Rob66

December 26, 2022 was the last time my good friend and mentor @RenderPretender made a post on dA. I miss him a lot. He taught me things and he made me laugh. And, thankfully, he told me that anything he made, I was free to post as I like. I have not used that "license" to post his work here on dA because his gallery remains intact. I am happy though to be posting his work over at my Blog at least once a week. But I DID want to recognize one of his posts here on dA because I think it may be the single most important post he made. It's humorous, but it's also filled with great advice. It contained great advice for me and others when he posted it in 2018 and it remains filled with great advice for artists and writers to read and consider today. I hope people will find it as helpful now as I did when I read it back on September 14, 2018.

We had another great year of people participating in the Secret Santa event. Forty-five people joined the fun and became a Secret Santa for one of the other participants. Several new people joined in too, which was very nice! And I want to thank @FourPieces and @Mcrocks for offering to step in if I needed an extra gift or two! That was very kind and appreciated! Here are the gifts that were exchanged, with some extra gifts given at the end! @member9's gift to @EnglishDamsel   @Malkonn's gift to @member9 @Crab-Hermit's gift to @erebus7   @AlexisFairchild's gift to @IggyStarflare   @TheBadLieutenant's gift to @FourPieces @SlaveLynnGreen's gifts to @TheBadLieutenant  and   @erebus7's gift to @HarleeneQ @DelilahTG's gifts to @FayeTheFarmgirl and    @MercyMc's gifts to @DesertLion3D and @DesertLion3D 's gift to @Alba-Bound @IggyStarflare 's gift to @White0wlsuperheroine   @shnoogums5060 's gift to @SlaveLynnGreen @atomicwick 's gifts to @4321Sleep