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Hi there :)

Not much to say, but I wanted to thank everyone who's still passing by, faving and commenting my work. I don't answer everyone but I truly appreciate it !
I don't have much to upload since I'm mainly doing tags lately. Not that interesting.

I still have some emotes in mind, but don't have much time to do them. But they'll sure get out someday ^^

Oh, and I've been published ! In a french magazine called "Advanced Creation Illustrator HS N°4". There's an interview and a tutorial in order to create :



What about you ? \o/




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Had to get rid of this way too long journal :paranoid:

French Part
Si j'ai des français parmi mes watchers -si j'ai encore des watchers après cette absence :D- cliquez donc sur le bandeau juste en dessous.
C'est bon pour ce que vous avez.

Oh, well...

Let's have some little news.

This year, I'll be very very busy. Even more than last year.
But I'll try to produce a bit more then last year. It was catastrophic.
SO.
I'm now doing a bit of 3D with Blender. I'm learning new things everytime I start new creations, so it's "normal" the first things you'll see will be ugly/weird/boring. But I'll try to let you see only the best.
As usual, I've got loooooots of ideas. As usual I don't have enough time to create.

Damn ! This late, already ?! Got to go. Studies time .___.




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Beware. Long -important (in my opinion) - journal.

Some projects


Please, don't tl;dr. :) Or at least, don't say it =p
It's really something that I'd love to do. In order to share.

So.
Lately, I've thought about the emote community. Some of us are surely improving there skills, and more and more artists are able to submit awesome emotes.
But I also want to lay a finger on the fact that some emoticonists are happy enough with how it's ending, and aren't trying hard enough (in my humble opinion) to continue improving, or just don't know where it's not good enough.
None can pretend to have the skill to always create perfect emotes.

Moreover, DeviantArt isn't consider as the best place to improve our skills. Because most of the comments we get are some "waaaaaaaah awesome!", even if we perfectly know it's not good enough to be worshiped by everyone.
Of course it's very encouraging to recieve such comments. It makes you want to continue your way and all. But wouldn't it be better if we had more constructive comments ? More "Awesome ! But I think you could improve this."
I definitly don't say that there are none. Absolutly not ! (For exemple, recently, I had some great feedback) And I'm not saying it's sad and that we can't do anything to it. I want to suggest something where the community spirit is not only about "not creating dramas". If there are some polite drama because we don't agree about a way emote should be, it will be a good point in my opinion !
Anyone can have different ideas. Anyone can defend he's idea.

So.
Now, what about my (main) idea :
Firstly, making it as a contest will help people consider it. I don't like making people do things with always some price at the end, but we can't deny that it's helping as a first step.
A theme, and a normal contest. Nothing special. But the chances to win would be about :
Hard work on it.
Progress compared to other piece in the deviant's gallery.
Critiques (on a comment, not to disadvantage those who doesn't have any membership) given to the other entries.
The way the emoticonist has consider previous critiques and improved his work since first version submitted.

A price for the winner, and two runner-ups ? Plus a price for the most helpful critique. And a price for the one who has given the more conscructive critiques.

For people who want to improve, entering such contest would be a great way to. For people who want to help others, it would be a great place to know who to help. For people who want to see some good emote art, that would allow good features. For people who critiques, it permits to think about things you couldn't think on your own works.
I see only positive aspects.

Now, other ideas that came to my mind while writing this down :

Create a group which will be only dedicated to it.
This group could :
Be the one who's taking care of the contest mentioned above
Do some special interviews (do an interview while an emoticonist is creating an emote. Between each questions, an image of how the emote progress during the question, for example.
Organise some special events turning around the idea (for exemple critique a work and the best critique would be feature, or an election about the best emoticonist emote writing (reference to food writing), or other things)
Accept in the group's deviations only those the artist want to work on and improve. One a week, not to flood deviants boxes and let the time to critique.
Feature about artists that had a first version which have been improve thanks to critiques.
Projects with collab, to let people share there knownledge, in a great spirit.

Of course, that's a lot of ideas which are coming up, and most of them (not to say all of them) haven't been thought properly, and aren't ready to be used. But I want to know if people would follow me in such a project.

As CookiemagiK told me, and I totally agree, if the contest is organised and is working well, I'll think about the group idea. It's a lot of work, and it'd be better if it wasn't a waste of time :aww:

Last, but not least, if you have any contest theme ideas, be sure to send to note me it :aww:

This journal is here to let me know what do you think about such a project. Please feel free to comment, whatever your opinion is. I might defend my opinion, and all, but everyone impression is important to me.

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Sub is back !

6 min read



Hai there :D
Thanks to SparklyDest my journal is all blue again :dummy:

Thanks thanks thanks ! :D

*useless journal*

Have to do some features on the next one :paranoid:




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New categories

1 min read
Have you seen them ?
browse.deviantart.com/customiz…

Now, you have. So go edit all your emotes to make them fit with the new categories ! :iconanimefaceplz:
I'm just done with it :meow:

*Almost useless entry, to get ride of the last one which was ... ew!
TeaR makes the eager mood back.*
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