deviantART: by:kaoru87 http://search.deviantart.com/?q=by:kaoru87&section=today deviantART RSS for by:kaoru87 en-us Copyright 2009, deviantART.com Wed, 16 Dec 2009 02:25:51 PST deviantART.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://s.deviantart.com/minish/widgets/apple-touch-icon-precomposed.png Moving account - please read [EDIT] http://kaoru87.deviantart.com/journal/10127836/ http://kaoru87.deviantart.com/journal/10127836/ Thu, 21 Sep 2006 16:16:30 PDT EDIT: I have moved! Don't watch me at this account, because obviously you will not see any new art here!

Just to reiterate, because I logged on only to see 7 watch notifications...

I'm considering deleting all of my deviations from scraps too. Asdf.

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Hello everyone~

I once joined DA as an experiment, just because everyone else was here. Now, however, I found that I want to stay here for real. Thus, I decided that I should start anew.

Apart from that, I have a number of personal reasons for this change.

My new account

So if you want to continue seeing my new art please watch. (:

From now on, I will only be posting/replying to comments there. I will re-watch everyone I am watching on this account.

For my commissioners: I will be sending you updates from my new account; my PayPal account still remains the same and there are no changes to prices.

I really appreciate all your support and I hope it continues as I make this transition.

~K.

]]> ~kaoru87 Featured Artist 06 + Commissions http://kaoru87.deviantart.com/journal/9935471/ http://kaoru87.deviantart.com/journal/9935471/ Sat, 09 Sep 2006 18:22:33 PDT

EDIT: I can't believe so many people commented on my blank glitched journal. =|


:bulletpurple: - - Featured Artist --- :bulletpurple:


Take a look at the work of !



Very cool. And stylish. And just... cool. Above are just some examples of his very detailed and distinctive work.

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Here's some information about commissions. I will be taking them until the slots are filled. (: Commissions are currently OPEN.

:bulletpurple: - - Commissions --- :bulletpurple:


[Headshort/Shoulders+Up]
:: Slot 1:
:: Slot 2:

[Half-body]
:: Slot 1: ~ashesonfire
:: Slot 2:

[Full Body]
:: Slot 1: Amanda

- What I will draw: Gaia avatars, RO characters, original characters, fanart [and if you ask me to draw wires, I will be very happy :D].

- What I won't draw: Hentai, anthro

- Things that are price negotiable: Detailed backgrounds, highly complex mechanical things, animals.

:: Picture types ::
- Headshot CG: $15
- Half-body CG: $25
- Full-body CG: $45

Prices indicated are in USD.

:: Finished Art ::
Once I have completed your piece, I will email you the high resolution image. I will not send pictures/printouts out via mail.

:: Method of Payment ::
All payments will be made through Paypal. No cheques or CODs

:: Questions? ::
If you have any questions, please feel free to post them here or email me at: kaoru_87@hotmail.com

:: Order form ::
[Please copy and paste this into a comment/note/email message and fill in the blanks]

(1) Number of people: __

(2) Type of pic (Please place an X signifying your choice):
a. Shoulders up: __
b. Waist up: __
c. Full body: __

(3) Pose (Please be specific in your description. If this area is left blank, it will be up to the artist to create a pose for you): __

(4) On completion of the commission: Send via email (Please provide your email address): ___

(5) Payment: Payment will be made through Paypal after I have shown you the first progress update on the picture. Information will be disclosed through email.

(6) Please provide any additional information, i.e. character descriptions, links to references, character biography:

Please upload any reference pictures you'd like to provide.

:bulletpurple: - - Progress --- http://kaoru87.deviantart.com/journal/9423036/ Wed, 19 Jul 2006 05:10:12 PDT

:bulletpurple: - - Featured Artist --- :bulletpurple:


Please look at the astounding work of !



