http://search.deviantart.com/?q=by:Degrath&section=today deviantART RSS for by:Degrath en-us Copyright 2009, deviantART.com Tue, 08 Dec 2009 21:24:23 PST deviantART.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://s.deviantart.com/minish/widgets/apple-touch-icon-precomposed.png http://Degrath.deviantart.com/journal/21778372/ http://Degrath.deviantart.com/journal/21778372/ Tue, 02 Dec 2008 05:20:27 PST I just woke up.
I'm tired.
Bitchcakes, seriously.

Anyway, I regress. I just post to let people know that I am still alive, in fact. Not to much surprise, I'm not really up to any wacky shenanigans, I went to MangaNEXT a couple months back, it was a lot of fun, meeting a couple of people that I never knew before. Currently arranging plans for Katsucon and Otakon once more.

If my dear friend Cally goes to Otakon, you can probably find me buzzing around the Artists Alley, helping out. Because she's generally so flocked with people wanting to buy her lovable plushies, she can't even get food for herself, the poor thing.
Also, my legs hurt.
I like my legs. I've had them for as long as I can remember.

Back to the topics at hand, Christmas is just around the corner, everyone got their lists for Santa ready? HURRRRRRR. FUCKING LOVE SANTA CLAUS, BIG ASS BEARD AND DOESN'T AFRAID OF ANYTHING.

Really should hit myself for making a reference, but I have to get properly dressed soon and I can do it without a black eye.

LATER.

]]> ~Degrath http://Degrath.deviantart.com/journal/20796373/ http://Degrath.deviantart.com/journal/20796373/ Thu, 02 Oct 2008 16:25:50 PDT
I was just wandering around and talking to John ( ) a very talented artist, and I was just having some discussion about art, and I love how Optimistic this guy is when it comes to being creative, he really helps me turn my thoughts into good ideas and its more than I could ask for. As the story goes, the Art Teacher gave me a Sketchbook and I was thinking; "Hell, why not go back to Analogue art for a while, that would be a nice break from how much I use my Wacom Tablet"

Now, I find my 50 page sketchbook filled in on both sides of nearly every page, and I'm proud of it, and I've improved a lot just in that short period, I'm learning slowly to give life to my art, and characteristics that I never really thought of before, but I'm still having troubles getting off my habit of only drawing men.

It's a fun, and lovable thing, art. A best friend that gets more enjoyable the more you play with them. With this, it really inspires me to keep going and I could really hit a good goal of becoming a professional. I've put my all in every day. During free periods of class, and when I come home. Art, that is my one passion. I will get better, and that's a promise I intend to keep.

I still have some doubts in my mind over the quality of my art, but with the backing of a few of my friends, I really feel ready to take this all the way, and make my mark on the world of art. I don't know if my words are hollow or not, but this is what spills out of my fingers.

It's easier said than done.

Also:

Great people, I strongly recommend you check out their art sometime.
Buy a Puff Puggle or two.

Peace, people!

]]> ~Degrath http://Degrath.deviantart.com/journal/20542428/ http://Degrath.deviantart.com/journal/20542428/ Wed, 17 Sep 2008 18:07:16 PDT I've been trying my best for weeks to draw non-stop, and I'm burning through the digital pages like McCain through Vietnam (Not a good thing).

Honestly, my work seems so... stiff. I really can't make a smooth, good feeling style that works with how I do. My expressions seem rather bland at times and I really seem to be at some sort of incompetence of how to change this. Makes me a little mad, makes me a little sad. Though I'm not taking it to such a level that I cannot handle myself. I can keep myself composed over annoying artistic issues for the most part, but I don't know.

I'm doing my best to research, everything through I can find of interest on DeviantArt, and I've subscribed to that inspiration magazine, ImagineFX, where every touch of a page becomes another-worldly experience of true genius!

With this, I understand. Improvement doesn't come overnight, but I've made a giant progression recently, I can respect that- but if you're someone like me, you're never satisfied. You always want to be that one step higher. The stairway that forever grows to damnation or salvation of your potential skills, and I do my best. I'm passionate, at least, I think that I am, and I wish I could pour these feelings onto the paper that I feel every day. I want to show that I can express a truly solid representation of feeling.

"You're only as good as the last piece of art."
No idea who said this. Not even the slightest clue where it came from, but it seems to haunt professionals to aspire to greater things, and it certainly has done for me, not saying that I am a professional of any kind, in my honest opinion. If I wish to be a professional, I must commit. Day and night, draw. Draw. Draw! There's no excuse not to be, and I strip myself of all other non-artistically inclined distractions. TV? I don't need that. I do enjoy a good flick every now and again, but as a Gamer, you can almost predict a sense of pessimism. Everything is shit until proven otherwise. Thats the motto of the world because "Wit's all been done before" says one Relient K. Yes. I'm quoting a band. They're artistic, right?

