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Hi,

Jeez, it's been a long time since my last activity... Sorry. ^^; I've been having... life... Like, mostly life issues, but I also went and wiled away a week with Sedecrem too, so that was lovely. :D

This past some days I've had an awful cold/sore throat/earache, so that's been awful. Ramen has never tasted so good. =_= And that happened right when I was planning on driving off into the sunset to forever-summer California, so, nice timing, winter cold. ;_; So I'm going on month 3 without a scanner, and, because I seemed to have some bad luck stored up, apparently my computer's died too. XD So I'm looking forward to replacing that while I also look for a job and also, Christmas. Lol. Dead 

The only good news I bring at the moment is that if you're interested in looking at the art I've been making anyway, I'm uploading my sketchbook pages to Instagram as I doodle all across them, soOo... If that's of any interest...

Instagram:  instagram.com/itsraini… ^^

And I'm kind of sort of getting into Twitter? It's an on-again-off-again relationship. And it's mostly personal, not art, but feel free to chat! :D When I'm not dying of sickness...

Twittertwitter.com/ccrownlaur…

K I think that's all. :D Hopefully I'll be able to upload some pretty things within the next month (god willing, I find a replacement computer for a decent price. :D) I hope you're having enjoyable days~
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Hi~i! It seems like it's been forever, has it been forever? Just for the record, I'm not dead. ^^
I moved back from Japan about 6 weeks ago, and I've been gallivanting across the countryside visiting family, but also... 

I don't know where my scanner is and
I don't have a space big enough to fit my laptop and my tablet both! ;_;

It's been really hard, because I've been making art that I'd love to share with you, but! Well... 
I hope I figure out a way to make it work soon. :D
Otherwise I might not get to upload anything until I move somewhere more permanent next month. 
Don't lose faith in me. :heart:

I hope you're having a nice autumn season. :D
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I think next up shall be some BGs practice for me! Llama Emoji-09 (Drinking Tea) [V1] wait wasn't the OTP challenge up next... xD + some requests! I'll just do it all at the same time nbd

Anyway I just want to make a list of the BGs I'm gonna take a stab at! :D probably inserting Sun and Luks into all of them but who knows. I might branch out. maybe :D

01. In a messy bedroom 
02. In a cafe/restaurant 
03. On top of a building or flying 
04. On/in a vehicle........
05. At a carnival/festival
06. In a field of flowers
07. On a dance floor
08. In a library
09. Playing a game
10. Swimming
11. Going hiking 
12. Sitting in a window
13. In space or on an alien planet
14. In a music room/On a stage
15. In a pumpkin patch
16. Waiting at a bus stop in the rain
17. Decorating a Christmas tree
18. Gardening
19. Looking through a window or fishbowl, etc (with face visible) 

WELL I THINK THAT'S ENOUGH TO KEEP ME BUSY FOR A COUPLE MONTHS AT LEAST Where is my Hoverboard?! - Back to the Future 2015  I don't know I couldn't find a more fitting emoticon ^^;

19 is a lot but my previous lucky number was 13 and I couldn't narrow it down that much... ^^; 19 is like the least lucky of my lucky numbers sooo I hope I haven't jinxed myself! :< 

soooooooo that's been tonight's installment of my random thoughts n things.... !!!!!!!!!
speaking of all the art I'm going to do, I'm gonna have to walk away now and go clean and pack a little bit. :D 
SO MUCH PRODUCTION :heart:

I hope you are having a lovely day :D
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hi~~~

I'm not sure how many people read my journals >w< 
but I was just thinking about how I treasure each one of you handful of people ;w;
plus I could maybe use a smidge of variety in my gallery recently...
if you have a request of me, fanart or OC or what have you, I'd be happy to oblige! :'D
(uhm not sure when exactly bc I'm moving back to the USA in 2 weeks and my living situation is pretty fluid for a bit in the beginning xD but I'd do my best!)

so you can comment or note me if you want! >3< 
I hope you are having a most lovely day~

edit: new watchers are always welcome but I might be choosey with your requests if there are a lot of them. >3<
you'll stick out to me in a really good way if you introduce yourself or say something like "hi! how are you?" so that your first words to me aren't a request, by the way! n3n 
and I'll give priority to the people I know! >3< xoxo
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motivation...

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oh my gosh...... some days, it's really hard to stay motivated, you know?! 

generally, my greatest motivation is that I want to get better and better and create the most beautiful illustrations, so I'm always practicing and looking up various learning resources and things... (actually I've sacrificed a lot of PR type relations for it, which might be a factor, and I can't really regret that... *shrug shrug*)

but some days I'm just like, "oh my gosh, I bust my freakin butt, and I think I've improved at least a smidgen over the past year, and for what?! a lot of my illustrations aren't loved very much at all..." I kind of calculate the number of faves and comments compared to the views, and I guess it's sometimes not a terrible rate, like a 25% fave rate to views, which is common among super advanced, popular works too... (and just in case any of my most lovely watchers are actually reading this, some of you shower me in such nice comments sometimes ;v; really makes my day, you have to know!) 

but still! some days it's like, "another day. another bajillion hours for the cold shoulder. ;-;"

I have to believe if I practice more and more, someday I'll deserve oodles and oodles of attention. (I know there are still a lot of problems with my works). And I also know I don't have a varied gallery because I have two favorite characters that I spend lots of my time doodling, but they're OCs so there's not going to be much interest, and I accept that... but it's hard to accept some days! T____T

I know I should really vary my gallery and work on various projects instead of just Sun and Lu but.........

maybe it would also help if I drew another intricate bg one of these days...

ugh, and after this next illustration in the challenge I'm working on, I have to draw Sun riding a bike!!!!!!!!!!!! noooooO... what is it with art challenges and bicycles?! bicycles are friggin satanic! I'm trying to think of a creative way of interpreting the prompt so I don't have to just draw another bicycle! XD at the very least, the bike basket is going to be overflowing with flowers......
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