All of his work is very detailed. However, he never "overcrowds" his images. I like the way he uses light and shadow in his works to give the character a very 3D feel. ^^

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Here's some information about commissions. I will be taking them until the slots are filled. (: Commissions are currently OPEN.

:bulletpurple: - - Commissions --- :bulletpurple:


[Headshort/Shoulders+Up]
:: Slot 1:
:: Slot 2:

[Half-body]
:: Slot 1:
:: Slot 2:

[Full Body]
:: Slot 1:

- What I will draw: Gaia avatars, RO characters, original characters, fanart [and if you ask me to draw wires, I will be very happy :D]

- What I won't draw: Nudity/hentai, anthro [because I can't draw it very well... =_=]

- Things that are price negotiable: Detailed backgrounds, highly complex mechanical things, animals.

:: Picture types ::
- Headshot CG: $15
- Half-body CG: $25
- Full-body CG: $45

Prices indicated are in USD.

:: Finished Art ::
Once I have completed your piece, I will email you the high resolution image. I will not send pictures/printouts out via mail.

:: Method of Payment ::
All payments will be made through Paypal. No cheques or CODs [I'm not ever sure what that is o_O]

:: Questions? ::
If you have any questions, please feel free to post them here or email me at: kaoru_87@hotmail.com

:: Order form ::
[Please copy and paste this into a comment/note/email message and fill in the blanks]

(1) Number of people: __

(2) Type of pic (Please place an X signifying your choice):
a. Shoulders up: __
b. Waist up: __
c. Full body: __

(3) Pose (Please be specific in your description. If this area is left blank, it will be up to the artist to create a pose for you): __

(4) On completion of the commission: Send via email (Please provide your email address): ___

(5) Payment: Payment will be made through Paypal after I have shown you the first progress update on the picture. Information will be disclosed through email.

(6) Please provide any additional information, i.e. character descriptions, links to references, character biography:

Please upload any reference pictures you'd like to provide.

:bulletpurple: - - Progress --- :bulletpurple:


~http://kaoru87.deviantart.com/journal/9371819/ Fri, 14 Jul 2006 04:28:53 PDT

This journal entry is dedicated to my opinion about the whole debate about "Traditional art vs Digital art". I don't care if you start flaming me. =\

Please see previous post for commission information [link]

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I've been wandering through DA, as usual, and I couldn't help but notice that there appears to be a division in the community: people who accept all forms of art and people who passionately believe in the one "true and real" form of art - traditional art.

But first, let's make a distinction - are you willing to believe that this is art [generalisation]:

A. an image that has been "photoshopped" by using a standard filter, is saved as a bad quality jpeg and has some writing in a generic font on it

B. a pencil scribble on a piece of paper that depics an anime character copied from a picture of the official art

I believe that these things cannot be classified as art. If it was done "on purpose" by a real artist, it would be. However, if these images are produced as a result of a lack of skill, effort put in and actual "concept" created by the artist, it is not art.

These people, aka "passionate believers in the traditional art being true", use the example that "Da Vinci's art was more valuable and valid rather than any art produced by a digital artist". It is true that Da Vinci was a genius in art [and a number of other areas too], and that is what makes his artworks masterpieces. He was just very, very good at what he did.

However, I'm sure that if they had computers back then, Da Vinci wouldn't hesitate to experiment with a new type of media. Saying that digital art is "useless" and "invalid" is just as saying that painting is better than photography or sculpture.

What impresses me most is that people who claim that "traditional art is better than digital art and anyone can do digital art" are simply not Da Vinci. They only produce "art" of type B, or of that sort. They confess they do not use any programs such as Photoshop or Painter, because they've "tried using MS Paint but it didn't work out".


So I don't get it. Why make such radical conclusions and get protective if you haven't even attempted to improve your "drawing skillz" or learn to use Photoshop? Why use Da Vinci as an example?

Yes, digital art IS convenient because there's the "undo" option and you don't need to go through the trouble of mixing paint together. What's wrong with that? How does that make you less of an artist? When they started manufacturing paint in tubes, it didn't make your art invalid.

