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Feel like its been forever since I uploaded something but I've been working on this for awhile now and I'm finally doing this. Thank you to the ones who follow me here and continue to do so. Im not as active as I used to here (no thanks to DA's ever confusing policy changes and news) but I will still keep my site up because its still nice to know where I've started and where I'm heading. https://tapas.io/series/Quix-de-Tellou-Necromancer/info

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Hi everybody. 
I'm not quite sure how to explain my absence or very little activity here. It started with posting stuff on tumblr and laziness, but then it drifted into not wanting to upload stuff due to waning confidence. So for the last year and now I've just been trying to unpack myself and try to find the love again in my own stuff. So in the meantime I'm going to play catch up in uploading my stuff here in chronological order (like 2014 drawings onwards). Because
1) I'm a stickler for chronology
2) I remember that early on in my DA life I wanted this account to essentially archive my artistic dev't, ugly sketches and all.

Dunno what else to say. But thank you to the old followers still reading this and any newcomers visiting my site. 
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I've been more or less doing alright over the last couple of months but since using Tumblr, then the Tumblr bot apocalypse, the political landscape of the times I haven't been as active on social media with any illustrations, so it's just been a whole ton of doodles and comics that are more or less just private RPs with friends. I want to get back to DA but every time I look at the mountain of stuff I have to sort, compile and upload it's a little bit daunting but since I've been pushing it off for a good 1-2 years now the pile just keeps getting bigger and more daunting haha;; Also figuring out the new stuff around here and anyway tldr; sorry not sorry if your inbox suddenly gets spammed with doodles. In the meantime here's the current OCs I've been messing with the last couple of months.

BigBoi N BirdyBuddy
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I HELLA DIDN'T MEAN TO BUT WHOOPS IM ON A SILHOUETTE SENTINEL CREATIVE BINGE MODE.
Actually its more of I'm still working on Necromancer but haha that stuff's not going to be seen anytime soon again because it's all comic layout hair pulling and drafts and color pallette choosings so I'm indulging in Silhouette to offset that upset and whoops wouldn't you know it there's a year worth of RP doodles I haven't put up yet and another idea that I'm just running with while I still have the steam to do it.
Honestly at some point there's gonna be a massive landfill sketch dump because I'm a horrible sketch hoarder.

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COMICS A Directory of all the comics I've worked on on this site.
ANIMATION SHORTS A Directory of Animation shorts I highly recommend you guys check out.
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Man 2017 was brutal for the US, wasn't it.

Since there's too many bad stuff that's gone through the year i'm gonna spend the next 15 minutes trying to list the good stuff that did happen last year.

1) I have a regular paying job. I currently work at Soapbox Films and they do marketing for animated feature films and they have dogs around the office. Win Win. Biggest claim to fame is that I got to design a huge glass stain graphic and the title graphic card for the Muppets Take the (Hollywood) Bowl sometime early fall of last year. Commute's pretty long but it has helped me immensely in one particular aspect. 

2) Paid off some debt
This one isn't so much as a feat as just an acknowledgement and appreciation to my family helping me out, I'm not so much debt free as I am no longer hemorrhaging with the interest buildups. I'm not drowning anymore but im still treading water, so there's reall 

3) Met NightMargin as she was doing a Los Angeles con <3 

4) My laptop which sustained me over 5 years with freelance and help, finally conked out from a faulty motherboard. Fortunately it happened at a time I wasn't desperately in need of it (like freelance or during my summer classes), and I'm back to an actual desktop setup again. Feels pretty weird losing the mobility, like I'm actually settling roots now to where I live. And speaking of random roots, I own a baby succulent plant that didn't horribly die like the last three did in '16 and has in fact thrived. 

5) Travel wise I've only gone as far as Palms Springs and Las Vegas, the former as a company vacation thing and the latter as a 3 day family getaway. Highlight was giving our pa two treats: letting him ride a ferrari driving at 100+ mph and then flying on a tiny helicopter with him and my brother.

I put a seriously low bar last year for myself, not so much on a lot of improvement just on finally being able to 'start' Necromancer.

So what's in store for this year?

Necromancer-wise:
I've completed a few pages but I don't want to start uploading them until I've made a buffer set so things can upload on a consistent basis. I also need to start looking into a place /to/ upload them to so any suggestions of where you all read your comics would be appreciated. 

Storyboards:
Now that I have a computer back, I have to churn out a new portfolio so expect some more sequential artworks down the year. 

That's all I've got in mind, I'm trying not to think too hard on what I'm supposed to do and getting bogged down by too many goals. 

Hope you all have a grand new year. 
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