Back Again

I know that it has been a long time since I posted to my site (cough, cough... 23days) so I thought that I better just drop in to let you know that, no, I'm not dead, and I haven't decided to quit blogging either.  In fact, nothing could be farther from the truth.  Think of it as a mini-vacation of sorts, from blogging... daw!  Actually, I wouldn't call it that, because it's not really a vacation if your not having fun, and not being able to blog does not equal "fun" to me, at all.  So, I won't get into the depths of what that's all about just yet, let's save that for another post, but my main purpose for writing to you today is just to inform you that vacation time is over! and for the next little bit, my blog is going to be an explosion of activity because... I Have Returned!!!  
That's right!  I'm back with more ideas to set into motion than ever and all the more energy do it.  So the next couple of weeks should be crammed with loads of good content that will be slowly revealed to you as time moves on.  So far, I have 7 posts that are currently in their drafting stage, one of them includes this, and you should soon start seeing them seep out onto the net sometime next week.
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*As you can see, I have been taking the time to experiment with a couple of new software things that I can use in correlation with my comic and my blog.  The image placed on the left margin of this post was produced with an internet-based 'screen capture' program called "Awesome Screenshot: Capture & Annotate" which, as the title implies, allows me to take a picture of almost any part of a webpage I visit, add captions and annotations to it, then store it on my PC in whichever folder location I want!  How cool is that?!        --I know; I'm like a real pro' now! 

Starting the year off RIGHT.

Wow... I have gotten just this massive explosion of views in the past couple of days.  I mean like... "Kaboom!"

    

  ~I wonder where they are all coming from?

Lately it seems that things have changed, perhaps for the better.  I know that Christmas has worn me down and all, but still... I feel like I'm on the verge of something amazing!

I decided that I would make this post a commemorative one; a post commemorating the passing of 2011 and the birth of 2012.  As the year begins its first stance by popping out of the soil in its stretching towards the sun, so am I.  My mood is a seedling now, small and unsure of itself, but as time passes I will find myself budding anew and flourishing as I grow.  For now, I just have to wait.  Nourish myself and my artistic creativity, but wait.

Some of you may be wondering, as many of you in person do ask, do I have a favourite piece of artwork?  This type of question for an artist of any kind is mostly interpreted in the same way.  It is like asking a parent "Who of yours is your favourite child?" and in order to answer the question justly, the response usually tends to be something along the lines of "I love them all equally; each individual I love the same."  But I'm going to go a little on the contrary here and lie to you all saying that I do have a particular piece that stands out above the rest, and I am going to praise it by showing it to you all right now:

This is my absolute favourite piece of artwork I have done in the year 2011!  It embodies everything I have done, all the achievements I have made, my blog, the whole 'shabang' (as we say here in parts of the Maritime's) in one, single, condensed visual form. [And, above all that, I love it!]  ~This is my version of the favourite child. 
Okay, so... I'm not sure how long it took me to make this or when I made it for that matter, but I'm guessing that it was sometime during the spring of grade 10 (which is still within 2011.)  There were reference images that I used for both pictures featuring the lovely lady that you see here, but I lost them all somewhere on my computer between then and now, so, my bad! :(  However, I do want to give credit to whoever originally took the shot, so if any of you remember seeing the pictures I am talking about or perhaps know the photographer (which I know is an unlikely thing, really) either personally or on the net, then you can send me the links to any of the two pictures and I will edit them into here for you.

     All the information I know about the photos:

1. The second one was found on deviantART's homepage.
2. They were done by the same photographer & feature the same model.
3. Both pictures were in Sepia or Grayscale. 
4. The Titles were: The Violinist and Equilibrium. 
5. Some comments said the model was good looking, most tend to agree. :) 

The hunt is on!

On another note, I have surpassed some of my expectations for this year by getting 500+ views by December's end, and I am proud.  There are many things that I didn't get checked off my list this year that I would have liked to have done, but realistically I know that this is enough.  Any progress at all is good in my eyes and I certainly have progressed a lot this year, both on a personally level and a level that all of you can follow here on the net.  I won't go in too deep with all the achievements I have managed to cram into the year of 2011, but I will have you know that this year will be remembered by me as a year of Action and Change.

Aside from the resent changes in my life, there have also been noticeable adjustments that I have made to my blog:

• A 2011 arrow has appeared on my "Blog Archive" gadget (as all Blogger blogs do in the transition into the new year)
• New Tabs have now been placed along the top: 

         Weekly Posts: My homepage. Contains all my posts, two newest appear first. You can
                                  access older posts by going to the sidebar and selecting different moths.
         The Legend: A new feature I added to my blog. There is nothing much to see here yet,
                               but sooner or later I will provide an overview of the story in general and its
                               major conflict.
         Meet the Characters: New! Will be updated and filled with fresh content as characters
                               are developed. First installment to this Tab is coming after *two posts form
                               now.

• My website now has a Favicon! it's been there for a while but I haven't mentioned it in a post until now. You may have a hard time viewing this in 'Internet Explorer'; I suggest using Google chrome to view blogs in general. Created using this site, Following these instructions.  Image is an all original Origami design I made. [That's right, you won't find it anyplace else on the net!] If you plead on me long enough to do it, I may do a tutorial later. Its importance will become clearer in first chapter.  

Swapped images with this post.

• I now have a © Copyright statement at the bottom of all my blog's pages.  Beware!
• Lonely Totem Pole now has a new follower! Pleased welcome my first member, my cousin Maddie, to my growing group of Lenwatchers.  I haven't had a chance to thank her in person yet, so (thank you!) Please visit her blog for me to show her how much I care! <3

• And last, but not at all least... (can I get a drum roll, please)... I JOINED 'deviantART' !!!  Yeah, I know "WHAT?!"  I told my friends that I wouldn't join until after the prologue to my graphic novel was complete, but I just couldn't help myself.  I figured "now's as good as ever" and so, just like that, I joined!  I don't think it would be wise for me to give you my deviantART name just yet, for the reason that I don't have any content uploaded to the new site at all.  But just you wait! because in a moths time or so, after I've gotten the hang of using it and navigating its pages myself, I will open the doors to it for all my blog readers.  Its nothing really, I just don't want you all flooding into there with nothing to see.  So, rather than have you disappointed, I'd prefer that you get excited as you wait. (But don't worry! It won't be so long that you'll get board waiting!) That's just not my style... Haha! Bonus points to those who can find my deviantART name!  Hint: it's written somewhere on this site! :) 

How am I rate now? Good, I guess.  Although I was getting my days and nights a little mixed up for a while after New Years, I am starting to level out some now as the time for me to get back to school approaches.  I recently had a birthday, if that really matters to you at all, so I guess that makes me 17 now. (Yippy?)

Guessing I will post about that one next.