In case it wasn't already achingly obvious, I've had a very very busy Real Life lately. XD;; I have work in the Downtown Historic Market from 9 to about 5:30 or 6 [though the combined hours are much more like 8 to 7-or-8, when you count the hours lost especially on days that I pick up the work van and drive it to the market and to unload and upload, then report back to Home Base for daily assessment and pay], and I've been unable to snatch much time from what's LEFT of those 4 days for doing things other than cook and eat dinner, take a shower and/or bath, phone my mom, you know... other daily essentials before bed. |D;;

But! Here I am, on day 2 of my 3 day break for this week, and I'm finally recuperated enough from the previous week that I've been cleaning my room, doing my laundry and will now be going about the business of properly cleaning the kitchen, cooking up a relatively healthy meal for myself, and settling into my room with scented candles to bring the nice smells back and paper with which to do my drawings for a very special DN fan project! ♥

SO THEN, there is something else that I'd like to do art-wise soon... I'd like to challenge myself to draw a few of my OCs and some settings with more intensive backgrounds and settings, so as to exercise my non-skills in those departments. : 3 I'd also like to actively compile a really good, up-to-date portfolio of THINGS for bringing to portfolio reviews and prospective illustration jobs, maybe. I'd also like to create and tackle a much shorter-term [and more achievable, lol] goal of drawing at least one character of my choice in at least a week's worth of outfits. I figure that I need the clothing and fashion design practice for application to OCs, since I'm finding that I've become startlingly weak in that department, and I would also like to see what MY clothes look like on some of the characters that I love to draw [since, despite being LOL unable to draw characters in fitting fashion, I'm pretty sure that I'm not being a narcissist when I say that my own wardrobe does a much better job of matching nicely |D;;].

SO THEN, that's some babbling! And now for some random deviations that have been really inspiring me to create various things and try-out various techniques [if only because I can add thumbs and that fact still floors me]!

would like to do this challenge soon:


was made to think about cohesive fashion design for characters by THESE folks:


was made to think of real media technique practice by THESE images:


was made to want to make plushies and such by THESE images


and this is just cool =v=: