Hey, look. I'm working again. I've got new art coming out the wazoo... I try to work on something everyday lately.

Problem is... I don't have my handy-dandy internet connection anymore. Soo... I can't post as much as I like. Things will get better...

I've been kinda MIA from the dA scene for some time now. Sorry guys, I know, I suck. Whatever... I do have a few new pieces that are kinda different from most of my old work so I hope that makes up for it. Look for these pieces during this week.

Peace.

I got my cable modem last week and have been working on downloading the entire Internet onto my hard drive. So now that I have a consistent and quick connection to the internet and thusly to dA, all can expect me to post more, comment more and generally be more active in general, generally in a general fashion. Hell, now that I've got the connection and bandwidth for it, I most likely will subscribe soon.

In addition to my new cable modem, I recently procured a copy of... Illustrator CS. I've been spending the last few days getting used to the new features and stuff.

A bit of kinda-but-not-really bad news. The pieces I'm working on now (particularly the Impala in my scraps) will be put on temporary hold. I've got a few more important pieces to work on, specifically a series of illustrations of porsche that may or may not actually make it to dA.

Well, that's it for now.

PEACE BITCHES!

Well now that all that Daily Deviation nonsense (I use that term loosely) has blown over, it's back to business as usual... which for me is usually no business. The best side effect of DD is the residual attention that I'm getting long after the rush is over. I'm also glad to see that people are actually looking at pieces aside from A Sword Named Izanami.

But now I feel like I've got way high standards to live up to with all this attention. I'm a slacker... I'll admit it. I'm used to staying in my nice little vector artist niche in the corner of dA, popping out periodically to actually explain what the hell vector art is and then scurrying back. Now I've got people looking at me. What do I do?

On the bright side, I do have a hand drawn piece that I've been debating on submitting. It'll be up as soon as I get my scanner back.

Now that I'm out of classes for a few weeks, I'll have a bit of time between my internship and random freelance jobs to do some deviatin'!

Oh, check my scraps periodically for previews of my upcoming vectors!

PEACE BITCHES!

-eso

I've been kinda on a vacation of sorts from dA, with finals and classes and interships and jobs and such. Well when I returned, I expected to have like 50 new messages, most of those being deviations by people on my devwatch for my perusing and commenting enjoyment. Well when I logged on I had like 334 new messages.... and I thought, "Damn, someone's been hard at work."

When I got to my messages I saw that most of these messages were +favorites and comments on my stuff. Woah gang... hold the phone. What?!?!

Turns out that ^voodoo-prophet featured my piece as one of the deaily deviations while I was gone. Holy shit... so now I've got like 2000 views and 168 +favs on this one piece and it's not even my favorite piece. Thanks voodoo... I really appreciate that you thought that much of my work.

Well after calling my roommate ~ witchhunter-geist to gloat I went to bed. Well this morning I realized that I have t reply to every one of these comments and messages... I'm not one of those assholes who doesn't appreciate a +fav... I treat every one like it's my first one and appreciate them equally.

The positive is that the exposure will draw people to my page to see my other pieces... so responding to 300 messages a very small price to pay. But the moral of the story is that no matter how big you think that you'll get. Appreciate every bit of criticism and praise you recieve. People will respect you more if you respect them.. they took the time to +fav you, have the common courtesy to return the favor.

You never know when it'll be the last comment you'll get.

Thanks for all of your comment, positive, negative and otherwise. Whether you know it or not, you've been shaping me into the artist that I am today.