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I've recently decided that I really hate both what and how I draw and paint (which has been exacerbated by my being at school for art and being told what I'm doing wrong on a regular basis), so I'm going to be completely re-hauling both my style and subject matter over the next several months or years! So yeah, expect to see more traditional art, more texture in my digital art, and much more variety in subject matter (this means fewer dragons). I'm sorry if this disappoints anyone, but it's something I have to do! Hopefully the end results will be much better than anything I've done up to this point.

I can't wait for this semester to be over.

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COMMISSION ME ]]> ~Gwydd http://Gwydd.deviantart.com/journal/18065035/ http://Gwydd.deviantart.com/journal/18065035/ Mon, 28 Apr 2008 03:25:19 PDT
In other news, the semester ended a few days ago after an absolutely hellish couple of weeks. I should be drawing/painting stuff, or at least taking pictures of the various boring stuff that I did in the classes I took in the past couple of semesters. I probably won't do either for a while yet, for I am lazy and easily distracted.

My mom gave me a little toy bug vacuum as a gag gift because I always complain about the spiders that keep invading my living space. I just caught what I think is a yellow sac spider! I named him Nigel. I don't know what to do with him now.

Edit: Ahaha, I caught another spider of the same species and put it in the same little container as the first one I caught and now they're fighting! I'm so cruel. Oh well, it's better than smashing them immediately upon seeing them I guess.

Edit 2: Uh-oh, the larger one (who I think is the one I named Nigel) killed and is eating the smaller one! HOW JOYOUS

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COMMISSION ME ]]> ~Gwydd http://Gwydd.deviantart.com/journal/17144369/ http://Gwydd.deviantart.com/journal/17144369/ Sun, 02 Mar 2008 07:08:14 PST
I blame school for both sapping my time and willingness to do art during the free time I do have.

Damn college.

I'll upload some of my in-class work at the end of the semester to prove that I have been drawing stuff even though it's all boring still-life shit that no one wants to look at.

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COMMISSION ME ]]> ~Gwydd http://Gwydd.deviantart.com/journal/16970163/ http://Gwydd.deviantart.com/journal/16970163/ Tue, 19 Feb 2008 22:23:36 PST [link]

EVERYONE REGISTER THERE

My blogthing's located here if anyone cares! [link]

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COMMISSION ME ]]> ~Gwydd http://Gwydd.deviantart.com/journal/15992831/ http://Gwydd.deviantart.com/journal/15992831/ Tue, 18 Dec 2007 20:27:14 PST
Ugh.

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COMMISSION ME ]]> ~Gwydd http://Gwydd.deviantart.com/journal/15848187/ http://Gwydd.deviantart.com/journal/15848187/ Sun, 09 Dec 2007 12:10:20 PST
1) A Wii and some Wii games.
2) For everyone to stop forgetting I exist/ignoring me/hating me for stupid reasons.
3) Gift art.

Edit: Oh yeah, also:
4) Motivation
5) An imagination.

Oh well, at least the first wish is taken care of after I camped out at Meijer all night to get one of the Wii's that was going on sale there at 6 AM. I do not understand why they're more scarce this year than they were last year.

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COMMISSION ME ]]> ~Gwydd http://Gwydd.deviantart.com/journal/15257765/ http://Gwydd.deviantart.com/journal/15257765/ Sun, 28 Oct 2007 12:31:29 PDT
One is a drawing class in which the professor is awesome but grades so incredibly harshly that it's literally impossible to get in A. In order to get an A, one must do a better drawing than the professor is capable of doing; a perfectly good piece of student work would receive a C. I somehow get B's on all of my assignments, though. Also, half the grade consists of how far along on the project you are a week after it's assigned, so you have to get nearly all of the assignment finished within a week of it being assigned or else you'll fail the interim critique, which is, to say the least, frustrating as all hell. I've also learned that drawing on a 36x48" piece of paper is incredibly frustrating, especially when one has to sit in a public space to draw the architecture there. I think I'm learning a lot in that class though.

Another is a class called "creative problem solving" but would more appropriately be called "bullshit." The professor never seems to known what the hell he's talking about, and he comes up with the most absolutely pointless, time consuming projects possible. Plus, he never gives us any guidelines on how the projects are graded until we're actually given our grades for them, and then it's too late for any changes to be made. I think one has to do copious amounts of mind-altering drugs in order to do well in this class. This is, quite possibly, my least favorite of all of the classes I've ever taken in my life.

The most bearable of the three classes is color design, which is exactly what it sounds like. This class is really easy to me because I took a color class last year and therefore pretty much know what the teacher wants in term of content. However, the homework is still really tedious and time consuming and involves either collages made of colored paper or very clean and designy acrylic paintings, neither of which I'm too great at due to my questionable craftsmanship. Still, of my three art classes, this is the one I have the best grade in, and is the one I dread the least.

In conclusion, I have so much tedious art homework that I barely have time to do anything other than go to class, walk to and from class (the art building's a mile away from my dorm room and I always have to carry a minimum of twenty pounds of stuff there with me), eat, do homework, and sleep. In fact, I generally end up sacrificing sleep in favor of browsing the internet like I'm used to, so I'm constantly sleep deprived, which makes everything worse than it has to be.

I can't wait until I'm done with all of the foundation art classes. Hopefully I'll pass the end-of-foundations critique and get into the illustration program without having to retake any of them.

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COMMISSION ME ]]> ~Gwydd http://Gwydd.deviantart.com/journal/14386066/ http://Gwydd.deviantart.com/journal/14386066/ Tue, 28 Aug 2007 19:29:43 PDT a lot). So, expect even less art than normal, and, to the five or so people that ever talk to me on AIM, I won't be online nearly as often as usual.