And guess what? The belief that "anyone can draw on the computer and make art using Photoshop" is stupid! It takes just as much effort to produce something digitally as with real paints! It requires the same amount of planning and deciding, as well as talent and ability not to "overdo" something.

There are many wonderful digital artists, and by saying that "digital art is not art because it doesn't require as much talent and effort to make as traditional art" you are insulting their abilities, their art, the time they have spent and their profession as a whole.

Digital art and traditional art can enhance each other if you try to practise both. Also, if you are skilled at either of them it doesn't make you less of an artist.

Keep in mind that digital art is not all anime and not type A. If you generalise digital art like that, it's just as stupid as saying that all traditional art is like Da Vinci's work. I think that this sort of behaviour is immature.


This is not a personal attack, just a mere expression of my opinion.

~K.

]]> ~kaoru87 Featured Artist 04 + Commissions http://kaoru87.deviantart.com/journal/9018599/ http://kaoru87.deviantart.com/journal/9018599/ Sat, 17 Jun 2006 04:56:02 PDT

:bulletpurple: - - Featured Artist --- :bulletpurple:


I urge you to take a look at the magnificent works of !



Wow. Just... wow.

This artist has an unbelievable good sense of composition and form, as well as colour. Simply amazing... definitely worth a close look!

EDIT: Congratulations to *EvilNinjaRochelle for a DD! ^^

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Here's some information about commissions. I will be taking them until the slots are filled. (: Commissions are currently OPEN.

:bulletpurple: - - Commissions --- :bulletpurple:


[Headshort/Shoulders+Up]
:: Slot 1:
:: Slot 2:

[Half-body]
:: Slot 1:
:: Slot 2:

[Full Body]
:: Slot 1:

- What I will draw: Gaia avatars, RO characters, original characters, fanart [and if you ask me to draw wires, I will be very happy :D]

- What I won't draw: Nudity/hentai, anthro [because I can't draw it very well... =_=]

- Things that are price negotiable: Detailed backgrounds, highly complex mechanical things, animals.

:: Picture types ::
- Headshot CG: $15
- Half-body CG: $25
- Full-body CG: $45

Prices indicated are in USD.

:: Finished Art ::
Once I have completed your piece, I will email you the high resolution image. I will not send pictures/printouts out via mail.

:: Method of Payment ::
All payments will be made through Paypal. No cheques or CODs [I'm not ever sure what that is o_O]

:: Questions? ::
If you have any questions, please feel free to post them here or email me at: kaoru_87@hotmail.com

:: Order form ::
[Please copy and paste this into a comment/note/email message and fill in the blanks]

(1) Number of people: __

(2) Type of pic (Please place an X signifying your choice):
a. Shoulders up: __
b. Waist up: __
c. Full body: __

(3) Pose (Please be specific in your description. If this area is left blank, it will be up to the artist to create a pose for you): __

(4) On completion of the commission: Send via email (Please provide your email address): ___

(5) Payment: Payment will be made through Paypal. Information will be disclosed through email.

(6) Please provide any additional information, i.e. character descriptions, links to references, character biography:

Please upload any reference pictures you'd like to provide.

:bulletpurple: - - Progress --- http://kaoru87.deviantart.com/journal/9002233/ Wed, 07 Jun 2006 18:41:51 PDT

:bulletpurple: - - Featured Artist --- :bulletpurple:


You have to take a look at the -amazing- gallery of



The character designs, the colouring, the lighting... you name it. The works are so detailed they can occupy you for ages. o_o It's simply... mesmerising. And to top that, he can imitate traditional paints perfectly in Photoshop.

[EDIT: Had to resubmit this because I accidently edited my last post and lost the previous featured artist information. It's all fixed now though. (: ]

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Here's some information about commissions. I will be taking them until the slots are filled. (: Commissions are currently OPEN.

