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Important note to current commissioners!
8 years ago
I need to apologize for the lack of updates in the past few weeks. Due to various personal issues I've had to deal with this autumn I was completely exhausted during the holiday season, so I opted for setting aside most ongoing projects. Then on January, just as I was getting back to work, I suffered a fall from a horse which left me with all sorts of pain in the drawing shoulder and difficulty moving the arm. :-P
At first it just seemed to be a strained tendon since the pain was not very strong and there was no swelling or bruising, so each day I was hoping it would fade quickly and decided it wasn't necessary to write a note about it, but that was a mistake since it was recovering very slowly. While I've recovered some arm mobility by now, it turned out that there is a small fracture near the head of the humerus. It's non-displaced so it should heal without need for surgery but it aches constantly and prevents me from lifting and rotating the forearm normally, as well as disrupting sleep and being a general hindrance. It has recovered to the point I can draw and type again but it might take a couple more weeks before I can move the elbow well enough to resume the paintings. In the meanwhile I'm working on the pencil part, so at worst I'll do all the pencils for current commissions before moving on to painting them in sequence.
I'm very sorry I didn't warn about it immediately as I should have - as mentioned I hoped it would get better much faster than this. :-/
At first it just seemed to be a strained tendon since the pain was not very strong and there was no swelling or bruising, so each day I was hoping it would fade quickly and decided it wasn't necessary to write a note about it, but that was a mistake since it was recovering very slowly. While I've recovered some arm mobility by now, it turned out that there is a small fracture near the head of the humerus. It's non-displaced so it should heal without need for surgery but it aches constantly and prevents me from lifting and rotating the forearm normally, as well as disrupting sleep and being a general hindrance. It has recovered to the point I can draw and type again but it might take a couple more weeks before I can move the elbow well enough to resume the paintings. In the meanwhile I'm working on the pencil part, so at worst I'll do all the pencils for current commissions before moving on to painting them in sequence.
I'm very sorry I didn't warn about it immediately as I should have - as mentioned I hoped it would get better much faster than this. :-/
I was bucked off a horse in 2008 and I have never had bruises like that in my life. I was very lucky that I didn't break anything, but it took over a year for all of the purple to disappear from my legs. Ouch!
Get well soon!
I have been in this position before, its not your fault.
Just try everything to get better and dont stress yourself.
Auguri di buona e completa guarigione!
Take it easy but don't forget to do your physical therapy. I lost a year working on my house by hurting an arm. I was so useless that I later broke my finger the same year! I had to focus on getting better.
In all honesty, though, I'm sorry to hear of your injuries. Please, take it easy and get well soon!
I totally feel for you, I had similar but much worse fracture back in 2013. Simple misstep ended up in two surgeries. Luckily it was my left arm. But as 3D art requires using both keyboard and mouse at the same time, I was in trouble to do anything. The solution turned out to be buying a gaming mouse with lots of programmable extra buttons, so that I could do all the work using only my right hand.
Luckily again, there's no lasting damage except for the fact that my left elbow doesn't want to straighten fully, stops just several degrees before that. But it's not noticeable in practice.
I can see that you came back to working on your art, so I hope it is all well by now, or it will be very soon!