Personal Development - Other Blogs on Artician

Face-Lift by larawr

Tue, 25 Dec 2012 22:22:25 EST

Now that I'm closer to graduating, I felt that this needed a face lift. Not only do I need and want to update the way this looks, I would like to update my art in here as well. The more serious works I have will start showing up. Slowly but surely shall they show up :] just wait for it...

It's been a busy year by fireflyskys

Sun, 1 Jul 2012 23:44:56 EST

Well... this has most certainly been the most eventful year of my life... and it's only half over!

For starters, I did manage to graduate. After four and half long years of college, I finally have my bachelors in Computer Information Systems. It was a struggle for sure. I switched majors in my junior year. Well, technically I've changed majors like three times, but I did start school with a psychology major and it was the last one I dropped before switching to computers. In that time I had also tried to double major in English and and at one point I entertained the thought of an Art degree. I was actually only a few classes away from a psychology degree, but there just wasn't enough time to complete it. Now while I was making up my mind I also studied for tests for my military career and got my Security+ certification. And I went to basic training halfway through my sophomore year, so that was quite a setback time-wise. All this while working a full time job. It was hectic, and I thought about dropping out many times, but I can't say I regret any of it now that I'm done.

I took two trips, one to Chicago and one to Indiana. They were within days of each other too. It wasn't that unusual. I can't seem to stay home for too long before I get restless and need to travel somewhere else. (Provided I can afford it and have enough vacation time at work.)

Then I got married. I should have started this out with the fact that I got engaged in the first place, but that was technically at the very end of 2011 lol. So yeah, there was a three month engagement and we got married April 7th. All that planning was time consuming and rather expensive because we didn't have the luxury of shopping around too much with how much we rushed it. (When I say expensive, I really just mean more than my goal of a $3000 wedding. It was far below the average price of a wedding). No, we certainly didn't rush the marriage part, we've been together 6 years. I just didn't want a long engagement. It was either 3 months or a year and a half. Despite the quickness, I wouldn't change it for the world. The wedding was perfect. It was small, with just our closest friends and immediate family members. (I think the guest list for the actual wedding was around 22 people, which included 3 children and us). Then we had a larger reception, just because I have a huge family and we didn't want to leave them out completely. It was a lot of fun, neither of us got too drunk so we got to enjoy the night.

Three days after the wedding was my last day at work. Yes, I quit my job. Now that I'm graduated I need to find something in my field. I was tired of working nights anyway and wanted to actually spend time with my new husband. We've lived in the same house for 2 years, yet we rarely got to spend time together with our schedules.

Then we moved... to a different state. Another reason I had to quit my job. My husband graduated in May and got accepted into a grad school. The moving process was kind of rushed too. We found a place about a week and a half after he decided which school he wanted to go to and moved in about three weeks later, which happened to be the day after his graduation (and technically mine, but I didn't walk. I already had my diploma). So ii was about the middle of May.

I got back from combat training the day of his graduation too, actually about 3 hours before and that was only after changing my flight. I didn't want to miss it. I was at training for about 10 days, which completely destroyed all the progress I had made in physical therapy with my knees, but oh well.

Then I deployed, which is where I'm at now... so yeah, that'll be the rest of my year. No more excitement for me. (Hopefully... the only excitement here would be the bad kind.)

I haven't been around by Moophles

Sat, 10 Dec 2011 05:49:50 EST

For lots of reasons.

I will be updating my gallery here soon, so not to worry.

Thank you, those of you who keep track of me here.

I've recently hurt my wrist so not much drawing is going on at the moment and our Comic is in a bit of a standstill with a written piece filling the gap while I am unable to draw.

I may leave my deviantART account behind soon, I'm getting very tired of the useless drama and idiots amassing upon that once holy place.

Ah well.

Que sera sera.

Talk to lot soon and look forward to newer art <3

- Moophles

Hey, lookit by r3an1mat3d

Sun, 26 Jun 2011 09:55:28 EST

Well, ain't this place just something akin to spiffing?

Migrating (a whole load) some of my stuff from DA.

-r3

Welcome! by LisaSky

Wed, 8 Jun 2011 22:03:23 EST

Hello! I'm Lisa Sky, and welcome to my portfolio!

I wanted a nice place on the web to organize some of the lines I've coloured and other digital art I've made, so I set this up. Hope you enjoy looking around.

Nytengale content. by Sparky16

Tue, 17 May 2011 00:23:05 EST

So I'll be sticking all my stuff here including some comic pages from my nytengale project. I will be ninja about it from dA for now.

Hello, Artician- by mechanista

Sun, 17 Apr 2011 10:16:58 EST

I think I'm going to be mostly leaving DeviantArt because I'm really getting sick of how horrible the people are that run that site.

In the process of migrating most of my stuff there. It's going to take a while~

Not active by TheBuild

Thu, 10 Mar 2011 13:06:47 EST

I'm not active at all, probably because of all the fun things life throws our way on occasion especially as I've been designing my own website.

I'm going to be REALLY clearing out the gallery there's way too much crap in there and old work at the moment.

I suppose so. by Sparky16

Fri, 17 Dec 2010 05:12:07 EST

This place looks better than deviant art, and more professional to. Lets see what it can do for me. I have yet to totally explore the place but it's all good!

Out of DA and into the firepit by NinjaTrafficCone

Sun, 5 Dec 2010 10:24:36 EST

I haven't completely moved though, but this IS my alternate account in case something happens over there. For now I'll make myself as comfortable as I can here and get used to the layout and such. It's pretty awkward, lol.

The Sperm That Swam Too Fast by avva

Fri, 19 Nov 2010 01:45:54 EST

I started with a hormonal reaction in two human beings. I stand on 2 legs now and i have so for 19 years uncounted the years i crawled with the diapers. I was destined to be a female at the precise moment of fertilization when my dads sperm swam to my moms egg. Talking about my father, half of my genes and character belongs to a man that i hardly know of. Ive lived a lot of lives which are now enclosed with memories that makes me sit and wonder. Now i have lived approximately 6935 days and i cannot recall or events that has carved my inner believes. Ive learnt that life has a life of its own. No matter the effort you give to it, sometimes you just dont have any control on it. No matter how expensive the house you are living in is, no matter how much you force your son to be a doctor, no matter how much you are obsessed with the latest products of apple. Life goes on. People move on. Life evolves. Your material obsessions becomes unnecessary. You grow old and wake up to an empty bed and your ID card says that you are 80 years old. So is it worth living? Is it worth spending all of your life savings on education and gadgets? Maybe it is yes. Maybe not. Well maybe for some people. Here is my science on life.

I am not rich. But i have dreams. I have been obsessed in finding ways to make my dreams come true and i have come to a conclusion. I need money to make dreams come true. How unfair does that sound now? I photograph amateur models to help them build their portfolios and that happens so often. I sit in front of my Dell laptop and browse through pictures of mountains and places Id like to spend my life. Towns and islands where i could spend the weekend. Id walk on the deserted beaches of Australia observing the absence of human beings .Photograph a man crossing the road in Turkey. Playing football with the kids in the dusty sands in Brazil. Sitting in Mt.Fuji in Japan without a blink. Walking with a backpack in Nepal and expose my skin and visual sight in to reality. I read about Africa before my eyes get blind. So i have come to a simple solution for all these problems. Make an Effort. I have learnt that it is not necessarily important to always dream but also to make an effort to make them come true. People spend all their lives planning the rest of there lives but what they forget is that life is now. It is now. Not after 10 from now. What ever we decide now and do is applied only to the present life. People forget that Life Goes On while they are still busy planning on what car they would buy in the next 10 years and the location and type of house they will purchase 5 year from now.

What is life anyway? Why are we here anyway? Why cant we just be flowing in the dust. Innocent little particles on the rays of the sun.Not engaged in any living form with no obsessions and fear of god. We would be absent and neither have emotions and Hitler would not have killed all those Jews and John Lennon would not have been shot in his head. For some reason we have come to an existence havent we! We commit crimes and we fall in love conditionally. We are selfish beings drawn and blinded by the mind control of media. Thinking that money,power and fame is the solution for everything in the world. We humans are competitors. Always wants to be the best. We fight in wars and kill humans. What are we? What have we become? Always falling for the illusions of what the modernization has become, blinding us from the real world. What is the real world anyway? Is it the Burj Khalifa in Dhubai with 160 floors and the resorts of Hilton in Hawaii.Or is it the 6 start hotels in Greece? Is it the real world? No, it is a circus. This world is becoming a circus that is blinding you from all the beautiful things in the world. The best things in life are for free. When was the last time you actually took a moment to appreciate the little things in life? Life Goes on.

hurro there~ by thewintercynic

Thu, 18 Nov 2010 22:25:21 EST

Well, hello~ I'm new, naturally. Just came from deviantART. :3

Many apologies for flooding your inboxes and/or the front page. I promise I won't do it all the time.

