But I think I'm going to officially log off for a bit here, my life has taken quite the turn and I just can't stand to come back here everyday and be reminded on another front just how far behind I am.

I'm hoping for no more than a week to maybe two weeks, but I am prepared for the end of the semester to be my possible return.

I have lost three important people in my life in the last two weeks, two of which were people I have served along side with and unfortunately took their own lives. The other was a coworker that has forced me to attempt to go back full time while still make time for school.
With that being said,

School is my top priority at the moment, and I haven't been treating it as such. I fought so hard to get in this semester and the next and my focus on school just isn't showing that.

So with the bare bones being out there I'm officially logging off,

Until later.
Enrico

School has yet again come crashing down on me hard by not allowing me to register due to their mistake in my finical aid, so now I'm scrambling around like a chicken with its head cut off to make the dead line for one class; because if not my graduation will be pushed back yet another year.

I'm very stressed right now and am trying my best to work on the requests I owe, but doing clean serious work at the moment is just making my anxiety worse.

For future note, the next round of requests will most likely be the last time I open for them, or at least for a long while. I'm thinking 5 slots again; but due to my track record and the fact I need to obtain a second full time job over the summer to sustain myself; I just don't feel comfortable accepting requests due to the time I will be able to spend on them. Also the fact I have made the current queue wait for far to long has really discouraged me from even going on to accept commissions and requests at this point in my life. I feel awful making people wait, and I don't want to build a reputation on the limited time I have now.

The next round also will be clean sketch status only, the main reason I have upgraded this group to ink is due to the amount of time these poor folks have been waiting.

For those who are waiting, I thank you for your patients and ensure you that I am slowly working on them.

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The requests I owe (in no particular order).

1. - Hard lines sketch complete, waiting for ink.
2. - Finish knees down in sketch, hard line then ink.
3. - rough guidelines ( don't know why this one is killing me so).
4. - Rough sketch complete, needs tweaking before continuing

Well FE is this coming weekend, and as some of you may have caught on I have been rather busy this weekend.

I have one more badge to complete as well as meet my personal goal of getting at least one more of my due requests done before I leave. I will have my sketch book with me; though I will leave the light box behind and will be unable to work on them over the con weekend.
I also have three essays due over the next few days, but I am hopeful to meet all my goals.

I am real excited for this con, will be my first furry con and first in five years.
If anyone will be there send me a note if you would like to meet me or what not, I can be rather shy in person; but I do want to get out there.
I'll probably attend a few panels, will defiantly be at the dance/rave; if there is one. But most of all I think I will just be floating around braking out the sketch book from time to time.

Also I would like to note that I broke 1,000 page views and now have over 100 watcher,
I cant thank you all enough!

That's all for now,
Enrico

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The requests I owe (in no particular order).

1. - COMPLETE!
2. - Hard lines sketch complete, waiting for ink.
3. - Finish knees down in sketch, hard line then ink.
4. - rough guidelines ( don't know why this one is killing me so).
5. - Rough sketch complete, needs tweaking before continuing.

Well I'm officially cleared and getting back on me feet.

Have two midterms tomorrow but over all an early day,

I also plan on snagging my new light box while I am out so I can crank these requests out, drawing wise I guess I'm feeling good lately. Anyway so here's a break down of what I need to do.

The requests I owe (in no particular order), on hold until I get my light box

1. - COMPLETE!
2. - Hard lines sketch complete, waiting for ink.
3. - Finish knees down in sketch, hard line then ink.
4. - rough guidelines ( don't know why this one is killing me so).
5. - Rough sketch complete, needs tweaking before continuing.

It's official, I will be attending Furnal Equinox this year.

I have been mulling the idea over for a few weeks now and I decided that there is no better time than now to get my foot in the door and attend my first con.
It also falls nicely on a lew of my school schedule.

That's all I have for now, quick update I am continuing to work on art but due to the fact it's drill weekend I'm a bit more packed than usual through the month.

Well I finally caught up in school and I can take a breather and sit in the fact that of all my classes, only one is worrying me.

Still up in the air about my job, but the VA pulled through and I'm getting my GI bill when it is due to me.

So I'm hoping to get back to requests over the next few days, I really would like to do AT Least two a week, more is better but I need to be realistic in my goals.

As of now I owe the initial sketch for about 5 people and as I had said before I want to go back an refine or ink these requests to keep my gallery looking clean and finalized.

As I said before I'm trying to grow as an artist, and besides scraps, I don't want my gallery flooded with sketchy work.

Anyway I hope to get at least one up in the next day or so.

I got a huge ball dropped on me Thursday and I have been quite down and out. I also apparently missed my first week of classes and am already playing catch up there as I just registered the other day.

I needed a few days to myself to clam down from the just about loss of my job. I'm hoping to roll with the punches here in the next few days.

Sorry it may have seemed I was ignoring some and distant, I just needed a few days.