http://search.deviantart.com/?q=by:Punslinger&section=today deviantART RSS for by:Punslinger en-us Copyright 2009, deviantART.com Fri, 11 Dec 2009 16:41:17 PST deviantART.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://s.deviantart.com/minish/widgets/apple-touch-icon-precomposed.png http://Punslinger.deviantart.com/journal/25259465/ http://Punslinger.deviantart.com/journal/25259465/ Thu, 11 Jun 2009 17:36:11 PDT
Getting caught up on all my messages and the deviations I've missed over the past few months is going to take a bit... please bear with me while I sift.

]]> ~Punslinger http://Punslinger.deviantart.com/journal/21946959/ http://Punslinger.deviantart.com/journal/21946959/ Fri, 12 Dec 2008 12:42:47 PST
Should be getting a scanner soon, at which point I can get back to posting random images. Getting closer to 5k pageviews, so once I hit that I'll open up... say 5 requests. Go nuts with 'em if I ever get there.

Just wanted to say "thanks" to everyone who messaged me, fav'd my stuff, or otherwise expressed concern/interest while I was away. Postive reinforcement is a surprisingly important part of this endeavor.

]]> ~Punslinger http://Punslinger.deviantart.com/journal/19889260/ http://Punslinger.deviantart.com/journal/19889260/ Mon, 11 Aug 2008 01:26:09 PDT
I'm slowly getting better again, which is nice (and completely necessary if I'm ever going to get my story drawn), and gradually accruing enough pageviews that I don't feel like a complete loser.

As I am slowly approaching 4k pageviews, I am hereby announcing five open slots for trades. Note me or reply here, I'm not picky. Hell, add my AIM and message me up there if you see me on (generally in the middle of the night).

I'm going to push to 5k pageviews, being more of a DA slut, commenting on perfect strangers' pages, etc. Once there, I will do a certain number of requests, for free (i.e. no trade required; it's not like I'm charging money for this stuff). We'll say five, one for every thousand pageviews. These requests can be pretty much anything. Your characters, my characters, somebody else's characters, serious, funny, cheesecake; whatever.

If you want to see me do something outside my normal scope, this is your chance- of course, that requires you going around to other places, generating links, etc. Yes, I am shamelessly engaging in self-promotion. I'm too old for false humility.

Anyhow, in the meantime, in this unknown but probably lengthy delay before I actually do hit 5k pageviews, I am still offering to do trades. Five slots open, message me if you're interested.

]]> ~Punslinger http://Punslinger.deviantart.com/journal/18758913/ http://Punslinger.deviantart.com/journal/18758913/ Tue, 10 Jun 2008 01:03:17 PDT
I've started drawing a lot more now that finals are over and I'm more or less free until late September, so hopefully I'll post more art soon.

Unfortunately, my computer caught some sort of horriffic virus of doom not too long ago. I was able to save most of my music and all of my art and writing, but none of my games or programs, so it will be some time while I track down all my discs and reinstall things. One of the casualties was, unfortunately, Photoshop, so you can expect my next few art posts to be pencil or inked and filed under scraps, until that particular dilemma is rectified.

Thanks to all who kept in touch, favorited, added me as a friend, and what have you during my long torpor.

]]> ~Punslinger http://Punslinger.deviantart.com/journal/15890901/ http://Punslinger.deviantart.com/journal/15890901/ Tue, 11 Dec 2007 14:19:31 PST
Deepest apologies to anyone who expressed themselves with kindness and sincerity while I was gone, only to get no response for entirely too long. I am very grateful for all the support, and hope everyone is doing alright.

It turns out that I have a couple of really good friends, who were instrumental in getting me through this latest round of nastiness. I am humbled and grateful to have such people in my life. The same goes for anyone who offered support here and on my other 'blogs and whatnot- I really appreciate it.

As for new art, we'll see, but hopefully soonish.

]]> ~Punslinger http://Punslinger.deviantart.com/journal/14963859/ http://Punslinger.deviantart.com/journal/14963859/ Sun, 07 Oct 2007 23:41:01 PDT
If I believed that there was something other than this awaiting me on the other side of death, I would probably arrange to make the leap somehow.

My current situation is intolerable, and my options for changing it are limited. I will affect what changes I may.

What this boils down to, though, is that I'm done posting art for a while. I fear I'm done drawing for a while. It's going to take almost everything I have just to keep moving forward, and I won't have much left over for creative pursuits.

Thank you for being a relatively warm and welcome community. I will return, when I can.

]]> ~Punslinger http://Punslinger.deviantart.com/journal/14786517/ http://Punslinger.deviantart.com/journal/14786517/ Tue, 25 Sep 2007 13:14:01 PDT
I'm still taking trades or commissions. I am no longer taking suggestions unless they floor me with sheer awesome- there's not a lot in it for me to just take a suggestion when I already have ideas.

Anyhow, I got tagged and am therefore going to post ten pros and cons about myself. The idea is to post a pro, and then post a con that is related to it. I am also supposed to tag other people, but fuck that noise- if someone else wants to do this, they will, quite independent of any "tag" coming from me.
Here goes.

1. I am unabashedly brilliant. Countering this, I am also rather intellectually lazy, letting my brain coast along without really acheiving anything near its potential.

2. I am fiercely loyal to my friends. I am also, unfortunately, rather touchy (or prickly, or mercurial, or whatever you want to call it) and spend a good bit of my time either annoyed at or engendering annoyance in my friends.

