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[2007-06-15 00:13:12 +0000 UTC]
"Terri Muharsky"
(United States)
# Statistics
Favourites: 70; Deviations: 151; Watchers: 12
Watching: 20; Pageviews: 10216; Comments Made: 170; Friends: 20
# Interests
Favorite bands / musical artists: Nickle Creek, PlumFavorite writers: Steven Brunst
Favorite games: Fable 2
Favorite gaming platform: XBox 360
Tools of the Trade: Photoshop CS2, 3DS Max 9
Other Interests: video games, anthropology, film
# About me
Current Residence: WashingtondeviantWEAR sizing preference: 16W
Favourite genre of music: songwriter/folk
Favourite style of art: illustrative
Operating System: Vista 64-bit
Skin of choice: uninjured, some freckles
# Comments
Comments: 27
Thank you for taking a look at my gallery! I appreciate your encouragement.
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^^
It's np Your gallery has a... cool nice interesting feel/style to it.
Oh and how are you today?
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Hey Terri,
It's Darrel from school. I've had me a DA page for about a month now and figured I'd stop by. I don't have near as much stuff as you do at the moment. My stuff is pretty much works in progress. I've got about 15 pages of comic work that I well by showing the progression from pencils to inks to colors and so on.
I think once I get some colored stuff posted I'll be getting more hits...I hope. Peoples do likes the colors.
Any way...just saying hi...stop by the page and check stuff out. Oh hey, is it me or has school became more of a pain in the butt? I mean I keep having to buy friggin 3DS MAX every damn year. I just opened that sucker up yesterday and it says that I only have 19 days left to use it. Have you been able to find a copy of it that doesn't have only a 1 year license?
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Hi, Darrel!
Nope, sorry. I got the student licensed version from the bookstore for $400. I spent some saved up holiday gift money to get it. I wish I could help you out on this one. Software company marketing geniuses are all in league with Satan.
It's good to have you drop by! I haven't been here, myself, in ages. Nothing new to be able to post or worth posting, I guess. Not that I'm very happy with much of anything in my gallery, currently. But I've accepted that I have achieved a stable level of mediocrity that is, at least, inoffensive.
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Hey Terri,
I took your advice on the whole software thing (Where's my eyepatch! Arrgh! Ya darn right Arrgh!) and now have full versions of 3Ds Max 2009, Photoshop CS4, and Illustrator CS4. So damn the man I'm good for the rest of the school I have left. I just hope I can make it to December of next year.
Heck, I have no idea what I'm going to do once I get this degree. Me and the wife are hoping that I can score a job somewhere in the Washington area because her sister lives up there. I really feel I'm going to have to improve massively though. I feel I really stink at animating and 3D modelling. Heck, even my art is so so, but who knows right?
I'm honestly glad (and this sounds weird) that me and the wife filed bankruptcy. It wiped out $36,000 dollars of my private student loans. I was psyched in all honesty. So I get a nice half priced degree! YAY!
Maybe my comic book company will actually take off and I can do that for a living and then later start hiring video game people to put out games for me. I'll be the next George Lucas just without the wookie hairdo and beard.
Here's to hoping. I've been working on this dang comic thing for months now, putting in 16 hours a day so I hope it goes somewhere LOL. I really need to get some more artists in on this. My hands are starting to hurt from drawing so much!
Anyways...that's my rant. OH! By the way I read your story of Milly the grim reaper. Awesome stuff. You're a very talented writer as well as artist. Just keep it up. The only way you get somewhere is by moving forward, right?
Laters!
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Oof. Bankruptcy. Dude. I hope that doesn't haunt you. Artists have the shittiest position in the race to fame and fortune, I swear. Good hopes for your comic book! Storyboards are a big market, if I remember correctly from all of the career research done for various classes. And that's a great place for a comic book artist to go, I think. You already work in panels! No freedom for sizing panels, of course, but compositionally, you've got the edge.
I'm still looking at paying my tuitions in full as soon as a I graduate. Fortunately, I'll do anything. I think I can, anyway. Washington state is a great place for gamers. Better than Texas, I think, if only because the commutes are shorter and its so much prettier here. I'm hopeful! (Even though I suck at interviews...)
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Heya folks! Added to the fave list is a portrait of our faithful Watcher, Kazanthi! Give it up! She's lookin' beautiful as always. Remember folks: never, ever call her a "cow."
Back to work, you maggots! The holidays are over.