:bulletpurple: - - Commissions --- :bulletpurple:


[Headshort/Shoulders+Up]
:: Slot 1:
:: Slot 2:

[Half-body]
:: Slot 1:
:: Slot 2:

[Full Body]
:: Slot 1:

- What I will draw: Gaia avatars, RO characters, original characters, fanart [and if you ask me to draw wires, I will be very happy :D]

- What I won't draw: Nudity/hentai, anthro [because I can't draw it very well... =_=]

- Things that are price negotiable: Detailed backgrounds, highly complex mechanical things, animals.

:: Picture types ::
- Headshot CG: $15
- Half-body CG: $25
- Full-body CG: $45

Prices indicated are in USD.

:: Finished Art ::
Once I have completed your piece, I will email you the high resolution image. I will not send pictures/printouts out via mail.

:: Method of Payment ::
All payments will be made through Paypal. No cheques or CODs [I'm not ever sure what that is o_O]

:: Questions? ::
If you have any questions, please feel free to post them here or email me at: kaoru_87@hotmail.com

:: Order form ::
[Please copy and paste this into a comment/note/email message and fill in the blanks]

(1) Number of people: __

(2) Type of pic (Please place an X signifying your choice):
a. Shoulders up: __
b. Waist up: __
c. Full body: __

(3) Pose (Please be specific in your description. If this area is left blank, it will be up to the artist to create a pose for you): __

(4) On completion of the commission: Send via email (Please provide your email address): ___

(5) Payment: Payment will be made through Paypal. Information will be disclosed through email.

(6) Please provide any additional information, i.e. character descriptions, links to references, character biography:

Please upload any reference pictures you'd like to provide.

:bulletpurple:http://kaoru87.deviantart.com/journal/8898663/ Sun, 04 Jun 2006 05:01:32 PDT

:bulletpurple: - - Featured Artist --- :bulletpurple:


You have to take a look at the stunning gallery of



So much motion and subtle detal. o_o

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Here's some information about commissions. I will be taking them until the slots are filled. (: Commissions are currently OPEN.

:bulletpurple: - - Commissions --- :bulletpurple:


[Headshort/Shoulders+Up]
:: Slot 1:
:: Slot 2:

[Half-body]
:: Slot 1:
:: Slot 2:

[Full Body]
:: Slot 1:

- What I will draw: Gaia avatars, RO characters, original characters, fanart [and if you ask me to draw wires, I will be very happy :D]

- What I won't draw: Nudity/hentai, anthro [because I can't draw it very well... =_=]

- Things that are price negotiable: Detailed backgrounds, highly complex mechanical things, animals.

:: Picture types ::
- Headshot CG: $15
- Half-body CG: $25
- Full-body CG: $45

Prices indicated are in USD.

:: Finished Art ::
Once I have completed your piece, I will email you the high resolution image. I will not send pictures/printouts out via mail.

:: Method of Payment ::
All payments will be made through Paypal. No cheques or CODs [I'm not ever sure what that is o_O]

:: Questions? ::
If you have any questions, please feel free to post them here or email me at: kaoru_87@hotmail.com

:: Order form ::
[Please copy and paste this into a comment/note/email message and fill in the blanks]

(1) Number of people: __

(2) Type of pic (Please place an X signifying your choice):
a. Shoulders up: __
b. Waist up: __
c. Full body: __

(3) Pose (Please be specific in your description. If this area is left blank, it will be up to the artist to create a pose for you): __

(4) On completion of the commission: Send via email (Please provide your email address): ___

(5) Payment: Payment will be made through Paypal. Information will be disclosed through email.

(6) Please provide any additional information, i.e. character descriptions, links to references, character biography:

Please upload any reference pictures you'd like to provide.