3. I am tall, strong, and well-built, with decently attractive features. Anyone who knows me also knows that I am a grotesque lump of a man, with said well-built frame carrying entirely too much lard, and many of my facial features are somewhat the worse for excess flab as well.

4. I am rather creative. My creativity is also rather fickle, giving me ideas for one thing for a few months, then suddenly shifting to another. This makes it difficult to undertake large creative projects.

5. I am pretty damn good at drawing. I am, however, not good enough, dammit.

6. I have many, and diverse, interests. I am also irritatingly obsessive over them, thankfully not to the degree of most "fandom" style lunatics, but still probably too much.

7. I have a knack for teaching, and will make a damn fine history instructor one day. In the meantime, I can get irritating and pedantic when certain subjects are raised.

8. I am fundamentally honest and forthright, moral and decent. I am also, by the standards of everyone else I know, a hopeless stick in the mud.

9. I'm a great boyfriend, a generous and enthusiastic lover, and an extremely passionate fellow. My life being what it is, this is a fundamentally unproveable statement, like "I bet Caesar would've made a good tank commander."

10. When manic, I am confident and energetic. When depressed, I am virtually suicidal and lethargic. Stupid bipolar personality disorder. *shakes fist, then sulks, then runs off laughing*

]]> ~Punslinger http://Punslinger.deviantart.com/journal/13209944/ http://Punslinger.deviantart.com/journal/13209944/ Mon, 04 Jun 2007 02:05:48 PDT
If anyone has any art trades or requests or (hah, not likely) commissions, I'm still open, so long as you understand my response time has stretched into about a month on average.

Anyhow, take care of yourselves.

]]> ~Punslinger http://Punslinger.deviantart.com/journal/12743500/ http://Punslinger.deviantart.com/journal/12743500/ Thu, 26 Apr 2007 14:25:18 PDT Deathgazer, should have the inks done and posted by next week. Meanwhile, I'm once again extending the offer to do art trades with anyone who either has or hasn't already done one with me- I'm looking for some new things to draw.

This isn't a livejournal and I won't bore you with the details, but by way of explanation for my lack of updates recently I will admit that things have not been going so well for me lately. However, I've determined to lower my head and bull through it, and a big part of that means getting back into drawing, so please, suggest away and I'll do what I can to draw any requests that come in.

And now to leave you with a quote from Richard III that seems appropriate.

"And therefore, — since I cannot prove a lover,
To entertain these fair well-spoken days, —
I am determined to prove a villain,
And hate the idle pleasures of these days."

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]]> ~Punslinger http://Punslinger.deviantart.com/journal/12020906/ http://Punslinger.deviantart.com/journal/12020906/ Thu, 01 Mar 2007 23:57:30 PST
Nothing that will get me banned, please, and probably no explicit nudity. Other than that, just drop me a line and we'll talk.

]]> ~Punslinger http://Punslinger.deviantart.com/journal/11691953/ http://Punslinger.deviantart.com/journal/11691953/ Mon, 05 Feb 2007 02:04:01 PST
Don't forget to swing by ~Pickmans-Model to check out my H. P. Lovecraft and friends-inspired artwork.

Maybe I'll get around to starting up an new exalted art community. I'd want at lest one pro, Melissa Uran (~MelUran), ~kiyo, or somebody, on board before I launched too much time and effort into it though.

Still, it would be buckets of awesome to see my own gunslinging Dawn caste on the same page as one of Melissa Uran's canon pictures.

Maybe someday. *sighs*

]]> ~Punslinger http://Punslinger.deviantart.com/journal/11560231/ http://Punslinger.deviantart.com/journal/11560231/ Thu, 25 Jan 2007 02:16:11 PST exalts given the chance, but that place looks pretty dead. Thankfully, I have other interests. Interests which Man Was Not Meant to Know! Muahahahahaha!!!

In short, I've joined a group of like-minded cultis... I mean "artists" over at ~Pickmans-Model who are interested in HP Lovecraft and the Cthulhu Mythos. I am very pleased.

Swing by if you're into the mythos, horror in general, or the macabre. You won't regret it... for long.

*cue gales of demented laughter*

Yeah... I haven't been sleeping well lately. Heh. I suppose that's probably good for my Mythos art anyhow.

]]> ~Punslinger http://Punslinger.deviantart.com/journal/10851385/ http://Punslinger.deviantart.com/journal/10851385/ Sun, 26 Nov 2006 00:18:41 PST
I shall resume posting, as I have a few things to post.

Damn it's good to be finishing things again.

]]> ~Punslinger http://Punslinger.deviantart.com/journal/10107233/ http://Punslinger.deviantart.com/journal/10107233/ Mon, 18 Sep 2006 00:52:03 PDT
Meanwhile, thanks to everyone who put a watch on me or visits the page while I get my crap togerher. ]]> ~Punslinger http://Punslinger.deviantart.com/journal/10004866/ http://Punslinger.deviantart.com/journal/10004866/ Fri, 08 Sep 2006 00:53:17 PDT
Apparently, despite uploading some artwork, occasionally it is nowhere to be found in my gallery. Any idea why that might be, or how I might go about remedying it? ]]> ~Punslinger http://Punslinger.deviantart.com/journal/9917831/ http://Punslinger.deviantart.com/journal/9917831/ Thu, 31 Aug 2006 11:18:40 PDT ~Punslinger