I feel I might be trying to do things that are out of my reach. There's nothing wrong with that, but it is stressful. It's like playing Viewtiful Joe on adult mode. Drives you to hell and back around the bend, but it leaves you with a sense of satisfaction at the end of the day and possibly a feeling of deserved emotion while you eat your dinner.

I am not the best artist in the world, and I know I'm setting my expectations a little too high, but I've always believed in as a moral that you should go withing cautiously limited extremes and use all at hand to do what you believe is worth doing, and I can say without fear of contradiction that I am not easily motivated in such a fashion.

Eh.
I'll sleep on it.
I'll feel better in the morning.

]]> ~Degrath http://Degrath.deviantart.com/journal/20374845/ http://Degrath.deviantart.com/journal/20374845/ Sun, 07 Sep 2008 12:31:19 PDT This delightful little game filled with cutesy cartoon characters and much macabre and gore, and shit.

This is amazing, no wonder it's a cult classic.

Now, I've finally gotten off my ass and uploaded some new stuff.
And yeah. I'm tired.
Going to drug myself to sleep tonight! YEAAAH.

Melatonin Town, here I come!

]]> ~Degrath http://Degrath.deviantart.com/journal/20101913/ http://Degrath.deviantart.com/journal/20101913/ Fri, 22 Aug 2008 19:09:05 PDT
FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF
FUCK. I. FORGOT. TO. SAVE.
First bloody thing I make in a million years and its polished to a mirrors shine.
A great digital oil-Landscape of a barren wasteland and I open up the stroke for the finishing touches on the text... "O HAY SORRY, YEAH, UM. FUCK YOU."

Crash crash crash.
Rocky had come, equipped with a gun, to shoot off the legs of his rival.
His rival it seems, had broken his dreams, by stealing the girl of his fancy.
'Er name was McGill, and she called herself Lill. But everyone knew her as Nancy.

This really fails, hard ass.
Let this be a lesson.


SAVE MOTHERFUCKER SAVE.

...And Rocky, he collapsed into the corner

]]> ~Degrath http://Degrath.deviantart.com/journal/19878994/ http://Degrath.deviantart.com/journal/19878994/ Sun, 10 Aug 2008 12:59:26 PDT T'was pretty amazing.

While I write this I find myself in a slight daze. My first convention, even if it was only for a day, my head is still spinning. It was the most out of this world experience I've had in a long, long time.

I really am not looking forward to working for these three weeks.
I want to head back to class already, shit, I'm exhausted.

But regardless, I've got to carve some stamina to myself I would believe. Work, work work.. ...I still hate cleaning up dog shit.

Alright, enough whining.

I'm currently having a bit of a artists block right now, I'm just completely spent in the head, and thats why all I've got on my front page are just stupid doodles that I've been doing in my spare time.

Either way..


]]> ~Degrath http://Degrath.deviantart.com/journal/19524299/ http://Degrath.deviantart.com/journal/19524299/ Mon, 21 Jul 2008 18:41:52 PDT
Level 1
(X) Smoked A Cigarette
( ) Smoked A Cigar
( ) Kissed A Member Of The Same Sex
SO FAR: 1

Level 2
(X) Are / Been In Love
(X) Dumped someone
( ) Been Fired
(X) Been In A Fist Fight
SO FAR: 4

Level 3
(X) Had A Crush On An Older Person
(X) Skipped Class
( ) Slept With A Co-worker
(X) Seen Someone / Something Die
SO FAR: 7

Level 4
( ) Had / Have A Crush On One Of Your deviantART / sheezyart Friends
(X) Been To Paris
( ) Been To Spain
(X) Been On A Plane
( ) Thrown Up From Drinking
SO FAR: 9

Level 5
( ) Eaten Sushi
(X) Been Snowboarding
(X) Met Someone Through Internet
(X) Been in a Mosh Pit
SO FAR: 13

Level 6
(X) Been In An Abusive Relationship
(X) Taken Pain Killers
(X) Liked/loved Someone Who You Cant Have
(X) Laid On Your Back And Watched Cloud Shapes Go By
(X) Made A Snow Angel
SO FAR: 18

Level 7
(X) Had A Tea Party
(X) Flown A Kite
(X) Built A Sand Castle
( ) Gone mudding
(X) Played Dress Up
SO FAR: 22

