deviantART: by:Shakuken http://search.deviantart.com/?q=by:Shakuken&section=today deviantART RSS for by:Shakuken en-us Copyright 2009, deviantART.com Sun, 06 Dec 2009 14:42:40 PST deviantART.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://s.deviantart.com/minish/widgets/apple-touch-icon-precomposed.png Sympathy for the Devil (the death of art) http://Shakuken.deviantart.com/journal/27554880/ http://Shakuken.deviantart.com/journal/27554880/ Sat, 03 Oct 2009 09:19:33 PDT
I sit here in my jammies... or whatever it is im wearing.. contemplating my place in the world of art and the world of irony.

You see, I'm doing an art course. Nothing fancy.
And whatta you know? My art is worse than ever and i do less of it now.


Funny old world aint it.


As i sit in stuffy rooms with stuffy art teachers i cant help but feel constapation creeping up on me... creative and other. Its like a taking a mouthful of the proverbial pie and finding half a cockroach.

I feel disgusted to know myself, how could anyone lose their creativity to the masses as easily as I?
Maybe thats what it takes to be a good artist.. kissing ass.

A wall has been hit and is now toppling towards the wreckage to finish the job.

The essence is gone.



In short, I used to have a soul but it think i lost it amongst 20 different types of paper and the 40 million different 2b pencils. But then again its probably just somewhere amongst all the essays i have to write.

]]> ~Shakuken For a moment there.. http://Shakuken.deviantart.com/journal/20765362/ http://Shakuken.deviantart.com/journal/20765362/ Tue, 30 Sep 2008 18:29:37 PDT Pure happiness :)

And she just broke up with me. :(


So, i dont know... help me find someone who wont suddenly break up for no reason?




This goth boy needs a goth girl (who lives in sydney) :/

]]> ~Shakuken Art-tastic http://Shakuken.deviantart.com/journal/17645840/ http://Shakuken.deviantart.com/journal/17645840/ Wed, 02 Apr 2008 04:40:08 PDT
Good to know theres similar minded people somewhere in this world indeed :)

mmm what to say?

Its toe tappingly awsome.

]]> ~Shakuken Art goes further http://Shakuken.deviantart.com/journal/16637367/ http://Shakuken.deviantart.com/journal/16637367/ Wed, 30 Jan 2008 00:29:47 PST


Maybe I can perfect my rough art into something most delicious?

I cant lie, my art is still rough but thats why I'm going to art school :)


Joy Joy Joy!

]]> ~Shakuken Me Me Me http://Shakuken.deviantart.com/journal/15613428/ http://Shakuken.deviantart.com/journal/15613428/ Wed, 21 Nov 2007 23:34:49 PST For this reason, I'm not going to be on a whole lot and then not so able to look at galleries when I am.... It's not because I hate you all that I dont look at your art works or comment your journals ;p

I will comment and fave you to death when I get a chance though ;)

]]> ~Shakuken I have a Confession to make... http://Shakuken.deviantart.com/journal/15040773/ http://Shakuken.deviantart.com/journal/15040773/ Sat, 13 Oct 2007 08:36:51 PDT Salad Fingers commeth for me =p

But I do have this great Idea in my head... A bone gargoyle of sorts. Not the most origional Idea but I've never drawn one so pooh to you ^^

Also stay tuned for a re-vamp (lol) of avatar and crap.


Please note that my mood is not mortified but... well it is a cool emoticon. I think I'm going to get obsessed with it a little bit since I'm in an 'obsessed with the undead' kind of mood :P

Should note I didnt know this emoticon existed until I read a journal of Liquid Blue Eyes' so I cant take credit for its discovery... depressing lol

Hmmmm.. so anyway.

I finally got my nose pierced.

And I still need a top-hat.

But mostly I need to get a job since I got one and lost one within the period since I was last online (around a month by my shoddy memory).



Anyway I think I'm going to go now and watch some cartoon animals getting stuck in blenders...

]]> ~Shakuken A Perfect Circle http://Shakuken.deviantart.com/journal/14024708/ http://Shakuken.deviantart.com/journal/14024708/ Sun, 05 Aug 2007 06:12:15 PDT I'm doing nothing much at the mo.... got a job as a waiter. My boss seems to be making it hard for me to get paid... great incentive there.

My hole-proof socks have holes in them which is kinda Ironic.


To the point,

I really miss A Perfect Circle.... The music is beautiful and surreal... and they're gone.. Trully a shame.

Get back together you guys!



If you like A Perfect Circle as much as me... Say something!

Or dont... just remember that nothing gives birth to nothing.

