to be honest, but I'll still be posting art here whenever I get a chance. I can't tell you my Discord username, but I can invite you to a few servers where I'm mostly active in.
Ani's Pillow Fort: https://discord.gg/BYT7gRf
(A former MLP server now anything geeky related (but we still talk MLP) running by a friend of mine LadyAniDraws who has done MLP art and comics, she is now in progress of creating an original comic titled Creda: Generations. As a bonus, we hold a weekly voice chat session every Saturday night.)
Blaze's Royal Palace: https://discord.gg/ApKAf2T
(A server entirely dedicated to one character from the Sonic franchise: Blaze the Cat. There, I'm currently a moderator.)
Garden of Souls: https://discord.gg/ewHJtWy
(Another former MLP server now dedicated to anything gaming and animation running by Youtuber Will-o-Wisp Gaming aka Magnus who's a huge fan of Shantae and Persona (and MLP). Be warn, this is also an +18 server.)
Japari Park: https://discord.gg/2RwfQqQ
(A Kemono Friends server for fans (like me) of the anime and games based on it where we can share art, gaming, knowing real-life animals, discuss anime, have a voice chat session during game night and drawing, and many more.)
The 'Dusting It Off' Update
- First and foremost, thank you all for the Birthday messages! As a present for me, I recently attended FL Supercon on Saturday and Sunday. I even had the opportunity to meet the man behind a certain plumber's voice plus several others. (Do check out my Twitter for photos)
- Art block has been hitting me HARD these past few months, aside of posting a few sketches on my secondary account.
- Speaking of which, I've been thinking about it for a long while, I believe it's time to retire my second DeviantArt account and start posting any new sketches (when it happens) to this main account.
- Sad news, my uncle that I've been living with for almost a decade had passed away in May due to severe bronchitis. Somewhere after 2019, I'll be moving to Orlando where my other relative resides in. For the time being, we've been busy storing away most of my uncle's belongings and keeping the current house going until the moving.
- I've been mostly active on Discord. (Not the MLP character, but a social platform.) I do have a server of my own for you guys to join, but it is still under construction.
- A bit of good news, I've applied to do a MLP themed zine collaboration project over on Discord, I figured this would help me get out of this art slump.
- Still planning to get my Youtube channel going.
- I should get this out of my chest, I received numerous notes of OC requests. You need to know that I can't do requests even if I wanted to. A sketch maybe, perhaps do a raffle drawing, but it may be a rare occasion?
That would be it for now, 2019 has been rough on me, but I'm just going to keep moving forward.
Future Plans
Sorry for leaving you all hanging, but boy do I got big news, just let me point to the video below to get you up to speed.
Short but Overdue Update
Long story short, things have been going awfully slow the past several months in getting a new PC what with dealing financial struggles in November and December. To make matters worse, laptop's hard drive disk has officially gave up (just before New Year) after 8 years of service, so yes, time to retire this laptop.
On the bright side, finance holdups has been dealt with, so it's gonna be several more months till I can afford a new one but the wait will be worth it.
(If this looks like I've been silent until this journal, well you should know I do have Twitter and Tumblr. :y)
A Thank-You, Plus An Update
So if you have not noticed, my laptop is pretty much near to its dying end because of the failing hard drive disk after almost 8 years of using it. I'm currently in the process of backing up my files just recently, more than 200GB worth. I will be most likely offline for a while until I buy a desktop (or a new laptop, we'll see), but I can use my Galaxy Note phone to check any messages although both the DA app and mobile site they made are rubbish, at least this gives me an excuse to use the ArtFlow app more.
I suppose that's it for now, thanks for sticking with me~