As of December 3rd, this year marked my fifth year as a deviantART artist. I felt that such an occasion deserved a journal because I don't often write on here, let alone update on a frequent basis despite the fact I do have stuff to put up... just needs to be scanned. However, this place has been a good starting ground and home base for me, and I love it to bits.

Sometimes when the curiosity strikes me, I take a trip through memory lane and come here to browse through all my old art. Every page I go through not only serves as proof of the things I've accomplished, but they also provide powerful memories. Everyone has those pieces that they look at and say to themselves, "Hey, I remember when I drew this." and thus it ties in events big and small that happened either around or at the time the picture was created.

For example, my very first deviation was a drawing of a white, yellow, and green eagle with the words 'Sylph' written beside it. During the time it was made, I was a part of a large roleplaying community and was brainstorming ideas with the creator of the world on some of the magical spirits living there. Being the Tales of Symphonia geek that I am, I wanted to incorporate the summon spirits into this new world and borrowed the names but changed the creatures entirely. The eagle was one of those new spirits I had created for the land of Ghalerion and I believe I started a deviantART account because I wanted to have an easy place to go to to display my art where it there was readily available access. I had heard this was a pretty good place for it and so here I am, five years later and still posting more and more art.

Another really interesting thing for me to see is the phases I went through according to what fandoms I drew. Not all of it was drawings either; eventually I began to dabble into icon making and wallpaper design, a bit of digital art even though I typically stuck to my traditional utensils. Sometimes photoshop and I didn't get along, and to this day it's still like that! Gimp and I have an even worse history... -glares at the program on the desktop- Sometimes though you're looking through your gallery and you see a fandom that reminds you of some not so good things, like a fandom that you wished you had never gotten into or had been spoiled by others enough to make you never look at it again. I used to be so into Naruto, even before it became popular in the States... then the television show started and it all just went downhill. >_<

Alas, I hope that I'll continue to be here posting more art and perhaps more journals... I'm not much of a blabber really, but maybe that's a good thing? I don't know. xD Thanks and cheers to all of you that have followed me for the past five years.