making a gradual return!

Yup, I think it's been a long enough hiatus.

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Hello and Happy New Year to everyone!

How've you been since August? How were your holidays? What are your plans for this year? Tell me!

For me, 2010 was, in general, a giant turd. Family health problems, disasters, job difficulties... I was so ready for 2011, and now that it's here, I intend to make it ROCK. I don't have a job yet, but I've had 2 interviews with people who seem to like me from companies I could enjoy working for. I feel confident! Last summer, all my friends from Philly who lived within walking distance of me all moved home, leaving me in a void of loneliness, but recently I've been getting back in touch and actually doing some visiting/hanging out.

Plus I was just generally antisocial throughout 2010, and since companies are all about social media nowadays, I gotta show them I'm hip and be all bloggy! Haha

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I have even started drawing again. Gots a handful of new characters and story ideas, as well as a couple personal projects for 2011.

Project One: rework/enhance old children's book, "Noise," and perhaps try to get it published.

Project Two: "Alphabet of Characters," an index of characters with names beginning with each letter of the alphabet. I've got so many characters that I'm doing upper- and lowercase. Since I don't have characters for every letter, I'm making up some new ones and naming some nameless old ones to fill in the gaps. Each character will have a little bio, a summary of their story, and a design history. This is primarily for my own reference. Also, each "card" will be designed in a graphic way and therefor potential portfolio material. I'll post a full list in a journal at some point which I'll update periodically.

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So that's that! As part of the process for both projects, you can expect to see sketches and drawings of various characters as well as mockups of children's book pages.

But first, to get me started and used to uploading things again, I've stockpiled a bunch (and I mean A BUNCH) of memes from dA that I'm slowly filling in. Hooray!

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Also, as thanks for being my most active watchers/commenters,
and
may each request an art from me!
What'll it be, ladies?