Okay so I'd say it's about time to give you all an update about life and art and stuff so let's get started, cause it's gonna take a bit. I don't really have a plan on what to say so It's gonna be a bit rambley.

Firstly, I would have ideally liked to have a new ref sheet ready for the return, but I've been caught up doing other things. Between work stressing me out and other ideas for other projects, I keep pushing it back. It'll be done eventually, I just need to figure out a good layout and basically everything else about it. Also the whole "I'm GoNnA wOrK oN mY ArT" thing didn't really work out. Although I can say that I've improved, I've definitely not improved as much as I would have liked, and probably not even that much at all. That could just be me talking though. It all comes down to the fact that I'd much rather be drawing for fun than for practice, and that makes any improvement slow. Having the attention span of an overcaffinated goldfish doesn't help either. Baby steps though. I'll figure something out eventually.

Another thing, over the summer I bought Clip Studio Paint and have been using that pretty much exclusively since I've got it. As of writing this I haven't gotten brave enough to really start using it to it's fullest potential, but that day may come eventually. One day I'll teach myself how to paint and properly shade so that my art might go from "kinda mediocre" to "actually pretty decent", but that's not for a while.

And since I'm returning, I'm gonna be posting a bunch of art I've done in the past year-ish, from finished projects to gifts to doodles, as well as some unfinished stuff that will likely not be finished maybe. So be ready for an art dump.

No, I'm not sorry and I'm not gonna apologize. I'm also in the process of drawing 2 bigish projects (neither of which are my ref sheet because why would they be). One is a gift for a friend (that is now very late) and the other is a continuation of the "Cari meets Tio" comic I did a bit ago, so look forward to those within the next month ideally.

As for plans for the future, I'm gonna get back to doing normal stuff. AMApril is coming back this year, as is Inktober. June's gonna have some pride related stuff including but not limited to CariTio stuff and Felix because why not we need more Felix content. Maybe some random gift art here and there to spice things up. March is going to be dedicated to getting those projects done though, with the last week being for setting up AMApril. I'll give the announcement journal once the time comes.

As for the whole 100 followers thing, there will be a raffle, and it will be announced at the end of AMApril. The exact date will depend on how many questions get asked. It could be a week into April, or it might be up until the last day (although that's unlikely) I'll figure out the details at a later date, but know that that's coming too.

Alright, I think that's all I wanted to say. Let's hope the rest of this year is a good one!