Recent personal matters (the details of which I would prefer not to discuss) have taken my attention away from making more art, as of lately, and unfortunately there were a few projects that were time sensitive. For one, I had promised three of my non-dA friends that I was going to do drawings for them. I don't always post that kind of stuff on here, but still, I had made these promises months ago. I also have an exchange for ~Mermafied which I'm sure is over-due, so my apologies go out to ~ScytheDragon. I plan on locking myself in my room with my paper, my pencils, and my research to get everything done over the weekend.

Once I get all of my commissions done, I'm going to get back to pursuing my own interests. Lately, I've been wanting to do some fan art...as if this site doesn't have enough of that already. The difference is that I want to do characters that are more obscure, lesser known. No Harry Potter, no Transformers, no Naruto...like I said, dA has enough of such things.

That being said, I have a confession to make...I was a huge fan of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles back in the day. Yes, I know, they were meant for the boys, but I didn't care. I had the t-shirts, I went and saw the movies, and I even had the action figures. As bizarre as it sounds, I played with Leonardo, Donatello, Raphael, and Michaelangelo right along with my Barbie dolls. Go figure. Anyways, I had a few of the sidekicks and villains to go along with them, and my favorite was a character named Ray Fillet. The story goes that he was a marine biologist who somehow got himself turned into a crime-fighting mutant manta ray. How could I not like this guy? With 80s cartoon characters becoming cool again, and the most recent version of the TMNT movie that came out last spring, I've been thinking that old Ray needs some representation. My toy is long lost, but I've tracked down some pics on Google to use as reference.

Also, I want to try illustrating scenes and designing characters from books that I've read. I particularly want to draw from a book by Jimmy Buffett, "Tales from Margaritaville." You don't have to be a fan of his music to like this book. Anyone with a sense of adventure and a thirst for travel will enjoy it. One character that always amuses me from this book is Romeo Flemming, the head football coach for Heat Wave, AL's local high school who has a thing for Hawaiian shirts and pet iguanas. My kind of guy. There is another scene in the book that describes a mural that is painted on the wall of Clark Gable's cattle barn which suggests his closesness to the sea. If you are completely confused by anything that's written in this paragraph, all I can say is to read the book.

Well, that's it and I'm done. Until next time...

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I'd like to indroduce y'all to my friends. They're watching me...

These are the people that I know outside of DA:


A few of the crazy cool kids from ~Mermafied


My buddies from *BioMarina:


A fellow Parrothead from the ~parrotheads club:


More really cool peeps that I've met here on DA:


These are the clubs that I'm in: