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Self-Promotion Month: Chaos2112

Journal Entry: Thu Oct 22, 2009, 11:47 AM


Taking a leaf from $Moonbeam13.

Who Am I?

I'm a writer.

This isn't really obvious if you follow me on deviantArt, because I post very little of my writing here. I don't like the story format here - there's no room to put things like stories and characters and pairings where people can read them before reading the story except if I include it directly in the story file.

Most of my writing can be found on my Fanfiction.Net account. All of my posted writing can be found on my Livejournal.

What I do over here is post my dabblings in visual art. I'm not much of a visual artist, and I've become even less of one ever since my other laptop broke and most of my 3D stuff got shelved in backups until I get a better computer.

So I write. I dabble in visual art.

I try to support the community, because the community is one of the most interesting things about deviantArt. (I try to support my communities on Livejournal, too.) I suspect I have mixed success there, but what I do makes me happy.

What is My Artistic Passion?

Stories. People. Pain. Sex. Love. The way love hurts. The way being alone hurts. The way doing what's right hurts. The way doing what's wrong feels good and you don't care who it hurts. Sacrifice. The price of what's right. Politics. Trade. Anger. Passion.

Duende.

Why Did You Get into Art?

I don't know. I remember writing from a very young age, but I didn't get serious about it until about ten years ago. Since then, it's been a journey.

I keep trying my hand at visual art because I want to make lovely things and get mental images out of my head without having to pay someone. But I never try very hard. It just isn't that huge a deal for me.

I know I got into 3D work because of a contest on deviantArt. I'd like to get back to it, but there's a number of pieces I want to render that are slow and painful to do on my current computer. So I'm trying to find work and scrape together money to pay off my bills and save for a better graphics computer.

How Do I Inspire Myself?

By reading. By listening to music. By taking walks. By letting my mind wander.

In the back of my mind, I put together everything I take in. I let it percolate, I let it mix, I let it change. Then it comes back out on its own as mental images or characters or worlds or plots.

The hard part is getting it to yield three of those four rather than just one or two.

Where Would I Like To See Myself in Five Years?

Published.

  • Mood: Optimism
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Scattershot Art Feature - Oct. 19

Journal Entry: Mon Oct 19, 2009, 9:57 PM


RANDOMLY. If you're into the Avatar fandom, Urzai Week runs from October 25-31. Please spread it around.

I am apparently a lot happier with myself when I do these things weekly. SO. That's what shall be happening. Though I'll try to make them Sunday features this time around.

The usual rules apply: all artwork featured here has less than one hundred Favorites. Except for the three pieces in the I Love It category, which is my own personal slot to show off art that otherwise breaks the rules. Anything else is featured at my discretion.

News

- Thoughts on Becoming a Pro Illustrator - Part III

Artisan Crafts



Photography



Digital Art



I Love It



  • Mood: dA Love
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Scattershot Art Feature - Oct. 11

Journal Entry: Sat Oct 10, 2009, 11:03 PM


Anyone out there you guys know of who take commissions for comic pages?

I've got a seven-page Long Feng vs. weeping angels script I'd like to turn into an actual comic sometime. Unfortunately, I have the art skills of a dead rock. So I'm trying to put together the data to plan for getting it done sometime after I have an income again.

Warning: huge amount of thumbnails.

The usual rules apply: all artwork featured here has less than one hundred Favorites. Except for the five pieces in the I Love This category, which is my own personal slot to show off art that otherwise breaks the rules. Anything else is featured at my discretion.

News
- Thoughts on Becoming a Pro Illustrator II

Traditional Art



Artisan Crafts



Photography



Fanart



Digital Art



I Love This



  • Mood: dA Love
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Scattershot Art Feature - Sep. 25

Journal Entry: Thu Sep 24, 2009, 10:45 PM


Rearranging my Favorites in some major ways, so doing this before I screw that section up even more.

So evidently I've decided not to give this up, but updates will be unfortunately sporadic. Fair warning, but because of the length between updates right now, there's going to be a lot more thumbnails per journal than there were before.

The usual rules apply: all artwork featured here has less than one hundred Favorites. Except for the six pieces in the I Love This category, which is my own personal slot to show off art that otherwise breaks the rules. Anything else is featured at my discretion.

News
- Some Thoughts on Being a Pro Illustrator
- Sexy Food

Promotion
- EskimoScrybe has as Etsy account

Traditional Art



Digital Art



Photography



Tutorials



Fanart



Artisan Crafts



I Love This



  • Mood: dA Love
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Scattershot Art Feature - Sep. 8

Journal Entry: Tue Sep 8, 2009, 7:31 PM


I am thinking of discontinuing this, or at least taking them off a regular schedule. I do these journals to share art, but without feedback from people, it just feels like I'm talking into a vacuum. With all the other things I'm working on right now, doing this is just a bit of a drain.

So this will be the last one for a while.

The usual rules apply: all artwork featured here has less than one hundred Favorites. Except for the three pieces in the I Love This category, which is my own personal slot to show off art that otherwise breaks the rules. Anything else is featured at my discretion.

News

Comment Month

Fanart



Photography



Traditional Art



Artisan Crafts



Digital Art



deviantArt Related



Tutorials



Resources



I Love This



  • Mood: dA Love
  • Reading: "Don't Tempt Me" by Loretta Chase
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