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I know here on DA, especially if you don't follow me on tumblr, you guys only see the 120 once a week, but I thought I'd share this here too!
Okay so, after Friday (or maybe I won’t start trying to do this until Monday) I want to try bumping the quality to what I did with Trippin or at least try to make the 120 “cleaner” instead of how messy/sketchy they’ve been the past 3 weeks. Except they won’t be color, they’ll be black/white with the crayola color like I’ve been doing with the sketches. I just want to try this to see if I can have a more “finished” collection of them by the end of the week. If not I’ll just keep up what I’ve been doing.

I also have been wondering if I should or not ask for suggestions?? Like I’m not getting burnt out on drawing, but I am getting burnt out on WHAT to draw, ‘cuz half the ones this week I struggled to come up with. I’m still considering it. I mean were only 27/28 days in and we have 91/92 left to go. BUT I would love some feedback on the 120 in general, like are you guys diggin' it? I’m enjoying myself and being able to continuously produce stuff is awesome, but I’d like some opinions if anyone’s wanting to share!

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Alright so when was the last time I was on DA? In FEBRUARY?? Thats 9 months! 

Lets go over the timeline: 
- Originally it was because I wanted to focus on the Collab and that did happen,
- but then in March I got a job at a store in town. Needless to say it was the most stressful, un-fulfilling, and aggravating job that took away almost my entire time. It completely made it to where I could do nothing but work and then hopefully draw when I got home and relax. 
- THEN I GOT INTO SCHOOL IN JULY.
  I HAD BEEN WAITING 2 LONG YEARS TO FINALLY GO TO SCHOOL FOR ANIMATION.  
  So I have been in School since the end of August, and combined with the job I barely had time to do my assignments and eat and sleep, never mind draw. I have the deepest darkest circles I have ever had under my eyes. 
- Also in August I started something called Shattered Glass Month on my Tumblr (which I dubbed SG MONTH for the tags.) But because of the job and school it was bad timing and I should not have started it then, it was not fair to me nor the people that sent in suggestions. 
- On Halloween I gave my job my two week notice because I was tired of being treated like I was not a person. 
- And last Friday was my last day!

So this brings us to what is going to come up next:

I plan on finishing up the suggestions I did not get to do from my SG Month by the end of this month (FYI this does not mean that I am taking them still) and then following up with my two projects in December (Like I have done every December for the past 2/3 Years) and then after I hope to go back to the Collab again, but we will see.

Also I will no longer be taking requests. The reason is because after a lot of thought and consideration I feel like half the time that I do requests by themselves that I feel like I am being taken advantage of.... I know that that might just me being paranoid or my anxiety since I openly took them and was using them to just improve my own art, but I don’t know--it does not feel the same anymore. BUT I do owe Solrosy  a request that is LONG overdue so you guys will be seeing that.

I consider themed weeks/months to be separate from requests because of the simple fact that they are things that I actively love to do still and are centered on a single topic but we will have to see. 

So that brings everything up to speed!
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how ironic haha
Okay, let me explain whats been goin' on.
My original plan was during November (I think??) I was going to start requests again while I did my collab with my friend, but I got a job at a store and even though I was part time they completely drained me of time to do almost anything. I did manage to do a Sweater theme and a POKEDEXXY Challenge during Christmas but it didn't get finished until the beginning of February! (I'll condense them into two images later and upload them to share >.<)
Now all logic points to me taking requests again now, since my job is over and I now have time. But in all honesty I want to dedicate my time to the collab - its a project that I've been trying to get the time to do for almost 6 months now. And the tasks it needs to get done are a lot more than I thought they would be. The only other thing that I have to do other than that is a portfolio to make for my application for college (I actually have one already but its art is like almost 2 years old so I can't share that).
But it doesn't stop there. I also want to say that at Christmas I got a new computer and when I was transferring everything to the next one. I forgot to transfer my list of the people that wanted me to let them know a head of time when I was going to do requests again. Its giving me so much anxiety just saying all of this. I honestly wanted to delete my account just because I was so scared about not having my list anymore and not knowing who wanted requests when they were open again. But I know how irrational that is but its understandable isn't it? I take requests to improve my art and 'cuz there fun and its an added bonus if there TFOCs ( I LOVE peoples characters!). But I can't help but feel like thats all a lot of people want me for? I don't know, am I making any sense?
anyway.
I actually want to take a hiatus just so I can do the collab and the portfolio work I need to get done. I don't know how long all of this is going to take me. But when I come back here afterwards I'll decide if deleting this account will be for the best or not.

In the meantime if the people I promised to let know when I was going to do requests again could step forward and either note me or put a comment bellow I'd appreciate it - 'cuz if I feel like I can take on requests again after my collab is finished I'd be happy to get to you guys in advance.
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About Next Week

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Okay, like I've said before I'm doing a Halloween Costume Themed Week thing next week - and usually when I take votes and stuff on how I do these things, I keep it on Tumblr. But I've been thinking about it and I think its kinda unfair I don't share it on here too. So here we go(Link to the message that I put on Tumblr):

I AM HERE TO TALK ABOUT WHAT IS COMING NEXT WEEK! Next week, through the 27th through the 31st, I’m going to do a Costume/Halloween Theme!

Before I start asking what bots/costumes you want to see - I need you guys to pick between 2 ways we can do this:

1. Either we go with Picking a specific TF Show/Game/Movie/Comic for all 5 days like G1 for monday, MTMTE for Tuesday etc etc and then take the bots from those to put in costumes - which you guys would still be suggesting, but I would be doing like 4 to 5 bots a day from those shows!

2. OR we can do like we did at Cape Month and you guys just tell me which bots you wanna see and costumes! Same thing from before though I’d be doing 4 to 5 a day - just they’d be more random since it wouldn’t be restricted to the shows/comics/etc that we have for that day.

And just so for the people that don’t really want to say anything down below - I made a straw poll! There is no login required you literally just click the link and then pick your choice!

OKAY, so which choice sounds better?

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SUP PEOPLE (3)

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Okay so last week my one project that I was trying to do got shot down the toilet - all my fault though, nothing I can do, I'm not gonna redo 3 weeks worth of work since it was a personal project - so now I have a lull between the collab I'm doing with someone else and the last week of October theme thing so I said  before that requests were gonna be open again soon. SO since I have this lull I thought I'd just fill it with some requests. SO first come first serve. People that didn't have a chance to suggest stuff during Cape Month, people that have asked me before if requests were open, come on out - 'cuz for today and tomorrow Requests are OPEN. 
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