So I had 2-3 months or so without updates and I once again said I was going to do something and then didn't [in this case the 100 themes]. If you've even slightly paid attention to these journal entries, you'd be thinking "So far, so standard" for this dA of mine. So nothing surprising or particularly disappointing there.

I've officially had this dA for more than a year now and these patterns have become normal. Period of no updates, period of a few in short succession, say I'll draw something which I don't end up doing, rinse and repeat.

Although I'm probably setting myself up for disappointment just for saying this, expect June to be one of those periods of updates in short succession (I've already done a few so I can't totally be a liar)

Also school's almost over yaaay and such.

EDIT: Just reached my 50th deviation, if that milestone is any sort of accomplishment.

"His busiest month was April 2008 with 7 (14%) of his deviations."

I'm gonna try to beat that high score this month if possible. I hate seeing that every time I look at my stats because that was my first month and I mostly just uploaded a bunch of old stuff I had done from a while ago D:

Well, taking this from who got it from someone else. Basically you just need to draw something for each theme. I doubt I'll ever finish it, and I don't think I'm "good enough" to make decent things for most of these, but it's experimentation and practice and such. Let's see how this goes.

EDIT: 3/11/09 I'll just be X'ing off this list as I go instead of reposting it. Even if I make another journal, I'll keep coming back here to edit it.

1. Life [ ]
2. Youth [ ]
3. Content [ ]
4. Change [ ]
5. Dreams [ ]
6. Pessimistic [ ]
7. Pirate [ ]
8. Novel [ ]
9. Doom [ ]
10. Garden [ ]
11. Sadness [ ]
12. Confusion [ ]
13. Freedom [ ]
14. Inevitable [ ]
15. Idle [X]
16. Vampires [ ]
17. Convention [ ]
18. Roleplaying [ ]
19. Skull [X]
20. Pain [ ]
21. Joy [ ]
22. Time [ ]
23. Warmth [ ]
24. Voodoo [ ]
25. Insomnia [ ]
26. Solitude [ ]
27. Zombies [ ]
28. Heaven [ ]
29. Evil [ ]
30. Weary [ ]
31. Candyland [ ]
32. Robot [ ]
33. Old-school [ ]
34. Puppets [ ]
35. Flight [ ]
36. Movie [ ]
37. What if... [ ]
38. Batman [ ]
39. Dance [ ]
40. O RLY??? [ ]
41. Play [ ]
42. Uh-oh... [ ]
43. Duel [ ]
44. Sound Effect [ ]
45. Caption [ ]
46. Photo [ ]
47. Pants [ ]
48. Red [ ]
49. Fiesta [ ]
50. Percent [ ]
51. Soap Opera [ ]
52. Underwear [ ]
53. Stress [ ]
54. Froof (What the HELL is Froof?) [ ]
55. Mutation [ ]
56. Skeleton [ ]
57. Rock [ ]
58. Lies [ ]
59. Ninja [ ]
60. Message [ ]
61. Bugs [ ]
62. Effort [ ]
63. Bandaid [ ]
64. WRYYYY [ ]
65. Imaginary [ ]
66. Fly Me to the Moon [ ]
67. Discovery [ ]
68. What? [ ]
69. Adhesive [ ]
70. Underworld [ ]
71. KAWAII DESU [ ]
72. Mecha [ ]
73. Random [X]
74. Video Game [ ]
75. Crisis [ ]
76. Insanity [ ]
77. Ice [X]
78. Working Hard [ ]
79. Hardly Working [ ]
80. Sandwich [ ]
81. Clone [ ]
82. Clumsy [ ]
83. Keyboard [ ]
84. Hope [ ]
85. Song [ ]
86. Surprise [ ]
87. Cursed [ ]
88. Awesomeness [ ]
89. Internet [ ]
90. Fire [ ]
91. Orange [ ]
92. Love [ ]
93. Annoyance [ ]
94. Misunderstanding [ ]
95. Fantasia [ ]
96. Puppy [ ]
97. Lost [ ]
98. Pie [ ]
99. Fate [ ]
100. Death [ ]

Took a break from the fanart and the pencil sketches to do a new Photoshop piece, The Midnight Moon. Took about a week. Now I'm not really in the mood to do much Photoshop work for a while...soo....back to sketches and fanart, for now.

My computer illustration class in school starts in 2 weeks. If I'm lucky maybe I'll learn something and get better with it. =/

I'll try to vary my fanart away from Mother. I'll TRY.

I usually don't say this, but, I'm pretty proud of that Midnight Moon picture.

And so none of that fanart vs. original character stuff from the last journal ended up making any bit of difference, considering the fact I don't update. >_>' Besides, drawing requires motivation/inspiration, and I get way more of that from fanart.

I'm stuck having to illustrate an Aladdin children's book for a social studies project. My friend's in my group of 4, but we can't agree at all with the other two. If it was just us we would've been finished already. =/

I don't think fanart vs. original character should really matter. If anything I just want to atleast get another full fledged illustration up (inked, colored, shaded.) I started inking the Masked Man sketch I already have up, in hopes of coloring it. We'll see where I get with that. I also started a big Porky Minch illustration a long time ago, but I haven't made much progress on that. I smell another giving up. And now I think I just jinxed myself. .___.

The good news is that the semester's almost over, and when it is, my business/character education class will be replaced with a computer graphics class. Yaaaaaaaaaaaaay.

[Also, Happy New Year. Hopefully the improvement of my 2009 deviations over my 2008 deviations will give me a boost in self-esteem and motivation.]

As usual, expect another journal the next time I upload a worthy deviation.

...all my adoring fans- oh wait...nevermind. :[

Changed the little userpage deviation feature thingy on the left there. Went from a mediocre one to a somewhat less mediocre one. Might shade it at some point, or add to it.

I'm conflicted about drawing original art vs. fanart. As you can no doubt tell, my gallery is a majority of the latter. However, I do understand the importance of doing original work and what makes it better than fanart (for both my improvement and, possibly, the presentation of it) and I know how fanart is less original than original art obviously. So I agree with doing original art and I would like to, but...

Every time I think "Alright, enough of this fanart crap, I need to start making some of my own characters and really work on making something good," the very next day I get a new idea for a fanart I'd like to draw and thus drop the whole original thing entirely. Specifically I'd really like to do some big Pokey Minch thing, but that's going to take forever and I still want to try original art.

We'll see how it goes. In terms of original art, if anything, expect the WWIV characters. That'll atleast give them some sort of purpose, because we all know a comic is never coming.

(And speaking of Pokey fanart, I updated my 1 All Time Favorite in the Favorites section from my favorite Tentomon deviation to my new favoritey Pokey Minch favorite. Favoritey favorite favorite. ....anyway check it out: [link]