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Oct 3
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I promise this weekend I will update stuff HA


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Sep 7
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It's a new month, so it's going to be time soon for a new artist feature (see last months in the scroll section below where all previous journal entries are).

I am excited to be doing a new feature, since I am now watching even more talented artists. So keep your eyes peeled!

ALso don't forget I am openly offering commissions, note me for whatever you need a commission for, I have done a wide variety of things, website buttons, banners, cd covers, logos, character sketches and line art, image retouching and airbrushing, tattoo designs, journal css, and more.

Just let me know, I work for cheap and any work I do can be freely used by you and displayed in any way you want as long as design and image credits are shown at all times with the image.

Note me!



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Sept 6
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Back to blood -

In the hallow
only one exists
the shadow of pain

it swoops in
takes over my life
gives me hope

if i didnt feel
if i didnt care

im sorry
for all the words
i said and didnt mean

the shadow hunts
delightfully twisting
in and out of my soul

punching holes
of blinding light
creating deeper shadows

i bare my heart
the beating meat of my emotion
a shadowy claw rips

you cant tear it
my heart of stone
and frozen metal

but i am haunted
my heart filling
with black tar

am i corrupt
or is it the shadow
killing me
so abrupt

- dedicated to my 'back to blood' attitude



Hey everyone!

I just wanted to offer, once again, commissions. Any character commission, I would be happy to draw short story boards, page by page comic characters, personal story characters, book covers, cd covers, tattoo designs, etc.

Note me with details, all commissions are cheap, 1-10$ depending on size and quantity and can be negotiated, I take paypal preferably.

So let me know, just thought I'd throw it out there for anyone looking.

Angie
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Aug 29 - My very own Artist Feature
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Artist Features
I watch, quite a few deviants *cough* OK A LOT! And I see some amazing work every day. I used to feature an artist in my journal and so I hope to be able to continue doing it again. The following will be an artist I feel after seeing their gallery has developed a lot over time, and some other artists I feel are about equal in talent and determination, also, activity on deviantart has a lot to do with it.

Main feature

I don't think ~Tickedo will be expecting to be my main artist feature, but I feel their work is just going above and beyond what I thought they could initially do. I have already favorite 'd quite a few pieces by them and I just love their imagination and ideas. It's like HEY YOU, step outside the box, or else....
So I am going to post some works by them in attempt to show progression (most recent to oldest):

I think I am featuring well over half of their gallery, but I always look forward to more, I find myself actually 'looking' for art from them. So give them some love and some thoughts, please comment on their work if you like it enough to fav it, believe me, it means the world. One comment could be the key to many horizons for an artist.

Honorable Mentions/ Some other favs
Well as I said I watch a lot of artists and here are some others I have looked through their 'ENTIRE' gallery and feel have improved over time (most recent to oldest):



















If you didn't make it into this feature, it's not because I don't love your art, it's because, the point of a feature is to give props to very active artists that show up in my messages a lot, that I feel it was worth clicking 'Watch this Artist'. Over all these artists surprise me constantly with their art, and I love watching them. So do not take offense if you aren't here, I will be watching `.^
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Aug 22
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It's been a while LOL wow it's been a while.. anyways...

Tagged me!!
The rules:
1-Post these rules.
2-People tagged must post 8 things each about themselves in their journals.
3-Tag six people and post their icons on the same journal.
4-Go to their pages and send a message saying you tagged them.
5-No tag-backs
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1. I have a son and a soon to be husband.

2. I'm a total video game nerd, when I get into a game, the world disappears.

3. I have all the images on my computer sorted into folders for the type of picture, and for family, I have it sorted by who is in the picture.

4. I am a huge resident evil fan, I collect the games, strategy guides, I played resident evil 2 so many times I got so good I could beat the scenarios in under 2 hours each.

5. I think sleep is a big waste of time, I wish i was never tired so I could stay up 24/7 and do whatever I wanted

6. I have a troll/figurine(mulder from the x files and johnny depp from sleepy hollow and legacy of kain raziel before and after, are a couple) collection

7. I love Marilyn Manson, his music is very expressive and his music videos are very artistic, they are very inspiring

8. My sons first and middle names are Attis Keegan, means handsome fireball - I had a dream before he was born that I would have a red headed son, so we picked that name out. Attis came out red haired and the nurses didn't want to give him back cuz he was so adorable

Tagged:

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Aug 20
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Ok so another one of my tshirt designs were declined, and I am not sure why, but I can only guess. Anyways, before I give up, I am going for it ten fold. I refuse to give up and I am going to submit a few this time. I will not back down!
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Aug 20
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I entered the first contest in a long time last night, or early this morning. It was supposed to have the theme of death, decay, and destruction. is holding the contest, and there's a few days left I think. Anways, here's some panels from the image:


Click the image to go to the deviation.

I really enjoyed making this, because I went in a different direction than I expected. I went progressively with this, allowing new ideas to morph it. I had to resize the canvas twice because my ideas were too big for the initial size. This was both fun and very expressive for me, symbolic of how I feel about society atm. Hope you enjoy as much as I did.

ON another note, I am still compiling my journal feature for artists I enjoy. I want to make sure, out of all the people I watch, that I really choose who I feel has the strongest will to surpass their ability in each new piece. I am looking forward to featuring some of you guys, you are amazing!
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Aug 16
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So I finally finished this piece of art I've been working on for a long time. It's be shoved away and hidden, and avoded.



Click the image to visit the deviation.

Here is what the image description isk. Well I started this drawing in 2002 and finally just finished it, 2008. Here is the old one [link] It was a project I was working on for Senior Studio. I was really proud of how it was turning out, when my art teacher said to me while critiquing it (it was a heated critique) 'Angela no matter how good you think you are, or how good you really are... there is always someone better." It crushed me so much. Not because I was in denial that there was someone always better, but because he narrowed my opinion of being able to better myself. Before he said that, I was very into drawing portraits and figures, I wanted to get really good at it. After he said that, I felt that, in his own words he was saying I would never be good enough at drawing to get better. I am not sure why he said something so harsh to a developing artist. But what I can say I learned from that, was the ability to teach myself how to do something. If I don't know how to draw a certain way, not shade, I try to learn. I consider myself mixed media artist, I love different ways to express my art.
This is my first full digital drawing, based on my original drawing scan. I know it is far from perfect or as photographic as it could be, but then, I don't want to draw like a photo, as impressive as that ability would be, I still want to know it's a drawing. This is the first time I've done hair with the method I used. I am pretty pleased with this, and can only think that it will get better. I am definitely interested in doing more portraits now that I know I can do what others said I couldn't.
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Aug16
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OMG i want to barf puppies and rainbows... i cant believe i havent been using vector on my black and whites or less toned images... i feel like a reetood. anyways... life just got easier

Ok, so today after checking out the daily devs, I have to admit, I almsot cried at the poor quality of work chosen for some of them. I have to wonder if the people choosing devs are actually spending more than 5 minutes looking for finely tuned, hard worked art. Yesterday I spent about an hour looking at random art pages with my 'Random Deviant' option. I found better deviants doing that, than I've been finding in the DD gallery. Ick. It's very disappointing. I have a headache. I feel just because someone does something that looks good, maybe better than some people could do, doesn't necessarily make it good. I don't know where I am going here, maybe, just thinking 'spend more than 10 minutes finding a DD.'
Ok I am done.
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Aug 15th
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SO I am going to Feature some art in my journal somewhere and I am not really sure who I am going to feature. Since, I have been watching some AMAZING artists and some that are developing very well over time. There will be one major featured artist and 4-5 honorable mentions. The major display will be someone I feel has worked hard and grown over time, and I feel is really doing some of the best work they can do.



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Aug 14th
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So I finished my CSS journal... o.o it took a while and i think my eyes were bleeding.. but here it is!

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Aug 09 2008
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I miss the days where I could browse dA for a couple hours and comment on art, and get comments back. Seems like people just don't have time to comment anymore, and those who do, you have NO clue how much I appreciate it with all my heart. I barely get any criticism any more or likes and dislikes. I appreciate every fav I get, and VERY often take the time to visit a gallery if I notice their front page is well presented and displayed. I also take the time to 'devWatch' someone if I enjoyed their gallery and notice they are particularly active. It's almost as if people don't browse for enjoyment anymore, they browse for stock for their own art, browse and fav quickly, and spend little time actually appreciating an artist. I don't understand how someone could, say, +fav 2,3,4 or more pieces of art and not even comment on ONE piece to let me know how they feel.

Usually I get this sense of inspiration from comments, I love to hear suggestions, I enjoy making tutorials when people ask how I 'do' something. But lately it's been so bland, SO boring. I want to refuse to fall into this funk, and maybe the light will finally break through and the appreciators will come out of the wood work again. I feel like I have yet to be joined by an equal playing field of people who spend as much time appreciating others as they do on their OWN art.

Yes of course I have my lazy days, where I just +fav and move on, but it is usually someone I watch and comment on regularly, or I intend to check out their gallery later when I have more energy. I also have a personal rule, if I use someones stock and they +fav it but don't comment, I assume they didn't like it, and I usually don't use the stock again. Not saying, their stock isn't good, just that, if they have never commented to acknowledge (I just found out that I've been spelling acknowledge wrong for, uhm, years. thanks dA for the red underline) the art, then I think it will be useless in the future, since I do the best I can to do justice to their stock. I admit I am guilty of not commenting on stock use, but my 'Resources' are brushes, and unless they are extremely noticeable, I don't comment. Mostly because things like eyebrows are so little a detail that I am like 'Oh brows.. nice.'- +fav and move on since there is little critique I can give on an eyebrow brush.

-Sigh- Anyway, I am going to continue to comment like I normally do and hope to get the same appreciation back. I would say (ballpark) that 1 out of 10 people comment on my art, and the rest of the comments I get and people saying 'NP ^.^' back to me for thanking them for the +fav. Which, I do go through one by one and thank people for +faving my art. Recently I thanked over 300 +favs and adds. Less than 30 of them told me what they thought, I do get disappointed not getting critiqued. I mean, come on, the biggest art community on the internet, and people hardly comment, even if they absolutely LOVE the piece. I think it comes from the impression that people think 'oh they already have comments I dont think I can add anything' WRONG! most comments are like 'hey that looks cool' 'ow nice' 'great job' YOU could be the one who makes it all worth while. Bleh.

Fianlly, I am sure no one actually read this entire journal, so, if you did- Props to you and thanks for reading, I appreciate that someone actually took the time to care about something that bothers me so much. You are probably one of the few people who let me know what you think.