Long Overdue Life Update

Hello everyone!

I'll try be a bit brief with this, but here it goes. 

I know things are really REALLY stressful right now with the elections, COVID, and a lot of other shit. All of this, and just my own personal issues, as definitely been part of the reason why things have been slow for me. To be honest, I had a month where I took a "hiatus" of sorts from drawing, and just focused on trying to relax....it helped to some capacity. (It's already hard for me not to think about work, but this current climate ain't helping.) 

Also, last month (or a little before), my hard drive started to act funny and wouldn't let me boot properly, and apparently it was due to something with the OS. Unfortunately I had to get a new hard drive, but the good side was that I could access my files from the old drive with a reader a friend got me. I still had to reinstall a lot of my programs and so, my CLIP studio settings and brushes were pretty much reset. Managed to re-download the main ones I used, but I still need to get the settings back to how they were. (Which, given how awkward drawing has been, it hasn't really made things easier ^^; ). 

Still, I'm slowly getting back into working on commissions and Patreon piggy bank commissions, though I definitely feel like I need to loosen the rust in areas. I've been trying to come up with stuff to do for Patreon, like getting back into posting more of my concept designs and just random scenario pics. Honestly, I'm just trying to get back to feeling confident in drawing. 

As for my mental, I'm doing alright. Kind of surprised I'm not losing my mind over this election among other things. However, it helps that I've been able to just find stuff to do or watch to ease my mind some; like getting back into Inuyasha with my boyfriend after like more than a decade. XD I've actually getting some inspiration from it, and him, so I'm pleased. 

So...yeah! That's really about it. Sorry if this was all rambley and such; I just wanted to get all my thoughts down and it's like 6 AM at the moment I'm writing this. I also want to apologize again for the lack of content or updates lately. I've been meaning to write something like this sooner, but never knew what to really say. And one last thing: Thank you so much for supporting me on this dry island of a Patreon. Again, I know that things have been rough for everyone, so I was expecting a lot of folks to have to drop out. I really do appreciate the support, it's been a huge help in these rough patches and slow recoveries. I just wish I could do more, is all. 

So again, thank you very much. 

You all have a good day/night/whenever, and take care of yourselves. 

-Sirius