=somnio-insania, who is a marvelous photographer (I love her candid shots), gifted me a membership <3 <3 <3 Thank you baby-cakes-homey-shuga-cutie pie!


Here are some of my favorite parts of her gallery.


Give her some holiday loving <3


OVAR
Livestream!!
Armed with cough-drops and hot tea, I'm ready to attack the sand-paper men sliding down my throat, penguin-style.
I'll be doing whatever strikes the mood :]

Stop by if you are available.
Livestreaming: [link]
Keep in mind:
1. I'm slow.
2. I get distracted easily.
3. I might not do it for long
4. I lag like a betch with Illustrator+Procaster

edit: I'm going to quit soon <3 <3 <3

Remember those books? It started off with one, then branching into categories. They should make one for graphic designers.

I had a mini-breakdown tonight. Embarrassing to admit, but it happened. Too many worries that someone my age shouldn't worry about, and yet... yeah.

So what was this mini-breakdown about? My job. That job that is not even worth describing because all it is, is a fancy title for a slave-driven position by shady Korean business-men. Professionalism? They don't know the meaning of it. It's kind of sad^{No, it's REALLY sad.}

The worst part is that one of my mentors heard about my job from someone else and came around to asking me about it:

What the hell are you doing there? Why are you wasting your talent?

I'm "there" because I'm stuck in between two separate things:

1. Pursuit of Happiness
^{MONEY MONEY MONEY MONEY MONEY MONEY MONEY MONEY MONEY MONEY MONEY MONEY}
2. A need to survive

If you haven't figured it out, I'm stuck between the two because of money. Always. And many artists/designers here on dA are in the same/similar, if not worse, situation.

The things I do for work is garbage, and will corrupt my portfolio if I put it in there. Because of this job, I have no time to do anything personal. My ideas that I wish to put on paper are building up to the point that I want to cry... because there just is no time to.

I could quit this job, but that would throw me into a financial rut. I could tell them to fuck off^{politely, of course}, but my mother works for the same company and the consequences has a high percentage of causing her grief in the workplace.

I have learned from my own experiences, as well as other designer's experiences, that in this business you have to sell a part of your soul. In this business, you have to sell a part of your soul... but I didn't mean to kill mine.

So fellow artists, designers, visionaries... I've killed my soul for green paper. How do I gain my soul back?








OVAR
Livestream!!
Armed with cough-drops and hot tea, I'm ready to attack the sand-paper men sliding down my throat, penguin-style.
I'll be doing whatever strikes the mood :]

Stop by if you are available.
Livestreaming: [link]
Keep in mind:
1. I'm slow.
2. I get distracted easily.
3. I might not do it for long
4. I lag like a betch with Illustrator+Procaster

Hi there!

So I'm slowly starting on my fanart phase so I can start prepping for maybe my first time doing the AA's at the cons nearby. I'm looking for input for a couple of things:

- *** Anatomy/anime artists. I need someone amazing at anatomy that is willing to red-line some of my future sketches so I can quickly see the problems I encounter (And not see it finally a year later).

- Fanart-lovers. What would you like to see? Mind you, I only want input from ones that do attend cons. What draws your eye? There's amazing art all around, what makes you choose only one?

- What art of my original characters would you like to see more? It's understood that selling original art of original characters is hard, but I'd like to develop them so I can get the storyline known a bit more. (Without resulting to an online comic.)

- If anyone can give me advice on printing on plastic or shrink paper, lamination, and general wholesale on keychains, charm straps and etc... I'd appreciate it very much.

More updates later!

Much love,
=jjak



OVAR
Livestream!!
Armed with cough-drops and hot tea, I'm ready to attack the sand-paper men sliding down my throat, penguin-style.
I'll be doing whatever strikes the mood :]

Stop by if you are available.
Livestreaming: [link]
Keep in mind:
1. I'm slow.
2. I get distracted easily.
3. I might not do it for long
4. I lag like a betch with Illustrator+Procaster

jjak is not black
jjak does not have a huge rack
jjak is not a hack
jjak is not back/back/back...
^{JJAK IS NOT JACK}

So I haven't been posting anything. It wasn't as if I wasn't drawing. I was drawing things that I did not like so much and wanted to bury into the recessive area of my computer.

Speaking of my computer... KABOOM! It exploded. The 7-year old CPU, single-core processor with 2 gigs... yeah KRRSHH-B'KOOWWRRR~poef.^{text sfx as its best}

I'm stuck using my work computer^{a compiled piece of pirated crap} for whatever I can. I don't get a lot of personal work done. OTL
A new computer is on it's way. Hopefully I'll be back soon <3 <3 <3


Does anyone play Dragonica on the THQice version? Let me know!

Much love,
=jjak

P.S. ~poorjack SENT ME A PRESENT!!! <3 <3 I'LL POST PICS OF IT LATER BUT OMG I LOVE YOU JACK-A-BBY <3 <3 <3 <3




OVAR
Livestream!!
Armed with cough-drops and hot tea, I'm ready to attack the sand-paper men sliding down my throat, penguin-style.
I'll be doing whatever strikes the mood :]

Stop by if you are available.
Livestreaming: [link]
Keep in mind:
1. I'm slow.
2. I get distracted easily.
3. I might not do it for long
4. I lag like a betch with Illustrator+Procaster

Dear Santa,

I've been an okay girl this year. I kicked major butt around, but I'll know you'll overlook it with my special cookies. They are made with love and /love/. *wink.

Anyways, I'd love it if you would draw anyone of my original characters.



There's more in my gallery.

Much love,
=jjak






OVAR
Livestream!!
Armed with cough-drops and hot tea, I'm ready to attack the sand-paper men sliding down my throat, penguin-style.
I'll be doing whatever strikes the mood :]

Stop by if you are available.
Livestreaming: [link]
Keep in mind:
1. I'm slow.
2. I get distracted easily.
3. I might not do it for long
4. I lag like a betch with Illustrator+Procaster