Now thrice a week!

This issue’s letter is:

D

The deviant that is being featured and interviewed today is:

`PainInTheAssimilated

A little bit about myself…hmm. The hilarious part of that question is I think anyone who’s come across my gallery knows more about me than they probably want to .  But here goes. I am 24, despite my inability to act like it. I am a medical school drop out. [I know, WHAT?] I had to move and just never transferred my credits. Not that I regret it, having my first patient go into asystole on me kinda ruined it. That and at some point my own failing heath would make it impossible anyway. Besides, I don’t think hospitals approve of projectile vomiting every time a squeamish employee has to suction. I currently work at a Deli, and will kill you if you come into my deli and ask if we have ham with the case right there in front of you.

No seriously, I will jump the counter. If I get one more stupid question like that I will lose my mind.

I live with my significant other and my sibling [which I am very attached to, so yes I will talk a lot about.] My sister and I actually share a computer and several accounts [some of you will know from my livestream raging because she changed my name]. We’re all we had as kids, so I’ve been unable to separate from her.

I’m a hazard to myself as I’m sure people who watch me realized. I’ve got new injuries every day almost. I try to keep it on the down-low to some extent, but I do have Congestive Heart Failure, which was progressed a handful of years back by a massive infection. For this reason, I do volunteer work at hospitals still when I can, to support those suffering like I have.

Most people instantly dislike me, which is cool too. But despite all my loud mouthing, I’m not really a horrible person and it often confuses me how people can hate me over one thing I post without knowing the person behind it.

I came across dA because of a web design class I took with my broski ~CancerofAesthetics and my dear sweet torture delivering sister, who thought web design would be a fun class first thing in the morning. Fairly new school and I have attachment issues. I don’t like being alone in places I’m unfamiliar with. So I told her to just pick an elective —as my level of caring about the actual class was nonexistent—and my bro and I would sign up for it with her. Some where in the forsaken course of the class, I needed some stock for my “play” page. Which brought me to dA. Obviously, these travesty pages weren’t published, because I’d never use stock like my teacher wanted me to, but it brought my sister to create an account here and that part is relevant to the next question.

My sister had been on dA for a few years and she created `PainInTheAssimilated as a club account. Well, my sister is as fleeting as I can be and she promptly forgot all about it. Here I come, to find that this account had been dead for a whole year. So, I bartered the password out of her and she let me keep it. Originally, this was something of a play account to see how long it would take for me to get banned just being myself. Which….clearly never happened. .

I’ve met some seriously rad people on dA. Even as much flak as dA seems to get from “professional artists”, and I think the amount of talent on this site is mind blowing; I don’t think dA has to be a professional artist hangout or drop all the silly stuff because some people don’t have a sense of humor. Some people say dA needs to be more serious so the professional artists can make business, but I honestly think half of the charm of dA is the imperfection. Imperfection is what makes me happy. The ability to watch people grow as artists over years is enjoyable. I’ve watched my sister go from messy photoshop disasters, to fluid and clean poster work. Also…Watching people go up in flames of unholy rage from the depths of the netherworld over a one day April fools avatar change never ceases to amuse me.

Hmm...I haven’t used Muro all that much. I mean I’ve doodled a time or two in it, but not really too often. But I guess other than using something very little, I have tried everything about dA. I always try the new stuff that gets launched. I won’t deny that I do hide the llama badges and I rarely give them.

When I was old enough to pick up a crayon my mother would stand across from me and hold my hand to teach me how to make the crayon do its magic. [Which is also why I am a forced lefty, my mother’s right hand instructed me to use my left hand without her realizing]. My style of art has never been solidified because I do too much of everything to stick to one style. In elementary I was mostly into watercolors and anything I could make a mess with. When I was in middle school I did poster sized charcoal sketches and actually sold my first commission in 6th grade. I spent most of my time with pencils, charcoal, and markers. Man, I love markers. I learned MSpaint when we got our first computer many years ago. I didn’t even realize what I was doing was considered an art form, because at the time, I just did what I did not thinking more than: “Create!”. I started with Photoshop 3 back in 94, I think it was. My friend’s dad had it and we tinkered around on it. In high school I started working with clay, met Prismacolor for the first time, and discovered I love ball point pens. I was bumped up to an advanced class in Art because my teacher couldn’t see forcing me to draw chairs all day .

Looking back at it, art has always been part of my existence.

Of course my sister and my broski ~CancerofAesthetics. COA is an amazing writer, even if he doesn’t think so himself. *moni158’s work makes me appreciate anime/manga style a lot. Her style is just fluid and charming. *aiki-ame is the same way, usually. I’m not fond of that style, but I’ve been following her since my sister found her back when she was new. Which brings me to *TonomuraBix and ~midwaymilly, two others I found in my sis’s fav section. Bix makes Prisma pencils look like the tools of god and Slayers-Nerd has such a unique anime/cartoon style, I can’t help but like it.

As for non-deviants, as typical as this sounds, da Vinci was a big influence. I sketched in his style for most of my sophomore art class.

Ah, the pet peeve list. The most prominent one comes of being a Group contributor and founder, when I post specific instructions for things and people ask me “how” questions. I certainly understand if people misunderstand it, but if the question can be clearly answered in what I wrote, it does get on my nerves. Because clearly they did not read. I do get very annoyed seeing screencaps on dA. Possibly because most of the people guilty of it who I speak to, honestly think shoving a screencap through a motivational poster generator is “art” because they wrote a corny little sentence. Which just makes me wish I had delete powers, because screen caps would be hunted like quail. Recently, I’ve been peeved with people mindlessly saying “this doesn’t deserve a DD” when it’s a personal opinion for one, and for two DDs aren’t awards. People don’t want “crappy” DDs, but they don’t want popular artists to get DDs. What the hell do you want?

For the people making the points, go you. You know what you’re doing. But for the people buying pageviews…Honestly, I think it’s pathetic. Pageviews are worthless anyway, I’ve proved it if anything because I can get 2000 pageviews in a day and have hundreds of people tell me I’m an ass. Pageviews don’t equal quality or even decent personality and having more pageviews isn’t going to make you more likely to be noticed. Most of the people who want more pageviews are also some of the same people who don’t participate in the community beyond their inbox. I’m everywhere…of course, my inbox gets ignored some times as a result

Some of the unfortunate victims got to listen to me karaoke on livestream a while back and they’ll probably tell you I have terrible taste in music. I listen to everything but explicit rap. Being a product of the 80s I’m very more attracted to the 80s and 90s music. My favorite band will probably always remain The Eagles, followed closely by Genesis, the Police and Nine Inch Nails. I do find myself attracted to Christian music despite not being Christian, like Amy Grant, Skillet and Barlow Girl. So really, it’s not a type of music I like, it’s if the music hits home. My iPod is a total mess because of that.

BATMAN. God I love me some Bats. I’m excited for the third Batman movie actually. Not only is it because of Bane, but because Christian Bale is a hunk of man . Aside from Batman, I’m a fan of Christopher Nolan’s directing and The Prestige is probably my favorite movie ever. Other than the occasional Nolan film, I’m usually the last person to see a movie. I just can’t sit still. Though I am totally going to watch my Season One Box Set of Xena after this.

I probably talked too much already . Fun though. Thanks for featuring me. Though I’m hardly interesting.