Level 8
(x) Jumped Into A Pile Of Leaves
(x) Gone Sliding
(x) Cheated While Playing A Game
(x) Been Lonely
(X) Fallen Asleep At Work / School
SO far: 27

Level 10
(X) Watched The Sun Set
(X) Felt An Earthquake
(X) Killed A Snake
SO FAR: 30

Level 11
(X) Been Tickled
(X) Been Robbed / Vandalized
(X) Been cheated on
(X) Been Misunderstood
SO FAR: 34

Level 12
(x) Won A Contest
( ) Been Suspended From School
(X) Had Detention
(X) Been In A Car / Motorcycle Accident
SO FAR: 33

Level 13
( ) Had / Have Braces
(X) Eaten a whole pint of ice cream in one night
(X) Danced in the moonlight
SO FAR : 35

Level 14
(X) Hated The Way You Look
(X) Witnessed A Crime
( ) Pole Danced
(X) Questioned Your Heart
(X) Been obsessed with post-it-notes
SO FAR: 39

Level 15
( ) Squished Barefoot Through The Mud
( ) Been To The Opposite Side Of The World
(X) Swam In The Ocean
(X) Felt Like You Were Dying
SO FAR: 41

Level 16
(X) Cried Yourself To Sleep
(X) Played Cops And Robbers
(X) Recently Colored With Crayons / Colored Pencils / Markers
(X) Sang Karaoke
(X) Paid For A Meal With Only Coins
SO FAR: 46

Level 17
(x) Done Something You Told Yourself You Wouldn't
(X) Made Prank Phone Calls
(X) Laughed Until Some Kind Of Beverage Came Out Of Your Nose
( ) Kissed In The Rain
SO FAR: 49

Level 18
(x) Written A Letter To Santa Claus
( ) Watched The Sun Set/ sun rise With Someone You Care/Cared About
(x) Blown Bubbles
(x) Made A Bonfire On The Beach Or Anywhere
SO FAR: 52

Level 19
( ) Crashed A Party
( ) Have Traveled More Than 5 Days With A Car Full Of People
( ) Had A Wish Come True
( ) Been Humped By A Monkey
SO FAR: 52

Level 20
( ) Worn Pearls
(X) Jumped Off A Bridge
(X) Screamed "Penis" or "Vagina" (does DICK HAT count?)
(X) Swam With Dolphins
SO FAR: 55

Level 21
(X) Got Your Tongue Stuck To A Pole/Freezer/ice Cubes
( ) Kicked A Fish
(x) Worn The Opposite Sex's Clothes
(X) Sat On A Roof Top and watched the stars
SO FAR: 59

Level 22
(x) Screamed At The Top Of Your Lungs
(X) Done / Attempted A One-Handed Cartwheel
(X) Talked On The Phone For More Than 6 Hours
( ) Recently stayed up for a while talking to someone you care about
SO FAR: 62

Level 23
( ) Picked And Ate An Apple Right Off The Tree
(x) Climbed A Tree
( ) Had/Been In A Tree House
(x) Been scared To Watch Scary Movies Alone
SO FAR: 64

Level 24
(x) Believed In Ghosts
( ) Have had More Then 30 Pairs Of Shoes
(X) Gone Streaking
( ) Visited Jail
SO FAR: 66

Level 25
( ) Played Chinese Chicken
( ) Been Pushed into a pool with all your clothes on
(x) Been Told You're Hot By A Complete Stranger
( ) Broken A Bone
(x) Been Easily Amused
SO FAR: 68

Level 26
( ) Caught A Fish Then Ate It Later
( ) Made A Porn Video/got asked to make one
( ) Caught A Butterfly
(X) Laughed So Hard You Cried
(X) Cried So Hard You Laughed
SO FAR: 70

Level 27
(X) Mooned/Flashed Someone
(X) Had Someone Moon/Flash You
(x) Cheated On A Test
(x) Forgotten Someone's Name
( ) French Braided Someones Hair
( ) Gone Skinny Dipping
(X) Been Kicked Out Of Your House
SO FAR: 75

Level 28
(X) Rode A Roller Coaster
(X) We... ]]> ~Degrath http://Degrath.deviantart.com/journal/19471839/ http://Degrath.deviantart.com/journal/19471839/ Fri, 18 Jul 2008 20:08:56 PDT SHIT SON. THATS A LOT OF DOG SHIT.
I know right?

To be honest, I've been "Volunteering" at a Dog Kennel, and I stress much emphasis on the quotation, for the little factor that I never really chose to do it.
Why the bloody skull fucking arsonist would I work 10 hours a day for no pay out of my own sheer, blood tattered good will?

