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That's over FIVE thousand!?

~DailyChecks — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 19:35:51 PST

Hey guys.

Seriously though. Over 5,000 views here now. Holy moly! Never woulda guessed it! Thank you SO much! I don't have much to say. Hmm..

About an hour ago helped my mother install ArtRage. I hope she tries it out.. BUT! I'm thinking of trying it myself. Maybe it will help fix my failures at digital drawing! Ha! I'll save myself with my half-talented skills in photography! Anywho. Thank you so much to anyone who has ever read these! I'm totally excited about having so many views!

ps. I have Xbox Live, and feel free to add me with a message saying you saw me on DeviantArt (to save confusion). My Gamertag is "rempell"! See ya'll around!

Veteran Difficulty is freaking hard..

~DailyChecks — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 14:55:11 PST

Sigh. Here I am, wasting my evening trying and retrying "No Fighting in the War Room", the second last mission on Call of Duty Modern Warfare. The first one.. I've played through the game on hardened, some missions I dropped to regular. I've made my way through about 2 thirds through on Vet. Here I am, spending almost two hours on the same mission. I got almost to the second checkpoint, and kept dying, gave up..blah blah. Just frustrating. So I'm venting on the interwebs. In other news! I'm around 90 views from 5,000. Perhaps a celebratory deviation is in order. Keep your eyes open for it!

Thanks again those who ever take time to read this or watch me. I added just a photo I had to my deviantart yesterday and within like 5minutes it was faved like 10 or 15 times. So... Thank you so much for checking me out!

Check out my best friend, she teaches me everything I know about photography!
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alex!

Thanks for the journal skin! ->

Features

Back from outa space.

~DailyChecks — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 18:23:51 PST

Hello.
I'm back. Check out the photography. I came back and was blown away: over 4,700 page views. What the eff. Why the heck are people bothering to look at this garbage, haha. Anywho. If you're one of the 4,700 people who has seen this page. Thanks for stopping by again! And stay classy, DeviantArt! Good stuff.

Also. Check out :leena-shoe:

PS. Gimmie a high five if you caught my Anchorman reference.
PPS. Thanks a million and 6 to all those 4,711 people who checked out my page over the years. Means a LOT!

Kaythanksbye!

-
alex

Journal update!

~DailyChecks — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 12:18:11 PDT

SOOOOO.....
Man. It's been a while since I picked up the..mouse and started "drawing"...It's been around..6 months since I started doing Digital Art. Still not doing too hot. I've strayed from my love for celestial art into just random painting. I dunno what to do with it. I'm trying to get better, I guess I find it hard to find motivation most days to just go raw something and not get bored of it looking crappy or whatever. I wanna try out some more celestial art with the further knowledge of the program than I ever had back when I tried the style. i'm up much past I dunno, 2.4k views. I'm pretty surprised actually, at how many views I get. I just remembered today you could post on somebody's page and noticed a CRAPLOAD of "thanks for the fave!" and "Man keep it up!"s on there. Just one HUGE YOUR WELCOME! To all the thank you's and one HUGE THANKS! To all the little encouragements you all had on there. Sweet deal, anyway. My journal was old and stale, once again.

That's all for now!
_{My subscription ran out!}

Some great artists

Keep your eyes open for those guys. Just a few of the many artists I admire.

One Big Sigh.

~DailyChecks — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 15:47:09 PST

So things are going well I guess. not really for me at my house. We got flooded in a recent storm and my room is at the back of that flooded basement. Thank God no water got in there, which is odd. It's ripped apart, and the office which was once down there is moved into the kitchen, which has thrown our house into the air..So hopefully it will calm down this week. My new piece I'm working up right now looks very promising.
Couple quick thanks to and for their support via notes..they've been givin' me tips and such. Basically I meant to put this up out of frustration. I know that great detail comes from working BIG. The problem is, every time I upscale to over 2500x2500 photoshop lags like MAD. Anybody got any quick tips to boost my computer's processing speed? It's not a crappy computer by any stretch, really. Good RAM, nice processor. Usually all I am running is photoshop, and perhaps a window for web browsing..which sometimes I close if I wanna go "big". Soooooooo....that's all! Thanks for readin'

