So, yes I have been absent for...gosh, over a year now. The short explanation being that life simply got in the way. Been fiddling with my art, but haven't had the time nor motivation to finish any of it.

Unfortunately, things have not improved all that much. Adding to yet another unemployment streak (laid off because things got slow), recently because of some glitch with my computer, all my drawing files got wiped out. Even a system restore failed to retrieve them. Got back everything *else*, but some of my more up-to-date pics, as well practically all my reference material are gone. The only saving grace is that some of my older files will still be on discs and/or my old computer, plus I have all the original B/W drawings that I can rescan. But the bottom line is now I have to *completely* start from scratch, including having to copy my pics from here to rebuild a reference library again, and rescan the drawings that I want to work on.

F-ing lovely.