SO! The 17th was my 19th birthday, hoorah! :3
I didn't do anything much... it was a Monday, but I DID go out for dinner with my friend in the evening. We had a great time at Wagamamas >D Chicken Katsu Curry FTW!

My parents got me something I never imaged for my birthday ... although I did guess when I saw the size of the box and the dvd-case size box with it. It was a Wii! O_O I had hinted wanting one, as a means of exercise (yeah, I'm so desperate that the only way I can exercise properly is by gaming at the same time xD) but that was a while ago, and I never thought they would actually get it for me! I had already played on a friend's, so I knew what to do right away and played on it for a few days. Then my parents asked to be shown how to use it and they played on it for a few hours o___o Very strange experience. It must be the first time my father has ever played a video game, and the first console game my mum could play (I have tried to indoctrinate her a couple of times, but to no avail... not that I think she even tried). So, fun for all the family! Well done Miyamoto-san, you hit the mark! ... Next-gen graphics would be nice on a next-gen console though >_>

Anyway, it was around now that I started feeling sick. The next morning I felt too ill to get up (luckily it was a teacher-training day, so I didn't have to go in anyway) and ended up being sick and having diarrhoea every half hour for the rest of the day! So my mum gets back home around 8pm and decided to call the hospital to see what they think and they ask us to come in. The nurse tells me that I have Gastroenteritis and it will hang around for a few more days. Marvellous.
So basically I spend 70 hours in bed, not eating a thing with an empty stomach and missed the next few days of college. I've only really started feeling better today, 4 days later. Relatively short, but on the first day it felt like I had Appendicitis again.

So, my art seems to be moving again. I may not be finishing pictures quickly, but more are getting drawn (inked) and started (sketched), as well as my photography project. I've only uploaded two pictures in relation to that... but that's genuinely because I have only 'done' a few... and the deadline is in a week. Yeah, I'm screwed
So hopefully you'll be seeing a lot more of me around here! Hopefully I still have a few people watching me to care xD

Geez, so many things I need to finish... some Fanart too, which is all most people seem to be interested in Got some Full Metal Alchemist, Zelda and Naruto in the works... some of it has been for years now O-o I need to step up and start finishing things!
... It's such a hassle to scan A3 pictures though. Oh yes. A3. BIG Link. BIG Sasuke. BIG Edward Elr-.... well, not 'so' big.

Ed: WHAT?? WHO ARE YOU CALLING SMALLER THAN THE HEAD OF A PIN?!

No, no, nothing, no one...

So for the moment I'm trying to catch up on people's journals, after cutting a huge 100 deviation chunk off the total I need to look at in one go. Sorry everyone! I'll try not to take much longer >_<

Until next time, take care!
See You Space Cowboy
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So, for the first time since way-back when I joined, I have changed my avatar. I felt it was definitely time to move away from this childish 'dragonballz fan' image I sickeningly adopted when I joined, and while I can't change my account name, I will certainly try to change everything else that I can.
Yes, I like anime. Yes, I still regard DBZ as a classic. However I do NOT want people judging my art before they've even seen it through some misassumption brought on my by name/avatar.

So, welcome to the new me. The new 'SS2-Gohan' (unfortunately). People may have noticed a shift from art to photography... while this is not intentional, I find it quite a lot easier to upload photographs than to scan and upload drawings - especially considering the long time it makes me to finish them. I can't apologise enough for that... I'm very busy and suffering heavily from depression, so very little is getting done. I'm behind on my homework, coursework and reading for college, so drawing finds little time for when I 'can' be bothered to do something. But to be honest I don't know why I'm mentioning this, because no one actually cares about me on here anymore... too much inactivity has caused people to loose interest. Which is a shame, but I suppose I only have myself to blame for that.

Anyway, I would like to point out that the image in my avatar (and soon my ID too) is NOT my own work. It was a picture drawn by my close friend ~Mitsuko-Mitsukai for me, of the personification of my nickname: Moku. Long story. But please check out her page - she's amazingly fantastic... never will I know a better artist or someone who is so guaranteed to succeed.

