I slipped into a non-active state on here again, and I apologize. :<
My inspiration to draw had been wonky for the past couple months, so I hadn't been producing much until recently. I hadn't had hours at my job for a month, so I was stressing about that and a plethora of other life stuff which was probably what was sapping my motivation.

BUT
Got a new job within the company that has consistent non-seasonal hours, and it's close enough to walk to!
My car's brake line burst yesterday which means no driving for me for a little while, which sucks but I'm extremely grateful it happened to break about 100 feet from my house instead of on the highway or something. :<

So here's some stuff that's happened while I was away/lurking:

My boyfriend  nimitz42 gave me his old computer as an early birthday present! It's roughly 2357348547854 times better than my old one. (For reference: It took over 5 minutes to open Photoshop with my old one. With this one it takes about 5 SECONDS.)
Everything about it is better. My old computer couldn't handle a single game of any kind, couldn't run Livestream or watch it without difficulties, and slowed down to an almost complete stop whenever I tried to have an audio call with a single person on Skype and draw in Photoshop at the same time. It was all around slow as balls.
His old computer (now mine) has 8Gigs of RAM, 664 gigs of free hard drive space, a processor that can actually process, a graphics card that can handle pretty much any game I can throw at it, and it's connected to my TV via an HDMI cable which makes everything look delicious. Even the screen resolution is better! Now I can draw on much bigger canvases in Photoshop without fear of incapacitating lag, which will help me create smoother looking pics in the future! I also got SAI and will experiment with that as well. AND I can now Livestream if anyone wants to watch me draw!


In other news, my 22nd birthday is tomorrow, October 7th! Nim and I were supposed to go to a local chowder festival, but it's been moved to next Sunday because there's a 20% chance of rain tomorrow afternoon and 70% chance tomorrow night. That doesn't even make sense to me, I mean the festival ends at 5! >:I

But I guess that's a possible meet idea if it would garner enough interest by next week. :o
It's in Haverhill, MA, and it's from 12 noon to 5pm. $10 per person to get in, get free unlimited chowder, and see live bands and whatnot. http://www.winnekenni.com/chowderfest2012.html

So I think that's it! I'm going to be experimenting more with a detailed "painted" looking style now and then, so let me know what you think!