~Dr-E-Coli

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look at that! look who drew that!

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also I've been featured on Storm-Artists' weekly showcase! [link] apparently it's code-generated based on popularity, but the fact that something of mine got there anyway is mind boggling!

yeah I feel rather proud of myself and my art lately!

exclamation points of excitement!

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Today is the fourth birthday of me on this site! That's the longest time I've ever consistently stayed on a single website.

So if you'll excuse me, I'm gonna take a trip down memory lane a bit and give a brief history of my stuff on dA.

I originally came here because ~heather-hellion was on here and I knew her in real life and...I figured, hey, I have art stuff too, and maybe I could get to know her better online.

I first started on ~Tacster002 with a story called Recon Robotics (starring Katina), and though it was a story I stuck with for a while, that year I realized how cliched it was, and how much my writing needed improving.

I drew anime back then, and though that isn't a problem, I was horrid at anatomy and shading, but sensitive to critique. I also relied on anime stock expressions (sweat drops, bulging veins, etc.) as my characters' only expressions, so that's NO GOOD!

I also did fanart of Mario and Kirby and sometimes Klonoa so I guess that contributed to why people would watch me when my art was seriously so bad.

A few story attempts later, and soon I had characters like Kyuudo/Alterus, Mitsuke, Edmund, Demonte, and Autumn, which I could stick with, but I couldn't really connect them in a plot much. Nevertheless, my watchers liked them too, and I think that was the highest point of "popularity" my original characters had on this site...until now? With how I'm sticking with DtF, I wouldn't be surprised, since you guys seem interested.

I tried to revamp stuff more, and have a solid story, and by '06 I was grasping at straws to hold an audience. On New Year's '07 I had come up with the character Edward Doubleday, star of a new story, and a style revamp. I switched accounts to this one, and started my cartoony leanings.

Ed's story eventually died out, and I cleared my gallery of pics relating to it, but I didn't stop making new ideas. Apocrypha Seven and Blackout followed, the former being more popular (I assume, since no one had to read anything?), but more complicated and less liked by me.

One of my biggest problems is that I wouldn't stop making new ideas, so as I shifted from story to story, I was perfectly fine, but my watchers often got confused. Confusion doesn't keep an audience, so by summer '08 I decided, "I am going to make a story and I'm going to STAY with it!"

Thus I came back to DtF, which I made while I was moving in '05 to MA. And I'm happy to say, I've actually hardly gotten any new ideas since I decided it was my main story! It's not like I'm suppressing any urges, either--I seriously can't come up with anything new. That should be a bad thing, but here, it's not! I have no idea how it happened, but I'm glad it did.

What's the funniest is that DtF, in its first two incarnations, was a joke story of sorts. My main story is a joke! Go me.

Lastly, I want to thank all you guys, for watching me, for paying attention to this original stuff I spew all over, and for reading this journal. I really couldn't get anywhere without support, and though dA can have its crap, I'm glad it's a place where I can meet people that tell me that my ideas are something to go with, that my art is good, and that my characters are cool. I just...thanks. ;~;

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I've recently joined a much, much smaller art site called Storm-Artists...anyone want to join me? I'm very lonely

I mainly joined the avoid the crap that dA likes to churn out, both staff-wise and massive-userbase-wise. I like smaller sites...but this one seems VERY small. my artwork stays on the "recent artworks" panel for more than half a day xD;

keep in mind that I'm NOT leaving dA or anything. don't panic! I'll just upload stuff on that account parallel with this one. plus, I think I'll have that account be exclusively DtF stuff, no fanart or fillers or silly memes or what-have-you. the bare bones, I guess.

if you do want to check it out, come see me! I already have character profiles transplanted on there and everything.

I really like how you can use images/thumbnails/whatever in your journals without having to pay anything...and profile layout customization is pretty ace too (though I made mine like a dA profile because I'm just so used to it).

speaking of being used to dA, come October 4th I've been here four years. holy crud.

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uh. just want to clear up something(s).

since I've done all the character profiles, and I completely intend for DtF to be my only story, I expect everyone who watches me to know about my characters.

that seems like a big demand, but my story is all I really care about on this site, so hey! I want people to watch me for my story, actually. that's how determined I am to be consistent with what I submit. DDD:

it's also why I don't do informative descriptions anymore. well, unless it's for some plot point that isn't explained in the profiles.

not saying you HAVE to know, of course, but it'd be a huge help on both our parts if you knew what the heck I was drawing. XD

ALSO. I think come around next New Year's, I'll delete everything in my gallery that was done before I introduced DtF (that is, the Cast Lineup pic), and I might scrap anything that doesn't have to do with it. so er, if you really liked an old thing I did...save it, or something? I just like to warn people before I do big gallery resets like that. (though that's a long way away...but still!)

if I'm still consistently updating this one story by January, that means I'll have kept it up for six months. which is sadly a record for me. that's how often I come up with new ideas and change my stories around. I need to break the habit. D8

YEAHHHH

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hey dudes! figured I'd give you all a random treat.

I drew a storyboard-like comic of a scene I had in my head for when Stella first met Don and she tried to fight him.

this was done a while ago (but not too long ago, done during the time I was making these icons), and was done rather quickly (I wanted to get the images down ASAP), so they're definitely not great looking (hence why I haven't shown them here before).

but ah anyway, ignore all the art problems and enjoy:

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it has no text, so here's a summary: Stella's messing with Don's head, but Don gets sick of it and decides to have a CMOA and fight back. but in the end his forgiving side takes over, but lucky for him Stella's pretty honorable.

ahdhsfsdgdsg I just troped my own story

I need sleep

GOOD BYE

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