Because it's that time of year where everyone shares gifts, here is my gift to you.
4 new premade backgrounds I posted on my stock account



Happy Holidays!

Christmas hasn't been this eventful in years, and I'm not kidding!

Woke up this morning to find a note from *jagged-eye letting me know I'd placed 1st in the Umbrella Contest with my entry.



I know, not a big contest, no huge prizelist to get me so overjoyed, but I haven't taken part in competitions in well over a year and felt I kind of lost my touch. This win simply restored my confidence in what I do.

Then this afternoon, in between Christmas preparations, I come to my desk, load deviantart only to find a message congratulating me for my recent DD. I couldn't believe it at first so I went to the DDs page to check, to find my latest posted art piece Santa's List featured thanks to =dhik-a and `WDWParksGal.



This same piece, last year, won me the Wacom Intuos 4 I am currently using to make art, so all around a very dear piece that now became even more special.

I've got my amazing boyfriend ~Sinister-DarkHorse flying in from Canada for the holidays, so this year it's definitely going to be a happy holidays season for me!

I will be away until the 2nd week of January, so I'm wishing you all a Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah,  Happy whatever else people are celebrating around the world at this time or year and a Happy New Year! Here's to a big, better 2012! (and no, we're not going to die )

As a limited time offer, you will find my Renderosity Store on sale 45% off for the next 24 hours!
Prices go as low as 2.75$, so be sure to grab any resources at a discounted price while you can.
The store includes a variety of backgrounds, brushes and textures I created for artists like myself, as well as merchant resources for 3D texturers!

Below you will find a small portion of what you can find in the store:









To visit the store, follow this link [link]

This is not another one of those "Boohoo I'm leaving forever" type of journals. Drama was never something that appealed to me and I was never one to start. Yet in a short timespan I found people trying to start it with me and that's one extra ounce of stress I don't need. I found my sale backgrounds redistributed as stock with minor alterations. I've had my work rejected in a group because I was suspected of "stealing" the image, while all along I had a collaboration project with the models in the image. I was told I should place direct links to stocks for a piece that doesn't use any. I was told to put links to stock I paid for, while it defeats the purpose of me paying for it and the license to use without link backs. Am I getting somewhere here?!

All in all I am not going anywhere. This is still a part of my portfolio and I'm going to start treating it as such alone, putting the community that seems to be now turning on me aside. I will continue to submit work here but I'm not going to make it my main priority to post here first. I may disable comments since it's unlikely I'll get to them soon. Not when it makes me feel like this just logging on thinking of what other new creative ways people may find to start something with me. I don't need that.

For those that want to stay in touch, feel free to send me a note. I will continue to check those regularly and I can be found on my Twitter, Facebook and e-mail address if anyone needs me.

The fate of my stock account hangs in the balance as of now, I've seen it misused one too many times and am considering shutting it down. I suggest you go to ~frozenstocks and grab what you need while you still can. If it comes to it, I may leave a couple up and mark them as unrestricted. We'll see.

Hey everyone! With being so absent for the most part I don't even know if there are any watchers left to be reading this journal entry lol Oh well, still I thought I'd at least give an occasional update.

I know I made a promise to stay more active, but life just keeps getting in the way of that! It's a little frustrating to be honest and if days would be 48h hours long instead, or more, then I'd have enough time for everything. I'm already running on 4-5 hours of sleep and any less and I'd be getting myself a one-way ticket to the hospital most likely. Ack, enough whining already. It could be worse. I managed so far with what little time I had. will continue to do so.

So, me, what I've been up to lately. I've recently returned from the capital, where I went to a Hadouken and Pendulum concert. It was amazing And with that visit to Bucharest I had the pleasure of meeting again with ~dianora and ~Meyra , as well as meeting ~shrekutza ~redenchantress and ~randomstarlight for the first. They're all really sweet, lovely girls and I'm glad I had the chance to spend an afternoon with them before returning home.

Other than that I've mostly been busy with commissioned work, got a book deals lined up as well as work for photographers and models, and updating my store over at Renderosity and PNGTubes.
Speaking of PNGTubes, it's my b'day in a week so for the month of July I am offering a special gift package to those that shop for resources through the store. As it happens, it's also the 1 year anniversary since the store was founded, so there's an extra "bag of goodies" for every order of  at least 12.50$.

Oh and lastly, I've set up a Facebook page so if you like my work, please hit the "Like" button here please [link]
I will be posting sneak previews to upcoming artwork, sampled commission work, scrapped artwork and many other things there.

Oh yeah and my sub is gone, so bye bye journal template. Do any of you know of any photomanipulation contests on dA at the moment?