Other than the insane amounts of art homework, college has been pretty cool I guess. I live with ~PixleRelish and, aside from a few arguments such as an absurdly long spat over what kind of apples to buy, it's been good so far. I haven't made any new friends yet, but there's still plenty of time for that.

That's pretty much all that's new with me. I did pretty much nothing this summer.

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COMMISSION ME ]]> ~Gwydd http://Gwydd.deviantart.com/journal/13978494/ http://Gwydd.deviantart.com/journal/13978494/ Wed, 01 Aug 2007 22:22:34 PDT
I'm also bored and dreading college.

8C

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COMMISSION ME ]]> ~Gwydd http://Gwydd.deviantart.com/journal/13501744/ http://Gwydd.deviantart.com/journal/13501744/ Tue, 26 Jun 2007 17:39:24 PDT What do you like the most about my art? What do you like the least? Why do you watch me?


I'll go first!

Most:

1) The way I show form with shading and highlighting; how things usually look somewhat three dimensional and like they have weight to them.

2) The way I use color, particularly how I use colors other than darker and lighter values of the base color to shade/highlight.

3) Most things I draw look well-constructed even if the anatomy's completely BS'd (but I've getting better about that lately).

4) The way I draw eyes and certain textures.


Least:

1) There is very little variety in my art

2) I seem to be incapable of coming up with my own original characters and creatures.

3) I couldn't draw a dynamic pose to save my life, so nearly everything I draw looks stiff and lifeless.

4) I tend to halfass backgrounds and things like feet and hands.

5) I know how to draw dragon heads/faces from just about every angle, but always seem to draw them from some bizarre slightly top-down 4/5 perspective.

6) My art is very bland and unimaginative for some reason.


I know this is incredibly narcissistic, but I've been meaning to make an entry like this for a long time now and I could really use the feedback.

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COMMISSION ME ]]> ~Gwydd http://Gwydd.deviantart.com/journal/13431532/ http://Gwydd.deviantart.com/journal/13431532/ Thu, 21 Jun 2007 10:43:23 PDT
Oh yeah, and I think it's about time for me to actually state that I have a Livejournal, which is located here. I haven't updated it in a really long time, but I've had it for like three and a half years and almost no one knows about it! I'll try to update it soonish.

I recently discovered that ~PixleRelish and I are going to be roommates in college, and that is going to be the most awesomely terrifying thing ever. FEAR US

I THINK THAT'S ABOUT IT

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Commission Information ]]> ~Gwydd http://Gwydd.deviantart.com/journal/13281472/ http://Gwydd.deviantart.com/journal/13281472/ Sat, 09 Jun 2007 18:30:24 PDT
∙ Graduated from high school on May 30. I ranked eighth in the class of 200+ despite that fact that I'm an idiot! Hooray!

∙ Owe drawings to many people but have not been able to draw at all lately. Every attempt at drawing has ended in a page full of deformed tripe and a very angry and very frustrated me.

∙ Recently obtained a DS and Pokémon Diamond and have been playing that entirely too much lately.

∙ Have been in an absolutely terrible mood pretty much constantly lately.

∙ Am dreading college.

∙ Am doing absolutely nothing this summer.


Blegh.

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Commission Information ]]> ~Gwydd http://Gwydd.deviantart.com/journal/12763499/ http://Gwydd.deviantart.com/journal/12763499/ Sat, 28 Apr 2007 07:05:41 PDT

edit: why do my birthdays always suck so much

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Commission Information ]]> ~Gwydd http://Gwydd.deviantart.com/journal/12541596/ http://Gwydd.deviantart.com/journal/12541596/ Tue, 10 Apr 2007 15:38:58 PDT
Rules:
You can ask me THREE questions
No matter how crazy, inappropriate, or random they are
I will answer 100% truthfully. (or as close to the truth as I can)

Now Here's The Dare.
You Must Put This in Your Journal
See What Other People Will Ask You.



Also, my birthday's on the 28th if anyone wants to draw me giftarts! Which is doubtful! But I'll put this here anyway!

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5) ]]> ~Gwydd http://Gwydd.deviantart.com/journal/11246027/ http://Gwydd.deviantart.com/journal/11246027/ Sat, 30 Dec 2006 14:13:42 PST
I've been depressed/semi-depressed almost constantly for the past eight months!

I haven't been able to draw at all lately!

I can't think of anything of substance to write so I'm going to blather on about nothing now!

Christmas was decent this year, and the overall atmosphere of it was a lot better than it was last year (which consisted of several lackluster... semi-Christmases). I ended up getting a 19" LCD monitor (which is awesome) and a set of 144 Prismacolor markers (that I'm probably never going to use) as well as a bunch of other things that I don't feel like listing, which was nice. I have a ton of homework over Christmas break and the time that hasn't been spent stressing out about that has been spent being very, very bored, for that's all I'm capable of doing most of the time. I take my drivers test on Tuesday (which I should have taken on my 16th birthday like a "normal person") and am probably going to fail it. k I think that's about all that's been going on lately.

... Anyone want to commission me? The queue's completely empty and I could use some extra money and things to draw. Commission information's here.

Current Commissions
1) None!
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5) ]]> ~Gwydd http://Gwydd.deviantart.com/journal/10348918/ http://Gwydd.deviantart.com/journal/10348918/ Tue, 10 Oct 2006 15:10:50 PDT
THAT IS ALL

Current Commissions
1) =Nyroeon - Digital painting (75%) (not yet paid).
2) *seagreenwolf - Colored Sketch (not yet started; awaiting further information)
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5) ]]> ~Gwydd http://Gwydd.deviantart.com/journal/10103865/ http://Gwydd.deviantart.com/journal/10103865/ Sun, 17 Sep 2006 17:26:14 PDT my LJ if anyone gives a damn about my life.

