Hey, fellow watchers. I haven't done a journal in about 2 months and I have some suspicions that you're probably wondering about the current situation with your requests, art trades, or just any kind of art projects overall. Well, that's why I'm doing this.

So, first things first, I have a job now. One that isn't a pyramid scheme (Primerica), one that was promised by PR, but never pulled through nor deliberately lied to me to get off my back and one that isn't a waste of time. This one is nothing like those. I work at a place in Irondale, AL known as the Habitat for Humanity ReStore. You can look it up, this one is completely legit and I love every minute of it. I am getting promoted within March. This is actually another thing I wanted to bring up with good reason. Due to the hours I work, the heavy-lifting, stocking, constant moving around non-stop with fast breaks for water, assistance, and anything else that comes with working at a Goodwill-esque place the size of a large warehouse, this has in fact taken a considerable toll on how long I have to work on art projects in general and since working at the ReStore can be fun and awesome, it does take a lot of energy and as such, you know where this is getting at. Art projects will be uploaded very sporadically and I will no longer place dates on when they will be uploaded so that I don't have to shatter any more promises and create a sense of false trust. Oh, I also now reside in Alabama now. Yeah, I had to move out of California for many reasons.

Unfortunately, this does mean those of you who have been waiting a year for your requests will have to wait sooner. You have no idea how much pain I feel that they haven't uploaded yet. Sadly, that's life and as it seems, commissions aren't giving me enough to even pay for remotely anything. I'm not giving up on my career as a cartoonist, but I need to start focusing on my financial standings before getting an education to further my skills. Money is a big problem in this day and age. With that in mind, commissions will still be around, but requests are now re-opened, but they will be a lot more selective. If you have a request, I won't immediately choose yours. I have to see which ones are more visually interesting and doesn't seem like anything I've done in the past. Y'know, new things. Art trades will remain the same. Anyone can ask for art trades.

Now, before anyone asks, I actually do have a good chunk of requests and art trades half-way done. WIPs of any requests I have been working on will be uploaded on "Sta.sh". This way, you can at least see what it looks like. Now, it won't see up for a while because of three things. 1) My new job; 2) I'm busy with a lot of other things outside the computer (e.g. Babysitting my cousins, helping my aunt out with chores, having a life, etc.) and 3) the new technique for scanning things here at my new home.

Allow me to explain. Until I have enough money, I'm using a HP Scanjet 537OC scanner my aunt has lend me for scanning and uploading projects. This is a very old scanner and as such, there is no way of me using it on my Macbook. So, this means taking out my Vaio and scanning projects through there, transferring them through a flash drive to my Macbook, and then prepping projects. This process will take about 5 hours for just 10 art projects to be scanned and uploaded. This alone takes a lot out of me and I will only do it on selected days. Keep in mind, folks, I don't earn enough money to do this type of thing on a regular basis and due to my selective attention span, it can be rather long and tedious. Why I haven't gotten into making completely digital works like the days of old is something I just can't do right now until I'm more skilled at it. I prefer to give you guys and gals something good rather than something half-assed or incomplete.

Speaking of complete, most of you don't know this yet due to the fact I haven't spoken of it, but I'm part of a group channel known as the LingCcentric Dudes [link] . I would greatly appreciate it if you just took some time out of the day and checked out some of the videos. I'm the artist for the channel, which consist of game commentaries I do with ~welcometodie10, ~Kphoria, and !solguy89 and soon, I will be providing little animations when I get the appropriate software. This is also another time-consuming factor in why uploads have been sporadic. Now, don't get me wrong, the channel is a lot of fun to be part of and I love re-watching these videos, but it can be quite time-consuming with the editing software I use: iMovie. Videos alone will take hours on end to render and complete with the occasional crash that happens. As such, I can't mutli-task on my Macbook or have any other programs open as it slows down the process. So, yes, what I do takes a lot of time and with my current situation, this type of thing takes a lot out of me. Let me clarify this right now, it doesn't stress me out (Ever since I got to Alabama, my life couldn't be better and less stressful), it just tires me out.

So, in case you want the gist of what this whole journal was about....
1. Uploads will be on-and-off and sporadic due to work and many other things outside of the Internet.
2. Requests are open again, but I will only take visually new and fresh requests.
3. WIPs of any works I owe people will be uploaded on Sta.sh so you can at least see something.
4. Don't expect uploads to be up all the time. Please bare with me on this and I apologize for the long wait on these types of things.
5. Go check out the group channel I'm part of. [link]

Thanks for reading, have a good day and take care. See ya!

*PreStalnic