What's your top 5 favorite pieces in your gallery? Why? I know this can be redundant with the new gallery setups and what not, but we all need a motivation boost sometimes. (Those of you who can't paste thumbnails of your work in your journal, just paste the link to your art).
Paste this in your journal! Let's spread the personal fav !

1)
I had every intention of finishing this one. Unfortunately, I thoroughly misplaced the original and I am not quite up to the task of hunting it down. Anyway, I love this one because every time I look at the two horses, their gentle pose just makes me smile.

2)
I love the colors and I'm very proud of background.

3)
A melancholy Ringbearer always looked more griping to me. If only for the eyes, I will always love this drawing.

4)
I love this one because I think it's the closest I've come to perfection with any reference (and I didn't use a grid). Anyway, that moment in the movie is heartrending.

5)
Because it's Mr. Darcy. Is there any more explanation needed?

This has been bothering me for a while…so I’m just going to go ahead and say it. Compared to the last few years, my work has not been all that well received this year. Why?
I know I made a rather abrupt switch to digital art (there will be pencil art in the future, I promise), but there are several reasons for that.

1) My tablet cost a lot of $$$…I need to justify the cost.
2) Working with color!
3) I can’t afford paints, painting supplies or fancy colored pencils (especially after buying a tablet).
4) I doubt I can find an art-related career in the future knowing only traditional media.

I pride myself on walking to the beat of my own drum…and my art reflects my interests, temporary or permanent as they may be. I attempt to build on previous work. I’m not just drawing horses or pretty faces…I could look at my art and see not titles, but “skin tone,” “anatomy,” “light” or “background” (no laughing!).

I like the direction I'm moving artistically. I just wonder if there is a reason I seem alone in that feeling.

I wanted to express my gratitude to every person who took the time to read my last journal entry[link] and for your thoughtful comments. I cannot express how encouraging and humbling it is to have such an outreach from a community of people that I will never have the opportunity to personally thank. I wanted to relay that your prayers were not in vain.

While my fiancé and I have had our bumps in the road, with lots of talking—and divine intervention, I think—we were able to work out the matters that bothered us most. It’s not a perfect relationship and it never will be, but for the first time in a long time, I can approach the future will a smile on my face.

Once again, thank you to each one of you, and most of all, to the one who watches over all of us. J

For those of you who care....

I have been with a wonderful young man for almost three years now--we have been engaged for 4 months. He was my ideal, my dearest friend and treasured confidant. We are…were…crazy in love.

The past few months of planning our fall wedding has been a disaster. I knew all the horror stories of people/places being booked years in advance, thus I took care of things as quickly and smoothly as I could. I am independent. Perhaps it’s the oldest child in me. Over the period of 3 months, I did my research and arranged all the necessary big wedding things—caterer, location, and music. I did it all alone because my fiancé wanted no part in such “early and unnecessary” planning. I am confident I choose well, and that the wedding will be spectacular. He says that I am selfish, and is angered that I “didn’t listen to his opinion.”

Meanwhile, we have to have a place to live. I want a house, he wants a townhouse/condo. I’m assertive in my support of why we should never purchase a town home in this area in this economy, but I have made concessions. Even so, he calls me the cold and stubborn one.

Our once sterling relationship is hanging by a thread. My fiancé thinks very little of me, and truthfully, I have never hated another human being more than him right now. I can’t help but think that losing him will be the biggest mistake of my life, but we can’t work anything out anymore.

If someone, anyone, would be willing to pray for us… I have a rather shattered faith right now, but I feel that God might be the only one to help us. Thank you.