I should like, y'know, actually be active here rather than just lurk around all the time. Oh yeah, and I should actually draw stuff now and then too. I haven't really done that at all lately. blah blah blah whine complain blah blah

*waddles off*

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1) =Nyroeon - Digital painting (75%) (not yet paid).
2) *seagreenwolf - Colored Sketch (not yet started; awaiting further information)
3) =ksilebo - Finished; awaiting payment.
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5) ]]> ~Gwydd http://Gwydd.deviantart.com/journal/9017980/ http://Gwydd.deviantart.com/journal/9017980/ Fri, 09 Jun 2006 11:42:44 PDT
Subject matter can be just about anything animal/anthro/fantasty creature/etc., and contrary to popular belief I am fully capable of drawing things other than dragons. In fact, I encourage you to commission non-dragon creatures! What I will and will not draw is up to my discretion.

I am proficient in drawing in many different styles and detail levels, so there's no real set price list. However, here are some basic price guidelines:

Icon (100x100 pixel) - $5
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Sketch - $5-10

Colored Sketch - $10-20
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Conbadge - $15
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Character Portrait - $25-30
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openCanvas Painting - $30-50
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Photoshop Painting - $50+
Like an openCanvas painting, but cleaner and more detailed.
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Even these baseline prices can vary depending on whether or not there's a background, the amount of characters, and the desired detail level.

Payment
50% of the price must be paid up-front, with the remaining 50% being paid upon completion. Paypal is generally the only form of payment I will accept, though we can negotiate something else if you are unable to use Paypal for a valid reason.

So, note/IM/email me if you're interested.

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5) ]]> ~Gwydd http://Gwydd.deviantart.com/journal/8945160/ http://Gwydd.deviantart.com/journal/8945160/ Thu, 01 Jun 2006 21:45:24 PDT Blame

RULES : The 1st player of this "game" starts with the topic "6 weird habits/things about yourself" and people who get tagged need to write a journal about their 6 weird habits/things as well as state this rule clearly. In the end, you need to choose the next 6 people to be tagged and list their names. Don't forget to leave a comment that says "you are tagged" in their devpage comments and tell them to read yours....

1. I make strange noises, often without knowing it. Some of these noises include growls, trills, whistles, and a bunch of other random noises. I also know how to do dead-on impersonations of several species of animal, including a cricket (it's great fun to do that one in a quiet classroom), a macaw, a dove, a red-tailed hawk, and a few others that I forgot.
2. I'm often mistaken for a guy because I have short hair, wear androgynous clothing, am rather tall, and have a rather deep voice, and when people find out I am indeed female they tend to assume that I'm a lesbian (and I'm not). It's sort of obnoxious and very embarrassing.
3. At least 95% of my free time in the past four years has been spent sitting in front of the computer. I've never had any real social life.
4. I am incredibly and irrationally shy and have great difficulty talking to people that I don't know very well. I often come off as being very rude and bitchy because of this, and am trying to work on becoming more sociable.
5. I've pretty much always been very secretive about what I do, what I like, and other things of the sort because I'm afraid of people making fun of who I am and what I do. I'm trying to get over this, however, because I'm beginning to realize that there's no point in caring about what other people think of me.
6. Drawing is my main hobby, but I've come to realize that I only do it because other people expect me to. I don't think I've ever actually drawn to express myself, but rather draw for the sake of making pretty pictures and to make gifts for people.

I tag no one.


Oh, I also saw this meme floating around in various places and felt like filling it out, so here it is.


1. Do you like animals?
Yep.

2. Have you ever met an online friend in person?
I sort of did once.

3. Are you athletic?
Nope.

4. Are you: thin, fat, athleticlly built etc:
I have a bit of flab on me, but not to the point where someone's initial thought upon seeing me would me "OMG what a fatass!"

5. How much do you weigh?
185 lbs.

6. What's your height?
5'10

7. Shoe size?
11 womens/9 mens

8. Girls- are you tomboyish, girly, normal, etc?
Tomboyish

9. Guys- Are you girly, or guyish?
I AM NO MAN

10. How old are you?
17

11. When's your birthday?
April 28

12. Do you like to receive giftart?
Yes, very much so.

13. Are you sociable?
Nope, I'm very shy and am often unintentionally mean to people when forced into social situations.

14. Do you have many friends?
I have very, very few friends. I wish I had more.

15. What's your race?
Caucasian

16. Do you like to talk on the phone?
Nope, it's always weirded me out for some reason.

17. Are you single or taken?
Single as single can be.

18. Do you eat meat?
Yep.

19. Are you paranoid?
Yeah, mostly of people making fun of me for doing something wrong.

20. Do you read a lot?
Only during the summer.

21. Do you listen to music, what kind?
Yes, I listen to music whenever I can, mostly from various branches of electronic music, movie and game soundtracks, and alternative rock.

22. Do you play any instruments?
I've played the trumpet (actually a cornet, but there's hardly a difference) since I was ten years old.

23. How long have you been drawing?
I've been drawing for about as long as I can remember, but I didn't actually start drawing seriously until the summer of 2002.

24.Whats the meaning of life?
There isn't one.

25. Now tag five of your friends!
No. Anyone who wants to take t... ]]> ~Gwydd http://Gwydd.deviantart.com/journal/8612468/ http://Gwydd.deviantart.com/journal/8612468/ Fri, 28 Apr 2006 14:17:18 PDT
I'm seventeen now, in case anyone cares.

