It's been a bit again - BUT - I've nearly finished rendering out a scene I promised I *wouldn't* make for one of my pieces in the scrap folder (can never seem to get myself to stop doing those). All the flat colors are there and most of the linework for everything. All that's left to go is seeing how ambitious I want to be when it comes to lighting and shading the piece. Wish me luck because I'm moving into my least confident phase of digital painting.

Outside of that, been doing some practice sessions with my friend on speed painting, form, figure work, landscape - you name we've touched a bit of it together. Been a nice change of pace there.
In terms of what's been eating away at most of my free time lately - Hunt: Showdown. Of all the damn things... I hadn't touched a competitive shooter seriously in so long (likely Halo: Reach, it's been that long) and somehow this game has had an absolute stranglehold on me. After several months (around the time of my last piece uploaded), it's now finally started to wane a bit.
Been keeping up with and starting new writing pieces nearly on the daily, so at least that's something creative. Some more characters from my newer short stories I want to bring to the gallery but I gotta finish the ones I got started already. I'll get there eventually. Had the wild idea to just step away for a few months and just dive into writing a novel, reset everything going on in my life. Sounds like fun.

Anyways, I'm looking to create a more consistent presence here and that just might become more of an actuality seeing as I'm on the brink of finally leaving my current job I've held for roughly 6 odd years now; I don't think I can stand working at that place another month, it does nothing to stimulate me anymore - been humoring the idea of giving them a notice for the end of February. I plan on making that final decision within the next few days here.

That's me and what I've been up to - as always, wish everyone the best.

(Life's been good despite how this all reads :D)