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HamsterMasterSamster

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TLDR: I'm no longer hosting my art on deviantArt. You can find me and some of the dA-only content I removed at the links below!



Long version: I've emptied my gallery in the wake of the AI nonsense dA is getting itself involved with. This is meant to be a site for artists, and I find the current implementations of AI art generators to be unethical and out to scalp artists for all they're worth, so this was the line in the sand for me :\ Believe me, deleting my much beloved history here (especially the Ebon Spire stuff) was . . . difficult. I made a lot of friends here, a huge part of my artistic journey took place and was documented here, not just in the art itself but the comments and the image descriptions and . . . ugh. I just don't want to think about it.


I'm primarily active over on my tumblr now, which seems the only social media site that also tolerates the posting of art that isn't spontaneously combusting right now. For a long time, I've been posting mainly polished pieces here and EVERYTHING on my tumblr. There was a bunch of dA-only art though, which I'm not sure I'll be reposting right now. Primarily because there's just no gallery-style websites that are really worth investing the time in anymore, which makes what dA did all the more tragic. But I have all my art archived away for my own purposes, so I guess on the off-chance there's really anything you're missing and want to see again, just yell and I'll dig it out.


Having to delete every image individually made me notice how many of my recent commenters have actually been following my stuff for a really long time. Thanks so much for being part of my experience here <3 Always happy to keep in touch!

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My premium membership expires tomorrow so I thought I should get an updated journal up before I lose my formatting. I don't really update here often enough to warrant renewing it right now.

So! Life's been busy! And horrible in many ways! But I think it's slowly improving and I'm in the middle of a lot of potential change - new house, new job role, new niece on the way.

During a pretty low period mid-last year I found myself tumbling headlong into the TMNT fandom, which has been both a timesink and a great motivator for trying new styles and techniques in my art. I even pumped out a 20-page fancomic recently. Not planning to quit the fanart kick any time soon, but I've got plenty of original ideas I'm tinkering with behind the scenes. Hopefully after the move I'll have a little more time for more art!


Spinning Away


  • That'd be telling :3



Hamstuff



Arts: [ deviantArt | tumblr]

Social: [LJ | Gaia Online | Failbook ]

EBON SPIRE ARCHIVE

<da:thumb id="173622831"/> Ebon Spire Participant Stamp by jameson9101322 GW2 Mesmer Stamp by Calaval
Hamster omnomnom Stamp by imbryl Nom Nom Nom Stamp by pixelworlds Awesome by decors


Journal CSS inspired by `katat0nik.
Fractal brushes courtesy of above-and-beyond. Many thanks!


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Circle of Violence is pretty much done! I'm glad I pushed through to complete it for the sake of my creative conscience, but I can't deny it's a major relief to have it put to bed. There is so much wrong with it, but those are lessons I wouldn't have learned unless I pushed on and made the mistakes in the first place, so it was a worthwhile project that I'm glad I completed.

Speaking of which, I went ahead and posted stuff about my process for CoV over on tumblr, so anyone who was curious about that can take a gander. If nothing else, it'll be a useful reminder for me next time I decide to start a comic project xD which I think will happen again after a nice long vacation.


Spinning Away


  • Circle of Violence: Completed! 58/58 pages



Hamstuff



Arts: [ deviantArt | tumblr]

Social: [LJ | Gaia Online | Failbook ]

EBON SPIRE ARCHIVE

<da:thumb id="173622831"/> Ebon Spire Participant Stamp by jameson9101322 GW2 Mesmer Stamp by Calaval
Hamster omnomnom Stamp by imbryl Nom Nom Nom Stamp by pixelworlds Awesome by decors


Journal CSS inspired by `katat0nik.
Fractal brushes courtesy of above-and-beyond. Many thanks!


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Lawl, I guess I kinda disappeared.

The reason was health problems, primarily the kind that flare up with computer usage, so I've had a real fun year. Fortunately I'm sort of on the mend, even though the condition causing my pain is kind of not going to go away ever even if it can hopefully see some significant improvements.

Comic fell by the wayside while I was dealing with this and I'm slowly climbing back on the wagon with it. Don't expect any updates just yet as I'm waiting to have a number of pages in my buffer and my hand well and truly back into completing them before I promise any kind of regular updates again. Since it's definitely become a personal project rather than a sustained webcomic, I intend to let my webpage expire in November and continue updating via dA. It was a really useful experience to learn how to set up and customise and regularly update a webcomic site, but I'm not committed enough to it and I don't have the readership to financially justify the hosting costs, either.

If I try a webcomic again in the future it will be in a much better state of preparedness and seriousness, haha. Also, new customer hosting discounts! :'D There's very little on the site you won't find here anyway. I'll upload cast pictures etc. when I get chance.

Spinning Away


  • Circle of Violence: Launched! 26/58 pages (45% complete!).



Hamstuff



Arts: [ deviantArt | tumblr &nbsp;]

Social: [&nbsp;LJ | Gaia Online | Failbook ]

EBON SPIRE ARCHIVE

<da:thumb id="173622831"/> Ebon Spire Participant Stamp by jameson9101322 GW2 Mesmer Stamp by Calaval
Hamster omnomnom Stamp by imbryl Nom Nom Nom Stamp by pixelworlds Awesome by decors


Journal CSS inspired by `katat0nik.
Fractal brushes courtesy of above-and-beyond. Many thanks!


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PC's all fixed! Ugh, what a nightmare that was DX

By the end of today, I should have a complete page and an inked page in the buffer bank, so here's hoping I can get back into this . . . again >_>;

Spinning Away


  • Circle of Violence: Launched! 24/58 pages (41% complete!).



Hamstuff



Arts: [ deviantArt | tumblr  ]

Social: [ LJ | Gaia Online | Failbook ]

EBON SPIRE ARCHIVE

:thumb173622831: :thumb104810488: Ebon Spire Participant Stamp by jameson9101322
Hamster omnomnom Stamp by imbryl Nom Nom Nom Stamp by pixelworlds Awesome by decors
GW2 Mesmer Stamp by Calaval

Journal CSS inspired by `katat0nik.
Fractal brushes courtesy of above-and-beyond. Many thanks!


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