If anyone wants to be extremely kind to me for absolutely no reason, they can either buy me a subscription (the one that I've had for the past two years runs out on May 25) or draw me something. Of course, I don't actually expect any of you to do anything of the sort, but I thought I'd say something anyway.

AGSDGLKGJSAGLSDK I NEED SOME CAFEEEEIIIIIINNNE

]]> ~Gwydd http://Gwydd.deviantart.com/journal/8318531/ http://Gwydd.deviantart.com/journal/8318531/ Thu, 30 Mar 2006 21:39:39 PST because he is a ninny.


LAYER ONE: ON THE OUTSIDE

Name: Rebecca Eileen Mills
Birth date: April 28th, 1989
Location: Near Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Eye Color: Bluish Gray.
Hair Color: Light Brown (often spiked with blue or purple hair gel).
Righty or Lefty: Righty.
Zodiac Sign: Taurus.
Chinese Zodiac: Snake/Serpent.

LAYER TWO: ON THE INSIDE

Your heritage: Something like 80% Dutch, 10% Irish, 10% a mix of Danish, English, and French.
What Shoes Did You Wear Today: Black tennis shoes.
Your perfect pizza: Uh… I have no idea.
Goal you'd like to achieve: Do as little work as possible and still succeed in life.


LAYER THREE: YESTERDAY, TODAY, TOMORROW:

Your most overused phrase: “Okay then”
Your thoughts first waking up: “Arrrrggggg…”
Your best physical feature: My hair. It fascinates people.
Your bedtime: Anywhere from 7:00 PM to 7:00 AM.


LAYER FOUR: YOUR PICK:

Pepsi or Coke: Coke.
McDonald's or Burger King: McDonald’s has better fries and breakfast sandwiches, Burger King has better burgers and chicken products. I’d say it’s a tie.
Single or group dates: Wouldn’t know.
Lipton Tea or Nestea: Gross.
Chocolate or vanilla: Chocolate.
Cappuccino or coffee: I enjoy a wide variety of beverages that contain coffee.

LAYER FIVE: DO YOU?

Smoke: No.
Cuss: Yeah.
Sing: No.
Take a shower: Yes.
Think you've been in love: Nope.
Like(d) high school: Sort of.
Want to get married: Yeah.
Believe in yourself: No.
Get motion sickness: No.
Think you're a health freak: No.
Get along with your parents: For the most part.
Like thunderstorms: As long as the power doesn’t go out and TURN MY COMPUTER OFF ARGG.
Play an instrument: Yep, I’ve played the trumpet for nearly seven years.

LAYER SIX: IN THE PAST MONTH

Smoked: No.
Been to the mall: No.
Been on stage: Yeah, but mostly under the stage (pit orchestra FTW).
Eaten Sushi: Sashimi, but not sushi.
Been dumped: No.
Gone skating: No.
Gone skinny dipping: No.
Dyed your hair: No.
Stolen anything: No.

LAYER SEVEN: HAVE YOU EVER

Played a game that required removal of clothing: No.
Gotten beaten up: My brother’s hit me a few times, but otherwise no.
Changed who you were to fit in: Nope.


LAYER EIGHT: GETTING OLDER

Age you hope to be married: Somewhere between 25 and 35 years of age.
Numbers of Children: None.
How do you want to die: Either in my sleep or doing something incredibly stupid.
What do you want to be when you grow up: Illustrator; something else art-related.
What country would you most like to visit: TOO MANY TO CHOOSE FROM

LAYER NINE: IN A GIRL/GUY

Best eye color?: Don’t care.
Best hair color?: Don’t’ care.
Short or long hair: Don’t care.
Height: Somewhere between 6’ and 6’4
Best first date location: Damned if I know.
Articles of clothing: Don’t care.

LAYER TEN: IN THE NUMBERS

Number of people I can trust: Not a whole lot.
Number of CD's I own: Around twenty… I download most of my music.
Number of piercings: Two; one in each earlobe.
Number of tattoos: None.
Number of times been on T.V: Once when I was very young.
Number of scars on my body: A whole lot, mostly from parrot bites and from mosquito bites that were picked to death.
Number of things in my past that I regret: I have no idea.


Yeah. WASN'T THAT FASCINATING!?

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So, is anyone annoyed by this? Should I try to be more active, or should I just continue being lazy? Or should I just stop writing whiny journal entries?

Oh, and isn't the way I type utterly obnoxious? Isn't it just so elitist "I type better than you and am therefore smarter than you so nyeh!" that you just want to punch me in the face? Hell, even I want to punch myself in the face after rereading this abomination! And yet, people gripe at me when I type in all capital letters! WHAT THE HELL IS UP WITH THAT, HUH!?

Er, yeah. I'd better end this here.

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Okay, so I'm actually going to start working on the many drawings that I owe people now. YOU SHOULD ALL REJOICE. ALL OF YOU. YES.

Uh... Yeah. I am going to try to update my journal more often. But I always say that! AND IT'S NEVER TRUE.

... Yeah, I'll try to write a more coherent entry later.

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That is all.


Edit: Oh yeah, I didn't reach my goal of having 10,000 pageviews and 300 watchers by this date either. How sad and pathetic.

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Anyway, I had quite a good summer. Much better than last year's summer, at least. I spent most of my time either surfing the internet or reading, and therefore didn't accomplish a whole lot. I did draw a few things and finally got around to designing a character for myself, and I'm probably going to upload a few drawings of her sometime in the next month. Or not. Depends on how lazy I am.

The first three weeks of my summer were spent in driver's training, the first step in getting my driver's license. Unfortunately, I discovered that driving scares the hell out me me and haven't even started on the fifty hours of driving that need to do before March.

