When I first came to DA I was really interested in the fact that this perfectly free community existed where I could showcase my art and my writings with my net name firmly printed on the web link. I came to realize however that without tender care and persistence, a deviant won't get much attention. You have to be here, you have to update, you have to browse and show your interest on other peoples art and to comment and to thrive to grow and to become a better artist and to look at those works that are drastically better than yours and feel motivation instead of desperation.

Although I love to write and draw, these things have not been great enough passions in my life to have practiced them to perfection or any type of mastery. I've realized that with time, both of those skills become better regardless of the lack of practice, I'm not sure why or how, but it's been my observation. I would account it to simple experience, the fact that having seem more people, having watched more bodies move, having looked at more drawings, my mind can better interpret and copy the images in my head through my hand. I'd also say that there is a similar phenomenon occuring through my writing skills, having a larger vocabulary, having read more books I've become better at weaving words.

I'd love to have the determination to draw more often and write more often and take these things and bring them here. I'd love to have the motivation to browse DA and comment on the wonderfully talented artists that inhabit this website and I'd love once again to sink into that warm spot in the internet that was my home for over five years, but I'm also living a real life that takes quite alot of time out of my days. I know I can make time for this place, and dedicate myself more to my arts, and to help this community grow by commenting on deviations and motivating deviants. I truly want to, but it will happen only in a series of periodic returns where as I have built up enough time and resources to actually come and post something or update my page and take a look around and put to use my rhetoric.

So to anyone I cross, I say good luck, and keep up the amazing work, for if it were not for you this place would be less fortunate.