Well the move went as well as could be expected. Now we are kinda settled into our apt in NC in the land of Marines. It's different but so far pretty ok, I can even find my way around a little.

Unfortunately I left my all in one printer/scanner/copier at home...so i'm not sure when i will get that back. Latest is when my friends make a road trip to come visit... On the positive side we do have a nice epson photo printer...so I'm going to fiddle with that and see how the prints are. I might be doing some of my own printing in the future.

I will be headed back to VT for a friends' wedding this weekend, but will be back early next week. Then things will settle down for a little bit and I'll be able to get into art again.

Commission info will be forthcoming!

I will be offering commissions on the following:

website design
web graphic designs
traditional artwork

I'm just waiting until it's time to go pick hubby up from the airport!! He's home to help pack and then we will move to NC next weekend. yey!!

I did upload some new art today. I have been bored and wanting to draw, ofc i packed up most my art supplies. So i hooked up my tablet to my hubby's desktop & dl'ed an english version of SAI and tested it out. I like it...tho my thumb hurts from using my tablet..i push to hard lol. think i need to change my tablets sensativity settings. I need more practice on it..i rarely use it. I have a hard time making lines go certain ways for some reason...usually i just turn the paper...but doesn't help when using the tablet lol.

So anyway I'll be gone for a week or so. But once I'm unpacked i should have new art (photography & traditional) to upload

We have most of our plans done for the big move to NC. Hubby will be home on leave next week for packing (fortunately most is packed up) and then we will make the long drive to nc. The only things left to do are finish packing, get sedatives from the vet for the cats, and confirm that cat friendliness of the hotels (they say they are, i told them we'd have cats when i made the reservations, but I'm going to call and make sure) cuz if we get there and there's issues about that..there will be words. Strong loud words.

Anyway, not sure about internet or when we will have that..so I will probably be offline for a good week or two. Especially since the weekend after we move, i have to come back here to VT for our friends' wedding.

AFter the move, and unpacking, and the wedding, i expect to be much more active on dA. I will only be taking one online class this semester, my last class to get my professional certificate in web design. Intermediate databases...woot? I plan on totally redesigning my website, and uploading lots more to my myspace, as well as getting long overdue art up here to da. I'm also going through old stuff on da and putting some in scraps and deleting stuff all together.

I finally have an appt in NC and a date to move in! I will be moving at the end of this month, and probably away from a computer for the last week of the month as hubby will be home on leave to help move XD

Artwise, i'm trying to draw everyday. I've been doing hand studies and realized wow..i used to be able to draw hands decently well...now they look horrible. But even the past few days I've noticed an improvement in the studies. I think i'm going to continue with hands until at least the end of the week. I'm not sure what to concentrate on next however... maybe body proportions? or maybe I should continue on with smaller bodyparts? Feet? eyes? faces? torsos? Hmm... yeah i think thats the way to go..then put it all together.

After I move i hope to be able to get my scanner up and running (or a new scanner) so more new artwork...and I do have some pics from this spring still on my camera so I should be uploading them as well.

I also hope to get a new computer after the move..right now working on mine is painfully slow. My desktop needs more ram. And my hubby's desktop recently lost one of it's ram sticks...and has no photoshop...so I can't do much on it either. I want to get a laptop thats good for gaming, and digital art & webdesign. So something with a good graphics card, ram and hd's ^^ If anyone has any suggestions let me know

Life
First off, I haven't moved yet...but should be soon (yeah i've been saying that for like a month). My hubby has looked at a bunch of places, and they either a. got rented out from under us, or b. nice outside, bad inside or c. no pets (or in some cases no cats) allowed. So i'm trying to stay positive and keep it together.

Secondly, i've started drawing more. I want to improve and am trying to draw a little each day at least. I'm really looking for anything that might be able to give me an idea of different exercises I can do each day. Right now i mostly draw things on my desk or just random character sketches. Right now i'm just very unhappy with how my art is, nothing seems to come out well...or maybe not how i want it. Maybe i should make a list of things to improve and just work on one thing every day or week or whatever segment of time. So please by all means help me figure out how i can improve! I really want to, thats why i always ask for critiques on my work cuz I want to improve and know it needs it...tho sadly no one responds like ever The biggest reason i joined DA was to help get feedback on my stuff... Anyway, i'm gonna try hard to improve.

So I should have new art to post soon..but not till after the move. my scanner still doesn't work for some reason (tho it will make copies). and my camera eats batteries and so is never charged.