Okay. If anyone wants a bootleg critique of a few selected categories I'll be more than happy to provide a few. And before you say something like "wtf, you're not premium".... that's why I'm calling it bootleg... Unranked, unofficial, etc.

But it's definitely cool to see people improve. If you've got something I'll take a look at it. Linearts, inks, abstracts, lyrics, erotica, etc are things I'd feel comfortable giving a rundown of.





In regards to the virus, I lost the project files to my greatest work, Gier, and promptly drowned my sorrows in pr0n, and things I could barely afford, and will probably need a job now as a result. Windows 7 pro 64-bit for 30 bucks though is a ridiculously good buy. CS4 Photoshop and Flash are pretty win, as well, if not for the gaping holes they left in my wallet.

Sorry guys, I just got hit by a massive virus, so my main pc is fubar. Click a wrong link, you get a few popups; forget to delete a shady file, you don't lose much sleep over it; accidentally click shady file... you get hell on earth contained inside a pc. >_<

Seriously. It won't even get past the xp logo. Thankfully, I'm OCD enough to backup all my files to hardcopy, and my last run through was just a few weeks ago. I'll be damned if it isn't a pain in the ass though.


Admittedly, I finally have an excuse to upgrade to windows 7 because of the harddrive wipe from XP to windows 7. Maybe I can even shirk off my brother's gigantic hulking ego stemming from his computer knowledge that I will probably need in order to fix this.

ALSO NOTE - Denny Schneidemesser is being reviewed in his entirety on IADY! I'm fricking honored, to put it mildly! [link] <-- CLIKKIT!




Social experiment (I think?!) started by ---

Shameless rip: "The first 20 people who comment on this journal will get 3 artworks [or anything else] featured (I'll try to make them as diverse as possible, because no artist I know focuses exclusively on one theme ). In turn, everyone who gets featured must make a similar journal and feature me there on the first place (if just starting this) or first available spot (if you already have one going)."


1. - I think, started this dealy! Featured me too, yay! Her characters are rather full of.... character. ... ... COULD WE BE ANY MORE REDUNDANT FUNKY - YES! ... Clicky the links to see what I mean!
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2. - Sometimes you just have to ask yourself, why isn't Almacan famous yet... [link] [link] [link]

3. 's coloring + some shading tutorial: [link] Even from a pedestrian viewpoint, Yuni's really a wonderful person. Give her art some love!
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4. - Dig through his journals..... He tries to be helpful, and often succeeds at doing so, occasionally to an extreme degree - i.e. Smudge Guard. Epic sci-fi style works!
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5. - Dug through his gallery and found an abstract work that reminded me of... me (The Light Bringer). The first comment is a guide I left him on realism for abstract artists. Vibrant colors n intense values.
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My brothers, you cannot hold a candle to 's CROWNING AWESOME. I found her coloring tutorial, and holy balls. I took my extremely average sketch and used her technique, and it just freaking CAME TO LIFE! I am at an utter loss of words to describe its ease of use and helpfulness...

I've added her to my watch list,
favorited the coloring tutorial,
featuring her here (as you can see, lol.),
and I'm adding her to the Special Thanks (Credits, you know that whole deal.) of AURA (Yeah, that thing!), and listing why, (Whether she or the rights purchasers like it or not... )

Just because, hot damn, I feel like this is just the bare minimum of appreciating the tutorial. I have never truly gotten the ideas from my head, to paper, then to the finished concept, and then I see that tutorial, and bam.

2 years of failing and I get a couple of non-reproduceable lucky shots.

2 days of coloring with that tutorial and I get a perfectly reproduceable NON lucky shot that is even BETTER than what a lucky shot could hope to get me.

You can find her tutorial HERE: [link]

In other, and probably less impressive news, I've really stepped up my game on the AURA Project. I hit a bit of a stagnation and this is just what I needed to boost me back into the rhythm of things. In particular, the songs are really, really, just WOW now.

If you do anything today, do one of these three things.

Check out Yuni's art, watch her, or thank her.

And if you do anything else today,

Check out her tutorial, put it to good use. [link]

And if you're still feeling gutsy:

Check out the sketch I applied her tutorial's technique to: [link]



Also - you can check out the new tracks for AURA, which really are worlds better than the AURA A1 tracks, or even the A2 tracks. Believe it or not, I was actually semi-"tutored" by one of Soundclick's own rising amazing people, Chris Fewell. You can check out his music here: [link]

And finally, here's the new tracks for AURA, all nice and lined up on my music page (I go by Artificial Wonders): [link]