First, a big welcome to all my new watchers I've gotten in the past few months I got lucky and made it to the front page a couple of times, something that I never thought was possible through most of the time I've been here, yet I managed to do it even without drawing Naruto and a thanks to all my long-time ones that even after all this time and me switching between styles, genres and subjects quicker than the average user switches their desktop wallpaper - have still managed to show regular interest in my work

Anyway, it's not like me to go 9 weeks without a new journal, but I think we all can't stand people that journal too much anyway either way, it's time for a new one and I was getting tired of seeing those scary photo's of myself in the last

Well as everyone noticed, I turned 21 recently, it's why I submitted my Tropic of Cancer deviation. So I'm not fishing for more Happy birthdays lol, that was a week ago, so only 51 'till my next But I was niceley surprised a few days after when my father visited, took me to the movies (saw Bruno ) and I came back to find an elaborate party with all my family there, it must have taken them forever to organise that, and I'm not going to think of how much it would have cost, but for once I actually felt like I mattered on my birthday, which is good since it was an important one and the past few were kinda dissapointing, but this was one of the best and I just thought it was worth documenting here
It is eerie being officially considered and "adult" though - a "man" rather than a "boy", especially since I was just a teenager when I joined here. Oh well, they can call me a man - but that's not gonna stop me from acting the opposite lol

That's the only major thing that's really happened to me lateley everything else is just internet-life. I'm sure you all got informed on the dA portfolio's no doubt I'd be making good use of that soon, but not until I make a nice intro-picture when I get some time and a good idea for a cover art. I also have a special emoticon in the works (yes, I'm doing another ) in celebration of the 40th anniversary of the Moon landing, hopefully I can finish it before the day is out and post it real soon (EDIT: it's been submitted now [link]

I also FINALLY got some commissions, seriously - you may not know it, but I have a better chance of finding buried treasure in my backyard than getting a commission, this is only the third all year so far and lets hope this time I actually get paid for it! so I'm not spending my money just yet, not after the last customer I had royally screwed me over and I worked for 2 weeks solid for nothing

Oh, I also did one of the backgrounds to a downloadable Smash Bros game, It's just in demo state at the moment, I'll promote it for real once I get the OK from the maker, just thought that was worth noting. Speaking of games, I'm currently enjoying Fantasy Zone II they just made that ancient Master System game available on the Virtual Console recently and it was my fave when I was like - 5 years old, and that was probably when I last played it too! so although I'm 21, this massive nostolgia hit has brought me back to my childhood

That's all, the rest is just personal stuff

*Note to Self* don't forget these contests:
Ultimate Fandom#4: [link] Ends 25th September
Fantasy world contest: [link] Ends 15th October

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Winner - theme of the month at #The3DArtistClub