The only other thing I did this summer other than loaf around was go on a five-day-long road trip around Lake Michigan with my parents to look at lighthouses. That was sort of fun. Oh, I also grossly underestimated the time it would take me to do my summer assignment for AP Biology and ended up staying up until 5:00 AM on the first day of school to finish it. That wasn't too smart of me, but at least now I know what it's like to experience the first day of school on less than an hour of sleep.


So, hopefully I'll get around to drawing some stuff sometime in the near future and start updating my journal more than once every few months. I don't feel like typing anymore stuff that no one cares about, so I'm going to end this entry now.

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Edit: Second thought, do any of you have Gmail invites or know people that have them and would be willing to give one to me?

Edit Edit: Now my email address is dynaught@gmail.com

]]> ~Gwydd http://Gwydd.deviantart.com/journal/5212344/ http://Gwydd.deviantart.com/journal/5212344/ Thu, 28 Apr 2005 11:56:16 PDT
I've also been really productive in terms of art recently. Maybe it's my birthday present to myself.

]]> ~Gwydd http://Gwydd.deviantart.com/journal/5187723/ http://Gwydd.deviantart.com/journal/5187723/ Mon, 25 Apr 2005 16:56:32 PDT
I went to Gatlinburg, Tennessee with most of the other people in my school's my school's concert band, jazz band, and show choir for the Smoky Mountain Music Festival. It was fun. Some of my highlights of the trip include:


- Finding a nifty Celtic shop in a cluster of stores that also contained a coffee shop.

- Seeing the skeletons of a giant sea turtle and giant crocodile hanging in Ripley's Aquarium of the Smokies and forcing my mom to take a bunch of pictures of them for reference.

- Taking down the hotel room's iron and ironing board. This event triggered the randomness that was one of my friends running up and down the hotel hallways with the ironing board, pretending the iron a pair of shorts.

- Going ballistic during dinner one night, causing me to disfigure all of Jayne's (~PixleRelish)'s food and coin the phrase "You can't shut your face, it's physically impossible!", which I said while trying to... shut my face. Literally.

- Being driven through the Smoky Mountain National Park in the fog while listening to loud drum 'n' bass.


So, yes. It was a rather odd and delightful trip, and I would like to go to Gatlinburg again someday.

Since I have nothing else to say, my birthday's on Thursday. ]]> ~Gwydd http://Gwydd.deviantart.com/journal/5055058/ http://Gwydd.deviantart.com/journal/5055058/ Sun, 10 Apr 2005 20:15:09 PDT
Anyway, these past two months have been quite uneventful. I've hardly been drawing at all lately despite the fact that last week was Spring Break. I'd promised myself that I'd do a painting over Spring Break, but I never did and that makes me sad.

I've noticed over the past several months that I've grown to dislike my style of drawing dragons, and I'm really not sure why. So, I'd like to know what all you watchers of mine really think of it. What do you think of it and why? What should I change, and what should be kept the same? Any other info or suggestions?

On another note, I've also started to dislike my current icon. It's too large or something... I dunno, there's just something I don't like about it. I'd also like to make an ID sometime in the near future, but I don't feel like drawing myself or posting a picture of myself, and I'm having a ton of difficultly creating a character to represent myself. That makes things a bit difficult. Too bad I'm really too lazy to put any effort into making a new avatar and/or making an ID.

I've also come to realize that all of my journals follow the same basic pattern, which is pathetic.

I think that's about all I had to say, so I'm going to end this blasted thing now. ]]> ~Gwydd http://Gwydd.deviantart.com/journal/4522374/ http://Gwydd.deviantart.com/journal/4522374/ Mon, 07 Feb 2005 16:27:26 PST
February is, by far, my least favorite month of the year. I blame this on the combination of horrible weather, lots of homework, and the fact that I just want winter to die. In fact, the only good thing about February is that it's only four weeks long.

In other news, it's probably apparent to all of you that I haven't drawn anything in nearly two months. In fact, I haven't even started on any of the drawings that I owe various people, and you should all be enraged at me because of that. All of you. Yes. I should have gotten started on those drawings in November after I finished my illustrations.

I want to make myself a website, but I'm horrible at designing stuff and don't know how to code a damn thing.

Uh... Yeah. That's about it.

]]> ~Gwydd http://Gwydd.deviantart.com/journal/4313651/ http://Gwydd.deviantart.com/journal/4313651/ Thu, 13 Jan 2005 19:34:05 PST [link]

That policy is making several great artists leave dA, which infuriates me. It also basically encourages art theft and copyright violations. Therefore, it must be stopped.

I'm unsure as to whether this petition will go through or not, but it's worth a try. I really, truly hope it does.

]]> ~Gwydd http://Gwydd.deviantart.com/journal/4224062/ http://Gwydd.deviantart.com/journal/4224062/ Sun, 02 Jan 2005 19:54:32 PST
-Merry Belated Christmas, everyone!

-Happy Belated New Year, everyone!

Anyway, I've had a ton of ideas for things to draw recently... I just haven't felt like drawing any of them. I've drawn two things, both of them Christmas gifts for people, in the past month, but I didn't get an opportunity to scan either of them before they were given to their respective owners. Hopefully I'll get some motivation to draw some of my ideas sometime in the near future, but it's doubtful.

I have a ton of things to draw for various people, but I have no motivation to draw any of them. If you are one of these people, you should know that I'm truly sorry for being such a lazy, lazy fool.

I have many, many more things to say, but I can't seem to put them into words right now. I guess I'll end this entry right here.

