Fairwell 2017!

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I know this is a day earlier than I usually post, but today is, of course, the last day of 2017 and I thought that I should do one last post for the year before we begin the new one with bright new posts and info. If nothing else, its always good to have a reflect on the past before looking forwards to a bright new future. That in mind, before we say hey to 2018, let's give 2017 a fond farewell. After all, this past year has had many a thing happen.

Yikes, it barely seems like yesterday when it was turning 2017. Where on earth did this past year go? I have no idea. I just know it's flown by. Has anyone else experienced that this year?

Beyond that, though, I know that the year's been a busy one!

For me, I know this year has offered me plenty of opportunities to work on my art, be it just for fun, for practice, or as part of my freelance job. Suffice to say, the fact that I've had all those opportunities around my pub job has been great! Admittedly I'd certainly be happy to have more opportunities in the coming year. I think one of my biggest regrets was that I didn't really get to focus on Dreamwalkers at all, which I think I want to put into more focus this coming year. Gotta keep myself a bit more focused than just on drawing whatever I want between commissions. But hey, getting used to certain colouring styles and experimenting is all part of helping to keep my art up to date, so it wasn't exactly a waste of time. Not to mention that working on commissions or other freelance work was certainly something I'm hoping this coming year will bring as well! I'm always happy for the work, of course :)

Beyond that, the year's been pretty good with my family as well. My little niece turned one this year and is the most adorable kid ever! (Of course, I might be bias there. lol). She's talking and a speedy little thing when running around as well. She refers to me as 'Rara' since she hasn't quite got the hang of the T in my name yet. But I get to see her almost every week and its great. Another little hope from me that things will keep going just as good for her as they have this year.

On less positive notes, one thing I've found is that I did seem to get colds and coughs a lot this year. I have one now, in fact (one I probebly need checking out, if I'm honest - We think I probebly have a chest infection. Yay...) so I should probebly look a bit better at either my diet or maybe vitamin intake. If I can I want to not have to cough up a lung half of the year. But hey, having a better diet is a good new years resolution anyway, right? So it's not exactly a horrible thing to reflect on.

Speaking of New Year's resolutions, I guess that, beyond the diet thing, my new Years resolution will be to get Chapter 2 of Dreamwalkers finished. Maybe even work on the third chapter as well. I know we of TanraStudios as hoping to do multi-chaptered comics, a bit more like manga rather than singular chapters, so that's our main aim for us, or at the very least my main aim for Dreamwalkers. So wish me luck on my endeavours because I know I'm definitely going to be trying my very best this coming year.

Not many hours left of 2017 at this point, but for all of you, I hope that you have a good ending to 2017 and I hope that you all look forwards to a great new year! I know I'm looking forwards to it!

See you in 2018!

Tara

Merry Christmas!!!!

Hey everyone! Welcome back! To a very special blog today as well!

Yes, its Christmas! (Assuming that you all celebrate it, if not then its whatever holiday you celebrate today!) I hope that you've bee having a great day so far and continue to have a great rest of Christmas Day as well.

I know for my family, Christmas day has its own rituals, as many people have. Although this year could have started better for me (A head cold that might possibly be bordering on flu preventing me from getting more than a few hours sleep kind of puts a damper on things), but despite that, having my brother home for Christmas day, opening presents together while our dog enjoys his own presents and sniffing around the wrapping paper, going to the pub I work at for a Christmas day free drink before having an awesome Christmas dinner...well, certainly can't complain about that.

I'm pretty damned pleased with my presets, too. I'm apparently awful to buy for because I never know what I want, but everything was great! Plus it seems my family loved the presents I got them in return, so I'm really pleased as I'm not the only one difficult to buy for. lol. I think my favourite gift, though, was the Nintendo Switch I got. I've wanted it for a while but the price range prevented me from getting it before, but not only did I get the Switch, but also got Breath of the Wild as well, which I've been wanting to play since the switch, and the game, first came out.

All in all, I'd say I've had a great day. Though if this cough/cold/flu thing could leave any time soon I'd love that!

I know that my bar job is still going to be pretty damned busy for the next week as well. After all, it's the lead up to New Years (Hey, my next post is actually on New Years Day, too!). But hey, I have a family get together after work on Boxing Day, so I still have a lot to look forwards to as well. Still, I should have some time to think up some new years resolutions and speculate on how the year's been.

Still, the future is the future, the present is the present and Christmas is Christmas! So I hope that you all continue to have a great day. Happy Holidays everyone!

Until Next Time!

Tara

Counting 'til Christmas!

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It's a week until Christmas! It barely seems any time at all since last Christmas, if I'm totally honest. Where on earth does the time go? It certainly felt like it's gotten away from me, either way, and all of a sudden, its a week until the day and I barely had any shopping done for presents. Admittedly, part of it was to do with the bad weather and paranoia that I would once again have an up close and personal meeting with the road or a pavement somewhere. Honestly, the ice has been horrific and its only finally started to clear up recently. I honest to god had to crawl across a road once because there was no way of staying on your feet because it had frozen over so badly. It was bad enough that even taxis refused to go down my street, because there would be no way to leave it. Ah, the problems with living on a cul-de-sac with a sloped entry road. But I digress.