:bulletpurple: - - Progress --- :bulletpurple:


=sleckt - oc commission art - 100% completed
~xiera666 - 24 mini frames com... ]]> ~kaoru87 Featured Artist 01 + Commissions http://kaoru87.deviantart.com/journal/8656067/ http://kaoru87.deviantart.com/journal/8656067/ Fri, 12 May 2006 01:11:01 PDT

:bulletpurple: - - Featured Artist --- :bulletpurple:


I just wanted to feature some awesomeness -

Please look at this wonderful artist's gallery. (: Her colouring is so refined and the style of the characters she draws is very original and crisp.



And she even drew a picture of Kazuki and Kazuma for me ^^ They look so cute ._.



Not only she is a great artist, she is one of the nicest people I've met here on DeviantART. ^^

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Here's some information about commissions. I will be taking them until the slots are filled. (: Commissions are currently OPEN.

:bulletpurple: - - Commissions --- :bulletpurple:


[Headshort/Shoulders+Up]
:: Slot 1:
:: Slot 2:

[Half-body]
:: Slot 1: =sleckt <3
:: Slot 2:

[Full Body]
:: Slot 1:

- What I will draw: Gaia avatars, RO characters, original characters, fanart [and if you ask me to draw wires, I will be very happy :D]

- What I won't draw: Nudity/hentai, anthro [because I can't draw it very well... =_=]

- Things that are price negotiable: Detailed backgrounds, highly complex mechanical things, animals.

:: Picture types ::
- Headshot CG: $15
- Half-body CG: $25
- Full-body CG: $45

Prices indicated are in USD.

:: Finished Art ::
Once I have completed your piece, I will email you the high resolution image. I will not send pictures/printouts out via mail.

:: Method of Payment ::
All payments will be made through Paypal. No cheques or CODs [I'm not ever sure what that is o_O]

:: Questions? ::
If you have any questions, please feel free to post them here or email me at: kaoru_87@hotmail.com

:: Order form ::
[Please copy and paste this into a comment/note/email message and fill in the blanks]

(1) Number of people: __

(2) Type of pic (Please place an X signifying your choice):
a. Shoulders up: __
b. Waist up: __
c. Full body: __

(3) Pose (Please be specific in your description. If this area is left blank, it will be up to the artist to create a pose for you): __

(4) On completion of the commission: Send via email (Please provide your email address): ___

(5) Payment: Payment will be made through Paypal. Information will be disclosed through email.

(6) Please provide any additional information, i.e. character... ]]> ~kaoru87 F.A.Q. http://kaoru87.deviantart.com/journal/8473107/ http://kaoru87.deviantart.com/journal/8473107/ Fri, 14 Apr 2006 20:33:50 PDT

This entry contains the answers to some questions I have been receiving.

I'm a bit annoyed at the number of people who have asked some of these questions and I will not reply to each of them individually.

I have corrected the grammar of some of these questions and I will not mention any deviant names.

:bulletpurple: - - FAQ --- :bulletpurple:

(1) Is that your real age? When is your birthday?

-- Yes. My birthday is on the 16th of October 1989.

(2) Are a girl or a boy?

-- Does it matter?

(3) Why don't you submit more fanart?

-- Because I prefer drawing original characters. Fanart tends to be a bit restrictive and I don't draw pictures just to show off how well I can copy the style.

(4) Do you even look at deviations of people who watch you?

-- Yes I do. Just because I don't watch you back/faved your work it doesn't mean I haven't looked at your page. I don't watch or fave your work just because I want to be watched back or get page views.

(5) When do you watch or fave then?

-- I watch people if I want to watch their art evolve and I fave if I like something about your work or it makes me feel something.

(6) Will you marry me?

-- No.

(7) Why don't you comment on all deviations?

-- Ehhh... I don't get what you're trying to get at there. If you mean I don't comment on all of your deviations, it is because other people have already said the same thing or I don't feel like it needs a useless comment. If you mean I don't comment on all of the deviations on dA, it's simply because there are too many deviations and I have no time.

(8) Do you have a life?

-- Uhh?

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Hope this has cleared some things out for you.

]]> ~kaoru87