MoonlitBloo

WHOA!  She's still ALIVE?!  Why yes...yes I am ^^.  I do apologize for the nearly 3 year (!) hiatus.  I'm kicking my butt into gear and will continue to be more dedicated to uploading to this site!  ...but not on this account.  This account was fun, and houses most of my high school and early college work, but I feel like I've grown out of this gallery and decided to create a new one.  I'm currently writing a journal entry about my absence, what I've been up to, and what's in the future (Half Breed reboot anyone?).  Overall, this gallery was great, and I hope those of you who are subscribed to me will subscribe to my new gallery so you can see my new work!  Thanks for everything guys, and I'll see you on my new gallery!!

Here's the link:

So I've been away from here for a while...idk, I'm just kind of irritated at this "community" as a whole.  I've tried to reach out to other artists and I've been nothing short of snubbed.  According to this "community", being a real artist means being completely self taught and not investing any time or money for art classes to further improve skills.  Yes people...someone ACTUALLY said this to me in a chat room on here and let me tell you, it fueled some rage inside, as I am currently enrolled in art school and I take great offense to this.  That's just been eating away at me for a while and it's kind of giving me a bad impression of this site after being here for almost 3 years.  

Another reason I've been away?  Well, art school...it consumes my soul...and my free time.  I took a fair amount of foundation art classes at my community college, but it wasn't enough, and I was stuck in more all last semester.  Therefore I couldn't do anything I wanted to do, nothing to do with my major, and was stuck with a bunch of cranky freshman who would bitch that "they don't do traditional art, I'm an exquisite photographer" or some hoakey artsy fartsy bullshit that I so despise.  So I really don't have anything I'm comfortable scanning in, plus I'm at a never ending war with Photoshop...digital art is flipping HARD!  But despite my rant about DA in the first paragraph of this journal, I would like to get more art up for y'all to gander at.  *Sigh* I really wish more people would read journals on this site -.-.

Anyways, back to the main title of this journal.  Upon finishing my first semester at my new art school, I had a total and complete meltdown.  Upon recovering from this meltdown, I re-read Half Breed and couldn't help but be very disappointed in it.  I felt there were a lot of plot holes and hazy information in the chapters, and I'm currently kicking my barely there ass about it.  So I've decided I will leave the remaining chapters up until I completely re-write the story, then I will upload the new chapters and put the rest in the scraps section of my gallery.  This story is like my baby, and I'm very upset that I didn't put a lot of time and effort into it, and wrote some chapters by just not caring or being half asleep or whatever.  I want to put my all into this, and I want to further expand this world that my characters live in.  And I really hope you enjoy it in the end ^^






P.S.  I highly recommend EVERYONE go see James Cameron's "Avatar."  Not only is it breathtakingly beautiful and touching, but it's very artistically inspiring as well ^^

Yes, it hasn't been too terribly long since I updated this journal (I try and go for once a month) but I just thought I'd let you guys know (hopefully you care!) that I am alive and well!

I recently moved to Grand Rapids, MI, which is all the way across the state for me (I'm from the Detroit area...the good part, not the bad ^^) so I'm 3 hours away from my family and stuff.  I've adjusted quite well, I cried for literally 5 minutes, then proceeded to dance around my apartment in victorious huzzahs and such (thank God my roommates weren't there!).  

Classes here are a lot of fun, but veeeeery time consuming.  There's tons more homework than there ever was at my community college, so that's taking some adjusting to, since I'm usually a procrastinator.  Hence one of my reasons I haven't really updated, and I feel terrible about it!  Also, my laptop seems to not like printers, and every printer I've tried connecting it to...gah, it just hasn't read it.  Thus no printer means no scanner, meaning I can't scan in my pretty pictures for your viewing pleasure and such.  Which makes me a sad NyboR

So the whole printer/scanner fiasco and the fact that I'm incredibly busy means I haven't had time to update.  I will still be continuing with "Half Breed," as I have a few loyal readers (you know who you are and I love you guys!) and I don't want to disappoint them.  

So yeah...just a quick little update letting you know I'm alive and plan on updating once I get my printer/scanner working, which I plan on getting that resolved very soon.  

Have a nice day guys, and thanks for stopping by!!

Comments + Faves = A Very Happy NyboR, so leave the love!

Yeah and woe...I be alive!  Sorry I haven't really been updating regularly, I feel so bad >.<.  I've been so incredibly uninspired lately it's sickening, plus I'm moving in two weeks to the other side of the state for school, so I've been busy taking inventory, packing, buying things for my new place, etc.  I'd also like to take the time and blame the most evil video game for consuming most of my summer: Final Fantasy 8.  Oooooh Final Fantasy 8...you took away my summer and for that, I don't know whether to love you or hate you.  Probably the hardest video game I've ever played in my life, it was frakkin' ridiculous!

But enough of that...congrats to for getting a free commission from me for responding to my last journal entry!  Huzzah!

And as usual, if anyone knows of any good tutorials, inspiring things, tips, etc, don't be shy and send them my way!  Thanks for watching me and have a great day ^^

P.S.  I've also signed up to be a part of , a sketchbook that is being sent around the world!  Check them out if you please ^^

Okay before I get into this journal entry, I have to give a big thanks to for linking my gallery in her journal.  She's been a long time reader of "Half Breed" and when I told her that I wasn't getting a lot of feedback from my story and was kind of bummed about it, she happily linked my gallery and advised everyone to read it, resulting in a lot of feedback.  So thank you so so much dear!!!

Anyways, down to business.  Some of you might've noticed that I've enabled prints on some of my pieces, so putting any on a wishlist or even buying them would be totally sweet.  And if there's a deviation that you would like made a print, just note me or leave me a comment or something ^^

I've also been considering doing commissions as well.  Before the summer started, I had two jobs.  And when summer started, I was laid off from both of them.  I live in Michigan, and the economy is the worst in the country right now, and we're also the state with the #1 unemployment rate.  To be honest, it's extremely devastating, especially in Detroit.  But despite all that depressing dribble p00p, I would absolutely loooooove to do commissions.  And as a special treat, the first person to comment this journal will get a FREE commission from me ^^.  Huzzah!!!

Lastly (since there really isn't much to update on) I've been having a bit of a phobia with Photoshop as of late.  Of course I have no problem editing my pictures in CS3, but the whole digital art thing has me freaked out.  So if anyone could give me some tips or recommend some good Photoshop tutorials, that would be just swell!

I hope you guys are enjoying everything you see in my gallery, and I hope you leave comments/faves for they make me happy.  Have a nice day