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....it has been since I posted anything. It was over two years! I had been drawing in the interim, but almost nothing that was small enough to scan easily. The response has been overwhelming though. Thanks to all for the favorites, comments, etc. I'll try to post more stuff, but I don't have much time to draw these days.

Hey everyone! I don't really write in this journal much, but I just wanted people to know that I have a LOT of new art that I want to show off (fanart stuff, a couple small comics, some more complex stuff), but I currently don't have a good image editing program! I don't want to post stuff that isn't color corrected and balanced and all that, because scanners have a tendency to make stuff look terrible until it's properly tweaked, even if it looks vibrant in real life.

Anyway, Happy New Year! To anyone who lives in Japan, Akemashite Omedetou! Nihon ni sugu modoritai kara mata aou ze! What did everyone do for New Year's?

Isakku

So my piece "Mirror 3" loadagain.deviantart.com/art/M… just got featured for a THIRD time on DA. Makes me think that I should have taken more photography classes in college when I had access to real cameras, film, and a darkroom. The stuff that gets the most hits on my account is the photos and the fanart, both of which have many groups of obsessed and rabid collectors.

Thanks to all the people who check out my works! Maybe now that I have a nicer camera (digital) I will start to explore photography more.

Feature 1: news.deviantart.com/article/40…

Feature 2: news.deviantart.com/article/60…

Feature 3: missheroin.deviantart.com/jour…

Feature 4: news.deviantart.com/article/63…

EDIT: Wow, a FOURTH feature! See #4.

Seriously, people on Deviantart seem to have a color bias! Or, should I say, bias towards color.

Actually what I mean by that is that it seems that people (including myself at first) tend to pay much more attention to colored works than anything in pencil or anything that's only inked. I mean, all of my stuff with color has gotten many more hits (except for the TF fanart) when it's been colored. I totally understand why, but it's just frustrating because I've done many drawings lately that I have felt work better in pure pencil (like the Starscream one I posted recently, but there are MANY more, even a couple more of Starscream), but I want to wait on them because I feel that they would be more interesting to people in color. There are also a couple drawings I colored on the computer that will be posted soon, but aren't ready.

I guess that's why I haven't been updating much lately. I have still been drawing at a crazy rate (usually one full page drawing per day, if not more), but I haven't posted more than a couple things lately. SIGH, I guess I will have to give in and start coloring more on the computer (fun but takes a LONG time for me), or just submitting more pencils.

Whaddya all think? More pencils or should I start coloring more on the computer?

Peace out!

Been throwing the idea around for months now and I finally got the guts to get a tablet.

Man I'm glad I did! I've only had a couple hours to mess around with it (didn't take much time at all to get used to), but it is infinitely better than using a mouse (except for precision stuff that requires selecting a certain pixel or something) to illustrate on the computer.

The first colored-via-tablet work that I will be submitting will be this funny little self-portrait that I did as a supplement to a tag that I did today.

Enjoy, and check back often!

EDIT: Have a couple works that are almost ready to debut that I did with my tablet. I wonder when I'll get around to posting them?