I don't have one.

Regardless, I've seen more shades of brown in a Kennel than any freaking art school or World War Two game. Dogs like to poop a lot. Most of them poop the size of my dog. I scale. There are two variations that mix with Brown. Yellow and Red.
Don't ask, honestly.

However, I got a day off today.
Yay! Oh boy, what do I have today? ...Two.. Injections. Oh. Shit.
Then an Opticion shoved stuff into my eye and yellow dye, and my eyes went numb.
Apparently my left eye has gotten worse, vaguely.

So yes, apparently I really need to have vaccinations for Hepatitis B and MMR. (Measles, Mumps & Rubella)

So, after, my day was looking a bit dim. But rejoice my fair James! We go shopping! Video games! Fashion! Sports clothes.. For Tennis camp.

...Yay?

So, I am proud to stand at this circle to say that I have finally stopped finding Scene Girls attractive, and realized, that in fact I got the strong head-butt a kitten. Honestly. It's 100 Degrees Fahrenheit, and this girl is wearing Pink and Black striped Arm warmers. I could only deeply say in the back of my mind.. "MORON. NARCISSISTIC MORON."
Enjoy your rape.

Despite this, I was quite content with this today.
I miss Ellie and the Gang.

I'm going to Las Vegas soon.

Did I hear you right?
Did I hear you sayin'?
That'chu gonna make a copy of a game without payin'?!

]]> ~Degrath http://Degrath.deviantart.com/journal/18815920/ http://Degrath.deviantart.com/journal/18815920/ Fri, 13 Jun 2008 07:44:08 PDT
Either way, I know I've been terribly inactive. I'll be sure to fix that.
It's just that I've been terribly busy, such as being violated by my adoring fans.

Playing TF2 with Cary. (I don't know why.)
Playing the World Ends With You.
Playing Age of Conan.
Playing World of Warcraft STILL.
Playing Prof. Layton and the (Bi)Curious Village.
Playing Advanced Wars: Days of Ruin.

See? So much to do.

So, Hannah introduced me to Postal Service, only to realize from Sara that the Singer was the same in Death Cab for Cutie. Made me think again about listening to Death Cab because what I've heard of Postal service is quite fun. Certainly something new to my pile of screaming, motivation and hard guitar.

Ellie, no.

]]> ~Degrath http://Degrath.deviantart.com/journal/18513482/ http://Degrath.deviantart.com/journal/18513482/ Mon, 26 May 2008 15:37:41 PDT And it was great, for sure.
People around the world rejoiced to the second coming of Christ! (Which was actually a lie, thousands disappointed)

But yes, In a week, today, I shall be older!
It'll be great, thats for sure.

So, what did you get me?

]]> ~Degrath http://Degrath.deviantart.com/journal/17927714/ http://Degrath.deviantart.com/journal/17927714/ Sat, 19 Apr 2008 12:41:34 PDT Shit was so cash. (CANCER)
Also, Candlejack.

But yeah, sunshine, Lollipops and junk.
Somethings still get me down,
BUT I AM SUPERIOR.
YOUR FLESH SHALL NOT STOP MY ION CANNON.
LET IT SEAR THE SEAMS OF YOUR INFINITE MORALITY!
BURN AWAY ALL THAT IS KNOWN, EMBERS TO THE FLAME TO BREATHE LIFE INTO THE HEARTS OF..

-Cough-
Well, yeah.

I'm just here to wave, say Hi, do junk. Lugging my Dad's band equipment three times is a pain.
In twenty minutes it'll be four.

And even if I di

]]> ~Degrath http://Degrath.deviantart.com/journal/17850278/ http://Degrath.deviantart.com/journal/17850278/ Mon, 14 Apr 2008 14:45:12 PDT With just a little saying.
It comes in many, many forms.
Some little, some looooooooooooong, but we all know the sounds.

And it goes a little something like this.

AGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGH, WHAT THE FUCK. JESUS SHIT FUCK SHIT, Holy good fuck... DEATH TO A MILLION SOULS FOUND IN THE SOIL THAT IS CHILD LABOR.

I don't know whats up with me recently. I have a broken record winding endlessly down the halls of my mind.
It's really fucking annoying. Vague and life questioning ethnics that just spin around my head in a forever gritty gray tone that plasters itself around the corners of my imagination to Question why I even bother anymore.

I shouldn't listen to myself, I know this at least. I have a strong grasp between what is actuality and what is a figment of my imagination, but to actually tie myself emotionally rather than mentally to the actuality is a much greater task than what could be done by myself.