500 PAGEVIEWS!

~DailyChecks — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 19:29:30 PST

Actually when I went to write this I had 499 but what the heck. My views are comin' in now. I'm really getting sucked into this whole artsy mindset lately. I'd like to thank these people for inspirations and tips they may have given me(in no particular order):
and . Yeah if you are reading this and you're up here and you're like ":wth man!?" Yes..I stalk you. Check the bushes when you walk by. That's all I got now, just noticed I had 500 views and thought I'd toss in a journal. Need 500 more! So drop by often for kicks and giggles!

New Style.

~DailyChecks — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 18:06:43 PST

I've developed a new preferred style by accident. I've found I really really like digital airbrushing. Right now I'm working on a fairly good piece..I don't know if it will turn out good, I JUST started it. But yeah. I still love celestial art. But I think I'm gonna move out of it for now until I develop some artistic spatial skills. I've also enjoyed being a DA so far. I've made a couple friends now. Me and are getting along real well haha. We're thinking of doing a collab sometime, just not sure what to do. I'm coming up on just 400 pageviews. Pretty pathetic, but they are going up faster these days. With a couple of watches from a few select people they are comin' in faster. Anyways, back to what I was doing.

In a rut.

~DailyChecks — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 10:09:53 PST

Ugh. I can't seem to think of anything to do nor can I get anything to work...I'm stuck in this rut of bad art. I've done like 5 or 6 awful AWFUL pieces in Photoshop..I put a couple scraps out but they are bad too. I keep seeing artists like *Andr-Sar, `j4m3sb0nd and ~JoeJesus and being like "wowwwww I suck." I got 250+ views by now. Been here what..2 months or something? I realize they have been here like years, but :j4m3sb0nd: has almost 100,000 views in four years...ugh. I'm just jealous. Anyone got any tips for getting yourself out there so you get more views or something?
I'm also sick of all the crappy tutorials out there. I've improved a lot on my art but I can't seem to move on. The biggest thing I'd like to figure out is those godly nebula clouds. Those small sharp bursts of dust. How do you freakin' do that. I c an draw a bit, but my finished products look the base graphic of better art. But I find if I continue, I am more adding then perfecting......................

So that's it I guess. Merry Christmas...happy holidays I guess..christmas is gone by now. Enjoy your weekend!

Petition.

~DailyChecks — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 14:15:48 PST

Hey guys. I read this up on solar voyager and thought I'd put it up 'cause I'm for it completely and I'm sure a lot of viewers to my page will be too. The thing is, we don't have a very good category for digital spacescapes. We have 3D rendered art categories and sci-fi..but that's not really applicable to digital paintings of celestial art, much of what I do. If you think this is just dandy, take a peak here [ [link] ] which will explain what I've said a little clearer. You can also find the link directly to the petition on that page. Please! Spread the word!

Thanks.
Alex.

Heh. Hello!

~DailyChecks — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 07:06:55 PST

Hey everybody. I've been here for a bit now. Really liking the atmosphere at DA. As of RIGHT NOW! There's two things I'm wondering. One is..how come I can't get the Digital Art>Misc>Sci-fi category for submitting art. And the other is, if I don't get a tablet for christmas I'm gonna buy one. What should a poor high school student get for a tablet?

Anyways. Thanks guys!

So. A month and a half later..

~DailyChecks — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 08:10:50 PST

Hey.
After over a month of being a "digital artist" (yes I know..bear with me) I've decided it's something I love. I've become obsessed with it. I love deviantart, lots of really great people here. I've joined solarvoyager also. That's a great art site for celestial art. Yeah anyways.

That's all for now.