AirenWoodmoon

Not quite dead! Short version of what has happened since I last wrote a journal entry (or really played around DA at all): - Had a nervous breakdown - Quit my job as an accountant - Moved to California - Trying to make it as an artist now - Made an etsy for my jewelry - Another surgery - Still searching for ways to make a livable income - Started an online comic It's been so long since I last played around with DA that everything is new to me again.  And some things are just new.  And weird.  (What the heck is Sta.sh? And an activity feed now?) Anyway, expect an art dump from me here soon.  There's a lot I need to add here, cleanup

I'm alive.  Aaaliiiiiive..... And painting again.  Finished two this year so far and I wish I had a better way of posting them online other than taking crappy photographs of them.  My scanner doesn't allow me to scan them in pieces anymore (that wasn't the easiest task but at least I could do it.  Flatbed scanners aren't flatbed anymore...) so all I have is the camera for the moment.  Oh well. I'd be on DA more if it wasn't as buggy as shit.  It's like it gives me five minutes to play around and then starts slowly dying and ignoring my commands and that damned "Drag and collect" button is going to drive me batty.  It's like it's having a se

Stolen from Stitchedmoon. :D 01: why did you become an artist (if you don't think of yourself as an artist, just tell me why you draw) One Easter I found a sketchbook and was grumpy and hormonal so I decided to sit in the park and draw instead of interact with my family.  This happened in Freshman year of High School.  And then originally I was going to go into Genetics and major in Biology in college, until I realized that through every single class all I did was sit there and draw.  So I majored in Fine Arts, got my BA, and was promptly slammed to the ground by Real Life.  I think of myself as an artist because that's just what I am.  I m