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Update for April (end of March), 2014.
HUGELY IMPORTANT UPDATE!
I GOT NOTHING DONE.
Well, next to nothing. Uni has started up again and very unsurprisingly it's tackled me to the ground and I'm doing course projects 90% of the time. It's barely half-way through the semester and we already have four REALLY difficult projects due. GTTGB, Grimmy comics....practically everything is now on hold. I'm trying to squeeze in time to do my website because that now has priority. If I can finish that (with some luck) then hopefully I can get back into my other plans.
More exciting news: going to a design convention this week (which was way over my head in terms of price, but better this year than next I guess) so that should hopefully give me inspiration and energy for the rest of the semester. And I'm visiting an animation studio tomorrow!
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COMPLETE New DA and online identity name: New name will be JarODragon (removed the apostrophes, they're not necessary). Alternate: Jar O' Dragon (for website). Need to get a subscription, though.
Commission information (after name has been chosen): Information is filled out. Just checking some technicalities with Paypal.
Portfolio website (after name has been chosen): STRUGGLING WITH THE SCRIPT. Reverted to Wordpress because CMS was too limiting.
Completely re-hash DeviantArt and Tumblr visuals (after website is completed): new appearance will be based on website visuals. Nothing started yet.
Gate to the Great Beings correcting: First novel corrected once - still need to do second check-over. Second novel not started.
Grimmy comics: Just kind of blundering around gathering ideas and putting random things together yup.
DA inbox clearing: It's sitting between the 100 and 200 mark. Fingers crossed I can keep it at that at least.
COMPLETE Pathfinder game with others: WE HAVE STARTED. Stuff and drawings and other silly things will appear over time.
Fun stuff
Hahahaa I really did not get to do any of these at all there's too much going on. *rolls forever*
Watch:
- Avatar the Last Airbender (Finished the first season, yay!)
- Finish My Little Pony (because it's cute)
- Adventure Time
- Gravity Falls
Play:
- Finish Mass Effect (I need to switch on my Xbox...I keep on forgetting it's there)
- Skyrim
- Antichamber
- Minecraft (Building huge caves just to make the entrance to the Nether look cool)
Read:
I actually have a Kindle now, so I'll be reading lots of classics and I can read on the train without carrying humongous extra novels.
Suggested reads:
- Artemis Fowl
- Odd Thomas
- May Bird series
- Septimus Heap
- Kung Fu Panda: Ten thousand breaths (fanfiction)
- Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality (fanfiction)
HUGELY IMPORTANT UPDATE!
I GOT NOTHING DONE.
Well, next to nothing. Uni has started up again and very unsurprisingly it's tackled me to the ground and I'm doing course projects 90% of the time. It's barely half-way through the semester and we already have four REALLY difficult projects due. GTTGB, Grimmy comics....practically everything is now on hold. I'm trying to squeeze in time to do my website because that now has priority. If I can finish that (with some luck) then hopefully I can get back into my other plans.
More exciting news: going to a design convention this week (which was way over my head in terms of price, but better this year than next I guess) so that should hopefully give me inspiration and energy for the rest of the semester. And I'm visiting an animation studio tomorrow!
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COMPLETE New DA and online identity name: New name will be JarODragon (removed the apostrophes, they're not necessary). Alternate: Jar O' Dragon (for website). Need to get a subscription, though.
Commission information (after name has been chosen): Information is filled out. Just checking some technicalities with Paypal.
Portfolio website (after name has been chosen): STRUGGLING WITH THE SCRIPT. Reverted to Wordpress because CMS was too limiting.
Completely re-hash DeviantArt and Tumblr visuals (after website is completed): new appearance will be based on website visuals. Nothing started yet.
Gate to the Great Beings correcting: First novel corrected once - still need to do second check-over. Second novel not started.
Grimmy comics: Just kind of blundering around gathering ideas and putting random things together yup.
DA inbox clearing: It's sitting between the 100 and 200 mark. Fingers crossed I can keep it at that at least.
COMPLETE Pathfinder game with others: WE HAVE STARTED. Stuff and drawings and other silly things will appear over time.
Fun stuff
Hahahaa I really did not get to do any of these at all there's too much going on. *rolls forever*
Watch:
- Avatar the Last Airbender (Finished the first season, yay!)
- Finish My Little Pony (because it's cute)
- Adventure Time
- Gravity Falls
Play:
- Finish Mass Effect (I need to switch on my Xbox...I keep on forgetting it's there)
- Skyrim
- Antichamber
- Minecraft (Building huge caves just to make the entrance to the Nether look cool)
Read:
I actually have a Kindle now, so I'll be reading lots of classics and I can read on the train without carrying humongous extra novels.
Suggested reads:
- Artemis Fowl
- Odd Thomas
- May Bird series
- Septimus Heap
- Kung Fu Panda: Ten thousand breaths (fanfiction)
- Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality (fanfiction)
Exiting DA, so hop onto my gritty newsletter
Hey! This account has laid dormant for a very long time, but news of what's been going on here reached as far as where I set up shop on Twitter. I won't beat around the bush: I will be closing my account here. It has little to do with AI as a technology or the features DA presented and then corrected. The way they handled the whole debacle with a tone-death roll out, then treated its users with impudence (not a new occurrence, I remember how they talked down to us with their logo design infringement). As a company, I am not confident in their direction, so I don't want to stick around. Out of all platforms I've been on, I was most reluctant to leave DA. It's like throwing a family album in the trash. My first big fanfic and fandom communities came to be here, and I learned so much from my peers when I was a teenager, giving and receiving feedback. I want to preserve as many memories I can, like those hyper-enthusiastic long deviation descriptions with so many emoji (haha), when I
Popping in Briefly and Commissions Open!
Feels a little weird to write a journal entry again...
Hi! I know this is out of place, considering I haven't been around at all and am not uploading anything, but if you care to spare a minute, I'd like to share something I've recently announced! : >
I'll be traveling to New Zealand next month, and opened commissions to cover some of the costs! As of this writing, I have 8 slots left, and just under a week for commission application deadline.
Head over to me Tweet to view the general details!
Please retweet if you can! I would really appreciate it~
Otherwise...
I've been pretty all over the place recently! As you can tell from the p
Considering another Spring Clean
Eyyyy just a heads up, I will be giving my gallery yet another spring clean at some point!
No specific time set for this yet, I just want to 'store' some more old art I don't want sticking around anymore.
This decision is not influenced by anything in particular, it's just something I've been meaning to do for a while.
In the meantime, I've also created an Art Station account.
This is a stand-in portfolio until I can work out how to get my own website to look more impressive and less...starkly awful.
Heads Up, Heading Out-ish
I think many of you will have noticed that my activity on DA has been limited. That's been mostly because of uni, but there's also another reason:
I am not very invested in DeviantArt anymore.
The community so far has been incredible. Over the last...what, 7 years? I've grown so quickly and I don't think I would have without such a supportive group of people. I am grateful for the inspiration I have received so far and my memories are nothing but positive.
But I am now opening a new chapter in my creative ventures and DA unfortunately is not suitable for this chapter. There's very little industry involvement that I can delve into, and the
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You know, one book you could read(I know, another one, right? XD) is Dreamslaughter, it's a very well written book that started out here on DA.