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Hi! Wanted to check in with you all to let you know I'm still alive. I am also super excited to share that I just launched a Kickstarter to fund the printing of my fully illustrated Celtic fairytale book, Sionnach Abu: Fox Forever! And it's already 40% funded!
I've been working on this for the past year and a half, and I am so excited to share it with you. You may remember I started it as a comic here, but I am pleased to say that it has transformed into a fully illustrated 139 page book instead!

Here's the link: www.kickstarter.com/projects/m…

Please consider backing it if you are able! :heart:

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Hey guys!
It's been a very long while since I made a journal. I thought I'd give a quick update on where I am and my future plans. So I've finished one year of community college and I've got one more to go. If all goes well and assume it well, then I'll graduate in the summer of 2019, and head off to a four year art school. Still planning for that to be SCAD at the moment!

To help raise some money and also just because I want to be able to offer more for you guys, I launched a Patreon page! I know everyone is doing it, and I'm not normally a fan of following bandwagons, but it seems like a great idea, so I thought I'd give it a try.
I'm focusing the rewards primarily on the process behind my daily paintings, which I realize have become like 90% of what I post here now, haha. So if you're interests, I entreat you to go check it out! For just a $1 a month you can get a process snapshot of new daily paintings every week.
Here's the link:

In other news I've still canceled the comic project I began, as I realized comics aren't really my thing. Instead I'm making it into a book, fully illustrated to accompany the text. I plan to self-publish it by the end of summer 2019 at the very latest. I am very excited about this, to say the least, and working on it has become a bit of an obsession of mine. I have almost a year left of work on it to go, but it's starting to come along already and I am super pumped.
So stay tuned! Thank you as always for your wonderful support. :heart:
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I apologize for the recent lack of updates; I've been very busy between my college classes and work. However, winter break has just started and I'm very excited to learn that I'll have about a month before spring semester starts!

During this time I'm going to try to be more active on here. First of all, I plan to upload a daily a day, perhaps more, so that I can finally catch you guys up to my recent art. I'm still submitting ones from September! Sweating a little... So I plan to fix that before next semester.

Also, I'm very excited to announce that I'll be updating my commissions again! I'll put up a deviation soon with the commission types, info, and examples. I feel I haven't organized my commissions too well in the past; I plan now to handle them very formally. So you can look forward to that! :)

I've also joined some new sites recently!
For prints & such you can find me on Society6: society6.com/meorow
(I'll be putting up more art there shortly.)
 Instagram: www.instagram.com/meorow/
And you can buy me a coffee here! www.buymeacoffee.com/PIvWo5Q

I'm trying to learn and do as much as I can during my time in college so I can hopefully join the professional art world afterwards.
And as always thank you so much for your support; it means the world to me.
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Hi! So I'll say first that a lot has been going on in my life lately, but I'm okay; I have a wonderful, supporting family and I am very, very grateful for that.
I don't want to dwell on it anymore, but I received what turned out to be a scam call yesterday. In short, I was convinced I had received a call from the IRS, and was emotionally bullied into giving away all the money I've earned over the past three years or so.
I'm okay now; I'll be okay. It was just money, I suppose, but it hurts just the same. So if you ever receive any phone calls like that, don't listen!
My mom made a GoFundMe page to try to help me recover some of the loss. 
Here's the link: www.gofundme.com/rebuild-emily…

On another note, I decided recently not to attend SCAD as it would have put me in too much student debt. I'll be attending a community college instead for the first two years. I'll be doing my best to try to transfer back into my dream school afterwards! Despite all this, I'm still very excited about what the future holds. I'll be going to college very soon and having professors teach me art! Just the thought of that makes me really happy.

I'll be getting busy, no doubt, so I may begin to upload less here on DA. I'll see. In the meantime, have a great rest of the summer guys! ^^
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So I can still scarcely comprehend it, but I reached 1000 watchers recently. That's a lot of people! Thank you so much for all of your support; I really appreciate every comment, watch, and favorite. I'm very honored to have reached this marker; I'm not sure if I ever expected to get that much attention. To be perfectly honest it makes me a little nervous sometimes, but it warms my heart, really. You guys have been so awesome. Thank you. Hug

I decided to try doing a speedpaint so you guys could get an idea of my average process with the dailies. It's a little choppy, it gets warped at one point, and I ended up editing the drawing it a little more afterwards because I'm nitpicky, but I hope you enjoy!

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