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Hi all who remain !

It's been years since I first joined, the golden when I was active are long gone, I'm an old poop now...
My kids are almost fully grown up now, my oldest is finishing high school this year, he's slightly taller than me -but I beat him belly wise :) -
I almost entirely stopped drawing things remotely more advanced than sketches, I probably lost most of my photoshop skills, and anyway, my photoshop version is probably "so 2010".
Why am I even back here ?

Well, first, if there are any survivors from this era, I'd like to know / see what they've been up to.
Second, because my second kid, my beloved daughter, has developed some pretty dad proudness-inducing drawing skills, she paints, she draws manga, she's working hard after regular school at her art school.
Because she started this after she discovered my prep comic works I kept from before and during my DA period, and this reignited my desire to complete some story projects I have in my mind since my late teen age years.

For your information, I have resumed another teenage passion I had at the moment I left DA aside, which was plying 40K.
I am kind of compulsive when I get onto something, so after planning too big, I have worked my ass out after hours to acquire skills at building, resculpting, painting minis, which will prove useful when resuming drawing since I had to learn a lot to make mine look good without photoshop effects.
I also trained hard to become a skilled player. Tested several armies and took part in more and more tournament to finally join an ETC team and take part in ETC qualification events (it's like world cup but for 40k players) !

For this year's tournament, I have returned to my drawing board as we decided our team will have its T shirt and pairing cards :)

I came here to find inspiration for them.

This makes me think to come back and resume production this year.

But when am I going to find time for it ? There's 8 hours of work minimal, 3 -6 hours of sleep, 2 hours of socializing / family time, the rest is split between biological tasks, transportation and 40K work.

I WANT 24h more per day !!!

Who will join me in this quest ?
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Coming back

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> ssh world:999 -l root
ssh: connect to host world port 999
rootworld:999's password:
Last login: unknown
Linux 2.6.23.28.

rootworld:~# cat /root/journal

Longing to get enough time to produce new stuff and submitting again.
I guess getting an AFL event would help...
Lots of things below schedule, I also got turned down on several attempts last year, hard times at work too, at least health and family are still holding strong, that's the most important.

See you around, and for those I watch, I'm still actively following you guys.

rootworld~# reboot

System rebooting

NOW!
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SSC rocks

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:iconsscplz: been setting up his complete story line, enemies, worlds, and friends :/ :iconsscplz:

Also guys, be careful if you update to 64bit windows, your old scanners won't be compatible anymore.
Experienced that last week when I wanted to scan the accumulated work since june...
some guys keep using their scans through virtual machines and 32bit windows installed on these, but then you can't retrieve them directly, you got to export them from a virtual drive into the real one... all this a big pain in the ass.

see you around after I have installed that new scanner.
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OC MEME CHALLENGE :
The original journal announcing the challenge is here : fav.me/d51zrk0

My OC is Ry'On Fuhuk :

3DF FIGHT1 : Feel the Power of the Force ! by wIZBURF

Mature Content

1DF3 ENTRY by wIZBURF
Sith Female Muscle Ancestor by wIZBURF

I haven't digged too much the background, so this is the opportunity to do so !
Here we go :

ROUND #1

1. What's your theme song ?
Soon to be written
2. Have any kids?
My species don't have "kids". Our number remains equal until our species reaches a spiritual progression. Then the additional souls created migrate into "eggs" created from flesh material Choosen Ones lay then mix together
3. Favourite food or drink ?
sduttles (sort of soft crabs from our original planet)
4. Killed anyone?
hundreds. But such is the way of our species. We are natural born force warriors
5. Hate anyone?
Jedis and Siths. Even if I was trained in the Sith ways, I look at both as a shame to true warriors
6. Have any secrets ?
Yes, they're none of your business
7. Love anyone?
What is this ?
8. Who's your best friend?
What is this ?
9. What's your species ?
We call ourselves Jerr' Ull Otts, and we are known as 'Force Amazons' in galactic language,
10. Any siblings?
Did you listen to my previous answers ?
11. Would you kill yourself to save the one you love?
Killing oneself is a move I can't understand. Performing a move I can't understand for reasons I can't understand is clearly something I won't do.

