So! Life is good. I have an internship, I have good health, I have awesome friends and family, it's summer, I'm not all depressed with reverse culture shock anymore... and I have a feeling my art is seeping back into its hyper-shoujo roots.

For a while there all I could seem to draw was semi-realistic and anything manga-style seemed forced. Suddenly everything I draw resembles something you'd see in a Ribon magazine. It's rather fun.

So... I wonder what it would take to just throw everything away and say "to heck with it! I'm going to go debut in Japan and become a manga-ka!!". It's something that crosses my mind almost every day, regardless of how I'm feeling about my art. And yet I always seem to talk myself out of it.

Anyway. Expect a couple pieces over the next month or so. I've got another one I plan on finishing next week...