Well, I've been an active part of furry fandom for about a month or so now. I'm pretty happy with how it's gone so far. I've improved immensely as an artist, but I've also realized how much more I have to grow. I've gotten comments on my pics from a lot of furs here, and I've seen a lot of excellent art by other people. I've even sold some of my originals on FurBuy. This is a good community and I'm glad to be a part of it.

My character is gradually becoming more clear in my head. Every time I draw hir, I get a better idea of what I want hir to look like. Of course shi's a shape-shifter, so I can explain it away when different pics have slightly different anatomy, like my male form's cock having a sheath in this pic http://www.furaffinity.net/view/3201025/ and not in this pic http://www.furaffinity.net/view/3318435/ ...but I'm trying to develop some kind of overarching system, some form of continuity, and it's starting to work, I think.

I'm taking more steps every day. Today I got a PO box, which will make the FurBuy thing a lot easier to manage (my latest stuff at http://www.furbuy.com/seller/tiliquain.html is up for auction through tomorrow). I'm also thinking about making myself a new fursuit one of these days. I hope our finances permit going to a con someday soon.

I'm going to try to interact more with people here. In RL, I'm at that difficult phase in my life where I've grown apart from the friends I had in school, I don't have much in common with my coworkers, and I'm trying to figure out how to arrange my free time so I can get to know more people.

Unfortunately, going without an active social life for so long has kind of caused me to retreat into a shell that I'm having some trouble getting out of. I used to be really social online-- I was hugely active in the Star Trek fanfiction world, and it was great. But falling in love can change us, and I lost a lot of my interest in fanfic when I met my mate and settled down. For a while it was just us, in the shell together, with a few people coming to visit occasionally... and that was nice and romantic at first, but I'm realizing that I need friends as well as a lover. Now I'm trying to reconcile this new shyness with my desire for social interaction.

Anyway, I guess I've psychoanalyzed myself enough for one day. I just want to say thanks to all of you for your encouragement and advice regarding my artwork, and I hope I get to know some of you better.