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School is out, Summer is in. Might be getting a job. Oh Lord, but I do hate money. The Root of All Evil. The furniture in our dining room has been moving around. Wouldn't have this issue if I had some freaking space in my bedroom. Not that it's really my room, it's more my brother's. I just happen to sleep there. But that's neither here nor there.
Sorry for my lack of activity on here, but I honestly don't care about submitting anything to this website anymore. I honestly feel that if I have something that I am really proud of and want to display as an actual art piece, then putting it on this craptastic website is superfluous. Seriously, what's the stuff that gets the most looks on this site? Fan art, generic manga chibis, and other deliciously unoriginal junk. There are so many things wrong with DeviantART, I'm not even going to post them in a journal. No, I'd rather display my artwork the same way real artists do.
My artistic "style" is "improving," I guess you could say. But I don't believe I can improve my artwork, I simply believe I can make it take shape. I don't really submit anything I do on here. I mean, how often do I show you guys my tailored stuff or my sculptures? I'm sure you'd love to see them, but I don't care to put them on here, as I've stated plainly already.
Most of the people here either have such a modern attitude, it sickens me or they're unoriginal (or worse, art thieves,)or they treat this place like a Myspace/Flickr site where they dump worthless and redundant photography. Wooh, I took a picture of a pretty sunset with my digital camera. Woop-de-freaking do. Did you make the sunset? What did you do with the focus, contrast, and lighting? I'm sorry friends, but this falls under the category of "What is art?"
It's like those meaningless talentless goth/emo (yes I DID just put those in the same category) that honestly think they're poets or writers because they wrote a bunch of lines about how bad it sucks to be them, about blood, and about how freaking pretty their knife is. Is it me, or did the goth culture completely turn on itself by being so non-conformist that they formed a mold? Teenage kid with a piss-poor attitude who thinks he's fancy because he shops at Hot Topic and has ghastly piercings.
It's as though the only true way to be a rebel is to stay in school, get a job, be a republican, and do what old people tell you to do. I hate this time period, where people worship uncreative and unoriginal ideas like Twilight or Eragon, where graffiti is treated like genuine artwork, where a man can be elected President simply because of his race, and worst of all, where people think they're something special because of the color of their phone.
Am I leaving this site? Absolutely not, don't be ridiculous. There are some earnestly talented artists here, even if they're scarce and see very little attention. These are people who merely face the misfortune of not being able to put their artwork some place besides this prepackaged web site. These are people that actually work on their artwork and make it exactly that, artWORK. Where "Steampunk Modding" is building great things out of brass, copper, and steel riveted together instead of plastic bottle caps glued to a Nerf Maverick and spray painted copper.
You know what? In a sense, I am leaving this site because I'm never going to post any "artwork" on here ever again. I'm using this site only to applaud those who really know what art is and how to make it. To Hell with this bastardized place, the art culture of Planet Earth has gone in a cloud of smoke. If you've read this journal this far, which I know you haven't, don't leave a comment in agreement. Jesus people, I've had enough with agreement. Somebody stop kissing my ass and tell me I'm wrong if you disagree. But come with your guns loaded. I want proof. I want evidence. No, I'm not sorry for a "rant." I don't care.

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- Is it me, or does DeviantART have NO room for propper punctuation? I can't even indent!
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Well, I have come to the conclusion that nobody other than the mouse wishes to partake in the Kaiju contest. No prize will be given, sorry. I just figured that I'd maybe get a few contestants after waiting for two months, clearly I was mistaken. Perhaps my expectations of you fine people were too high?
I haven't submitted anything 'real' in an age or two. Don't expect me to, either. This gallery is VASTLY out-dated. If I kick back up and start drawing again, I'll probably be dumping it in a new, more organized gallery. Don't think I've stopped drawing- oh, I draw all the time, but I don't plan to submit anything until I can come up with a higher caliber than DevianTART (and I do mean TART)stuff. If there's something that you find while scrolling through my gallery that looks old, then it is. I'm still cleaning it out. Hey, a lot changes about your artistic style in two years! The bulk of what I do now is not drawing and sculpting, but sewing and writing.
My current artistic projects are as follows: revamping my pirate wardrobe (this will involve sewing a new coat, which I'll be doing this week,) creating a pulpy "zombie-Nazi-soldier" costume for either Emerald City Comic Con or Halloween '09 (oh, yes. I will be offending some people this year,) Ogle Laboratories is still ago (the only thing that's been taking up time is the fabrication of a better script. I won't put on a spectacle of awesome props and costumes if the story and jokes SUCK,) expanding my puppet making skills (working on my first hard-mouthed puppet ever,) writing a variety of things, and feeding those dashing Tribbles.

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Ladies and gentlemen, I'd like to announce yet another contest. Sorry winners of the Z-challenge if the prize thing is an issue, I'm doing the best I can to balance things out right now. But today's contest is to design a kaiju. A kaiju is a big mean monster that crushes a large city such as Tokyo. fine examples of these magnificent beasts are Godzilla, Rodan, Gamera, King Kong, and if you want a stretch, then that thing in Cloverfield. oh, or any of those giant monsters that the Power Rangers used to fight. Do they still fight those guys? I will also accept entries of giant robots, so long as it's a creature or device intended for destroying the public. Whoever draws what my judges and I believe to be the best or most original will get their kaiju chibied and made into a sewing pattern! I will design the pattern myself and submit it here to DeviantART. Be creative, people. I would PREFFER COLORED DEVIATIONS. Black and white is fine, but come on. We all know that Godzilla is totally GRAY not GREEN. More definition of color makes that easier to tell. I am not putting a due-date on this. When I did the zombie contest, I only gave you people a week and I only ended up with two entries!

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Sorry if you caught my last journal! It was so mopey! I'm much better now that I've thought about it all. That, combined with a new-found love for the music of Bloindie helped me realize how much I love you guys. So I hug all around today.
(I'm sorry! D: )

(I know you hate hugs, but shush, I need this :3)



(hug for new friend number one!)
(hug for new friend number two!)



And the person I owe a hug to most of all,
(for putting up with me this week!)

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Warning: Don't read this if you don't want me to whine.
As ever, things have been quite eventful for me since my last journal entry, I simply did not bother to write them in a journal because I don't CARE. I usually use this thing for rants and announcements. For those who don't know, I am now currently APART from Yeah, shush. She's still my friend and I love her like a good friend.
Things otherwise have gone to Hell in a handcart, don't bother asking how or why. All I can tell you is it's beautiful. Emotions I've felt over the last four days: Rage, happiness, content, misery, hate, and the strongest of all, love.
Feeling any of the above as strongly as I have is a good thing. I need this. Beautiful emotions, they keep life entertaining, like a good book. Even if it's a comedy or a tragedy. Yeah, not listing specifics. To do so would be to be a whiny emo, something that should be saved for my private thoughts. I'm pretty good at bottling things up, you know.
I'd like to announce something: I'M STILL FINE. Yeah, stuff sucks But I can dig it. Bin through worse, I think... Ah well. I still have my health, I have my music, my friends, and my God. Things could be a lot worse, it's just been a rough week of a great month. I figure I'll bury myself in my work, that always makes me feel better!
If you were one of the two winners of the Zombie art contest, yeah, I'm sorry I haven't been on the ball with sending the prizes. Hannah, you need to talk to me about it. But Sansansan, I'll have to wait until I can acquire the means to, well, SEND you the prize. Either way, I'm sorry guys!