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Trying to resurrect this place
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It's been a very long time since I wrote here or just gave life signals in general. A lot of things have been happening in my personal life during the last years and some of you have reached to me in private, I thank you for worrying but I'm completely fine! 
To be honest, I feel this is the period of my life I'm being the happiest and feeling comfortable with myself and what I do.
I went back to study and I don't have as much time to focus on art as I used to have years ago. I no longer find drawing and illustration as apealing but I found new sources of inspiration in photography... Virtual photography to be more precise.
I've been an user of SecondLife for some years already and during the last year I let my inspiration pour in that direction. I've uploaded a bing chunk of works I've done in here and I hope the few of you that are still around here find it interesting.
This doesn't mean I will stop drawing, it's just that it won't be my main content anymore. But don't lose hope on that, I still take commissions and enjoy making drawings from time to time ^^
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Gallery cleaning
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Hello guys, I made a cleaning of my works in the gallery. I know some of you won't like this, but I knew this moment was coming since last year because I wasn't feeling comfortable trying to re-launch my commissions and gallery and having works so old in here. I want to keep my gallery looking fresh. Sadly the Secret feelings doujinshi had to completely go. It was appearing as recommended instead of my new works, and since I had no plans to update it anymore I decided to move it out. Recieving comments constantly asking when I was going to keep going with it during so many years was stressing me a lot, to the point I was no longer replying to people or getting angry each time a comment popped in my inbox about it. It's been a decission that took me a lot of time (More than a year) to take, I hope you can understand and respect it.
Some Slayers fanarts were gone too, I'm tired of people reporting some of my fanarts for having characters hugging, kissing or showing a bit of skin. So if that kind of works are not welcome in here I'll get rid of them, but you can still see all of them in my Pixiv gallery LINK
I'll be making changes to commissions probably during the next months. I'll change some of the conditions and prices, the big change is that I won't be accepting more explicit nsfw works, since it's imposible for me to work on that stuff right now because of personal circumstances. I have commissions stuck since a lot of time ago, those will be the last works of this kind I'll do until things get better for me at some point in the future.
FFXIV is my new source of inspiration, so you'll probably be seing more fanarts and content about this game aswell as original works. I don't have a lot of time to draw, so probably most of the content I upload will be sketches or linearts when I feel they're good enough to show (yeah I still have a folder full of crap drawings that I don't want to share with the world XD I guess some stuff will never change)
Some Slayers fanarts were gone too, I'm tired of people reporting some of my fanarts for having characters hugging, kissing or showing a bit of skin. So if that kind of works are not welcome in here I'll get rid of them, but you can still see all of them in my Pixiv gallery LINK
I'll be making changes to commissions probably during the next months. I'll change some of the conditions and prices, the big change is that I won't be accepting more explicit nsfw works, since it's imposible for me to work on that stuff right now because of personal circumstances. I have commissions stuck since a lot of time ago, those will be the last works of this kind I'll do until things get better for me at some point in the future.
FFXIV is my new source of inspiration, so you'll probably be seing more fanarts and content about this game aswell as original works. I don't have a lot of time to draw, so probably most of the content I upload will be sketches or linearts when I feel they're good enough to show (yeah I still have a folder full of crap drawings that I don't want to share with the world XD I guess some stuff will never change)
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I'm alive...
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I'm not sure where should I start? It's been 1 or 2 years since I entered this hiatus status that I'm trying to fight and destroy.
It hasn't been till this year that things were getting worse and worse till I got to the point I started feeling very miserable. My health was never good, my depression has only been growing to dangerous places. I have 2 commissions to finish, and I'm terribly lucky that these people have been patient enough with me to wait, wich I cannot thank them enough for it.
I don't have much to show since I haven't drawn anything at all in a year, it hasn't been till this summer I decided I couldn't go on like this and forced myself to pick up my tablet pen and draw stuff. Once more I got to understand and remember that nobody should ever stop doing the things they love, since I didn't realize how much I missed it till I forced myself to sit and do it.
I've lost followers probably and I feel very disconnected not only from my little community but from the illustration world. I know I've lost friends on the way, but that's the side consequences of dealing with depression, people most of the times can't see or understand how you feel. But if any of you is still around here, I recommend you to follow me on Tumblr, that's the place I'm more active lately prettio-cgm.tumblr.com . I will keep uploading finished stuff here, but DeviantArt doesn't feel like the place it used to be (And I've been here since it started like 15 years ago lol)
Things are being complicated, my mood and emotions are a roller coaster... So I can only say, please bear with me? I don't use to whinne or cry in social media, I'm not that kind of person. But if I disappear for a period of time is 99% because of this.
It hasn't been till this year that things were getting worse and worse till I got to the point I started feeling very miserable. My health was never good, my depression has only been growing to dangerous places. I have 2 commissions to finish, and I'm terribly lucky that these people have been patient enough with me to wait, wich I cannot thank them enough for it.
