It's been a while, hasn't it? I haven't posted in quite some time now, and I'm sure some of you are probably wondering what happened to me. To put it simply, I had to take a major health hiatus, because I kept coming down with health problem after health problem; I had a stomach virus, came down with pneumonia as a direct result of allergies followed by post-infectious inflammation syndrome, I caught a painful double ear infection, suffered a bronchospasm from inhaling sawdust, had a cyst removed, I fell and hurt my knee, it seems like I can't catch a break, but perhaps the worst health problem out of them all that I'm still suffering from is bad luck, and I'm still holding onto hope that this will be the end of it.
I've been resting at home for a little over a week now recovering from minor surgery, that's why I haven't put out any new art or animations. I've considered immune booster vaccines, bought some probiotics and other nutritional drinks to use once I finished my antibiotics, and tried eating health food, but at this point, I'm left with vaccines as the remaining option. As much as I enjoy laying in bed and watching movies, I want to try and work on improving my immune health so this isn't an issue anymore, because it is getting in the way of my hobbies. I'm still drawing and painting digitally, but I feel about as effective as a copy of Pokémon Emerald without an internal battery.
Now that it's been well over a week since the procedure, I want to get more pages of Bloodline Calling out, because the project has been stagnating lately. I would hate to just let it die like so many other canine comics.
I was originally going to draw something focused around Knuckles and Nilla for the occasion since it's common knowledge that Knuckles has a goth side while Nilla was sort of already that way when I made her, but I couldn't finish it on time so I'm making a written statement instead.
Truth be told, I've been goth ever since I was a child and my dad thought I was going through a phase when I started expressing myself openly. I can't help but laugh about it now because it's been over a decade and I'm still goth. Obviously it's not a phase, this is just who I am. 🤣
Well, it's been a week as I've estimated in my last journal, so I figured I should probably update on how I'm feeling.
So, it turns out that I had an infection, but it was nothing that medically prescribed antibiotics couldn't fix. I'm starting to feel better and move around a lot more, but I'm at least going to be slow to post anything new, at least until I make a full recovery. I did share an animation test to at least two of my active platforms, but nothing more than that, that doesn't mean I haven't been trying though.
I'll try my best to respond to comments when I can, but I'm going to try and take it easy while I finish recovering. It's been so hard to stay healthy that it feels like my body is falling apart. I'm sure I can probably fix that with good nutrition and regular exercise which I'm planning to do around late spring to early summer starting with signing up to BR Fitness. I may be physically young, but I wouldn't be surprised if I'm biologically 40; and to think I left the internet wanting to die to now wanting to expand my lifespan to be about as old as a tuatara.
I'm going to be offline for about a week or so to recover from health problems. I can't confirm whether I will post again within that timeframe or not for that reason, but when I do come back online, I'll probably post en-masse. I'll try to put out more pages of Bloodline Calling if I can because I really don't want to abandon it to the abyss, maybe put out some ref sheets or something, but for the time being, I'm just going to be taking it easy so I don't overwork my body and keel over.
With the grand reopening of SheezyArt, I have returned as well, although it came at a horrible, tragic cost. After everything life has thrown at me, my soul has been battered and scarred, and I'm pretty much dead inside.
What am I talking about? Well, my mother passed away last month, and with her a part of me died as well. To top it all off, I had to figure out where exactly I'm going to live, because my mother was the owner of the apartment I used to live in, and being a young adult, I was very much still dependent on her; I was scared into believing that I would have to fight for my own civil rights, due to the fact that I'm currently staying with my dad until I can get on my feet, and my stepfather really doesn't like my birth father, so they threatened each other with a legal battle. I guess I won't have to worry about that now, as my brother has power of attorney for me in case something like that were to happen.
Being as depressed as I am right now, I had initially considered retiring from my hobby, because I had no idea how I could draw or animate when I'm like this, but then I remembered my mother, and how supportive she was of my art journey. She wouldn't have wanted me to just give up like that, so I'm going to do the best that I can to try and keep going.
Well, I can't share any new stuff, because my external hard drive broke, and it's giving me that annoying "click of death" indicating that it's about to die, so I'm currently waiting for a replacement to quickly move all of my files onto before it explodes, which means art block. Until then, I can't make any new art. It sucks, because I want to animate so badly right now, but I can't, because of the fact that it won't read properly, so I'm pretty much SOL. I'm mad about it, because it's getting in the way of one of my resolutions, which was to try to release the pilot to my series around this year, but I guess the only art I'm limited to sharing is stuff I already made.
I don't know how to end this, except to essentially reiterate that my new year was ruined, and I will get revenge on whatever paranormal entity did this to me.