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Om-nom-nomnivore

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Wow, it's been a long time! 
Well, I haven't posted anything in nearly a year, but I do still come on here to support friends and follow other artists. One of the reasons I haven't posted anything is time, but another is that I need a more professional place to display my art, as I'm almost graduated from college with a major in Studio Art and a minor in Biology. I can't exactly direct employers to my deviantart site, so I'm looking for something better. Also, I never had an especially large following on here, save for people that I know in real life and a few close internet friends. I may still use deviant art for following other artists, as it has the best art archive design that I know of. 

I have a personal tumblr account, but not a specific one for art yet. To be honest I really don't like the layout of tumber. I hate having to scroll aimlessly through everything. It also has terrible archive design. I like the folder layout of DA and still don't understand tags on tumblr. It's too streamlined and confusing as a result. Also it's awful at posting large artworks.

I have discovered a website called Art Station that I use. It is very professional, has good archive design, good following and commenting system, but it's a little too professional for somethings. I intend to use that as a professional portfolio archive site, but still need something else to be a happy medium.

I may end up using tumblr or perhaps instagram to form a following, while using Art Station for professional things. I've been trying to build my own website for an artco-op that I started with some friends a while ago, but that's been a long hard process in the making. If you know of any good art websites I haven't mentioned here, or know of good ways to utilize the ones I've mentioned, please let me know! I feel like my art never really picked up on deviant art and want a fresh start!
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It's been a while. I've been so bust with college and other things that I haven't gotten much time to spend on DA. I have done art over the past semesters, but most of my time has been spent on art for classes.

    This spring I took a figure drawing class and learned a lot! I'll be posting some of the drawings on here, but not any of the ones from actual nude models since I didn't get the consent of the models. For class we had to draw people every day, from life, for an hour. This proved to be really difficult! It became really hard to put in that much time and to find that much inspiration. Usually I sat in the library and drew unsuspecting students. It was good to get in the habit of drawing every day, but it made it nearly impossible for me to do any art outside of class, because for this class I was spending 5 hours of studio, and 7 outside class. In addition to my other 16 hours of classes.

    It's been a hard few semesters. The past two have been two of the hardest I can remember. Next semester I'll be taking less classes, so hopefully I'll have time to actually take care of myself. 

    Some very good news is that I'll be tabling in the artist's alley of NDK (Nan Desu Kan) this year! Sharing the table with me will be :iconcrimson-chains: and :iconheartsxdespise:. We've been working hard to get into the convention and I'm so excited to be there selling my work with my friends for the first time! We will be selling prints, buttons, stickers, and bookmarks. I'm also working on making some of my rose jewelry for the con. I'll post pictures of it eventually XD. 

    Now that I'm home for the summer, with a scanner, I'll be able to post all the art I've been doing these past months. Most of which will be from my class. I'll also post some of the things I'll be selling. 

Let me know if any of you will be at the con! I may include a small discount for my watchers ;)
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So I did this test thing from :icongriffsnuff:s page. 

Here's the link to the test:www.16personalities.com/
and here's the link to the characters with similar personalities: tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php…

I got ENFP
Variant: Turbulent
Role: Diplomat

Here's some of the characters who are ENFP:
           


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Hi all. I've been kinda inactive on here recently due to being in an art class for the past month. 
I'll hopefully post some things that I'm proud of from that class soon. We went over a lot of basics, so it was kinda tedious, but I feel like I did learn some things. I don't think I've ever been so busy with a college class though! I spent an average of about 5-6 hours on it. It was an entire semesters worth of work cramped down into one month! D: The best part is I took the class with one of my best friends so that made it all worth while! :)

Because of this class I haven't had barely any time to do personal art. The pokemon challenge had to be put on a temporary hiatus for the month, but it's back going now! There will be an update ready soon. 

I feel like I'm in the middle of a lot of improvement in my art. The art class made me become very critical of the things I'm making. Maybe that could be because I've made so few things lately. It's hard to be critical of your art, but I hope it will help me to improve. 

Another thing that has been limiting me lately is my arm. My left art (which is my dominant arm) has been acting up for some months now. At first it felt like I had a pinched nerve, so I went and got some help and did some stretches and the tingling went away. Now the pain is a bit different. There's a soreness in my lower arm and along the back tendons of my hand. I believe this is similar to repetitive motion sickness. I've been very tense in my shoulder and neck so I think that could be part of the cause. Hopefully it will work itself out soon. I've been trying to rest that arm from a lot of things, but it's hard since it's my dominant arm. It doesn't hurt while I draw luckily, but I'm worried it might start to. I'm a huge worry wort and I've been worrying that it would make me unable to draw in the future. It's so scary to think that one of your favorite things could be taken away from you forever. To boost my confidence and help myself to stop worrying, I've decided that I won't let that happen! If it becomes a bigger problem, I'll go through therapy. If that doesn't work I'll find another way. 
Really the biggest problem now is that the fear of it taking art away permanently has caused me to draw less in fear of damaging my arm more. I need to keep on drawing and improving and not letting my fears beat me. 

So that's some of what's been going on with me lately. I've also started a penpal/art trade with :iconblueeyesneko:! Pen palling is so much fun and I also need to start a penpal/art trade with :iconkalambo: because we've been meaning to do that for years now XD

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I've been meaning to write a journal about this for a long time. I've been a member of deviant art for 5 years now. I've been drawing all my life and want to share my art with the digital community. I check this website every day, but still get only 10 or less pageviews a day. I have a grand total of 15 active watchers from my last count. No one comments on my work anymore save for a few friends. I've had very cheep commissions available for months now, and not one person has bought one (although that's reasonable based on my few number of pageviews).

I've been seeing many people online (some of which are less skilled than I) who have hundreds of thousands of pageviews after a fraction of the time. I wish I could know what everyone does to get known on this site! I've tried submitting art to groups, but that usually doesn't do much. A few months ago a popular artist drew fan art of one of my characters and it was fantastic! People flooded to my page and I got dozens of new watchers, but still according to my last count, only 15 of my 184 watchers are active. When I check my comments I rarely ever get any from new people, or any at all. 

I just feel like the amount of time I put into this site isn't paying off the way I want it to. I'm not mad at any of my wonderful watchers, and I have several great friends on here who I love. I just feel like I can't be seen no matter how hard I try.

If you have any advice I'd appreciate it a lot! 

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