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Hello, everyone!
I'm sorry I haven't updated much. I don't remember if I mentioned it before, but for the last four months I was in Japan with a full time teaching job! I was way too busy and tired to do any art, but it was an amazing experience and totally worth it. I made so many good friends and learned a lot about teaching. A lot of my students were really talented artists, too! It filled me with motivation to finish my degree and return as soon as possible.
Now, moving forward, I'm back in school, so I'll still be busy but not nearly as busy as I was when I was teaching (I hope). At this exact moment, I don't have my stylus for my Surface (I was a dork and left it at my dad's house, d'oh) but the good news is, I traded an album art commission for a brand new powerhouse of a computer, and bought a Cintiq with the money I saved up! We put the computer together at my friend's house, and set up the Cintiq over there as well. However, the entire city has become a frozen death trap for drivers (since we're not really prepared for snow), so it's stuck there until the roads thaw out. But, I have tried it and I will tell you that working on it is like a dream. Hopefully I can start drawing again soon.
Regarding commissions, I can actually stream now, so I have decided to change things up drastically. I'm not sure exactly how, but I'm hoping to make them related to my streaming, and more interactive. It will probably look more like requests for those with cute characters who regularly visit the streams and/or give tips/donations (AKA, flattery gets you everywhere hahaha). I can't really call them "commissions" because it will be more based on what I feel like doing rather than an actual paid service. For now I will probably just consider them "closed with a few exceptions" while I get more into the swing of things.
All in all, I've made up my mind to leave my financial problems to future me and have my expenses covered by student loans rather than constantly panicking about where I'm going to find my next commissioner so I can afford this or that. A job is much less fun when it's not even providing enough for you to survive. I'd rather spend the time enjoying art and developing my skills/style so I can feel more prepared to tackle larger projects when I graduate. I hope this "reset period" that I'm giving myself will prove to be beneficial.
Anyway, thank you all for your continued support. We're already a good ways in to 2017, but let's work together to make the rest of it great.
♡ Mimi
I'm sorry I haven't updated much. I don't remember if I mentioned it before, but for the last four months I was in Japan with a full time teaching job! I was way too busy and tired to do any art, but it was an amazing experience and totally worth it. I made so many good friends and learned a lot about teaching. A lot of my students were really talented artists, too! It filled me with motivation to finish my degree and return as soon as possible.
Now, moving forward, I'm back in school, so I'll still be busy but not nearly as busy as I was when I was teaching (I hope). At this exact moment, I don't have my stylus for my Surface (I was a dork and left it at my dad's house, d'oh) but the good news is, I traded an album art commission for a brand new powerhouse of a computer, and bought a Cintiq with the money I saved up! We put the computer together at my friend's house, and set up the Cintiq over there as well. However, the entire city has become a frozen death trap for drivers (since we're not really prepared for snow), so it's stuck there until the roads thaw out. But, I have tried it and I will tell you that working on it is like a dream. Hopefully I can start drawing again soon.
Regarding commissions, I can actually stream now, so I have decided to change things up drastically. I'm not sure exactly how, but I'm hoping to make them related to my streaming, and more interactive. It will probably look more like requests for those with cute characters who regularly visit the streams and/or give tips/donations (AKA, flattery gets you everywhere hahaha). I can't really call them "commissions" because it will be more based on what I feel like doing rather than an actual paid service. For now I will probably just consider them "closed with a few exceptions" while I get more into the swing of things.
All in all, I've made up my mind to leave my financial problems to future me and have my expenses covered by student loans rather than constantly panicking about where I'm going to find my next commissioner so I can afford this or that. A job is much less fun when it's not even providing enough for you to survive. I'd rather spend the time enjoying art and developing my skills/style so I can feel more prepared to tackle larger projects when I graduate. I hope this "reset period" that I'm giving myself will prove to be beneficial.
Anyway, thank you all for your continued support. We're already a good ways in to 2017, but let's work together to make the rest of it great.
♡ Mimi
A Quick Update + Commissions!
Hey everyone☆ Sorry I haven't really been around; I'm super busy!
Especially aphrodisiacm (https://www.deviantart.com/aphrodisiacm) who gave me a CORE membership for a month around Christmas/my birthday?? How sweet, I'm sorry I haven't really been here much q - q
Because I'm so far behind, it would be kind a pain to upload so many things to individual submissions here, so I figured I would just shove them all in a journal entry.
For future reference....
The best place to stay updated on my work is on my TWITTER or my WEBSITE.
I unfortunately got super burnt out during Inktober and started only submitting to our Discord server, then had to quit so I could study for the JL
Hiatus Apology
Hello, everyone ^-^ I hope you're doing well.
I'm sorry I'm always going in and out of activity. This time, I have been busy preparing to fly to Japan!
It has taken longer than expected, but we finally have a set date - September 7th.
I'm not sure how busy I will be there, but for now I am assuming that I won't have much time to draw, because I will be very busy teaching. That's okay though. I will do my best.
If you want to see when I will be leaving, I made a countdown here: http://tinyurl.com/mimiAET
Thank you for your understanding. ^-^
Man Sorry
Ey err'one, it's Mimi!
In case you didn't notice, I haven't been drawing much this/last week. I've been really busy obsessively working on Project Rekindle and ironically I haven't drawn anything as a result! But I really want to get everything set up, at least to the point where it's presentable so everyone can start using it. After that, I'll work on things over time, but I'll also be able to draw with actual peace of mind.
I know I'm probably way in over my head, but this is a subject I'm really serious about so I think it's worth it. Right now I'm trying to design a really nice layout for it so it looks nice, later I'll be studying Java
Sketch-A-Day Progress
I'm trying a 100-themes challenge!
It's supposed to be a sketch a day type thing,
but for a while my schedule is whack
(by that I mean my sense of time is massively skewed)
so I may not be able to do one each day for a bit until I get reoriented.
You can find the challenge here if you'd like to try it yourself!
blossom
abyss
lust
love - ef
greedguiltgluttonyragefireriverachieveprepareserenitytreasurelieshorrorbetrayalpressurekingdomheartsfilthmorningtwilightbloodlossdawninvulnerabilityhateglorydestituterunendlesshidingdreamdeathsleeprelinquishconquer titanstarstarlingwindprivatemurdergameclevercloseriottyrantheartdangerdestru
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