Yeah, so I finally finished and uploaded my 25 000 hits picture... Actually, it wasn't fully finished, I ended up copping out on the second half because I ended up not liking Hinata's design and couldn't come up with one I liked.

I know I've been inactive for a while (or a really long time), I've been in an artistic rut for quite a while. I've been in them before, but this one seems to be a deep one... I'm hoping to get out of it soon as I am starting to get bored of just playing video games on my down time.

But on the up side, My birthday was on the first of this month! I am now the ancient age of 23. I never felt old until I started hanging out with my friends that have kids of their own... First I was the kid getting into mischief and causing trouble and going nuts, then I became the teenager that was doing cooler things, but still acting like a kid for fun, especially when there were other little kids to entertain, and then I became the young adult, started a job, thought about my future, and struggled to have as much fun as I used to. And now, I am an adult, paying bills, working full time, and I have become the adult that tells the kids to stop doing things they aren't supposed to be doing, the very same things that not long ago i seemed to have been doing myself... It's a big change in perspective going from the kid that always has fun to the adult that struggles to have fun... well, I don't struggle, but you know what I mean.

I do struggle to see my friends these days though, they are all over the place, making lives for themselves. And I've come to realize that having friends these days is sometimes a fleeting thing, even if they've been your friends for a while, or even all your life. It's the transitions that are the hardest on friendships; the transition from elementary school to high school, from high school to college, from college to the work force, from job to job, job to career, being single to starting a family. And at the age of 23, most of my friends are in those last four transitions, as am I. And there's one thing I know, wherever these transitions are taking me, I still want my friends to be on the other side, and I don't even know if that's possible, which is keeping me stuck in these transitions. And I keep making friends in these transitions, which makes it harder to leave them.

But anyway, enough of that depressing talk. I'll get back to drawing, I promise.