I don't have much to show since I haven't drawn anything at all in a year, it hasn't been till this summer I decided I couldn't go on like this and forced myself to pick up my tablet pen and draw stuff. Once more I got to understand and remember that nobody should ever stop doing the things they love, since I didn't realize how much I missed it till I forced myself to sit and do it.
I've lost followers probably and I feel very disconnected not only from my little community but from the illustration world. I know I've lost friends on the way, but that's the side consequences of dealing with depression, people most of the times can't see or understand how you feel. But if any of you is still around here, I recommend you to follow me on Tumblr, that's the place I'm more active lately prettio-cgm.tumblr.com . I will keep uploading finished stuff here, but DeviantArt doesn't feel like the place it used to be (And I've been here since it started like 15 years ago lol)
Things are being complicated, my mood and emotions are a roller coaster... So I can only say, please bear with me? I don't use to whinne or cry in social media, I'm not that kind of person. But if I disappear for a period of time is 99% because of this.
Anyways, I thought I should write a journal since I'm trying to come back to my usual self. So before people start asking the same questions I've been recieving on private during the last year, I prefer to just say it out loud 
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No idea! :bademoticon:
I've been reading and re-reading all your messages. And I think overall most of you are more interested in a printed version than a digital one. So I will keep working on it for printing, and try to make a good conversion for digital as an extra option. I will probably not make a Patreon for that, if there's going to be a printed version I think I will do it like the last 2 doujins and artbooks, here at DeviantArt.
As usual the main story will be Gourry x Lina. But I haven't got a clear idea for the second one. In Dungeon 2, the second story was Zelgadiss x Amelia. Some of you have told me you're interested to see Naga x Lina, but I know that there's a lot of people asking for Xellos x Lina for longer time. So since I have nothing planned right now, you can tell me wich pairings are your favourite ones, and the most popular will be the selected!
EDIT: Ok, since I can't make polls because I don't have premium account I will be leaving here the votes xDDDD
Zelgadiss x Ameria - 1
Firia x Vargav - 1
Xellos x Lina - 1
Luke x Milina - 3
Naga x Lina - 0
I've been reading and re-reading all your messages. And I think overall most of you are more interested in a printed version than a digital one. So I will keep working on it for printing, and try to make a good conversion for digital as an extra option. I will probably not make a Patreon for that, if there's going to be a printed version I think I will do it like the last 2 doujins and artbooks, here at DeviantArt.
As usual the main story will be Gourry x Lina. But I haven't got a clear idea for the second one. In Dungeon 2, the second story was Zelgadiss x Amelia. Some of you have told me you're interested to see Naga x Lina, but I know that there's a lot of people asking for Xellos x Lina for longer time. So since I have nothing planned right now, you can tell me wich pairings are your favourite ones, and the most popular will be the selected!
EDIT: Ok, since I can't make polls because I don't have premium account I will be leaving here the votes xDDDD
Zelgadiss x Ameria - 1
Firia x Vargav - 1
Xellos x Lina - 1
Luke x Milina - 3
Naga x Lina - 0
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Hi everyone!
It's been a while since I wrote a journal over here. I no longer have premium account so I can't make polls to ask you questions.
I'm working on my third doujinshi of Slayers (Yes, I alredy started sketching hahaha). I didn't say anything because right now I'm not sure what to do. I'm not very interested on printing it, and more into the idea of offering it as a digital download. The problem with printing is that since I live in Europe and most of you are from America, the prices were ridicously high due to shipping costs (I think it was like 12 or more euros just for shipping) and I think that's not fair for you, even if you support me and you like my work I feel kind of bad.
So my boyfriend suggested to offer it online at Patreon with weekly updates. I've never created a Patreon, and if I do it, it will be right now just to offer doujinshis and comics. Commissions and other kind of works will be still be available as usual. The good thing about Patreon is that it's easier to be in contact with people who are paying, I can decide wich couples to appear in each episode directly talking to you, and offer more interesting extras than with a printed version.
What do you prefer? That I focus on doing a printed version, or do you prefer digital on Patreon? Or both?
It's been a while since I wrote a journal over here. I no longer have premium account so I can't make polls to ask you questions.
I'm working on my third doujinshi of Slayers (Yes, I alredy started sketching hahaha). I didn't say anything because right now I'm not sure what to do. I'm not very interested on printing it, and more into the idea of offering it as a digital download. The problem with printing is that since I live in Europe and most of you are from America, the prices were ridicously high due to shipping costs (I think it was like 12 or more euros just for shipping) and I think that's not fair for you, even if you support me and you like my work I feel kind of bad.
So my boyfriend suggested to offer it online at Patreon with weekly updates. I've never created a Patreon, and if I do it, it will be right now just to offer doujinshis and comics. Commissions and other kind of works will be still be available as usual. The good thing about Patreon is that it's easier to be in contact with people who are paying, I can decide wich couples to appear in each episode directly talking to you, and offer more interesting extras than with a printed version.
What do you prefer? That I focus on doing a printed version, or do you prefer digital on Patreon? Or both?
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