Inviting. by Nullity

Wed, 17 Nov 2010 00:25:32 EST

<sub>Umm.. I'm not much active on this site, but I'll try. I'm more active over on my Fur Affinity account. Just saying. This place is a little weird, but takes something getting use to. I think. </sub>

Oh look, I'm back for a bit. by Drunkenvalley

Tue, 26 Oct 2010 12:01:13 EST

Well, at least for long enough to spam-submit a few things.

Now the big question is whether I care to design my own skin or anything.

Sick :-( by blondebones1

Sat, 18 Sep 2010 01:18:49 EST

I'm aching, my throat feels like it has a couple of knives jammed down it and I'm so darned tired and this miserable spring weather isn't helping

So that's why I'm fairly inactive atm sickness + windy cold spring don't do it for me! Bring on summer... or at least a normal hot spring :-)

In other news... one more week of uni til midsemester break and thus my trip to Perth :-D

Happy Fathers Day! by Salocin.TEN

Sat, 19 Jun 2010 13:30:22 EST

Well, Australians have theirs in September or something.

So heres to give your best man the love, yes, and am talking about your fathers. Do something for them or get them something they have been longing for.

I co-wrote a poem back in the middle to late 90s that had me unexpectedly scoring the grand prize in a newspaper Fathers Day contest. The poem went something like this, for I could not find the snippet thus far

Youve cared for me from the very beginning

Cooked my favourite instant noodles

Aided me in thick and thin

Father you are the best!

It was quite a bit more creative and funnier than this, and I distinctly remembered it had about six lines, the co writer spiced it a bit, appropriate credit given, but I still remember the gist of it.

Yes really, getting the grand prize for it was totally unexpected. According to the judges, the whole news room was going LOL on it, climaxing on the instant noodles part, because there was mention of a well known brand. I suppose the judges liked instant noodles too, since they are all journalists with ultra tight schedules and deadlines.

The prizes were

A one night (or two nights?)hotel stay at a famous island.

A watch (or pen?) from a designer brand. Or was it a leather wallet set? Hmm cant really remember, but I remember the brand!

A pair of leather dress shoes from Bata, although they eventually became quite uncomfortable to wear (heel scraper!) and wore smooth quite fast, so they were discarded after a few years. " class="wp-smiley" />

There was a fourth item. I cant remember what.

I ran off to Hong Kong with Dad after that on some vacation only to come back to high school that time with news all over the school of my apparent winning.

They all knew my full real name, and the principal embarrassed me by calling me up to the front of the school assembly. Despite insisting that I did not fully write the poem, I was still given credit.

Crazy stupid girls who kept naming me as perasan (I still dont know why they called me that) with a horrible scowl on their faces,started respecting me unusually. Few wrote/said love messages which, although flattering, I placed them aside. Naive they were, I thought.

Former school bullies began respecting me. Telling me study/exam tips and all that.

Enough!!! I thought. I co-wrote the poem, the other writer spiced it up more, so? Why all the limelight? It is just a poem, just a personal contest entry.

Anyway, happy fathers day, and stay safe, for there are apparent terrorist threats around.

Summer break anyone?

Aaah. It's a n00b! by Wind-blade

Thu, 17 Jun 2010 14:50:50 EST

Hello all! xD *Doubts it that anyone would read this* Oh well. It's better than not trying. <3

Anywho, I just started this Artician account thing, even though I created this sometime ago. =P I hope to make lots of new friends here! But for the time being, I have no friends... 'Cause I'm rolling solo f'abit. xD

Other than that, I have nothing to talk about really. xD It's just a matter of getting used to the site now. So many freaky deaky gadgets and stuff. xD

Formspring Me!! :) by CrystalDiamond242

Sat, 12 Jun 2010 04:05:41 EST

hajimemashite! by Tiki

Fri, 19 Mar 2010 10:20:31 EST

wow,... being new here I thought submitting some stuff would be all exiting and great. But I must admit, after browsing around here and seeing aaaaallll that sophisticated and professional great Artwork most of you out there are submitting... is just making me feel very small and almost inappropriate here.

I have decided though, not to let me intimidate too much and just take everyone's talent here rather as an incentive and inspiration for even harder work and efforts of improving my skills. Hopefully it will get me somewhere.

So please, to all you skilled artists out there, feel free to criticize and comment on my work, even if you can't say anything good about it. I'm thankful for every amendment and suggestion.

Whoever read this: THX! And have a great day,

Tiki

Listening Portishead by kinetic06

Sun, 21 Feb 2010 20:15:58 EST

I made some watercolors for the album "Fog", I'm listening to Portishead, the album portishead, is bleak and very good.