yes, I am alive! and so is this devart account once again! I've actually gotten started on loading some of my sketches and small drawings that I did while studying abroad for this past quarter in Florence - most of it is actually NOT necessarily Florentine-inspired Renaissance funstuffs, because the art class I took there focused mostly on "the human body" in general (bahhh) - thus, we spent a lot of time drawing random limbs and portraits and such. it was all good fun in the end, though, and really revitalizing to actually have time to DRAW again, what a concept. shall try to post my paintings from Florence soon...must take pictures (which by the way are really sub-par, I apologize for the photo quality in advance.) ciao ciao!