Its been a fun few months. Volunteering has eaten up my drawing time, but I don't regret it one bit. I'm very familiar with the kindness of friends and family of course, but the kindness of strangers is a wonderful thing too, and you get to see a lot of it in charitable institutions. If you're loosing your faith in humanity, give a few hours to a charity shop, and you'll feel much better after seeing all that generousity. It's a real balm to the soul.

Unfortunately, my laptop seems to be on its last legs - the screen keeps flickering between normal and very dark, almost black, and I am told that this is either a screen fault or a dying video card. Either problem is a little too expensive to fix considering it is bordering on six years old, bless it. Up until now it hasn't given me a lick of trouble - it's been a real trooper and I'm sorry to have to get rid of it.

Laptop, I salute you.

This also means that digital art will likely be on hold for a while. Most of what I've been up to is uncoloured pencil sketchings and speed paints anyway, so you guys haven't missed much . I may put some sketch pages together soon.

In the meantime, take care everyone, and happy holidays!