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0_o ...also, I know I watched you. But the little thingy is saying I'm not. Stupid thingy. *fixes*
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*sniff* You like me. *laughs* And this is a bit *coughlotscough* late on my part, but that's pretty much as usual. *chuckles*
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very nice gallery you have here and I LOVE your avatar
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I took a look at your gallery, too, and that's some gorgeous work you've done! Once upon a time, I had tasked myself to learn how to draw Seattle-area Indian tribal art, but life got in the way. Ooh, hey! Could you possibly send me a few pointers and fundamentals about your approach? Its all so fantastically abstract and aboriginal, yet so formalized. Why the limited color palette, anyway?
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thanks
the limited colours is from me trying to keep my work more traditional and back before european contact most northwest tribes used mainly black and red paint and used the colour of whatever they were painting on, some tribes also had some greens and blues. I have experimented with different colours before but they often dont look quite right to me and I love how red and black go together.
as for pointers for my approach I am self taught but I grew up surrounded by these shapes my entire life so they have had a huge infuence on me and how I approach it now is hard to explain since it has got to the point where I just draw. however when I first started out I used some northwest coast art book for reference and since you live near seattle you should have no problem finding any, the main one i used was called learning by design or something. I can explain more but I should get back to work.
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Congratulations to Jonsibal on winning the "Skin a Scion" contest! He certainly deserves it, although there were many beautiful entries! Way to think outside the box, Jonsibal, and claim your fantastic prize!
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Impressive gallery, and I know the feeling of being a perennial art student.
On a side note, you *do* have a journal feature for your page, just so you know.
Oh, and welcome to 
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Lately, I've been scanning around various Deviant artists, looking at all the prettiness and cursing my own lack of talent in comparison. An exercise in masochism to be sure, but it's also been an inspiring journey. I've been in the depths of despondancy and depression for the last several months, unable to find a direction for my work or to focus on anything in particular. School has had me expending my energies in so many directions at once that I've forgotten the simple, pure joy of just drawing. Pencil and paper, eraser (or course) and a few hours of trial and error to make an image look its best.
I've noticed with many of my favorite artists that mechanical pencils are a favored medium. "Strange," I thought to myself, having been cultivated and domesticated into the school of arts on the premise of using drawing pencils. You know the kind: they come in little tins and are arranged in an array of soft to hard leads and cost too much. Mechanical pencils, on the other hand, are cheap and plastic and very disposable.
But I'm a convert. I've been having a lot of fun lately and its all thanks to mechanical pencils. I can't imagine why I've never tried them before! They're easy to work with, easy to erase, are always reasonable "sharp" and they're inexpensive.
And so, faithful watchers, my gallery will be filling with scans of character drawings done entirely in mechanical pencils, for a while. It's nothing indicative of my long-term style direction. In fact, it is a digression into the halcion glory of drawing simply for the pleasure of it.
Art should be a pleasure to pursue. School ruined that for me, to some degree. It's nice to be finding my old groove again.
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I've figured out the secret to getting page hits on Deviant Art: sexy avatars. Apaprently, my little totem frog just can't compete with Llourn's fabulous ass-in-motion.
I may have to do more sexy pictures. Darn you all!
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Gaming employers: please don't any sudden influx of hedonism reflect poorly on me. I like to think of it as targeting my work toward the majority market.
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This weeks Fave theme: otter.
I think, each week, I will enter a random search word of some topic and feature two favorites from that theme.
You know. Just 'cause.
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Okay! My finger is feeling better and I'm feeling jazzed about getting back to work! I'll post up work as it comes along, at this point, since I'll be working on a self-motivated Unreal game level, just to flex my game art and level design muscles.
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Things are on hold, for a little while. I can't draw on my talet, and I can't hold a pencil or brush.
I went and smashed my right index finger in the door of my Highlander. Right on the tip! I mean this door -latched shut- on my finger. Smoosh. Somehow, it isn't broken, but...
Ugh. I'm fainting just remembering. I'm a complete wuss about my own pain.
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So far so good! A dozen or so more pieces to go, and I'll have up most everything that I think anyone might ever want to see. And then, huzzah, I get to work on expanding and finalizing many of the pieces you see here! It'l be interesting. Yes... very interesting...
*strokes chin in maniacle way*
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Hi ya! ^____^ It looks you have got a good start but if you need any help just ask k! Good luck!
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The time has come.
I've done too much school for my own good without having any degree to show for it. I've done my time in the Domestic Doldrums. I've played the world, been played, broken hearts and had it broken. Now it's time to put myself out there and it starts here.
This place - this artistic virtual Nirvana - will serve as my public hosting for what smattered, tattered and beautifully battered pieces of illustration I have to offer. Both a professional portfolio and a dumping ground of aesthetic nia culpa, I trust my deviance to find a home amidst others of like-minded divergence.
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