]]> ~Shakuken Goth Sarn it! http://Shakuken.deviantart.com/journal/13615367/ http://Shakuken.deviantart.com/journal/13615367/ Thu, 05 Jul 2007 01:39:09 PDT This old fart gives me attitude and points to this tiny red square on the door, which, upon closer inspection turned out to be a closed sign. And at 4:00 in the afternoon? What the hell?
So not needing abuse from senile, I give him a "screw you" gesture (lol not to be confused with a one fingered salute or the like) and trudge back home.
(I probably should add I was feeling sick and the walk nearly killed me... so I was kinda annoyed that it was closed... then the old guy... and yeah... I'm justified in my annoyance :p)
All I wanted was victorian clothes!

It's not easy expanding your wardrobe as a goth these days.. let alone with a freak incident like this =p



Still, it was kinda funny.... :)




... Am I wrong to bitch about it?

]]> ~Shakuken On again, off again http://Shakuken.deviantart.com/journal/13402327/ http://Shakuken.deviantart.com/journal/13402327/ Tue, 19 Jun 2007 04:17:57 PDT
Just letting you all know ^^

]]> ~Shakuken Where have I been? http://Shakuken.deviantart.com/journal/13376051/ http://Shakuken.deviantart.com/journal/13376051/ Sun, 17 Jun 2007 02:09:05 PDT

I finished the canvas but It may be a while before I can show it off.... nuts..

The art career has been flying gracefully in the dirt but I can always do it for fun and thats what matters :nod:

]]> ~Shakuken Well.... http://Shakuken.deviantart.com/journal/12675581/ http://Shakuken.deviantart.com/journal/12675581/ Sat, 21 Apr 2007 03:21:02 PDT
I realised something interesting though.. in the area I grew up in (which I'm at now hence the computer usage :) ) I dont know what it is but I feel like I cant do anything right and feel heaps awkward.. but in my new place I can do anything! :D
At least thats how I feel and act :)

I guess theres a lot of negative weight from the past in my past places or something.... lol but whatever, its sweeeeeeeet now! ^^


A new life maybe? :)


I guess when you have people always telling you your an idiot you start to believe it.... well SCREW THEM ALL!!

I dont know what the future holds but I'm gonna say it's positive cause as long as I think it, thats how I'll stear... I hope =p

My brain is in chaos heh :phew:

]]> ~Shakuken Patience makes perfect http://Shakuken.deviantart.com/journal/12574465/ http://Shakuken.deviantart.com/journal/12574465/ Thu, 12 Apr 2007 23:46:31 PDT
]]> ~Shakuken They are all so square. http://Shakuken.deviantart.com/journal/12450270/ http://Shakuken.deviantart.com/journal/12450270/ Tue, 03 Apr 2007 21:46:31 PDT Now it looks like I'm getting kicked outta home...


I also admitted to a lady friend I liked her as more than a friend.... I got massivly shot down in flames.

Wow the last 24 hours have been heaps fun. lol... and I say "lol" as in "omigosh thats my luck for you" =p



BUT! I have actually set up some of my work as prints :p


All in the name of art! ;p

(I really gotta kick my skills up a few notches.... but yes)

]]> ~Shakuken Yes... It IS what I want.. http://Shakuken.deviantart.com/journal/12437352/ http://Shakuken.deviantart.com/journal/12437352/ Mon, 02 Apr 2007 21:19:08 PDT
I want to quit the course in horticulture I'm a doing.

I want to follow my dream.


BUT most of all I want...

To figure out a way to tell my disapproving mum :p

]]> ~Shakuken What do you guys think? http://Shakuken.deviantart.com/journal/12317011/ http://Shakuken.deviantart.com/journal/12317011/ Sun, 25 Mar 2007 00:30:20 PDT ...or a subject full stop.. woooooo go my forgetful mind yay!

I'm very much open to suggestions so suggest me something :nod:


Oh and can someone tell me how to link to other people's galleries?
So I can link the winning suggestion giver(s) as thanks for the help :)


Fallingbird [link]
Mychimerasrcooler [link]
St-re-tch [link]


I dont know how how to get their avatars up :P

]]> ~Shakuken Back http://Shakuken.deviantart.com/journal/12254207/ http://Shakuken.deviantart.com/journal/12254207/ Tue, 20 Mar 2007 05:13:57 PDT No drawing thats for sure.

Theres been drama, there's been heart break, fear and uncertainty.

But, if you love them, let them go. Right?


If nothing else positive comes from it, emotion gives you something to work with... in an unstable kind of way.

