It sure has been a long time.
So I return, after 5 years. Wow it really has been that long.Real life for me has been bumpy to say the least. Let's go over a few things.
After my silence from here there was quite a few years of increasing stress, worry etc, with the campsite in Spain I was on being more hostile, more issues, etc. This came to a peak in Easter of 2018, where the only conclusion was to lose my (and parents') home, and go live with other family. Meanwhile I am now with my boyfriend and his family, who have accepted me in, even during all these rough times and made me welcome.
It was a rough patch, and part of me is still sad over it, I never got to help or say bye during the downfall, I was in the UK with my bf, and so I watched from a far as what I had considered home was lost. 
But it does get better. Since being here my personal stress has been reduced, I'm happier with people who care and want the best for me. I've had my health improve in multiple ways, physical, dental and mental looked at, seen a therapist, I'm healthier and getting fitter. Honestly? I can't imagine myself being in this position a few years ago, and I'm so grateful of how things have turned out and how my bf, and his family have welcomed me.
Things are still rough on the edges, in places I don't wish to fully give my attention to. It does feel like my teens, and late-teens have been lost a little to the stress and anxious situations I was put into due to circumstances not in my control, and that's sometimes hard to accept. But things now, feel better, and are better. And I'm so, so glad for it.
I only hope things continue on this good trend, and I continue to understand myself better, now that I am out of a survival instinct, and in a place I can feel calmer.
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I haven't shared much artwork here in those years. Truthfully I have turned more to digital drawing, and found that I enjoy it, and if I may be a bit proud, I feel I've gotten fairly good at it from where I've started.
I do wish to go back, and pick out my favourite bits of work over the years, and share them all here, to see my improvement over the years and what I've never shared here.
- With that in mind I may upload or share a couple every other day or so of my better works throughout the years until I'm "caught up" and then share my recent stuff as I complete it
I know I typically only used this for pixel art before - and I still do pixel art on the side, it's just rarer now.
Meanwhile, while I catch here up a bit, my art blog shares all of the art I've made, right from the very scattered and rough beginnings to what I have created even this month.
I now mostly go by the username Katuen, if I were to ever get core here again I would consider changing my username here as well to match.
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Hello to those who are new to following me, to those who remember the older active days. I hope you are all well. I also see dA has a new theme and eclipse. Truthfully I'm not a fan of it so far, it disrupted my whole routine for going through my notifications and hid information I wanted to see quicker. so I've turned it off for now
While I have been silently going through my notifications in my time away ... there's a lot of things I can skim by over the years. So, what have I missed? How are all of you doing? Gimme a shout if you are still active from back in those days where I was too, I wish to see who else is around!