XL Vanity Mirror (Hi-Res + Extra Thoughts)

This is the hi res (~3600 px)! Thank you so much for your support.

A painting for DraenethDragon of Twitter! Draeneth is taking up the entire dumbbell rack at the gym, but I'm thinking someone doesn't mind.  The view is nice, after all.

This one's pretty straightforward, so I'll be pretty brief. c:  Draeneth is super kind and patient with me, and I absolutely love his  design. So doing this was a treat, even if it took me a lot longer than I  meant it to. Sorry about that, dude!! Regardless, love getting to do  more gym/fitness images, so I hope ya'll enjoy as much as I did making  it.

Thanks for letting me work with you again, Draeneth!! <3

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Whoof. It's been a bit. I hope the holidays have been being kind to all of you so far. Happy Christmas, Kwanzaa, Hanukkah, and more to those out there if you celebrate, and a Happy New Year. This year has been absolute hell, and while I know it won't flip any time soon, I do hope 2021 will be more kind to all of us down the line. And fingers crossed at least one con comes back, so I can see some of you in person for hugs. So no getting sick! That order still stands!!

I've been a rollercoaster for about a month and a half now. Work has been slow, and motivation and morale has been nearly non-existant. Most of my energy has gone into just existing and getting some food in me every so often. I don't know if it's from the stress of this year, or the work, or what. But it crushed me for a while there. I'm doing a bit better now, even if my drive is still sluggish and I'm distracted by games (damn you Steam) a bit.

But I'm hopeful, both about the near future and for 2021 as a whole for me and art. I'm going to be re-doing how I approach queues and work. I've been enjoying working with friends, and doing the work as I've needed to, rather than taking on a double digit queue and stressing over how long some people wait. And given hourly seems to still be causing confusion in new folks, I think a slight change is needed.

I'm going to be changing gears. Going to instead be taking work as needed, keeping a Trello list of a few slots (maybe 3?). As a painting goes up, I'll take on whatever sounds interesting that gets asked of me. And then friends can slide in at any time, so long as they know that it may take me a bit to get there to them. With any luck, this should hopefully mean more time for personal work as well, which I want to share in part here on Patreon when I'm ready and out on Twitter. I know that was my goal last year, and I'm still ashamed that I failed at it so, so badly. So it's not a promise, just a "If I can, I want to do this," sort of deal.

Going to be removing myself a little bit from social spaces like Discord and Telegram as well, during work hours. I think I'm just too wound up and keyed in to some of what's going on out there, and Twitter is -especially- bad for it. So, outside of posting stream announcements on it, I'm going to try to avoid being on these things during work time. Or if I am, like in Discord, I want to try to stay quiet and just stream work to friends in the channel, so I'm still focusing on the canvas rather than video games. Because I think I'm definitely a bit addicted to short-term gratification right now, which goes hand in hand with the giant workloads causing problems.

But that's a bit of a ramble. I hope my thoughts make sense...? I don't know that I'll have anything new before the New Year turns over, so if I don't, I wish again that you all get a chance to rest, relax, and enjoy the holidays. Stay safe out there, and with any luck, we'll see each other again soon. <3 Thanks for sticking with me during this hellscape of a year, and thank you doubly for letting me be even a small part of it. And, of course, for showing me support despite some of the rough times this year has held. That means... So much to me. I only hope these words show it. Thanks, guys. <3