]]> ~Shakuken Lapse http://Shakuken.deviantart.com/journal/11718671/ http://Shakuken.deviantart.com/journal/11718671/ Wed, 07 Feb 2007 05:39:16 PST I guess I should say soz for late (or none at all) response to works, journals, comments and what-not.

The biggest annoyance is now I definately cant draw as much as I was before....

I say this to thee my children ( j/k ) seek to make every work better in some way; never stop improving.
And thats my 2 cents :)


I'll be back when I'm back.



CHECK OUT THE WATCHERS ON MY WATCHERS LIST, THEY ARE SO TOTALLY WORTH CHECKING OUT THAT YOU SHOULD CHECK THEM OUT AND FAVE THEIR ART!!! :)

]]> ~Shakuken The other side http://Shakuken.deviantart.com/journal/11512241/ http://Shakuken.deviantart.com/journal/11512241/ Sun, 21 Jan 2007 00:11:01 PST 41 degree celcius heat and the humidity....
All you can do is lie on the floor in a coma.

A snake over two meters long and as thick as a 1.25 litre drink bottle payed us a visit which was pretty cool cept the last time a snake came our way we lost one of our dogs...

Smells like theres a storm comming (No, really, I can smell it!)
so If it cools down I'll lock myself in my stuffy room and keep the art flowing :)

(Content is close to my mood but to be completely acurate I would have to say my mood is 'sarcastic' ;) I should prehaps add that all feedback is positive unless noted.... it just may not come across that way :P)

]]> ~Shakuken Ditch http://Shakuken.deviantart.com/journal/11469255/ http://Shakuken.deviantart.com/journal/11469255/ Wed, 17 Jan 2007 07:54:46 PST
I guess its just one of those ditches everyone hits along the way.

Nothing in particular, just a bit of this and that.

Makes it harder to take up the pencil thats for sure.

Stops the inspiration from flowing freely.

Can be slipery enough to slide you into depression at times.

Helping you see the negatives in the positives.



Apathy dont fail me now :p

]]> ~Shakuken Blah Blah Blah http://Shakuken.deviantart.com/journal/11442891/ http://Shakuken.deviantart.com/journal/11442891/ Mon, 15 Jan 2007 03:42:12 PST Finished that drawing and submitted it :)

Yay well there we go thats my reason for existing...

Sitting in my room and drawing all day.

hmmmm, room rhmes with tomb. My room is my Tomb.


I need to get a life....



ART IS MY LIFE!!

So what I really need is a family that gets me instead :)

]]> ~Shakuken Pushing It http://Shakuken.deviantart.com/journal/11430700/ http://Shakuken.deviantart.com/journal/11430700/ Sun, 14 Jan 2007 05:34:05 PST
Its pretty good when you get that inspiration to go and go and go, even when you ache you still have it in you to keep the work up.
(could always just be the coffee :p)

I guess theres also the 'giving life' to your drawings (or any artwork for that matter my fellow artists :) ) that provides a due satisfaction.

The one thing my school art teacher told me a cant ever forget is "Push your self out of your comfort zone al the time or you'll never get better, just comfortable and lazy"

So like NIKE shoes, just do it ;)


A NOTE TO VISITORS, CHECK MY WHOLE GALLERY, THE BETTER WORKS ARE AT THE BACK.... AND THERES ONLY 1 PAGE!!

]]> ~Shakuken Picking It Up http://Shakuken.deviantart.com/journal/11382513/ http://Shakuken.deviantart.com/journal/11382513/ Wed, 10 Jan 2007 04:00:38 PST I'm not going to improve if I dont practice right? :p

I'm trying to take myself in a new direction art-wise and try things I havent before. Like science-fiction or realism maybe.

I like injecting a bit of emotion into what I draw but I may cut it out some and try an empty minded approach. hmmmm.

Well, I'm gonna do something at least. :)


(Stay tuned for the gods of egypt series; comming soon :D)

]]> ~Shakuken Turbulence http://Shakuken.deviantart.com/journal/11157752/ http://Shakuken.deviantart.com/journal/11157752/ Sat, 23 Dec 2006 03:22:22 PST I've been facing trouble at school and trouble at home and to top it off It seems that there may be a chance I have this disorder my dad has.... symptoms include a slow and painful death haltable only by having blood taken regually. Gosh I hate needles.

My art reflects feelings of the times I suppose.

On the positive side, things ARE looking positive like never before and as long as I can make it to the horizon theres a whole world of possibilities waiting :)

lol and maybe I can finish the pleasent drawings I start when things are better.

Merry christmas and a happy new year! :D

]]> ~Shakuken