Roxyielle

    Hello again to everyone reading this (watchers, fellow dA artists, or just the random journal/profile passer-by). It's been a long break between my last "official" journal post, two months in fact, and apologise for all the inactivity between then and now.

I suppose the real question is where I've been and why I've been there and not on dA (well not as much).

    Truth is, like in my previous journal two months back, my internet woes haven't entirely evaded me, and add to that last month's problems with power supply which affected a large region of my country's power grid. A problem that was partly an act of nature (typhoon) but mostly a crisis brought on by a power system unable to cope with a growing populace's supply demands.

Anyway, that problem persisted for quite a while affecting not only something as trivial as internet connections but water supply as well. It was pretty sobering to spend two weeks in such a situation and a learning experience about disaster preparedness, which truthfully isn't very high on most peoples' priority lists here where a lot of the populace can't even afford daily basic necessities. But I suppose I'm going off on another tangent here.

Basically, July was spent mostly recovering from that incident, and while power supply here has been normal, my laptop has begun to fail on me. So to answer the where I've been: technically I've been off the grid. And while I can use Twitter (which if you'll notice seems to only cross-post replay videos and or/invites on some games I play) that's all pretty much I can access without my laptop. Hence why I'm not on that much on dA. Also my notifications as of late have gotten quite unmanageable so if you're wondering where my replies went, you have my backlog to thank for that.
From now on, I'll make replying to Notes a priority so if it's something extremely urgent that you would like to tell me, then please do send it via note.

    What this means now for my old schedule of posting weekly/monthly journal updates and featured artworks is that for the remainder of my premium (which goes poof by September), I'll be scheduling them once per month with set people (mostly from my watchlist) to be featured. I'll probably be separating my own personal updates from art features because of this.

    As for posting art, well that is quite the question. My last submission was way back in April and was just an updated (admittedly coloured and finalised at least) version of a two-year old sketch I did.
If you're wondering though, I'm still drawing stuff, just not the kind of stuff you see in my gallery. It's mostly practice sketches on my sketchpad/journal using ink or pencil and I've not had time nor resources to pick back up on digital art for quite a while now, owing to my laptop woes. And add to that an art block that has stuck around with me for the better half of this year. If you're keen to see rough sketches like this one though: