The joy of lacking polls right now.

Everyone seems to be doing Livestreams so I thought I'd have a crack at it too, but what to do while I'm live. Right now I guess I can do something on my screen, so should I do something with photoshop, illustrator, open canvas? Not flash though because that runs way too slow on my laptop plus I'm not good at animating anyway. Whether or not I do one today is a matter of how quiet I should be if I'm using my mic because well, I've got family coming round and stuff. I'll post a link to my channel when I've got the right moment.

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Right I am now live and doing something in illustrator come look

Oh and about work, I'm doing fine so far. I've just been shelving books and putting them in the right order as well as weeding out old out of date leaflets, which is cool because I love looking things up and matching up codes and stuff. It's just that well, on two days the bus I take gets flooded with schoolkids but I think I'll get used to it.

Well after what must have been like, 5 months now I'm finally starting my library job tomorrow and I'm more than ready for it, heehee.

Oh and BTW, I'm starting to try and sell prints, and I need your help choosing what else I should put up there. I've been aware for ages that you can't put fanart for sale, but I feel there's still quite a selection of originals in my gallery to be made into postcards and such. I don't think I can put up Fuchsia Air or anything like that because that's modelled after James Pond, but others like Cairnie and my other anthros, yeah. So what other pics in my gallery do you think I should sell as prints then?

Cheers.

Edited to make it more elaborate about the best day ever and also some of the other deviants I met along the way.

For the first time ever I went to the MCM expo in London today with a few friends of mine I knew IRL, *PandaManda being one of them, also being introduced to the bubbly *Zibby-Doodles and Manda's sister ~darkApril, and OMG it was such a blast!

I got up at like, quarter to six in the morning, left at 7am and got there an hour later. The journey was a lot shorter than I thought it'd be, as soon as we went past the uni I knew where we were. Before we got in this Japanese couple took a photo of us along with the first of the "free hugs" peeps that were dotted over the place, I must have hugged at least 20 strangers throughout.

After less than two hours queueing on my own because my friends pre-booked and I didn't, I must have shat a brick or two when I got in because this was nothing like I've ever seen. Yeah I pretty much got lost, but everyone wanted to go their own ways and it was better that way for all of us as long as we met up periodically. Shortly I found Kickass-Peanut's stall where the lovely Raygirl would be but she was still in the queues that time. Came back a little later and there she was!

I brought over the originals of the following of my watercolour paintings - Cake of the Damned, Maggot Split, Fuchsia Air, Please Help [Rayman and Ly in a morbid setting] and Elvis bird. If I'd have known you guys liked them so much I woulda brought way more but I only had a small bag to take them in and I didn't want them damaged. I'm surprised I didn't even leave them here by accident, but as always I left one of my drawing pens there oh well.

Went around to look at everything, take some shots of the more interesting cosplayers that were there [see below], and there were also stations to play some games before they came out. I tried Scribblenauts for a brief moment but couldn't be arsed; and I played Rabbids Go Home, that was about it. Then you've got the stuff like a moving Dalek that nearly ran me over, and an R2D2 that moved by me as I was sitting down trying to get some fluids down my gullet. I tried to take pics of Tom Baker and Craig Charles but they came out too blurry, as with the pics of the stormtroopers.

So not only have I hung out with ~GagaMan and have been introduced to ~ShinKosai, where we tried Rabbids Go Home and this 2D beat em up neither of us had heard of, I also met my fellow Rayman fan *raygirl, along with *kickass-peanut and Raye's sister ~Skooterwolf. I'm starting to wish I brought more of my originals now to show everyone. You guys were awesome!

And yes the Rayman pic on the over-16s section of the artists' board was made by me, wish I put a bit more effort but oh well. Maybe next time I'll bring a pad and some watercolours and then a few of you could see me in action! I also ought to bring more money so I can buy some of the awesome crap they had there like all those Mario things and the different kinds of pocky [which tastes...quite different to Mikado].

Pics are at my FlickR account - [link] - props to all the cosplayers that were kind enough to let me take pics of them as well.

Jade and Manda and family, I can't thank you guys enough for this, I really can't! With hope, I'll be coming to the one in May next year, and I've even got my sister and her boyfriend convinced in tagging along. Not only that, there's some chance I may be cosplaying, but I don't know who to go as just yet!

