Dear people,

This thing went so fast. Within 24 hours everything got solved!


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The day I posted the journal, I literally got hundreds of comments of people asking me for a way to help me.
Many of them (me included) sent an e-mail or 2 (or a lot more) to the admins of both shadowness.com and imeem.com.

Not even 24 hours later I received a few e-mails from both websites they removed the copycat from the websites.
I don't think this problem got solved so fast without your help. *applauds*
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Thank you so incredibly much for all the help with the identity theft. You have no idea how all the support brightened up my days.
I found a new way to protect my art better.
_{(I wish people got inspired to draw things on their own instead of copying others... there's no fun in doing that.)}



--->>> So in return I want to draw something for you! <<<---
It's the least thing I could do next to featuring people, right?



I'm either thinking about a drawing of:
- Final Fantasy XII - Fran
- Death Note - Light Yagami
- Kingdom Hearts - Org. XIII
- Angelina Jolie
- Hugh Laurie
or
- Jonathan Rhys Meyers



I'm also working on a new tutorial which has nothing to do about drawing but something I get a lot of questions about. Yay for surprises.

So if you could let me know what you would like to see first I would be really happy to draw the one that got most of the votes.




Oh and ehm... that Zack drawing still isn't finished. Perhaps I should work on that one first? I want it to be as awesome as possible!





P.S.: I didn't know most of my watchers are brunettes sweet!
(What is she talking about?... I'm talking about the poll!)




A few more features of some of my devwatchers. I hope you guys like them as much as I do.

Someone who copies everything of me made another website with my art:
----->> find it here <<-----

If you know how to remove her, it would be totally appreciated. Thanks for your help!


If you ever find my art outside of dA, The Untapped Source, my MySpace account or my Hyves account, please don't hesitate and let me know.




Argh!

I googled my dA username 'Cataclysm-X' (to look for art theft) and found someone who stole my identity and I don't know what to do!!!!!!


Please watch the link ---->>>> here <<<<----


Can anyone help me out please? I'm really annoyed by this...

Thanks!


No features this time... lol!

Hey everyone!!

How is everybody doing on this very fine Sunday? I bet most of you are enjoying the summer holidays by now. That's a great thing.
Before I continue with a new discussion, I want to let you know you can -->> win a feature <<--!

It's un-freakin'-believable, but I almost got 700.000 pageviews by now.

Get a Screencap of the 700.000th pageview do it fast. I can get it any minute... Oh and don't cheat. I've seen it before and it's not worthy to work that way.

Yeah, several people already got it so you don't have to check anymore ^_^!




For example:
- Maybe you listen to lyrics / play music?
_{What bands?}

- Read stories, books or poetry?
_{Which books?}

- A dream / nightmare you had?
_{What was it about?}

- Movies which impressed you?
_{Which movies?}

- Or maybe you watch other people's art to get inspired?
_{Who are they?}


If you think about it and read other people's comments, you might find a new way to find your muse back!




What I do to get inspired / find my muse...


Listen to music or play bassguitar
_{(Jeff Buckley, Metallica, 30STM, Opeth)}
It's without a doubt my best way to get inspired. When I read the lyrics of a song that touches me, I get inspired for days!


Play videogames
_{(Final Fantasy, Zelda)}
That way I can relax myself. The storyline or characters may inspire me to draw something of my own.


Have discussions with people
_{(like you guys and girls!)}
One of the many reasons why I like to reply all of your comments and write journals like these! You can be so interesting.


Other artists I watch
_{(such as *priteeboy, *emmil and =mitchellnelson)}
I get new ideas from other artworks, whether they're spaceart or (sur)realism. It's a great thing to see what other people create and give you a boost of energy to get started too!





Most impressed with these gorgeous pieces of art done by my friends... Wow!

Hey everyone!!

No you didn't get crazy!

As you can see I changed my journal layout once again which still needs some changes but I really, really got bored with the Vincent one (sure dude ) and the pink journal layout of `ClaireJones still doesn't want to work properly (thanks to dA) so I decided to change Vincent into Cloud and put myself on the bottom of this journal haha.

Yes, I can watch you now.





For example:
- Maybe there's a musician you really like?
- An old friend you haven't seen for a while?
- A deviant you're watching?
- Or maybe it's Ghandi himself you would like to have a talk with?

In this case it doesn't matter if the person's living, diseased or not even existing! Let your imagination go.




People I would like to meet are:

- deviants like =SheldonSands
because she's my friend and I always cheer up when I read her notes/messages

- musicians like Mike Portnoy
drummer of my favourite band Dream Theater which I absolutely LOVE best drummer in the world!

- actors like Jared Leto
you know the reason

- a game character like Vincent Valentine
lol he probably would get really scared of me though.





This week I'll feature #2 of the 5 selected deviants I promised to feature, so... may I introduce to you the lovely and talented

LOL look who's back!

Vincent: 'HIIII!!!!!!!!!!!!!!'
Roxas: 'The heartless are still haunting me. Why god why!!' D:

I know you missed them......

Anyway, why the change?

There seems to be a problem with the previous journal layout. Meaning: dA did something weird so now the previous journal looks really weird if I wanna change it. And since I still had these codes of this baby _{(which I also need to send to *DrawingRulez yes I didn't forget you!)} I thought I'll use it for now.



Besides, a lot of people missed Vincent. They asked for a comeback LOL awwww!!!

Vincent:




more


It is finally done, I edited and uploaded my drawing videos of Death Note - L!!!



I'm sorry it took me a while. Thank you so much for all the help with converting the video.

----->video prt 1<-----
----->video prt 2<-----

Be sure to watch both movies.
I added descriptions on what I do.
Leave a comment if you like!





..........: ART FOR SALE :..........

Since I came to realize I could miss a few drawings of mine, I'm willing to sell them.
(read: I need money!!!!!! )

If you would like to buy one of my drawing, please send me a note with a subject like 'art for sale' or something like it. Please leave a message at this journal too.

These orphans need a new home.





_{P.S.: Keep in mind I only sell these drawings for a reasonable prize! ($20,- won't work, trust me).
If you wish to buy another piece from my gallery, lemme know and I'll think about it.}






With every new journal I write I'll feature 1 of the 5 selected deviants who won a spotlight in my gallery! May I introduce #1: *kleinmeli!!!


This self claimed 'lovable freak' has a great taste of music and as a deviant of many talents! This gallery's definitely worth to be checked out.










(* means currently working on)

* OC couple
Cloud / Sephiroth
Angelina Jolie
Fran (FFXII)

Palin for =drumgirl
* FF: Crisis Core for *circus-usagi
Jared Leto for =Lorelai82
* collab with *emmil
many more to come... (:

_{Want to get a commission for your own?
Check the following link for all the info!}
----> information about commissions and requests <----