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Hope you all find yourselves well in 2020!


Ok, where to start?


First of all, thank you all so much for the birthday wishes, truly I appreciate all the love despite not uploading in a long while.


Well, I've made huge bounds towards my dream of finalizing my original comic. I've got an editor and I've even got a few pages done, just working out the final details at this point. I've also been getting myself up to speed with my social media presence like Instagram and Facebook. Heck I even got a Patreon, It's tiny but I'm doing my best to upload twice a month on it, so far so good!


Also, I'm learning to pace myself better and not overload on tons of projects and eventually burn out and not work on anything. I've always had a problem of being excited about something and then finding myself WAY over my head in work. Boy, that's been a process lol, not perfect but it's better.


Anyway, my next step in all this is tying up a loose end here on DeviantArt. I want to, at the very least, finish out the Dodongos Cavern Chapter on my Zelda fan comic. I'll try not to rush the storytelling (I've got fun ideas) but I need to give my original comic most of my attention to maintain my momentum. I'm shooting to have a couple of months worth of safety net before uploading to Webtoon.


As for being more active here on DevArt, I want to start working on that again soon, I need to think about what I want to do with this existing page. I'll do my best!


If you were curious and wanted to check out my other accounts, I'll drop some links here.

Two early previews of the rebooted "Light within Shadow" are free to the public on my Patreon.

https://www.instagram.com/blumouse_art/


https://tinyurl.com/FB-art-page


https://www.patreon.com/BluMouse

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Hi everyone, I'm not dead. Ah geez, I'm sorry I pretty much dropped off the face of the earth for like...a year I think. I'm gonna try to keep this brief and not bore you all with details.

Well first and foremost, I'm a mom to a beautiful 2 month old now. Between work and being pregnant I was just too tired to draw and when I finally went on maternity leave at 36 weeks hoping to catch up on drawing a bit, my son came 2 days later lol. I've slowly been drawing again whenever I have some free time but also I've had a lot of time to think about where I want to take drawing in the future. 

To be honest even before finding out I was pregnant, I was losing my passion for drawing. I feel like it reflected in my comic pages the most so I guess in a way the break was a good thing. I've had plenty of time to write out my original comic lore on my phone and really refine it, I love where it's going now and I hope to publish it someday when ready. 

As for the Zelda comic, I said I was going to finish it and that's what's gonna happen, I'm just not sure how timely it'll be now.

I guess that's it in a nutshell, I'm truly sorry for leaving you guys high and dry without any explanation. I don't know yet If I'll be super active here on DeviantArt, I'm considering a new hosting site or my own website. 
I'll be sure to keep journal updates as I figure stuff out if anyone cares.

I am much more active on my FaceBook page now, (baby pics to family and what not on my other account), here's the link if you're interested in random doodles and small comics. [Random Art by Leslie McKenzie].

Happy New Year everyone and wishing you all a great one.
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Transfer issues

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If it's not one thing it's another lol. Just a quick update for everyone.

My new computer is awesome! Getting used to the whole creative cloud business and new Photoshop. Mostly though, I'm having issues with transferring all my drawings and brushes to the new comp. I'll be working more on the problem over the weekend and so far I've only been able to successfully move stuff over by manually doing it. I really don't want to move about a thousand drawings manually , so ya know...I'll figure this out. I'm sure it's something silly but my work mode brain during the week is making it difficult.

Almost the weekend everyone, take care!
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Hey everyone. I kinda dropped off again there didn't I? Ah crap man, sorry everybody. Not only did I get hooked on Mario Odyssey but my laptop would freeze up whenever I tried drawing...which furthered my descent into gaming -_-. 

ANYWHO, I've done some de-fragmenting and other junk and my laptop seems to be doing ok now. Still kinda laggy at times but fine. Honestly, I think it's just time to upgrade computers. Gonna try to snag a nice one around the holiday sales coming up. Wish me luck guys. 

Currently working on finishing the Zelda page I started. A freeze and corrupted file of a couple hours work really killed my want to finish this last one...again, I'm really sorry everyone. Hopefully if all goes well, it'll be up on Sunday. 

Take care everyone, I hope you've all been well. =)
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And here we are again lol. My hours at work have me away from my laptop longer now. I'm thinking of updating Sundays instead of Friday from now on. So far my Wednesdays- Friday have been jam-packed with work and after hour stuff I got going on. I hope that's ok everyone. I'm trying to figure this out to keep updates (mostly) consistent. I will never promise you it'll be on time ALL the time because let's get real - life happens, I get lazy too sometimes and other times I get a new video game and binge the crap out of it. 


For real, if the DLC for "LOZ- Breath of the Wild" is another story arc I'll pretty much be dead to the world for a while....yes I have a problem and I apologize in advance.

Have a lovely weekend all and Zelda updates Sunday =)
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Happy 2020 everyone! by girldirtbiker, journal

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