I want to start sharing my art again

Here is a bit of fan art I did the other day, I don't normally like drawing, let alone posting fan art, so yeah, take it as you will. I'm relatively proud of how these 3 pieces turned out, and its been a long time since I've shared any of my art.

I think I want to start sharing my art again, though it will be all hand done until I can afford a new tablet.

Right now I'm working on building my skill with inking, its not something I have a lot of experience in and I want to change that. You can critique if you want to.

See it all after the jump --->

Resolutions

Because all the cool kids are doing it :V

I don't know what to resolve, resolutions seem so hollow (does anyone ever achieve their resolutions? I never have.) I've really been subscribing to the "why put off for tomorrow what you can do today" mantra of living lately, and its been working for me. So I'll resolve to stick to that, start projects I've been putting off (I started a quilting project I've been putting off since last Christmas last night, I don't know why I procrastinated so long now that I've started it) and complete any half-finished projects I started last year and abandoned (that I can remember, I'm sure there are tons I've forgotten).

Christmas Piles

Traditional Christmas haul list!

I got Epic Mickey, a 11th Doctor Sonic Screwdriver (that actually works as a screwdriver) a new Frikkin' TV, a hand made glass bowl a pretty new wall clock, some photo frames, some towels, a digimon digital pet thing, and a new dude for my Warhammer Army (this to be updated later today, to add birthday goodies)

Husband received Dresden Files "Changes" book, Dresden Files Series 1, some Halo lego toys that we think we'll return (a clock, towels and a Frikkin' TV too, those were for both of us) Mass Effect 2, Evil Decepticon Ornament, and Chapters gift certificate.

My Eldest son got a bucket full of dinosaurs, skates, playmobile dragon thing (omg, never get playmobile, there are 8billion little tiny pieces that will get lost instantly), scrabble junior, a lego xbox game, a lego man headlamp, playdough, a book and a billion other things that grandma gave him that she will not allow to leave her house because they are for 'her to play with the kids with'. 

He also got a bakugan toy. It cost $2.50. And he will Not put it down. Seriously. He was just singing a song that went "I'm never gonna put my bakugan down!"

My Youngest got this thing that you scribble on it and it plays music fast or slow depending on how fast you scribble, a cat stuffy, a monkey stuffy, Tonka Chuck Trucks, mega blocks, a piano (big hit! hes learned f i turn down the volume on t, if he shuts t off and back on again, the volume goes back to max, he doesn't quite understand the concept of volume buttons yet, it also has a mic that you literally have to stick in your mouth, I tried it, before it will receive anything) and once again, a pile of stuff that gets to say at grandmas house.

WHAT DID YOU GET?

A story of Best Friends

I find it truly amazing, mind boggling, fantastical, wonderful and awesome that my best friend can live 5000 kilometers away from me and we've never physically met. Especially since I once thought that having any kind of relationship, platonic or otherwise, over the internet was total bunk. I seem to have been proven utterly wrong.

I do find it sad and frustrating though that we cant go to movies or spas or give each other make overs or go to pubs or the mall together (even though I hate malls). Though knowing us we'd probably just hit all the book stores and go home and read and listen to cheesy/awesome nerd music, or watch movies we should have grown out of when we were teenagers.  Or whatever. Because it doesn't even matter, because it would just be awesome.

My identity: Nerd^5 vlog post supplemental

So I babbled on about how my identity is always changing in my most recent Nerd^5 video but I never really touched on any real aspects of my identity in it, which I had originally planned to do, apparently I am a scatterbrain so that didn't happen. There is a lot of stuff I can identify myself with, and I doubt I'll remember it all in this post but the ones that come to mind likely make up the majority of my identity...right?

Being Tuesday of Nerds to the Power of 5 has quickly become an important part of my identity. This group of... not just some of, but the best friends I have had in a very long time, has since February, cheerfully and possibly unwittingly helped coax me out of a shell that has been in place and hardening for 4 or more years. Week after themed week my shyness is ebbed away... I truly look forward to the day when my shyness is gone completely. To a lesser extent,  being a Youtuber in general is helping me break out of my shell. While its not a large part of my identity, it is a niche I enjoy.

Being a mom, though a role I was thrust into kicking and screaming and full of apprehension at the age of only 18, is important to me, and important to my identity. My two kids, ages 4 and 16 months, mean more to me than I ever thought two tiny human beings ever could. Having someone so dependant and watching them grow into their own independent person, while at times can be a struggle, defines not only my life, but theirs, their fathers, grandparents and a host of extended family. "I'm a mom" is one of the first things I use to describe myself to others.