Aicara-Jhonhu

I have opened a new account. I will not likely log on to this account that much, but will instead focus on my newer account, Ulver-av-Nord. ulver-av-nord.deviantart.com/

It has been a very long time since my last journal. I apologize for having not updated anything in so long. Mostly my reason is due to bad scanners. For those of you who have known me long you will know that bad scanners have haunted my dA existence since day one. And I apologize again because Im sure my rants on bad scanners are getting irritating. But to make a long story short, I got discouraged over how scanners distort my work and as such I have not uploaded anything in a long time. I have been working on a few things though.
So, to make a long story short, I wish you all well and hope life has been treating you well. From now on I will try to be more interactive as far as commenting on friend's work and such. (yknow, like I used to) even if I myself probably won't be uploading anything anytime soon. As for me, life has been fairly decent lately. Have been going through some rocky stuff but nothing I havent faced before.

Ah, summer. That time of year when one can finally, hopefully, unwind and catch up with friends and family. Me, I've been a whole lot more lazy than I ever expected I would be, but as I've been under stress lately, I figure why not? And everyone else? How have your summer's been so far? Do anything fun for the 4th? I had family over for hot dogs, went boating with friends and watched fireworks.

So, Im in Colorado right now, on a week long hiking vacation with my family. The last family vacation Ill have in a long time as my brother shall be sent off by the Navy soon. *sad* But I havent uploaded in a long time because I have no working scanner, so its not that I havent been drawing, in fact Ive been doing quite a bit, I just have no way to get anything on my computer right now. But anyway, we drove from Ohio to Kansas the first day, and then to Colorado in the Rocky Mountains yesterday. Ready for a fun week of hiking mountains and spending time with my family when were not all stressed and/or picking on each other. And not a lot of work to do, that sounds really nice! Ah, being off school feels nice, but what with suddenly having so little to do after being busy up to my ears, I almost feel like a bum, doing nothing. Kinda like I have no life, which is true, but now its making me a little stir crazy, and much more snippy toward other people than I have any right to be. Thats another reason why Im glad were on vacation. A chance to get away from the house! (sadly, at 20 years of age, I still cant legally drive and have no car, so I cant go anywhere myself! yes, its pathetic, but Ive been too busy to bother with that, and now that I have time, theres no cars available! so Ive been content to drive my dad's tractor) I have at least 23 new characters I want to draw, or at least chibis of them, so Ill try to work on that during this week, and when I get home, Ill see what I can do about my sad excuse for a scanner. *sigh* But Im feeling pretty good right now. Were going to church soon and then to brunch and exploring the town! Then maybe a short hike. And, even better, Im gonna see if I can go horse back riding sometime this week! Ah, its been so long since I rode a horse...not that I forgot how, that is, but my inner thighs arent used to it anymore, so Ill probably be sore afterward. All this is a bit dampened by the fact that Im still frail and weak little me. (I bruise if somebody so much as touches me, and thats no exaggeration) Oh well, Ive always been 'the weak one.' But thats okay, its just annoying. This should be a fun week regardless, and I plan to enjoy myself!

I understand that recently I have had absolutely no uploading activity. That is not to say I have not been busy (with both art and schoolwork) I have had a lot of schoolwork to get done, but when I have time I have been drawing some, so I have not just been doing nothing all this time. Most of my art work has been for school, at least what I have spent the most of my time on, but I do have some 'free lance' drawing and sketches to upload. Oh, the good thing: I managed to use the scanner in my campus' library. As some may already know, my scanner at home (I hate it!) turned my work blue, and has very bad quality. The scanner here at school, though it is much better quality, there is a dark line down the off center of each of my drawings. What the line is I do not know, but I cannot do anything to change it, so I apologize. And it washed out my pencil lines, so I had to darken them until they are now pretty much brown and smudged, just so they could be seen. Still, it is better quality than my scanner. All this to say I have a few new drawings to upload, all but one are work in progress, and they all be original characters. But it is better than before when they I had nothing at all to upload merely because of lack of scanner.