Bambs79

Hello DeviantArt family. Bit of an honest one here, so here goes… Been a long time since I’ve written a journal post. Pretty slack of me to be honest, I just run short of time and for some reason I don’t give it the attention it deserves. I’ve not been posting so much lately either, both on my subscription pages and publicly, for which I apologise and extend my gratitude to those who have stuck by me even so. Here’s a little towards why… Lately, we’ve been having some difficulties with our son, who is on the more severe end of the autistic spectrum and has hit his teenage years. His communication is limited, and he’s having a tough time dealing with this stage of life. As such, his frustrations are more frequent and his challenging behaviour has been amplified more than usual, which means it’s also a more testing time for the rest of the family. He’s currently refusing to go to school and will self-harm to hammer the point home. Not easy viewing as parent. We’ve kind of readjusted

Hey DA, haven’t posted a journal for a long time so time to touch base. THANK YOU Firstly, a massive thank you to everyone for sticking with me and following my gallery. I apologise for not being more responsive in general but I really struggle with time now, trying to balance all the different aspects of my life. A WEEK AWAY For the first time in in three years I’m actually going away for a weeks holiday. I know I’ve already mentioned that my correspondence on DA is lacking but for this week I won’t be responding to any notes or messages whilst I spend time with my family. However, over the last few weeks I’ve had increasing numbers of enquiries for commissions. I still have a couple of outstanding commissions to finish, but once these are done I shall open up commission slots again. This is something that I shall hopefully do upon returning from vacation. Again, I know I’ve been remiss in replying to people via notes and chats, for which I apologise. SUBSCRIBERS A huge thank you

Been a while since I’ve written and posted a journal on DA. I have been seriously slacking! So it’s about time for an update! SUBSCRIPTION PAGE In December last year I decided to test out the very new deviantArt Subscription system. I’d been toying with the idea of creating a Patreon Page to upload reference, advice and tutorial (and other art) pages, but decided to stick with deviantart and give them a try, especially as it’s a forum that’s allowed me to develop a good following and meet like-minded fans and artists over the years. Plus, I thought willing subscribers would rather keep it all on one platform rather than transfer over to another? THE REASON. This may be a bit of an assumption but I would say that a lot of people have a ‘side hustle’ to ‘compliment’ their job.😄 Art and illustration has always been mine. For a long time I was happy sharing my art freely, especially the figure and physique references from my sketchbook. Over time though I found that all of this was