Might as well do this before I go out and get eaten by an MRI

Why did you join this site?
Way back in 2002 I was having severe trouble getting an account on Side7.com, and had to resort in using my mad Frontpage skills to display my crappy old art. Then I was hanging around on an age old Rayman fan-forum Raygirl made and there we were, I joined on my first account and saw that there were no limits or anything.

What does your username have to do with you? Is it a combination of your favorite things, or a character of yours?
It's my IRL first name and the first initial of my surname which everyone prolly knows anyway.

What is your current icon of?
Rayman bb, specific pic is from the Academy of Champions cameo.

How many watchers do you have and how many people are you currently watching?
237 peeps watch me, I watch 164.

Do you have more than one account?
Yes. I've made clubs and plzes that are now dead, in fact this is my second account that I use as an artist.

Name 3 of your favorite artists on DA.
Do I have to?

What deviant do you admire because of their personality?
- Lime's smart, keeps a cool head, doesn't take bull from anyone and all round a pleasant chick to chat to.

How many people on here do you actually know in reality? Post their avatars.
At least 4.

Cotton here happened to have been in my primary school class, and I admired his drawing skills back then as I was shit at drawing myself. That meant pestering him to draw stuff for me though and I bet he gets that alot from others, even now.


I don't know why but once in a while, we tend to come across each other by chance at a boot sale. Gaga even came by me as I was picking up a sega Saturn, though being at a boot sale it would only mean brief chats. I'd like that to happen more often. ;}



Muzz and Manda went to the same college as I did though we were not in the same class. I can recall having quite a fun day at Dungeness and the Tate with you two and Jade.

There's also of course my sister , though I control her account. I'm sad that she doesn't take art as seriously anymore, she does make nice artwork.


Do you comment, fave, or both?
Not as much as I used to, these days I do tend to walk on the fave and run path. People do that to me all the time so why shouldn't I?

What do you typically post on deviantart?
Fanart, though I try to throw in a few originals here and there.

Do you participate in clubs or contests here on DA?
Not really; as for clubs I'm awaiting the new Groups thing the staff keep going on about.

What is your most popular deviation?
Currently: [link] and tbh it's a bit better than the other two pics that I've now hidden, that everyone creamed over.

What's your favorite submission in your favorites gallery?
Definitely [link] This is where my soft spot for shoujo type art really comes to shine, I love the sparkles, cloudy blendy paint effects and stuff.

And if you want a current fave, [link] Trap Door fanart is really hard to find here, I'm more likely to find animal morph pics if I type just "trap door" so I have to add "berk" to it as well. This pic speaks for itself and I love how it's done traditionally to boot.


What are the things you wish you could draw better?
Human anatomy.

Are you a subscriber?
Not right now but I have been. My browser still thinks I'm a beta tester though and cache clearing does noting.

How many hours a day do you spend on DA?
Too many

Are you a fast, slow, or medium typer?
Really fast.

What is the most annoying thing people ask you?
If I do requests, especially for subjects I don't even like.

What is the most annoying comment you get?
Your typical one worders like "cool", but I also get a bit annoyed by sarcy crits. I'm not afraid on constructive crits but I prefer them if they can actually help me rather than point out that dodgy hand.

What inspires you?
Nature, colours, bold comic art and the odd Japanimation here and there. No not Naruto silly, we're talking like, the ones that are made for the Americans, like Galaxy High.

Do you use any traditional media?
Almost all the time. I mostly use watercolours because they are like, really versatile and come in both bold and soft colours, therefore there's lots to do with them. I also use white acrylic ink and gel pens, for highlighting, and others I use include colouring pencils and markers.

Do you associate people online with their icons?
Depends on how much the icons mean to them.

Have you ever suggested a Daily Deviation?
No, but unless I see something like, really amazing I'd probably suggest it.

Everyone has considered leaving DA once or twice. Have you? Why?
Yes, in fact, it's not been long ago since I last considered. My fanart is a common target for art theft which has gotten quite broad, and there's been loads of times where I thought I wasn't good enough. But that was until I saw really sloppy comics being set as Daily Deviations.

Copy if you want.

...month gone, and still no word on my future work. =\ So they tell me that I have to have a job coach [yeah that's right 22yo has to be coached at work for 2 weeks] but they're short of such staff and I'm at the bottom of the list because of my surname starting with W. Just...feck so much for "definitely September".

I don't know what else to say. So uh, ask me anything!