Suffice to say, I had to put off shopping or risk my neck. I suppose I could do the more modern thing and go on the internet, but hey, I kinda like the experience of going around the shops. (Or maybe I just wasn't entirely sure it would get here on time because I'm an idiot. lol)

At the very least, with the ice finally melted for now, I've got at least half ready for Christmas, with only a few more things to get. Let's just hope there wont be a freak snow storm now just to toy with me. After all, I do need to be certain I have the best gift for my one year old niece.  Thankfully, I have a few ideas.

Eh, I guess even with a freak snow storm I'd risk it. She's too cute to miss a gift!

My ramblings aside, work is going to be pretty killer for me - Christmas time and bars tend to go hand in hand with busy, after all. So I'm not sure I'll actually have the time for that Christmas picture I had planed *Pouts* On the other hand, next post is actually on Christmas Day, and I'll finally be able to show off those projects I had been working on as Commissions, as they wont be spoilers any longer! Yay! So I do hope you look forwards to that!

Until then, I hope you all have a wonderful lead up to Christmas day!

Tara

Fighting Gravity (Gravity is Winning)

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I'm not sure if you know or not, but this past week we've been having snow. Its not quite Christmas yet, but we already have the white....which is slowly turning into ice. Joy!

As you may have guessed from the title here, I've not exactly been keeping both feet on the ground very often. Seriously, I've fallen over about six times in the span of seven days, and I can't even blame it on being drunk or ill. I've just somehow managed to hit so many icy patches, it's ridiculous. Most of the time I've been ok, beyond bruised pride, though my recent fall scraped up my knees, jolted joins and generally given me lots of ouches. It's kind of silly, really, as I've dealt with snowy/icy weather before with shoes that had even worse grip than the ones I was wearing and still ended up staying on my feet.

I think gravity is trying to tell me something here....

Beyond feeling many a scrape and bruise to both body and pride, good news is that I finished the commissions that I needed to do before Christmas! By the sounds of it, the client is very happy with them, too. I'll be waiting a little to put them up online, however, since they are gifts from the client, so bare with me a while longer. I'll show you what has had my attention once Christmas day is over and I'm sure that I wouldn't be spoiling anything for anyone. :)

Hopefully, in the meantime, I'll stop falling over as well. I really don't want to bust up limbs so close to Christmas, especially when this is also the season that pubs tend to get pretty busy. I need to be available to work for those celebrating!

Speaking of Christmas, now my commissions are done, I should probably actually get around to Christmas shopping.....Yeah....I such at getting my own gifts ready on time. Wish me luck! I'm just hoping that gravity and ice decide to cut me some slack for a while so I can get those gifts. Tis the season for giving, after all. And that does not mean giving bruises, gravity!

Until next time!

Tara

Once Upon A December

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So December is now upon us - man, time flies, huh? - and of course, it will soon be Christmas. Everyone ready for it? I know I'm....Uh....not. lol. Though, to be fair, before Christmas it was an important birthday for my mum this wear and my brother, sister and I had been working on a big present for her in the form of a Spa Day, so I've not particularly been focused on Christmas beyond one of my current commissions needing to be ready in time for it. Thankfully, that should be finished soon enough (possibly even in a few days, minus any touch ups or adjustments.

Similar to the previous commission, I wont be able to show you them until after Christmas, however, to avoid spoiling the present - the commissions asked for are going to be gifts from my customer, you see. But I will certainly be showing those off once Christmas is over.

December is usually a fairly busy month for me, not only because I'm terrible at shopping for Christmas presents and only tend to start in December, but also because I work at a bar when not working on my commissions or doing other freelance work, and most people do enjoy going out to celebrate the season. However, once the commission I'm working on is over, I'm hoping to do something for Christmas. Two years ago I did a Christmas Luphin, last Christmas I did a picture of Rodessa from Pandora in a Christmas outfit (admittedly that version of Rodessa was prior to the revamped appearance. This year I'm not entirely sure, but I'm considering either a Christmas picture of Rem, Somnus or Ashlin from my Dreamwalkers series, assuming that I have the time. After all, making sure I have gifts for my family ad friends is important too. lol

Sorry that I don't particularly have anything to show physically at the moment, mainly due to the reasons I mentioned before in relation to the commission. However, I do hope that at least giving an update will help explain my seeming lack of productivity.

Speaking of Productivity, though, I finally have the Wacom Pro that I said I'd be getting and am slowly beginning to get used to it as well - mostly its remembering that the shot cut buttons are a thing. lol. And, thankfully, my WiFi provider has now been sorted out, so I, hopefully, wont be having any more major problems with the internet for a while. Yay!

...I'm....seriously hoping I didn't just jinx myself...

*Touch wood!*

Until next time!

Tara