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deviantART: by:FunkForTheFunky http://search.deviantart.com/?q=by:FunkForTheFunky&section=today deviantART RSS for by:FunkForTheFunky en-us Copyright 2009, deviantART.com Fri, 11 Dec 2009 23:07:15 PST deviantART.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://s.deviantart.com/minish/widgets/apple-touch-icon-precomposed.png K bye http://FunkForTheFunky.deviantart.com/journal/28876698/ http://FunkForTheFunky.deviantart.com/journal/28876698/ Fri, 11 Dec 2009 03:59:52 PST
First order of business.... I just got into a band.

Second order of business.... This is a really serious band. Everyone involved, has been up to this point, a mildly successful one-man-operation of their own. So it's kinda like 3 seriously ultra-talented people.... for now. Hopefully like 6. We got a manager, we got a producer. And the producer works for free. But he's a pro. Working on getting this drummer who has been drumming since she was 5 years old... she's 27 and claims drums are her life.... HM. I ZEE PROMIZING TINGS IN ZIS ONE MR. KORSCHEHOFF....

Third order of business.... I probably won't be logging on.... like.... at all. I got about two weeks before I pack my shit and get a hard job while trying to get money for gear, while we record in studios then rehearse to start doing gigs. These guys are AMAZING. Even though I'll probably get stuck doing fucking temp'ing or something, I'll probably love every minute of it in some strange sadistic way because at the end of the day it'll be one more day of music that people will hear and move to.

I'm the keyboardist. The band is called Candella.

Oh. No more artists of the week. No more critiques, no more anything. I've dropped all my projects. AURA, DoV, a different band, and someone had offered me some money to make him some backing tracks. Although the backing tracks... if I can still finish a track or two for him I'll send him some stuff... I need some road money.

...Now, the hard part is telling my parents, because they had already paid for a semester of college. >_< (Although I think it's still possible to drop the classes and take the money out. Something about payment blocks.)

If for some reason you're gonna have some kind of fucking heart attack from my dissapearance, which I don't really think will happen, given my incredibly-mild-at-best impact on things.... I've got a gmail. If I owe you money n shit, I don't want a lawsuit/pissed off person, so contact me so that we save alot of trouble - bgarnerappli@gmail.com

]]> ~FunkForTheFunky The weekly blah. http://FunkForTheFunky.deviantart.com/journal/28664726/ http://FunkForTheFunky.deviantart.com/journal/28664726/ Mon, 30 Nov 2009 04:54:48 PST

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11/30/09 thru 12/7/09
An artist of the week. Just because I can.

"Watta6111"

A few days ago I was eying the New Deviations page for anything interesting, and damn if this isn't interesting: [link] . Now, what's so interesting about this, you ask? Well, first off it's a really freaking good piece, but that's not what I'm talking about. This is a girl, who has taken a huge amount of time out of her life to actually draw the OC's of her watchers.

Yeah. That's the cue to say, "Whoa." If THAT isn't 'interesting,' I don't know what is.

Her age is hidden, which is a pity - when I've got enough of these artists of the week things going, you'll notice the pattern of me picking young artists, because there's a spark to the art of someone young that I just don't see anywhere else. Still, that didn't stop her from getting my feature, now did it?

Here's some cool things I've found by her, check it out!

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]]> ~FunkForTheFunky Even better news. http://FunkForTheFunky.deviantart.com/journal/28561119/ http://FunkForTheFunky.deviantart.com/journal/28561119/ Wed, 25 Nov 2009 04:11:25 PST

So at this rate I can do some unofficial critiques, which I will, for sure. For starters, [link] - cheering this guy on in his quest for realism n shit.

Oh, and some interesting nooz - I've got a couple friends working on a flash music player. We're gonna get this shit up and running if it kills us, you hear me?! Doing this because I know very well that no one actually clicks the link in my signature, xD.

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11/22/09 thru 11/29/09
An artist of the week. Just because I can.

"Mayamei"

So any other day starts up again and I'm browsin' for the good stuff on deviantart. Lo and behold, I found some good stuff browsing through the Kick Your Own @ss entries. I went through a couple entires that I liked. They were pretty cool, you know, showing some genuine improvements to the artist's style, but then I came across this: [link] .

My first thought is, "Whoa. That's a pretty big improvement." And of course, my next motion is to look at the comments. The first one is what draws me to my current level of amazement: "So you're 15 now right?" "Yes"

.....WHAT?! SERIOUSLY?! 15 YEARS OLD, ARE YOU FREAKING KIDDING ME. I honestly thought the two were joking, like, some kind of inside joke or something, or insert other method of denial that I could use. I goto the artist's page, and sure enough, it's a 15 year old girl! My next motion is to check out her gallery, which I do, with extreme interest...

These are some things that stuck out to me in her gallery. Check it out:

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]]> ~FunkForTheFunky Flat broke http://FunkForTheFunky.deviantart.com/journal/28465995/ http://FunkForTheFunky.deviantart.com/journal/28465995/ Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:16:52 PST
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Need a job need a job need a job need a job need a job job job.

