You know something?

There are a lot of things that I want to say here, but I'm not going to take a whole lot of time to do it.  

The main thing that I'd like to say is that my talent for art has practically dissolved over the past few years, and that's my own fault.  I haven't used it, and I haven't kept it up.  It's my own fault, and my own problem.  

No one else can fix it. 

Another small thing that I'd like to say...

THANK YOU SO MUCH to literally anyone and everyone who has stuck with me through the long absences.  It took those long absences to figure out how much my art means to me and why I want to keep at it. 

The last thing I want to say here right now is that I am going to work hard from here on to nurture my art back to what it was before I left last time.  There are a lot of pictures that I want to draw that I know I'm not good enough for right now, and that's devastating.  

Throughout the last couple of years, I have focussed much of my time on writing, which is just fine, but it doesn't do my art any good.  Artwork... The ability to put a picture on a page...  It's a very important part of myself, and there was literally no reason for me to have abandoned it.  

Not even school was a good enough reason for that.  I didn't make good enough grades to have warranted the abandonment of my art.

That said, I want to segue into something else that I am doing.  From here on, I will be doing a sketch every day (at the very least) and maybe some of them will get color, and maybe they'll just be sketches, but one every day should be the bare minimum for improvement and maintenance.  

So the custom box above my journal will be were I detail my progress (that is, keep the list of what was drawn on what day).  It will have thumbnails from my scrapbook, most likely, and some things that get finished later. 

Thank you.  

Now, I have art to do.