]]> ~Gwydd http://Gwydd.deviantart.com/journal/3927930/ http://Gwydd.deviantart.com/journal/3927930/ Fri, 26 Nov 2004 21:51:04 PST
1) Auad - Cover
2) Boredom
3) Arguing
4) Leaving Home
5) Three in One
6) Curiosity Almost Kills Auad
7) Gryphon Chase
8) Warding Off the Gryphons
9) Chattin' with the Wolves
10) Going Home
11) Storytime
12) Finally Home

And that is it.

]]> ~Gwydd http://Gwydd.deviantart.com/journal/3910833/ http://Gwydd.deviantart.com/journal/3910833/ Wed, 24 Nov 2004 17:03:35 PST
This also means that I can work on the several drawings that I owe various people... All six of them. If any of you thought I had forgotten about them, you are sadly mistaken. HAR.

I still have to submit two of my illustrations, and once those ones have been submitted I will edit this journal entry to include the order that the illustrations should be viewed in in order to make sense.

And that's about all I have to say.

]]> ~Gwydd http://Gwydd.deviantart.com/journal/3820538/ http://Gwydd.deviantart.com/journal/3820538/ Fri, 12 Nov 2004 19:34:18 PST
This is truly annoying me... I could just completely half-ass the rest of my illustrations, but then my English teacher would probably lower my grade significantly for not being consistent with them.

I wish this project would just end.

]]> ~Gwydd http://Gwydd.deviantart.com/journal/3788014/ http://Gwydd.deviantart.com/journal/3788014/ Mon, 08 Nov 2004 18:28:30 PST
As I look back on it, though, I truly am glad I decided to join. I may have given up on drawing had I not received all the feedback I've gotten on my art in the past year here, so thanks to all who have continued to support my art.

Also, I've not only reached my goals of 3000 pageviews and 100 watchers by this date... I've surpassed them by quite a lot. As I am typing this I have 3,151 pageviews and 104 watchers. So... w00t!


So, yeah. That's about all I have to say about that.

]]> ~Gwydd http://Gwydd.deviantart.com/journal/3755531/ http://Gwydd.deviantart.com/journal/3755531/ Thu, 04 Nov 2004 19:47:42 PST
It took about a month and a half (September 17 to November 4) to go from 2000 to 3000 views, while it took me seven months (November 8 to June 6) to go from 0 to 1000. That says something... Something besides the fact that I have a pointless ability to remember the dates where I got specific numbers of pageviews.

That also means that I've reached my goal to have 3000 pageviews by November 8, though I'm still five watchers short of my goal of 100 by the same day. Oh well.


I'm debating on whether or not I should post the story that goes along with my illustrations here. I wouldn't know how to go about doing that... I wonder if I could upload a deviation that contained all of the illustrations in order with the text to go along with it. Or I could delete all of the illustrations and re-upload them in order, but that would probably greatly annoy many people. Or I could just not post the story at all.

I'm getting so sick of working on those illustrations.

Speaking of sick, I got a cold this week. I'm weird in the way that I actually enjoy being sick... The decreased ability to smell stuff and the slightly reduced ability to hear make me feel detatched from everything, I can sleep easily, and I get an excuse to take Dayquil. Ah, Dayquil... The little orange caffeine-filled jewels. Dayquil makes me act insane. Its cousin Nyquil makes me sleep. Insanity and sleep are good. .. I should probably shut up now lest people start to think I'm addicted to cold medicine. I'm really not.


... I believe that this has been the longest and strangest of all of my journal entries. Two records broken. Sweet.

EDIT: DUDE, this is also my 50th journal entry! Three records!

]]> ~Gwydd http://Gwydd.deviantart.com/journal/3711249/ http://Gwydd.deviantart.com/journal/3711249/ Sat, 30 Oct 2004 20:18:40 PDT

Sketch: $3-5 depending on complexity
Colored sketch: $7-10
Inked drawing: $10-15
Inked and colored drawing: $15-20
Digital painting: $25-35


All of those would be done digitally. Be prepared to add anywhere from $5-20 per additional character, and keep in mind that all of those would have very simple backgrounds... A detailed background would be an added $5-30 dollars depending on the kind of drawing and the complexity.

If you're reading this, you should know that I specialize in drawing dragons, but can also draw wolves, gryphons, birds, and many other kinds of animals. I can also draw anthros. I won't do anything that'd be rated above PG-13.

So, if I were to offer commissions, would anyone be interested in buying one? I need to know if it's worth it to set up a Paypal account.



On a completely unrelated note, I changed my icon. Isn't it cute?

]]> ~Gwydd http://Gwydd.deviantart.com/journal/3688251/ http://Gwydd.deviantart.com/journal/3688251/ Wed, 27 Oct 2004 17:00:59 PDT
On a completely unrelated note, it is my goal to have at least 3000 pageviews by November 8 at 10:00 PM... So then I'd be able to say it took me less than a year to get 3000 pageviews. Yeah. It'd also be nice to have 100 watchers by then to prove the same point, but it's not likely that that's going to happen.

Yeah, that's about it.

]]> ~Gwydd http://Gwydd.deviantart.com/journal/3665925/ http://Gwydd.deviantart.com/journal/3665925/ Sun, 24 Oct 2004 19:08:14 PDT
I haven't been in the best of moods lately, as you can probably tell.

]]> ~Gwydd http://Gwydd.deviantart.com/journal/3626655/ http://Gwydd.deviantart.com/journal/3626655/ Tue, 19 Oct 2004 12:45:41 PDT
I had been panicked about this week, for I had originally thought that I was going to spend nearly all of my free time working on those damn illustrations... But now I can slack once again. So far, two of my illustrations are finished, another two are sketched out to some degree, and I have a good idea of what the remaining eight are going to look like.

So, yeah. I was afraid I was actually going to have to do work there for a second. How frightening.

