Fladam

I don't know if anyone reads journals or not, but to those of you that do read this...... Thanks very much for taking the time. I've been underground for a time, and not been handling my DA responsibilities very well. Sorry to those who I haven't left feedback with on their outstanding artworks. I haven't been showing DA the love it so rightly deserves due to outside pressures. I'm an art student, and being the summer money seems to be in short supply whilst I'm away from university. I'm working on a commission http://fladam.deviantart.com/art/A-Portrait-of-Three-Sisters-91411849 and doing some gardening for cash, so I'm rather pre-occupied

I write this journal for no other reason other than to test my Photobucket hosting picture facility. I didn't have the slightest inkling how to get photos on my journal but thanks to my DeviantArt adopted daughter ~Fatalist555 (https://www.deviantart.com/fatalist555) I now know a bit more. The picture in the journal was originally a portrait of our ex-prime minister Tony Blair, but the image was so shit, I decided to swap the head for a much more attractive one.

I used to work a full time job as a bus driver up until august, that was promptly jacked in and replaced by a 3 year university course in 'illustration. The best decision of my life. Since september, I have easily adjusted to the laid back starting times of university. No more rising at 5.30am to get ready for the ball and chain. No more five (sometimes six) day weeks, no more taking abuse from the general public, especially on weekends. It's a new kind of bliss that my head has trouble adjusting to sensibly. Being the first year of uni, the pressure is at its least. The first module, (or semester I think it's known as in the USA) has been