Note to ckirk: Still paying for the Lantern concepts the moment they're done, because if the first concept you've drawn is any indication, yeah, it's worth a quick 20 bucks.

]]> ~FunkForTheFunky Virus is gone http://FunkForTheFunky.deviantart.com/journal/28135212/ http://FunkForTheFunky.deviantart.com/journal/28135212/ Tue, 03 Nov 2009 23:25:46 PST
But it's definitely cool to see people improve. If you've got something I'll take a look at it. Linearts, inks, abstracts, lyrics, erotica, etc are things I'd feel comfortable giving a rundown of.

In regards to the virus, I lost the project files to my greatest work, Gier, and promptly drowned my sorrows in pr0n, and things I could barely afford, and will probably need a job now as a result. Windows 7 pro 64-bit for 30 bucks though is a ridiculously good buy. CS4 Photoshop and Flash are pretty win, as well, if not for the gaping holes they left in my wallet.

]]> ~FunkForTheFunky Viruses - compy is fubar http://FunkForTheFunky.deviantart.com/journal/28099567/ http://FunkForTheFunky.deviantart.com/journal/28099567/ Mon, 02 Nov 2009 03:03:53 PST _<

Seriously. It won't even get past the xp logo. Thankfully, I'm OCD enough to backup all my files to hardcopy, and my last run through was just a few weeks ago. I'll be damned if it isn't a pain in the ass though.

Admittedly, I finally have an excuse to upgrade to windows 7 because of the harddrive wipe from XP to windows 7. Maybe I can even shirk off my brother's gigantic hulking ego stemming from his computer knowledge that I will probably need in order to fix this.

]]> ~FunkForTheFunky Feature chain-letter woot. .. READ IT! http://FunkForTheFunky.deviantart.com/journal/27626606/ http://FunkForTheFunky.deviantart.com/journal/27626606/ Sat, 17 Oct 2009 23:37:22 PDT [link] <-- CLIKKIT!

Social experiment (I think?!) started by

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Shameless rip: "The first 20 people who comment on this journal will get 3 artworks [or anything else] featured (I'll try to make them as diverse as possible, because no artist I know focuses exclusively on one theme ). In turn, everyone who gets featured must make a similar journal and feature me there on the first place (if just starting this) or first available spot (if you already have one going)."

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- I think, started this dealy! Featured me too, yay! Her characters are rather full of.... character. ... ... COULD WE BE ANY MORE REDUNDANT FUNKY - YES! ... Clicky the links to see what I mean!
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- Sometimes you just have to ask yourself, why isn't Almacan famous yet... [link] [link] [link]

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's coloring + some shading tutorial: [link] Even from a pedestrian viewpoint, Yuni's really a wonderful person. Give her art some love!
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- Dig through his journals..... He tries to be helpful, and often succeeds at doing so, occasionally to an extreme degree - i.e. Smudge Guard. Epic sci-fi style works!
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- Dug through his gallery and found an abstract work that reminded me of... me (The Light Bringer). The first comment is a guide I left him on realism for abstract artists. Vibrant colors n intense values.
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]]> ~FunkForTheFunky This journal reeks of WIN. http://FunkForTheFunky.deviantart.com/journal/25927030/ http://FunkForTheFunky.deviantart.com/journal/25927030/ Mon, 13 Jul 2009 18:18:41 PDT

My brothers, you cannot hold a candle to

's CROWNING AWESOME. I found her coloring tutorial, and holy balls. I took my extremely average sketch and used her technique, and it just freaking CAME TO LIFE! I am at an utter loss of words to describe its ease of use and helpfulness...

I've added her to my watch list,
favorited the coloring tutorial,
featuring her here (as you can see, lol.),
and I'm adding her to the Special Thanks (Credits, you know that whole deal.) of AURA (Yeah, that thing!), and listing why, (Whether she or the rights purchasers like it or not...

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Just because, hot damn, I feel like this is just the bare minimum of appreciating the tutorial. I have never truly gotten the ideas from my head, to paper, then to the finished concept, and then I see that tutorial, and bam.

2 years of failing and I get a couple of non-reproduceable lucky shots.

2 days of coloring with that tutorial and I get a perfectly reproduceable NON lucky shot that is even BETTER than what a lucky shot could hope to get me.

You can find her tutorial HERE: [link]

In other, and probably less impressive news, I've really stepped up my game on the AURA Project. I hit a bit of a stagnation and this is just what I needed to boost me back into the rhythm of things. In particular, the songs are really, really, just WOW now.

If you do anything today, do one of these three things.

Check out Yuni's art, watch her, or thank her.

And if you do anything else today,

Check out her tutorial, put it to good use. [link]

And if you're still feeling gutsy:

Check out the sketch I applied her tutorial's technique to: [link]

Also - you can check out the new tracks for AURA, which really are worlds better than the AURA A1 tracks, or even the A2 tracks. Believe it or not, I was actually semi-"tutored" by one of Soundclick's own rising amazing people, Chris Fewell. You can check out his music here: [link]

And finally, here's the new tracks for AURA, all nice and lined up on my music page (I go by Artificial Wonders): [link]

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