Again, I haven't been active at all.
My computer crashed and lately, I've had a lot of stuff to take care of. I still paint but I haven't felt the drive to put any of it on DA in over a year. I just don't enjoy DA anymore.

I will be deleting most of my online galleries, or perhaps leave some paintings up in case I one day change my mind about it. Or if I think people might still enjoy them even if they're mostly just dabbles not worth anyone's time. There's no particular reason, and I'm not trying to satisfy any trolls that have been harassing me (hi, trolls!). As far as DA is concerned, I will put a lot of my work in storage. I'm not sure for how long, maybe forever.

I will leave some drawings online but it's possible I will be moving a lot into storage in a bit. I have no time (or will, whichever) to use this account to actively comment on other people's work or reply to notes, comments, journals and what-not I receive. Again, my message centre has gotten out of hand with thousands of messages, deviations and notes. I know it's a bit rude to not be responding but if you need me, you know how to find me. I cannot sift through thousands of comments and messages. I'm sorry. I sincerely am.

DA doesn't do it for me anymore. There's no specific reason. Perhaps it's gotten too big and too commercial for me, who knows.

On a side note: I might come back, someday.
My health is average and I'm trying to cope. The horse has never been better.

That's all.
Goodbye.

Yes yes, I have been really absent again. My health isn't very cooperative at the moment and hasn't been for months.

I might just give DA another try and attempt to at least be a bit more involved with commenting on art made by those artists on here that I know and like (and whose work I like). If you have any suggestions of (equine or not) art on here that you think I might like let me know.

In the meantime my message centre has gotten out of hand again with thousands of messages and deviations and a whole lot of notes, some dating back close to a year.

I might upload some of my recent work. I've been working on an art book on the oriental horse.
Speaking of oriental horses, remember that I bought an Akhal-Teke filly? Well, she's really awesome. She's energetic, lovely and an absolute dream come true. Yes, can you tell I'm in love?

I'll post some pictures for you to enjoy.

PICTURE TIME!! (dates)

[link] (august 10)

[link] (august 10)
My little Asian girl.

[link] (august 10)

[link] (august 9)

[link] (june 7)
Yes, that's me. I lost some weight in the meantime.

[link] (june 7)
This picture is so cute!

[link] (may 30)
Walking around the paddock to let her get used to her new home. She was still such a baby here. (photo taken with mobile phone so not the best quality ever).

[link] (may 29)
This is when she's about to set hoof on Dutch soil for the first time. My father was there to take pictures but he was too focused on the other filly because he thought that one was ours. LOL. Yes, the weather was horrible. We had an actual flood and left this area with our horse truck in the nick of time.

[link] (may 21)
Her face is so pretty, yes I'm totally in love. Picture has not been taken by me, it was taken in Russia by the studfarm's manager (she's awesome by the way).

Goodness me! I haven't been on here in ages!
But there's an explanation. Several actually.

Firstly, it's a combo of graduation and internships. Busy, busy.

Also, I really do not like DA all that much lately. First it was the adds reloading constantly (visualize a loud click going right through my music every few seconds), then it was the constant Userplane Webchat Frame thing. I DO NOT enjoy having to press the back button 14 times in order to go back ONE PAGE.

Then it's also the level of artists on this site that has been a bit disappointing. Only a few are really good and most of them do not get the recognition they deserve. No, it's often those that copy photo's, often even using digital media only. I'm sorry if this sounds snotty but I do tend to get suspicious of 'artists' using digital media only. If you're a genuine one you must've tried your hands at traditional media as well. And you're probably (pretty) good at that, too. Show it to the world! But I suspect a lot of digital-only artists are fake. And yet they have a huge following anyway. Ooh, I must be jealous.

So, to compensate for my jealousy, I'll let you in on the biggest reason for my absence. I bought a horse. And not just any horse, I imported a purebred Akhal-Teke filly from Russia. And I'm so in love with her.

So that's why. If you're still interested in my work, go check my website. The userlink is somewhere hidden on this page since DA apparently does not like it if artists promote their own website. All their fame and fortune must be through DA.

Regardless, it's all good. I'm good. My lifelong dream came true and I don't even care right now if I can ever make a proper living out of my art.

I've been working on a project for a while. I'm preparing an art book. If you're curious, again, check my website.

That's all. I still check your art from time to time (you know who you are) just haven't really had time to comment. I'll get to that later, perhaps. Maybe over the summer, maybe not. I might just end up sitting in the meadow cuddling with my horse all summer. Who knows.

I know I'm forgetting some clubs. I'm dreadfully sorry. I just wanted to let you guys know where I am and where I've been all this time.

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Equine Clubs:

DBZ clubs (needs to be moved around)

Time to start with a clean slate!
The message centre was growing way over my head with more than 3,000 messages to look into. (It's happened to me before and it wasn't even funny anymore).

So I won't be replying to any old messages anymore, or comment on deviations I've yet to see... perhaps if I come across them and feel like commenting but for now, I've deleted it all and no longer know of their existence.

If you have pressing matters or stuff I NEED to reply to, send me a note or comment here.

I needed to get that load out of the way and by commenting on old messages it would just take me forever.

I hope to be able to keep up replying in the future but I just tend to come online whenever DA is doing maintenance so no luck there.

I'll also try to breathe new life into my equine club but I will need another week or so to get things going for me. I just finished the bulk of my finals but they're officially not over till the end of the month.

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Equine Clubs:

DBZ clubs (needs to be moved around)

Mood: very busy
Listening to: Bauhaus
Creative: commissions

So busy! But I finally opened my new website, though it's not 100% finished yet (some sections are in one language only, that kind of stuff).

Other than that, very busy working on commissions, weeping over my scanner not doing what I like, and working on a thesis which I won't elaborate on.

Thanks for all the comments and faves! I really appreciate it even though I currently can't find the time to reply or check out your DA pages, I'll try to make up for it once my life's a little less hectic than is currently the case.
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My Dragon Ball doujinshi:

Equine Clubs:

DBZ clubs