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Why I've Been Quiet
I joined this website when I was still in high school, and that was over a decade ago. I'm almost 30 now and as you all have noticed, I'm not as active on deviant art. One of the biggest reasons is just, I'm growing up. The format style is also a huge reason, eclipse isn't user friendly and I don't want to put all the time and effort into dealing with it, I grew up on HTML and Flashplayer. Then there's the issue with AI, I am strictly against the usage of AI and am a firm believer in keeping jobs and art human. DA has played a hand in the AI problem and I just can't condone that. I don't come here much because at this point, my values don't align with the website and on top of that, I'm older and I have to adult. Yes I'll still pop in every so often but not like I used to, not until I see change. If you do want to see more of me you can follow my other socials. I promise I'll still post once in a while, but I am more active on other websites at the moment. So before I take off, I will
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Long time no visit. I've been busy with work and life but I thought I'd drop by. How's y'all?
Strange World Review
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My Father's Dragon Review
My Father's Dragon Review I'm making my return to Deviantart with a review of a movie I've been looking forward to since I first heard Netflix was releasing it. My Fathers Dragon is based on a book of the same name and when I heard Cartoon Saloon, the people behind The Secret of Kells, would be adapting one of my favorite childhood reads into a 2D movie I was hyped. I sat down to see the movie and it didn't disappoint. Let's take a look at the story. Elmer is a young boy having trouble adjusting to life in a city with mean landlords, rainy days and living frugally to get by. After an intense fight with his mother, a talking cat leads him to a pier and tells him of an island which holds a dragon that can get him the money his family needs to start a small business. Elmer sets off to find the dragon, only to find out this is a rescue mission on an island full of wild animals, and it's sinking into the ocean. After a botched rescue Elmer befriends the dragon named Boris and learns
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I can't really point to a specific thing that I think of as being my "signature". In the past, Woohooligan has bounced around between a bunch of different art styles for different pieces -- I do stick with a style when I'm doing a story like the one I'm publishing now... and within the story I've done through most of 2015 there's certainly a particular style to the character illustration. But I can't really point to any particular part of it as being indicative of me.
I guess the closest I can come to that is the way I'm drawing the eyes -- a line or two around the outside of the eye, one wider solid line for the eyebrow, one solid line around the iris, no pupils, color and then a small white dot for gloss.
And when characters are particularly emotional (any emotion really), I strip away all the detail and make their eyes and mouth virtually like a stick-figure for comic effect.
I guess the closest I can come to that is the way I'm drawing the eyes -- a line or two around the outside of the eye, one wider solid line for the eyebrow, one solid line around the iris, no pupils, color and then a small white dot for gloss.
And when characters are particularly emotional (any emotion really), I strip away all the detail and make their eyes and mouth virtually like a stick-figure for comic effect.