I send thanks out to Ellie for her joyful appearance that cheered me up immensely for the day.

But really. Some people in particular don't know when its a bad idea to bring up a situation in front of the wrong people.

On a lighter note.

AGH, BOB SAGET!

]]> ~Degrath http://Degrath.deviantart.com/journal/17668465/ http://Degrath.deviantart.com/journal/17668465/ Thu, 03 Apr 2008 14:18:33 PDT DICK BUTT.

Sorry, my Posting Helper recommends this. (dickbutt)
Considering it is quite the cancer these days and I've seemed to caught it.
What a charming two word punch-line, huh?

But yeah. Nate got some of those Wacom Bamboo Tablets. Pretty FAASDGASfgsdgASDfsdafasdgs Sweet.
The Sensitivity it to that of an anorexic hooker but with more than its dignity, the colours spilling across the pixelated
screen in a variety of elegant stances that make me smile in a specific form of glee. Tears shaping the crevices of my face in a stream of pure unrequited bliss and beauty of the human soul! Destroying all that is ugly in the world in a hurricane of Acidic Rain made of pure MALEVONANT JUSTICE!

GOOD GOD. MY WILL TO DRAW. ITS FLOODING BACK LIKE THE INNOCENT FLOW OF DIARRHEA FILLING THE IMMACULATE TOILET BOWL OF DESPAIR.

...What? ...You look at me as though I'm some sort of freak.
Geeze.

]]> ~Degrath http://Degrath.deviantart.com/journal/17396260/ http://Degrath.deviantart.com/journal/17396260/ Tue, 18 Mar 2008 14:19:39 PDT Um yeah,
I came back.

Kinda. I just felt bad about leaving this page gather dust and junk and decided to up some photoshoop stuff that I could, and which was actually just one picture.

I'm really bored.
Like, REALLY REALLY BORED. Brawl wasn't as good as I hoped it was, getting everything is piss easy now.
I need more love and attention.
I don't get any cus' I'm British, and British apparently aren't welcome in PA. D:

But I need to work on my general charisma. I'm bad with that.

HEAVEN OR HELL
DUEL 1
LETS ROCK.

]]> ~Degrath http://Degrath.deviantart.com/journal/16131887/ http://Degrath.deviantart.com/journal/16131887/ Thu, 27 Dec 2007 23:59:34 PST ソル＝バッドガイ-(Soru Baddogai / Sol Badguy)
聖騎士団ソル------(Seikishidan Soru / Order Sol)

Well Christmas is over. Reap and Sow till the jazz is past.

Let me give my own little review of winter;
To me, there have always been two kind of Winter.
When its not wailing on my arse with a bunch of Marlakey better described as a Rusty Cheese Grater, Me and Great snowy Jizz Fall are having a swell time rolling in each others profound and indignant mess.

Reluctantly I take on Winters form of AIDS and infects me with allergies that feels like its running up my nose with a rusty pick-axe Augmented with a vial of extreme malevolent hatred. Sure research into Medical founding has been profound but the bar-stewards overlooked the fact that their self-claimed super represent lasts the equivalent to the reaction time you have when someone takes a shot at your Jewlies. The moral being is to wear more protection when you faff about in the ejaculate wonderland.

In other news the while conceptuality's favorite merry humbug Ellie is begging me for my Wii and giving the reasoning that could only be described as Monotonous but colored brightly with her indigenous charm.
With that being said; Being in Love makes your hair grow faster.
It's been proven.

TASTY CAKES, MOTHERF***KER. WHERE ARE THEY.
(Also, No. You're not getting my Wii.)

]]> ~Degrath http://Degrath.deviantart.com/journal/16016529/ http://Degrath.deviantart.com/journal/16016529/ Thu, 20 Dec 2007 15:23:58 PST
Time for my DJK Transmission, rump-Humpers!
This is your host, DEGRATH RIVENDARE! (AKA Moose-Kun)

I decided to write in this.
I watched Bleach 152 today.
HOLY COW. PLOT TWIST. BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AWWWWW.

So I got this totally awesome scarf.
It's better than your scarf.
This one makes me fly. Josh was given to it by Odin, the God of flight in a blistering bright light of great power and he said "Josh, you know what you must do." And so Josh nodded and brought it to my attention and passed on his great gift, that he traveled for many nights to bring to me. Though Beaten and bloody, Josh was glad to see me with the Scarf.

And so I wore it, AND ROSE TO POWER.

...

So the story didn't really happen like that. But in my world it did. Thats all that matters.
Screw you. Scarf = Awesome.

I CAN FLY DAMMIT.

]]> ~Degrath