Well, seeing as I've been inactive for quite a bit of time... I think it may be appropriate to have a giant spurt of activity again.
Who knows, maybe I'll stay this time.

Quick updates: I'm 20, have a new job, I'm moving to Albany at the end of August to live with my boyfriend, and I now have 2 absolutely wonderful cats.
Also, I moved out a year ago. I also got a tattoo a year ago, and will be getting a new one next Saturday.
Speaking of tattoos, this has become my newest interest art-wise.

so, here's the scoop.

I'm going to be designing Tattoos. I'm going to just be drawing some random ones up to give you a general idea of what to expect from me.
If I feel like it, I'll design you a Tattoo for free.

After that, all of my designs will be done by commission. I'll probably be starting them off around 30 bucks. Quite possibly less. It'll all depend on what you're looking for from me.

Well, sorry for disappearing for so long. As soon as I get my scanner working I'll be updating once again.

<3

Yeah, I'm back in case you haven't noticed

Sorry for my lack of activity lately, I've been feeling really crappy. Got really sick a week ago and I'm still not feeling my all.

Well I really don't feel like writing in this, so adieu.

so, yes i've made promises of "i'm coming back!" "i'll have more art up soon!" but i have yet to return. in all honesty, i don't want to. When i intended to come back, i noticed how corporate DA has started to become. so i decided to wait a wile. maybe see just what other changes occur whilst i'm absent from this site.

and ah...how can you fire °jark? How can you fire a founder of this site, and expect it to live? i'm sorry DA, but you can go f off.

i love you jark!!

And so, this is my goodbye. I will most likely no longer upload any art to this site. DA can go to hell right now as far as i'm concerned. But of course i'll check back here from time to time...answer some comments if you're lucky. If I see DA started to become the community it once was, perhaps i'll upload a thing or two. but no. I'm done for now.

I don't plan to remove the art that i have already uploaded. For as we all know, I'm a clingy person. Anything that has memories attached to them i will never let go.

In a little update for my life... My birthday (the 23 of july) went ok. I'm doing a lot better now than i ever have, except my heart is a little broken at the moment. My life has changed for the better, and recently, i just had my wisdom teeth removed. lotta pain with that, but it's better now. I passed 11th grade, scored a 96 on my history final and i never paid attention in that class once.
I'm saving up now (right now) for a Wacom Intuos drawing tablet, and Corel painter or Adobe Photoshop. I was going to get a bass guitar, but decided to focus more on building my career. So i'm going to really start getting into animation, digital art, going to refine my cartoon style, etc etc. After I get the tablet and art program, I'm going to get a digital camera, and start getting into photography more. (i'm taking fine art photograpy next year).

Perhaps if I even make an art site, I'll post the link here for you all to visit.

But I'm gone for now. Thankyou all for the love and support you've showed me in the past. Thankyou for watching me, and even taking the time to read my journals.

if you want to keep in touch with me, my email is Echoes27@gmail.com

~ Usiku

Yes, it's summer!! and, I have returned!!
I will finally be back and commenting on Deviations, answering your comments, and all! because, i actually have the time now, lol. Even though I have a job
So i'm working on finishing a few comissions, and as soon as i finish the one i'm working on currently, i'm gonna go to town with the comments, and deviations...cause right now, i have 4,392 messages. 908 are journals...and sorry, but i'm just going to mark those as read.
But things have been alright with me basically. I'm not as stressed out anymore, thankfully, but i still have the stress of finishing these comissions in time. And, when I get the money for them, I'm either going to get a Bass guitar, professional Digiatal Camera, or save it towards a drawing tablet and either adobe photoshop or corel painter or some other awesome digital art program. wee My birthday is coming up too!! the 23 of july! I'm trying to sound optimistic about it... because i haven't been the past few years...
for a reason most of you should know.
But anyway, I really wanna go see a movie with someone, but, i dunno if we're going to ): i just think that he doesn't want to. but oi *sigh* I think too much really, when it comes down to it. But i'm not going to dwell on it. or rather, i'm going to try not to.
Ha, i'm gonna be 17 and i still dont want to learn to drive. i dunno why really, i should have had my permit by now. but bleh, i dunno. i just don't want to
on a lighter note:
The Live 8 concert is tomorrow!!!! And that means PINK FLOYD will be reuniting to play for the concer in Britian!!! WITH ROGER!! haha, i knew about this months ago from someone connected to someone with pink floyd. but i didn't beleive it....and omg IT'S TRUE. the upside is: they're televising it. the downside is: I'm going to be working from 10-4....i better not miss the floyd ;__;
but yeah...
i should get back to drawing now

the summer is coming! as soon as it rolls around, i'll be back here. and you'll have so many drawings of mine to look at. thanx for all the patience.
the intaglio print i did is awesome, i've been making tons of prints with it. so i'll pick out the favorite among my prints, and upload that soon. i've fallen in love with printing now....so whenever i have the materials (basically a press) at hand, which is only at school really, i'll be making prints lol. intaglio printing is just awesome, i love it.
i'm feeling a little down right now...but i'll be fine.
sorry that i don't keep updated here at all. if you wanna find out how i'm doing and whatnot, check out my myspace page. i try to update that daily. here's the link:

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i can't wait till summer...to have all this school work off my back....
ahahaha