I had to put my cat Neptune down on Monday.

I now have a personal grudge against kidney disease.

I'm ok, and the other cats are ok, but looking over at his favorite corner of my bed and seeing it empty... doesn't feel too great.

I don't think it helps that this is now the third year in a row that one of the cats has died, and the second time due to chronic illness.

I just miss my stripey boy.

I'm making some progress on my work, but I need a little time.

I will be prioritizing uploads on Newgrounds over my Deviantart account now.

(Da here: https://www.deviantart.com/griffonmender )

I'm not sure if I'm leaving DA or not yet.

In the meantime, I had the excellent timing to purchase a year of core right before the whole AI debacle, so at the very least I have to hang out until it runs out, because I'm not going to get that money back. ^ ^;

Even if I do ultimately shift fully onto Newgrounds, I will not be deleting my DA account, but will simply stop uploading anything to it other than announcements and leave it as an archive.

But let's get back to the subject of uploads.

After a long week of work, I have archived everything from my Deviantart Gallery.

Not only will I be reuploading all of this to Newgrounds, but I will be giving many of these works some serious improvement.

Since I always keep my originals, I will be rescanning much of my old work, resulting in better color accuracy, quality, and clarity.

Likewise, I will be rephotographing my physical works so that they can benefit from the better camera quality that is now available to me.

I will also return to seriously working on my comic, Dreamtamers.

Not only will I continue improving character designs as mentioned in previous updates, but all of the 2017 pages will get brand new art.

But don't worry if you still like the original Chapter 1.

It (and the never-before-seen pages for Chapter 2) will still be up, but with the new designation of "OG". The original "OG" pages will be linked to their new counterparts- and vice versa- so that you can easily swap between the two versions.

I will require some patience in this endeavour, as aside from the time all of the editing, rescanning, drawing, and so forth will take, there is a *slight* supply problem.

Although I've used Prismacolor Color Pencils for many years now, the single pencil refills that were one of the main reasons I used them have been discontinued.

Thankfully I wasn't completely blindsided by this since I heard about it being a possibility from my local art supply store several months ago, but I had hoped it wouldn't happen, or at least that I'd have more time.

I know from testing the other pencils available last time I was there that Derwent- especially Procolor Derwent- and Holbien are the closest matches available, but it will still take awhile for me to acquire, test, and adjust to the new pencils. I still have a decent stock of Prismacolors for now, but it's only a matter of time before the remaining single pencils run out.

On the bright side, the rest of my supplies are in good stock and can be refilled reasonably.

In conclusion, I have a lot to upload on DA and on Newgrounds (but mostly Newgrounds), and I hope you all have a good day. ^ ^

After many hours of work, I've finally archived everything from my Deviantart gallery.

Now all that's left is the long process of rescanning, editing, and uploading everything.

But for tonight, my work is done.

I've reached page 7 of 28 of my Deviantart Gallery. After starting out on page 28 with my first submissions, I'm now less than ten pages of content away from archiving everything.

If I work hard again tomorrow, I could finally complete this task.

I'm somewhere between 1/3 and halfway down archiving all of my work from Deviantart from the looks of the file count and the page I'm on in my gallery.

At this rate, I could be done sooner than expected.

Also began prepping for upload by setting up some playlists to correlate with my DA gallery folders.

It's not perfect, but it should suffice.

If anyone needs me, I'm busy archiving all of my deviations and/or preparing them for upload on Newgrounds.

26 done... out of 653.

Pray for me. x.x

If anyone else also posts on DeviantArt, be sure to go into your account settings to opt out of AI art.

For some reason, when implementing the otherwise useful new feature of opting out of AI art, DA botched the execution by setting it to Opt- IN by default.

I invested in my first real art scanner, and have scanned several pieces for the first time in awhile.

Editing, however, is as slow as ever.

But it's coming along, albeit slowly.

Turns out higher quality scanners are even better at finding bizarre smudges hidden from sight.

As one might guess, the summer jam animation, despite being simple, has not been finished on time, but will be finished at a later date.

I've been working on art, but have been having difficulty with capturing it, as the tablet gets better color accuracy with it's camera but it's not as easy to get a proper "scan" as the scanner, so I'm trying to figure that out right now.

M.ay or may not make something for round 1 of Summer Jam:https://www.newgrounds.com/bbs/topic/1472903/1

It really all comes down to how quickly I can work this time.

As for Track-Monster, the drawings I did to get a better grasp of how the characters work before I jumped into the final animation came out great- expect to see those soon.

Speaking of art, the first chapter of my comic Dreamtamers has been out over on DA for awhile now, so I should probably get back to working on it (or at least fix that one typo in Ch1 that I've been forgetting to fix for several months.)

I've been working on improving my art, and given the progress I've made, Chapter 2 is going to look great.

I plan to start uploading it here as well- I hope you like it. ^ ^