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Typing this from my early Christmas present—an iPad Pro! My wonderful husband gifted me this as well as an Apple Pencil, and I’ve been having fun making art in various programs. I think Procreate is my favorite art program on here, especially with all of the brushes it has. It also has some stabilization which I find is pretty helpful for line art. My hands are already a little shaky, and drawing on a glass surface is different than paper!

I hope everyone had a great holiday. School has kept me busy but I want to try to upload more here this year and of course do new stuff. One of my goals is to take a class, whether online or at the local community college. We shall see what 2018 brings!

Well, it's been more than a year since I last wrote one of these.  I'm back in school, this time for an actual program I got into (Occupational Therapy Assistant) and things are going to be busy.  Still working part time, but as the course load gets more intense I am going to have to quit in a semester or two.

The major thing I accomplished this summer was finishing a project I've been working on intermittently for two years--a multi-part art piece of our local MLP meetup groups' OCs.  I'll probably do some touching up before I upload them, but it felt really good to get that done.

I still draw MLP art on occasion, but I'm pretty much done selling art aside from being willing to take some personal commissions here and there.  I want to try and do more traditional art again, and not necessarily of ponies.  We shall see what time (and creativity) permits!

Hello watchers!  I was at FillyCon this past weekend, sharing a table with the talented and helpful Zene.  It was a first year con and the first one I've sold at outside of Bronycon and the one D.C.-centric Cloudsdale Congress in 2013.  While it was a fun experience, I think all the vendors suffered because we were apparently given a smaller space than we thought we would have in the hotel, and there just didn't seem to be too many attendees.  Luckily I made back the cost of my half-table, but there wasn't much profit on the whole.  Which kind of stinks as I'm at a point where I'm going to school and trying to pay bills on a salary that's essentially been halved (since I work part-time now).

But enough about that.  I'm not sure if I'd be up for another smaller con; it really depends on the amount of travel I'd have to do/expenses.  Because I could drive to Philadelphia, that made it easier.  Philly was a fun city and I'd love to go back sometime!

As for next year's Bronycon...I'm torn between wanting to sell and still thinking I need to improve a lot.  I want to go back to traditional art (despite the costly materials) and play around much more with different media.  I'd like to try doing things other than pony, but I don't know what.  Perhaps next summer I can take an art class.  The point is, I want to learn, and I want to branch out, and I still don't feel comfortable with where I am as an artist and what I'm producing.  I know I'm my own biggest critic and I have confidence issues, but...I guess we'll see what happens.  We've still got some time before next summer comes.