Oh, and I also got a gallery at this SheezyArt site for reasons I cannot fathom. Highly similar to dA. [link]

]]> ~Gwydd http://Gwydd.deviantart.com/journal/3537648/ http://Gwydd.deviantart.com/journal/3537648/ Thu, 07 Oct 2004 19:41:24 PDT
That is definitely not a good thing... I can't work that fast.

I'm going to die. ]]> ~Gwydd http://Gwydd.deviantart.com/journal/3513177/ http://Gwydd.deviantart.com/journal/3513177/ Mon, 04 Oct 2004 17:44:42 PDT
Y'know what that means... Illustrations. Ten of them at the very least.

So, be expecting art from me in the next few weeks. Lots of art. Art that is centered around dragons but will also have gryphons and wolves in it. Oh yes.

I'm not sure whether this is a good thing or a bad thing, but it is a... Thing. Yeah. ]]> ~Gwydd http://Gwydd.deviantart.com/journal/3451762/ http://Gwydd.deviantart.com/journal/3451762/ Sun, 26 Sep 2004 15:07:53 PDT
I can't draw, I'm constantly tired, I'm doing badly in both physics and English, I'm too lazy to do just about anything... My mom's sort of angry at me because I haven't painted anything in months.

I do have a kickass idea for a painting, but I haven't started it yet because I'm afraid I'll mess it up and end up both wasting art supplies and that idea.

I have a headache right now.

And, to top it all off, the water heater isn't working, and therefore I can't take a shower until Tuesday at the earliest.

So, yeah. Bah. ]]> ~Gwydd http://Gwydd.deviantart.com/journal/3416613/ http://Gwydd.deviantart.com/journal/3416613/ Tue, 21 Sep 2004 18:43:38 PDT
I NEED TO PAINT SOMETHING, DAMNIT.

]]> ~Gwydd http://Gwydd.deviantart.com/journal/3398640/ http://Gwydd.deviantart.com/journal/3398640/ Sun, 19 Sep 2004 12:17:10 PDT
I now have over 2000 pageviews.

I finally got around to changing my icon.

I drew a full-body picture of a creature that has a background.


All that happened over a course of three days. To me, this is an overwhelming amount of change. And, to top it all off, I seem to be very inspired right now and may start another drawing today.

How exciting. ]]> ~Gwydd http://Gwydd.deviantart.com/journal/3372328/ http://Gwydd.deviantart.com/journal/3372328/ Wed, 15 Sep 2004 18:39:27 PDT
I've tried to make a new icon several times, but I don't seem to be able to draw anything that looks decent at such a small size. My current icon is truly starting to irritate me, though.

I've been wanting to paint lately, but I haven't been able to sketch anything that's worthy of being painted. This is also beginning to irritate me.

I have been relatively inspired in the past few weeks, though... Hopefully I'll be able to sketch something decent and paint it before the inspiration dies.

Has anyone else realized that all of my journal entries are horribly pessimistic and repetitive? I sure have. ]]> ~Gwydd http://Gwydd.deviantart.com/journal/3250302/ http://Gwydd.deviantart.com/journal/3250302/ Mon, 30 Aug 2004 19:53:49 PDT
I have a feeling that I'm not going to do too well in several classes this year.. Namely, English, Algebra, and Physics. Why must my parents force me to take Honors English? Why did I have to be placed one year ahead in math? Why is Physics a required course? I sure as hell don't know, but I don't like it. Oh well. At least I'm taking three different art classes this year.

In other news, I drew a preliminary sketch for an acrylic painting this evening. I'm going to literally force myself to finish the said painting within the next two weeks or so... I haven't painted in a while, so I should have fun with it. It will be a lesson in scales and fuzz.

Yep, that's about it. ]]> ~Gwydd http://Gwydd.deviantart.com/journal/3234332/ http://Gwydd.deviantart.com/journal/3234332/ Sat, 28 Aug 2004 19:28:32 PDT
I've been scrambling to read two books and do reports on them for school over the past few days, for school starts on Monday and I tend to procrastinate.


I need a new avatar, a new desktop wallpaper, and a DevID, but I'm too lazy to make any of these.

I hate my current avatar, for the image that it was derived from was drawn over one year ago. I'd like to draw a wallpaper that goes with the Olive Green Windows XP color scheme. I never had a DevID.

Curse my procrastination and laziness.

Hrm... ]]> ~Gwydd http://Gwydd.deviantart.com/journal/3185988/ http://Gwydd.deviantart.com/journal/3185988/ Sun, 22 Aug 2004 08:01:22 PDT
My trip sucked. There were a few good parts, but it sucked overall. I might edit this journal entry to tell more about it sometime in the future, but for now I'm too lazy, too tired, and too brainfried to do anything of the sort.

The end. ]]> ~Gwydd http://Gwydd.deviantart.com/journal/3109067/ http://Gwydd.deviantart.com/journal/3109067/ Thu, 12 Aug 2004 15:27:58 PDT
I really don't want to go, but I'm going to use this as an opportunity to get art done. I'm going to bring both a laptop that has Photoshop and Painter on it and my tablet, so I'm probably going to be drawing a lot to entertain myself.

However, there is going to be no internet. That makes me so very, very sad. Maybe there's going to be internet service at any of the hotels I'm going to be staying at...

So, if I don't log on for a very long time, don't think I'm dead... Even though I might be. Who knows? ]]> ~Gwydd http://Gwydd.deviantart.com/journal/3092306/ http://Gwydd.deviantart.com/journal/3092306/ Tue, 10 Aug 2004 15:26:38 PDT
Out of the Storm is no longer my featured deviation.

It had been my featured deviation ever since I joined DA, but no longer is. Perhaps it will kill me for this, perhaps not.

...

