Azuko

I haven't produced anything in so long!! That cartooning class was one big dissappointment. All we ever did was copy other artist's work. And by copy, I don't mean copy their style... I literally mean COPY. TRACE. RECREATE. It was the laziest teaching ever! Was that supposed to be stimulating? Promising? PROFESSIONAL? I suppose... but it was a lesson well learned- never expect much from community crap college. Anyways. Since then I've been in an artistic rut- I want to draw, I want to paint, I want to produce SOMETHING, but I've been so discouraged. After making a trip to Michaels, I blew like $100 on giant canvases and am finally painting. I am also taking this semester off so I can replenish my back account by working more hours, and giving myself more time to travel, get inspired, and just do a little more of what I want to do.

So I'm not going to the academy of art, but there is a ray of light in the bleak underbelly of community college... and her name is Coco! She is my Cartooning professor... and I am downright jazzed to be in her class. She is a pro- she's worked for disney for many years (she drew and animated one of the scenes from The Lion King, she drew the horse from Mulan, she's drawn the campbell soup commercials, she did the cleanup art for kung-fu panda, etc.) and has excellent experience and credentials. I actually feel like I'm in a real college class for the first time since I went to the Academy. She's tough- which I'm grateful for! I'm not in college to make friends with my teachers, I'm there to learn from them. She's stone-cold honest, so I know where to improve.
I'm most excited about this class because for so long I've been focusing on hyper-realism and I lost sight of my main field- cartooning! So I'm hoping this will broaden my spectrum once again and bring me back to my roots. (I am staying as far away from Anime as humanly possible! Not that I don't like anime... but it's so easy to do and I don't want to limit my perspective on animation. None of the bigwigs respect it either, and frankly I see why... it's turned into a highschool click >_<)
Anyway. So you probably won't see any epic scenery like I promised... but maybe some fresh new 2-D fun.

I guess I should write a blog every half a year or so. I just haven't been feeling all that artistically inspired as of late. I have been painting a lot, but I hate taking pictures of my art and posting them online because the quality is so poor. I still haven't finished my major "Angel in Chains" project. Though now that I have stepped away from it for a while I think I can resume painting it... only two more canvases to go! The middle one is going to be the hardest... but when it's finally done I guess I can sleep better at night... Anyways! I've just been painting some portraits for coworkers and supervisors, some animal drawings here and there. (I have discovered I love doing negatives on black paper! Oo that drama.) But I also have been obsessing (thanks to justin at work) over my stories! I am drawing out the entire life cycle of the Arborin Race (from Quest for the Keys) and I want to start on lots of creature creations. Be expecting some epic scenery. I might actually take the time to make this stuff decent.
so anyways! I might be returning to the Academy of Art University in San Francisco, my one true soulmate! That is, if the government and the media treat me right. >.>.... aren't we curious now...
So that's what's been goin on. I might also be working on some collaborative stuff with my little writing circle... I'm excited!
But I'm just so bored right now, if anyone has any requests, I'd be glad to endulge you.

Yeah, I've found out people have been jacking my art. I think art thieves go to hell, and it's not worth getting recognized on deviantart if it means people are going to steal my work. (I've found that lots of people use Rising Glimmer, Winter Light and Echo of an Angel) People, my art is sacred to me. My art is my life, and when you use it without my permission or take credit for the blood sweat and tears that went into it, it's like getting raped! That's right... RAPED. Ever been raped? WELL IT FEALS LIKE GETTING YOUR ART STOLEN!!!
I'm really irritated. Why don't you learn how to draw and make your own art? It's just pitiful. Truly pitiful of you. SHAME. ON. YOU.
So... unless I am otherwise convinced, I am quitting Deviantart. That's that. You can view my stuff (though the images are really small) at www.freewebs.com/relicart, if you actually genuinely want to view my work instead of swipe it.
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This is the first journal entry I've written in quite a while, since I was in highschool! And I feel compelled to write, especially since this is the proclaimed "holiday season" created by people like this... but as the title implies, I am still pissed the @#$% off! All I wanted to do was show my sympathies to Jace Moore, my favorite artist and cosplayer, because some jerk on ebay was stealing his art, sticking it on shirts and SELLING them. I hate plaigerists and art theives. >.< Anyways, I see this guy, going through the whole thread, just condemning people because they're being "hateful" about his art being stolen! Ohhh, GOD FORGIVE ME! How would any normal human being react if something they had taken the time and effort to create was simply taken without permission. I'd be PISSED OFF TOO! Wouldn't ANYONE?! I hate these damn self-riteous religious assholes who preach off their soapbox and are completely ignorant of their own hypocracy. l was raised Christain. OHHH BIG SHOCKER! Bet you didn't know THAT did you asshole. But the point is, I'm not a blind ignorant sheep that just beleives something because my parents raised me to beleive it. I actually took the time to reasearch it. And I learn that much of what Christians celebrate is under PAGAN origins! But you try to explain it to them, and they just refuse to listen to you! They just don't want to hear you! They don't BELEIVE history! It's commin sence, but they just want to beleive what they were taught by their pastor or their parents or their priest or the pope or what the fuck ever. That's how THIS guy is. He just preaches off his high horse without any idea what he's ACTUALLY saying. I HATE blind ignorance, and YES, Promises, Promises, I WILL fight it whenever I see it! If you don't want to hear it, I don't give a damn, but don't bitch at ME for expressing the truth, and then start preaching your rehursed lines.  I am NOT a hateful person. Anyone who knows me, knows that. Your cheap form of vengance of QUOTING me can't pursuade anyone otherwise, and if a complete stranger beleives the deranged rantings of some dumbass catholic hypocrite that I'm suuuuch a hateful damned person, it's THEIR problem, THEY'RE ignorant too, and I DON'T GIVE A DAMN what they think about me! Maybe you don't get that? Allow me to reiterate... I DON'T GIVE A DAMN about what you, or anyone else, thinks of me! That's one of the things that makes me an independant thinker, unlike you. POSTING on my profile, trying to turn people against me? I come ON, how PATHETIC. Really, when was the last time you took a look at what you're doing yourself? Like I said, pathetic.
"I just wanted you all to see the real Azuko" psh. Fucktard. Yeah, anyone who knows me, KNOWS that IS the real me! Like I said, I am firm about what I know to be true, and I will try to illiminate ignorance wherever I see it! Consider it one of my holy missions. -_-
I am not hateful, but I DO hate people like YOU. So... for your own good, less I report your ass for attacking me on my profile to DA, FUCK...OFF. *ROARS* ^_^ Merry Ignorance to all, and to all a good night!