ROUND #2

1. What is your favorite weapon?
my lightsaber
2. What was your worst battlefield injury?
So far nobody has ever been able to harm me during battle
3. What cheers you up?
Feeling my enemy's life fainting and my force growing accordingly
4. What makes you angry?
Seeing weaklings battle with fire weapon and leading fights that don't make use or add to the Force. It is a total waste of time and it sends disgusting waves into the Force network
5. What is the weirdest thing about you? Are you proud of it?
Nothing about me is weird. In live in the way of the warrior. I live by and for the Force. This is the only thing that counts in the Universe, and nothing to make fun of.
6. How old are you?
I was brought to material world aournd 1,500 cycles ago, which equals around 800 years old
7. Do you have a pet? If so, what?
No pet. I can't understand what is the interest of feeding an animal into impotency, or train it to become a tool or a weapon.
8. What kind of people do you dislike?
It would be way faster to describe the kind of people I like : none. We are into the material world to print our mark into its fabric. All those that are not similar to me are competitors. Warriors don't like competitors.
9. If you won a million credits in a lottery, what would you do with it?
I don't need credits to fulfil my goals. I obtain them through Force and only by myself.
10. Do you have a hero? If so, who, and why?
The closest concept to what you describe is probably the mix of ancestors that poured themselves into my being.
11. How would you describe yourself in three words?
Strong. Independant. Focused

PROMETHEUS

Seen it today (in 3D).
As a science fiction fan, I enjoyed it a lot. It is crammed with good and plausible ideas and technologies, although I seriously doubt we'll be able to travel out of our solar system 80 years from now.
Apart from that, graphically I really appreciated the continuity of Giger's design although it has been subjected to a lot of remix, the most important being the melting of technorganic and ancient Greece / Macedonian design. Also, great blending of the very first Alien images and last images of the movies (the dead alien pilot).
Now for the negative parts : strictly nothing new, the scenario just makes uses of Alien 1 scenes and shuffles them to serve them into another order. Still efficient though. About the ideas developed : first, scientists that remove helmets, put their hands everywhere then don't wash them before going back to the lab, that separate in an unknown place with no supervision, that's a little too much.
Second, the main flaw is the idea of engineers : they seed the world in a way that through evolution we know highly randomizes the result. And, we've seen absolutely no hint that there are females in their civilization.
Lots of questions probably left for a second movie, but if they receive flat answers, I'll be very deceived :/

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It's been an incredible (loosing) streak lately for me :/

Commercial attempts all fell flat, wether single illustrations, coloring collabs, comic submission and even the book cover I signed and submitted will never hit the prints as the editor has finally revoked its contract with the writer (and they didn't reply to my enquiries about nevertheless paying their due for my work they received within their harsh schedule).

On dA well, I'm out of both OC competitions. It's not as tough but when added to the previous, it's a little bit undermining my resolve to persever as a wannabe artist : 1DF entry was outvoted by the public (I suspect I didn't get a high score), VC well, couldn't get my imagination under control so I reinterpreted too much the story / the other participants' OCs.

However I was considering some ways to keep going, but what thing is sure, there is a little problem somewhere. Don't know exactly which one(s), I can't nail them.

One surely is the lack of 'recognition', as proven by pageviews. I get big bursts only when I submit to my dear old FM club, other submissions are scarsely viewed. The fact is, I kinda fought this, because even if I really love to draw fit people, and women in particular, I don't want to be restricted to this.

Also don't want to draw boobs and asses to get pageviews, I also enjoy drawing that, but it is not what I want to be first stage on my page.

So about this popularity problem ? Don't know. I read about the "lilponies's effect", well I understand that but not everybody should draw ponies, there are plenty already cute enough, no need for me to join in.

I'll keep investigating and trying.

New focus is :

Work on a comic based on an ongoing novella published in French. In this I think I will benefit from VC's experience, where I had to develop a story based on other artists' (some text based), within tight schedule, with a standard somewhat correct. For VC when I am done with an epilogue, I will have reached an usual comics length format (and a full arc). This will be my next commercial attempt.

On dA, I will probably catch up on all clubs I left behind, starting with deviant Universe (I had worked on several challenges but never finished them on time), the OCFG concept, and I will also probably develop my starwars OC character (since I'm a SW fan since my child hood, and I am fond of the comics too).

At some stage, I have other ideas based on comissions such as 'comic short stories / fake extracted page based on your char / synopsis', and another one to create a complete card game with existing or specially created OC's. And/or a classical Tarot card game.

If you stop by and read this, your comments and ideas are appreciated.

So you around.

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