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Well... you may have noticed that I haven't been around deviantART for quite a while. I won't go into a lot of detail here, but I've been dealing with a lot of issues this year, both the usual school-related busyness, and some health issues (both mental and physical), and art has not figured into my life as much as I would have liked. While I feel like I have done a lot of growing as a person over the past months, I have not grown much as an artist, which is one reason you haven't seen much new work from me.

I would like to promise to devote more time to deviantART from now on, but I'm afraid I can't really make that promise in good faith -- some of the issues I mentioned earlier are still ongoing. But I CAN promise to try to spend as much time here as I can, and I want to extend my sincere thanks to all of you who have stuck with me even though I haven't been around. I really appreciate all of you immensely. Thank you so much.