I'm on vacation right now, but I just wanted to say that I plan on posting stuff like:
*Comic pages-single pages, unrelated to the rest...for now at least. I might do a real, longer comic one day since I do have serveral stories I'd like to tell. Otherwise, if you'd like to see a few pages featuring a certain character of mine, feel free to suggest it.
*Animations-as soon as I figure out how to use Flash. Halp?
*Character sheet-Nebo's first. Dunno about others.
*Bookmarks-because I like reading and I love bookmarks

I wanted to get rid of that months old journal as I am now back on leash and school holds the other end.

Now, let the ranting begin!

Rant#1:
Many people seem to think that the peak of one's skills as an artist is to learn how to draw humans (this again, is a rant for some other time) or how to draw realism. Honestly? Realism can be learned and quite frankly ultimate correctness of anatomy is not what all artists should strive for. Yes, I care for anatomy but I am willing to distort it if I want to and if I think it would get the mood right, I'm not a slave to it like some other artists who think that if the proportions and anatomy aren't all top-notch everything will fall apart. I suppose even popular artists on DA expect the usual styles of art or at least imitations of popular ones like anime or Disney
(I'm a big fighter against the "Every artist rips-off" argument). Oh, and skills do not equal talent. Personally I would never call an artists who can paint in hyper-realism, no matter how convincing, talented.


Rant#2:
I've noticed a number of artists absolutely and utterly suck in both concepts and skills and yet somehow seem to get all the good artists to watch them. I'm not being jealous here (ok, maybe a little ), I'm more annoyed that both the artist's skill and lack of originality are overlooked because they draw furries or wolves. In fact, sometimes they are even watched only because they imitate or copy certain great artist's style or at least their concepts and themes! Some of these people even complained about the lack of originality and yet continue to be supportive of such copycats. I suspect most of you have no idea what I'm talking about but if someone does, feel free to convince me this isn't all just in my head.
Note however that this isn't an attack on people who are still learning but rather people who watch bad and sucky artists simply because they do realism or something like that.

Well, ever since friday. Free to work on all my works and sketches laying around unfinished! At first I couldn't even grasp the amount of freedom I have gained. I would constantly feel like I have to do something. But I don't! Bwahahaha, it feels so good! So there's a possibility I'll upload more works than usual

Can anyone tell me how to animate in ImageReady? I'd like to do some animations and I have no idea how! And if anyone knows of some freeware animation program, tell me!

PS: I didn't forget about your commission, Lycan

Found it somewhere:
1. Choose a few of your own characters. Five at the most.
2. Make them answer the following questions
I'd like Kiarei to do this one too

Characters Chosen:
Zvuk
Nebo
Koban

1) How Old Are You?

Zvuk: aproximately 25 in human years.
Nebo: I guess I'm somewhere around 18 in human years.
Koban: 22 or so in human years

2) Job/Rank?

Zvuk: ...
Nebo: Among lower ranks.
Koban: Higher rank

3)You Got Any Bad Habits??

Zvuk: I have been told I have a bad habit of sneaking up to others.
Nebo & Koban: AND YOU NEED TO STOP DOING THAT!

4)Who's your Mate?

Zvuk: No mate.
Nebo: Um, I don't have one.
Koban: Neither.

5)Have Any Kids?

Zvuk: No.
Koban: Nope. Though Zvuk has some experience with kids.
Nebo: I find it hard to imagine that. Anyway, no.

6)Favorite Food?

Zvuk: Elk
Koban: Moose!
Nebo: Rabbits

7)Killed anyone?

Zvuk: ...
...
...
...yes.
Nebo: Elks! lol
Koban: No (not counting food of course).

8)Hate anyone?

Zvuk: Many people.
Nebo: Yesss...*snarls*
Koban: Hell yeah!

9)Any Secrets?

Zvuk:...
Nebo: Quite a few.
Koban: Not much but I do have my aura of mistery. (Nebo: )

10) Friends?

Zvuk: None.
Nebo: A couple.
Koban: I think of a lot of people as friends

11) Family?

Zvuk: No-one.
Nebo: My pack is my family now.
Koban: Mom is alive, not sure about dad

12) Eyes? (color)

Zvuk: Orange
Koban: Red
Nebo: Black

13)Fur?

Zvuk: Dark gray/blue
Koban: Red
Nebo: Blue

14)What a weird in you?

Zvuk: I am rather unsocial.
Nebo: I have tatoos.
Koban: Red eyes?

15)Dreams?

Zvuk:...
Koban: Man, do you even sleep?
Nebo: A bunny with a sniper (hey, you said dreams)

16)Name meanings?

Zvuk: "Sound"
Nebo: "Sky"
Koban: "Deadly"