SoftSpirit118

Find me there.

sashas.tumblr.com

This community here, I can't be here anymore.

It's been going downhill for a while now, and I don't even feel encouraged to post my new work. And I have a lot of it, both from art school and vectors alike.

All this crap about what belongs in what category. And deviantart becoming a brand of itself which kind of seems like a joke. (Why would I want to wear a deviantart tshirt?) On top of that, all these new unprofessional moderators just put a sour tone over everything. No, I don't want to see your journal entries filled with curse words and stupid nonsensical behavior. That always turns me off.

Plus, I've known all along that anything of merit doesn't get acknowledged here as much as some popular crap from a popular deviant. It's like you gotta sell-out before you can start creating your own work and getting recognized for it. It's always been like that but now I just see it as exponentially worse. Especially now that I am in art school, and developed an even more trained eye.

And I know that I have about 1000 times less comments or anything for my work and that is okay for me. It actually tells me that my work is still true and great and not cliche crap like the anime or over-photochopped "photography" that makes it to the front page.

I wasn't going to post this, but what set me off was a note from Deviantart saying that one of my deviations was reported for "art theft."
Sure, the matter was resolved all and well in my favor, but it was submitted in early December! So I guess I've been accused of Art Theft for the past 4 months and didn't even know about it.

I don't need this. I have never had such gross accusations put upon me and I don't need to hear this especially in what is supposed to be a supportive art community.

I'm over it.

I love tumblr.

Tumble tumble.

Check it out,

My personal one, sashas.tumblr.com

And my sketchblog, My Dear Moleskine, mydearmoleskine.tumblr.com

If you're from here and have one, and followed me, let me know! (So I can follow back, of course)

I woke up today and started my usual Wednesday morning routine. Turned on the computer, checked Facebook, Gmail, and thought, "eh why not check Deviantart too?"

(I should have really been studying for my final this afternoon)

Then, all of a sudden, I saw it say "325 Messages". I didn' understand. For what? I thought. I thought that I cleaned out all my old messages...

Suddenly I realized, a Daily Deviation! Really! Could it be?

It was!

Thank you so much, everyone. This is my second Daily Deviation and it has been a genuine surprise that made my morning. I mean, I never thought I would get my first. And a second. It's really special to me.

My first semester of college is winding down, and boy - did it seem to go by so fast and slow at the same time.

By fast I mean that my work held me over week to week, as I did one assignment after the other, and never feeling the amount of stress that I had felt last year. (My only true stress came from English class and Art History).

And sometimes it went slow when I was lonely or had nothing to do. I have not lived the "crazy" college life at all. I'm not really a balls to the wall, lets get nuts, type of person, so I guess I should not have romanticized that about myself. Regardless, meeting new and different people this semester has taught me both a lot about myself, that it is truly okay to act like myself and not put up any fronts, and a lot about others as well as art.

I'm exciting to photograph all of my work once I get it back and post it up here. I feel like I have definitely improved and gained a firmer grasp on things.

Next semester I will have a computer art class as well, so I look forward to some digital painting.

And hopefully I will also get back into the vexel gallery, and vexelove.

In other news, I have started a new blog where I post my moleskine sketches. Check it out, here :

mydearmoleskine.tumblr.com