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Okay. Phew. That was nerve-wracking.
So yeah heads up guys. It has happened. ValkyrieLightDragon is my username no more. It is ....JarODragon!!!
(but I have no issues with still being called Val, or even Vial. Don't feel obliged to give me a new nickname haha)
I'm just feeling really nostalgic right now so excuse my ramble below.
2008 was the year I joined DeviantArt, just about entering the crazy teenaged years, because I heard it was a great place to show your work and get some feedback. I was not proven wrong at all; amazing community (granted you look the right places) and fantastic inspiring fellow artists and illustrators who've helped me grow in my skill sets like a rocket blast. It is fantastic to finally take a step forward and make creativity a part of my career (I do hope!), and I thank you all for your support thus far! There shall be more content flowing coming through and even though I only seem to take longer months replying to all your great messages, I will still have a presence. I know I will look at this journal entry in four years time and sigh in shame but for now I am very emotional.
I will keep my avatar and other graphics the same for a while so that there's no confusion, but those will update eventually too!
(and sorry guyyssss I am spamming you with so many journals I swear I will go silent in a week and leave you all alone haha. Uni will keep me busy yet again.)
Also I am going to look forward playing around with premium features, especially the SCHEDULE ARTWORK YES.
The mood emote on the bottom doesn't even begin to describe my excitement so have a pile load of icons on top, because I'm so mature:
So yeah heads up guys. It has happened. ValkyrieLightDragon is my username no more. It is ....JarODragon!!!
(but I have no issues with still being called Val, or even Vial. Don't feel obliged to give me a new nickname haha)
I'm just feeling really nostalgic right now so excuse my ramble below.
2008 was the year I joined DeviantArt, just about entering the crazy teenaged years, because I heard it was a great place to show your work and get some feedback. I was not proven wrong at all; amazing community (granted you look the right places) and fantastic inspiring fellow artists and illustrators who've helped me grow in my skill sets like a rocket blast. It is fantastic to finally take a step forward and make creativity a part of my career (I do hope!), and I thank you all for your support thus far! There shall be more content flowing coming through and even though I only seem to take longer months replying to all your great messages, I will still have a presence. I know I will look at this journal entry in four years time and sigh in shame but for now I am very emotional.
I will keep my avatar and other graphics the same for a while so that there's no confusion, but those will update eventually too!
(and sorry guyyssss I am spamming you with so many journals I swear I will go silent in a week and leave you all alone haha. Uni will keep me busy yet again.)
Also I am going to look forward playing around with premium features, especially the SCHEDULE ARTWORK YES.
The mood emote on the bottom doesn't even begin to describe my excitement so have a pile load of icons on top, because I'm so mature:
Exiting DA, so hop onto my gritty newsletter
Hey! This account has laid dormant for a very long time, but news of what's been going on here reached as far as where I set up shop on Twitter. I won't beat around the bush: I will be closing my account here. It has little to do with AI as a technology or the features DA presented and then corrected. The way they handled the whole debacle with a tone-death roll out, then treated its users with impudence (not a new occurrence, I remember how they talked down to us with their logo design infringement). As a company, I am not confident in their direction, so I don't want to stick around. Out of all platforms I've been on, I was most reluctant to leave DA. It's like throwing a family album in the trash. My first big fanfic and fandom communities came to be here, and I learned so much from my peers when I was a teenager, giving and receiving feedback. I want to preserve as many memories I can, like those hyper-enthusiastic long deviation descriptions with so many emoji (haha), when I
Popping in Briefly and Commissions Open!
Feels a little weird to write a journal entry again...
Hi! I know this is out of place, considering I haven't been around at all and am not uploading anything, but if you care to spare a minute, I'd like to share something I've recently announced! : >
I'll be traveling to New Zealand next month, and opened commissions to cover some of the costs! As of this writing, I have 8 slots left, and just under a week for commission application deadline.
Head over to me Tweet to view the general details!
Please retweet if you can! I would really appreciate it~
Otherwise...
I've been pretty all over the place recently! As you can tell from the p
Considering another Spring Clean
Eyyyy just a heads up, I will be giving my gallery yet another spring clean at some point!
No specific time set for this yet, I just want to 'store' some more old art I don't want sticking around anymore.
This decision is not influenced by anything in particular, it's just something I've been meaning to do for a while.
In the meantime, I've also created an Art Station account.
This is a stand-in portfolio until I can work out how to get my own website to look more impressive and less...starkly awful.
Heads Up, Heading Out-ish
I think many of you will have noticed that my activity on DA has been limited. That's been mostly because of uni, but there's also another reason:
I am not very invested in DeviantArt anymore.
The community so far has been incredible. Over the last...what, 7 years? I've grown so quickly and I don't think I would have without such a supportive group of people. I am grateful for the inspiration I have received so far and my memories are nothing but positive.
But I am now opening a new chapter in my creative ventures and DA unfortunately is not suitable for this chapter. There's very little industry involvement that I can delve into, and the
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I saw JarODragon in my messages page and it took me a few secomnds to realize who it actually was! Lol congrats!