Thanks for reading!

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So yes! New deviations - it's been a while. Two pictures taken during my current Photography A2 course, under the project title 'Movement'. It's not much, but today I hit a major creativity vein and fully inked two and began inking another of my current WIPs. As it is usually the inking that takes the longest for getting around to, then you should be seeing some more work uploaded soon!
All I can say is thank gods for half term!

Besides that, things are crap as usual, so no reason to get into it. I'm behind on all my work and I've been missing out on classes, but hopefully I can get myself to catch up this week... but history proves I'm not very good at doing that.

In DA news, people are uploading deviations as fast as I attempt to look through them, so I'm still just under 200 pictures behind and around 30 journals to look through. Never has there been an activity so soul destroying, yet interesting at the same time. Got to love DA for that <3

Anyway, thanks for hanging around, if anyone (besides Saph) still watches me. I know, I suck... but if I get into the Creative Writing course for Uni, then hopefully that will jump-start my art juices too. And if I don't add a new entry before the 31st, Happy Halloween!
Take care x

So, I'm back at college and stressing out as usual. However, my less active moments in the day have been filled with doodling, so at least some art is in production at the moment.
Inspiration is hitting me like droplets from a dried up spring. But I'm hoping my creativity will be renewed soon - I've sketched out a new picture already and continued on some older ones. I know I'm slow and I know most of my watchers must have forgotten about me because I haven't uploaded in so long... and all I can do is apologise. I wish I were more active, and I feel like I'm letting everyone down who's been kind enough to watch me up to this point. I recently bought Spore and it has hit a creative note in me (although I'm somewhat disheartened when I found my profile for the main game was unconnected to the profile I had in the Creature Creator Trial, so I've lost the fleet of creations I had on that account... they're still in the world, but just not attributed to me *sigh*) and I can only hope it will migrate onto paper, or by any means get onto DA.

I scanned a pen-sketch I did at college between lesions - a rough costume test and a selection of hair styles that could be found within Dirge. I will upload it very soon and add a link to this entry (because I'm that desperate for people to see I'm not dead) since it will probably go straight into Scraps.

Anyway, thanks for reading, and I hope I can come up with some goods to show you guys soon. If you have any other questions, just ask ^^

[Update]
Dirge Costume & Hairstyles Sketch - [link]

I have also uploaded a number of other sketches to my Scraps sections, and I urge you to go take a look :] Thank you!

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Hello all,

My holiday was definitely an experience that I will not forget for some time:
* Plane journey there was delayed by 9 hours
* The friend-who-I-was-staying-with's grandma got sick when I arrived and had to go to hospital. This meant she had to stay at home while her mother went to visit her grandma, because someone had to keep any eye on her ill father. This made the environment very stressful.
* Throughout the holiday it rained a lot and was probably one of the worst summers Canada has seen for a while.
* A few days in I got appendicitis and spent 5 days in hospital (half the holiday lost), with mobility problems for a few days both sides. The hospitals fees cost in excess of 5000$CAD, but LUCKILY I was insured.
* On the last day of the holiday, my girlfriend dumped me online.

So as far as I'm concerned, pretty much everything that could have gone wrong, DID go wrong. However, I'm very happy I got to see all my Canadian friends again, and there were some great moments to that holiday too.
I'm currently feeling a hell of a lot better after the surgery, and I will be left with a scar over an inch long, which is kinda cool. However, after leaving my friends and my ex- leaving me, I can't help but realise just how alone I really am here, at home.

Anyway, suffice it to say I'm fairly depressed, so my artistic output will be down - I can't really be bothered to do much. And then I should be doing college work so... yeah, I'm going back to college soon too. Oh, and I think my AS grades suck, but hopefully they're enough to carry onto A2.

That's pretty much all for now. I hope you're all doing better than me! Take care.

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