Okay, that was utterly pointless. I will once again shut up. ]]> ~Gwydd http://Gwydd.deviantart.com/journal/3085875/ http://Gwydd.deviantart.com/journal/3085875/ Mon, 09 Aug 2004 20:14:51 PDT
I haven't been able to draw anything of decent quality recently, I'm being forced to go on a week-long trip that I really don't want to go on next week, and school starts three weeks from now.

Also, WHY the HELL haven't I been able to draw anything that doesn't resemble a dragon in some way!? It's really starting to get on my nerves. I'll start drawing something, and it'll turn into a dragon... Unless it's a wolf, in which case I can sort of convince myself to make the dragon have fur, ears, and a different nose. So, I draw far too many dragons. I don't like it. No one likes it.

Maybe I should take up drawing birds again. Hell, I'm going to force myself to paint a gryphon this week. FORCE MYSELF. YOU HEAR THAT, SELF!? GOOD!

Okay, that was strange. I'll shut up now. ]]> ~Gwydd http://Gwydd.deviantart.com/journal/2921566/ http://Gwydd.deviantart.com/journal/2921566/ Mon, 19 Jul 2004 19:48:38 PDT
I drew for a good two hours last night, resulting in three filled up sketchbook pages. As this was happening, I realized something: Despite the fact that I tend to go for long, long periods of time without drawing anything at all, my art steadily continues to improve. I'm not entirely sure why, but hey, I'm not complaining.

In fact, I'm sketching right now, and I'm producing some pretty decent stuff. Nothing good enough to make a finished piece out of, but I'm a perfectionist like that... Which is why only about 2% of what I draw becomes anything but an extremely loose sketch. Maybe I should stop being such a perfectionist and actually finish some art for once!

On another note, none of the images on DA that were uploaded in the past few hours eem to be showing up. In fact, I had to delete a piece that I attempted to upload because it wasn't cooperating with me.

And, as this meaningless journal entry comes to a close, I realize that I really hate the way I type. It makes me sound like a moron trying to sound intelligent... Which is, by all means, what I am, but I try not to show that.

Ah well. ]]> ~Gwydd http://Gwydd.deviantart.com/journal/2892611/ http://Gwydd.deviantart.com/journal/2892611/ Thu, 15 Jul 2004 21:46:43 PDT
Well, actually, I did design and paint a sign that's going to be hung by the driveway of an old, run down house that my parents bought and are going to fix up, but that's about it. And that sign wasn't even that good.

I have many ideas for paintings, I just... don't feel like painting. It's weird. I've felt like drawing, but... It just doesn't happen. I have no motivation whatsoever, apparently.

To top it all off, a massive digital painting that I had been working on since the beginning of May was accidentally destroyed by me a few days ago. I shrunk it to see what it would look like it at a smaller size, forgot I did that, and saved it. It had been 3000x2000 pixels, but now it's only 1500x1000... a size that I can barely work at on an image that had been so large. I am attempting to continue work on it despite this blunder, though... It's not like I have anything better to do.

Hm... This summer is flying by at an astounding speed. Perhaps I should make use of this absurd amount of free time before it's too late... ]]> ~Gwydd http://Gwydd.deviantart.com/journal/2812901/ http://Gwydd.deviantart.com/journal/2812901/ Mon, 05 Jul 2004 21:22:34 PDT
In fact, I seem to have sunken to the level of uploading scrap-worthy sketches, as my last three deviations have shown.

I have at least five ideas for drawings/paintings at the moment, but my brain doesn't want to draw. It seems to find it boring compared to surfing the internet and the like, even though... it's not.

DAMN YOU, BRAIN. DAMN YOU. ]]> ~Gwydd http://Gwydd.deviantart.com/journal/2661238/ http://Gwydd.deviantart.com/journal/2661238/ Mon, 14 Jun 2004 18:54:47 PDT
I've had at least two good ideas for paintings in the past week, and both of them will possibly be started in the next few days. Also, I've been experimenting with mediums such as watercolor and gouache recently. They're fun. I shall use them more often.

Mmm... I love summer. ]]> ~Gwydd http://Gwydd.deviantart.com/journal/2530171/ http://Gwydd.deviantart.com/journal/2530171/ Fri, 28 May 2004 16:00:56 PDT
I have a complete and total lack of non-boring things to draw, and the fact that my mother dislikes the fact that I draw dragons so often makes me not too willing to draw anything dragon-related in any sort of real medium.

Pathetic. ]]> ~Gwydd http://Gwydd.deviantart.com/journal/2420254/ http://Gwydd.deviantart.com/journal/2420254/ Thu, 13 May 2004 11:07:57 PDT
I need to draw myself a new avatar. I hate my avatar. I want it to die. KILL KILL KILL!!!

KIIIIILLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!! !!!!!!!

...

Yeah. And I don't have any ideas for a new one, either, so I guess I'm stuck with this one.

Hell, this one was drawn back in August or something...

Oh, and I also need to make an ID. My lack of one is starting to annoy me as much as my horrible avatar.

Yesssss...

I love keyboarding. I always flip out in this class. It rocks. ]]> ~Gwydd http://Gwydd.deviantart.com/journal/2388573/ http://Gwydd.deviantart.com/journal/2388573/ Sat, 08 May 2004 21:26:48 PDT
I'm working on a rather large digital painting at the moment. So far, I seem to have learned one thing from this painting: Metal is hell. Metal scales in particular. I cannot seem to get them to look metallic, and when I do they always look too defined. Stupid metal.

Why'd that one stupid segment of my brain force me to paint a dragon with metal scales, anyway? Could it be trying to torture me? Stupid brain.

Oooh, a storm's headed this way. Sweet. ]]> ~Gwydd