Hey, everyone! I'm aliiive! Yup, that's right. I saw I hadn't updated my journal in a year and suddenly felt bad xD

Well I graduated college on December 22, 2008 from UNA with a bachelor of science in art. Currently I am hoping to be accepted into a creative writing master's program at Alabama. I am submitting on the 10th, next week! But I won't know if I got in until Spring. Lame, I know. Right now I am taking another semester of classes to catch up on graphic art so I can get a job in graphic design, should the program fall through. Hopefully I'll have an apartment by this Summer! YAAAY!

I am still drawing, in case you're wondering. Mostly, I draw sketches/character designs of my rp/novel characters. Since th majority are just sketches, I haven't been uploading any art, as I am certain you've noticed. Here are a few examples of my current art. I haven't decided if I should load them to my gallery or to sketches. What do you think?

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I also have spent a lot of time learning how to hand-sew and have been forging my own plushies of my criters and such! Here is my most recent piece, made for my friend KC as her bday/xmas gift:

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[In case you can't tell, it's a Lant x3 and if you dunno what that is, there's a piccy in my galery. This Lant is Trae, a Turned Lant from KC and my RP. He's white and snowy and feminine and kicks butt xD. We love him and his insane mannerisms <3]

I will try to make time this month to update my gallery with what I can find. Sadly, I haven't drawn very much the last year u_u college artclasses dominated most of my time and subject matter. But I need to scan the marker pieces I did for advanced drawing this semester.

You can contact me at kalon_akarui@hotmail.com, or via facebook [calan helms], or via msn [use my hotmail email].

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