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JenJens-Journey
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[2007-04-29 19:17:13 +0000 UTC]
"Jennie Gyllblad"
(United Kingdom)
# Statistics
Favourites: 20; Deviations: 223; Watchers: 160
Watching: 42; Pageviews: 24492; Comments Made: 410; Friends: 42
# Interests
Favorite visual artist: David Mack, Shaun Tan, Egon Shiele and many many more. French Graphic Novel painters!Favorite movies: District 9.
Favorite bands / musical artists: Too many to list.
Tools of the Trade: watercolour, gouache, ink, pencil, collage bits.
Other Interests: Drawing, Painting, Sculpting, Gaming, Graphic Novels, Comics, Tribal Belly Dance, Music. Birds.
# About me
I paint things. Especially graphic novel things. Lots of things. All the time. Some say I'm a bit obsessive. Others say I'm just high on caffeine.Current Residence: England.
Favourite genre of music: Movie/Game Soundtracks. Rock. Folk. Alternative (like mum, Sigur Ros, Fever Ray)
Favourite style of art: Traditionally painted visual narratives.
# Comments
Comments: 95
hey, i just discovered you and i am really impressed by your work, every painting or drawing of yours is very beautiful and unique.
you've got your own amazing style.
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AAAAH! I have been looking for you forever! Every time I type in Belly Dancer on the google search ONE of your pieces pops up unacredited! Woop! *watches*
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Thank you 
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I rarely make comments in others' profiles, but I feel compelled to do so.
Your artwork, especially the RPG book illustrations are nothing but Epic. Just wonderful. Words cannot begin to describe how amazing they are, awe inspiring indeed.
Few can draw things that actually give out a feeling. In your case however, your pictures have an incredible atmosphere...
Enough of my flattery. Here goes to all of your wonderful artwork m'lady. It is utterly inspiring.
Tl;Dr ~ Your artwork is fantastic, 'nuff said. Keep it up.
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Whoops! realized I had actually uploaded the others yesterday already, so ignore what I said about uploading more right now
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Wow! Thank you so much
Means a lot to me to hear someone say that. <3
The RPG illustrations are mostly for Swedish companies, but I've also done some for a UK company. Will be adding more of them now. Didn't want to upload 3902320 images in one night!
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I have 7, they're freakin' awesome :3
I like your comic also.
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Wow
thanks!
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Wow, impressive artwork... InSANEly impressive artwork! and at the same time, depressing... How come artists this good have less views and exposure on deviantArt, than the people that post really lazy MS paint anime traces, and video game screen caps? That's very concerning.
Anyways, yes, amazing art, hope you don't mind me watching you!
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! <3
Wow. Thank you so much!
Watch as much as you like my dear
Don't expect much anime/fan art though ;D
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Yo'ere!
I've been enjoying skal so far, but there is one thing that particularly bothers me: it's going way too slow.
I'm not telling you should draw faster...no no! But i would suggest you to reconsider the way you've been displaying your work.
See, one page at each week or so works well in comics such as, say, Order of the stick, since even if there is a continuous storyline, every comic closes a gag/joke.
But in a graphic novel model..i don't know... I'm a big fan of hellboy, and if i had to read each page a week that would surelly cut off the whole dynamic of it.
Perhaps i'm just beenig foolish and naive due my inexperience as an artist...but i'm pretty sure of what i am saying as a reader! I believe that releasing diferent chapters instead of pages would work better and you wouldn't loose your public.
o/
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Yeah. The issue with doing full stories in a graphic novel format, is that you don't have a gag or similar on the end of each page. It's problem that I've been thinking about a lot. 
I mean, take pretty much ANY graphic novel, break it down into individual pages and give a reader one page per week. It IS going to break flow. It IS going to feel slow, even if the scene being shown is this fast paced chase scene.
I've released about 9 pages so far, I think? If you had the story in your hand, complete first chapter, you'd read 9 pages in like 2 minutes or something
The most successful online stories have worked for years sometimes, and thus built up an archive of several chapters which new readers can plow through without breaking the flow.
Skal is my own experiment that I'm doing to test my own ability. So it wasn't created with a higher purpose than that. Or planned more than that. It's free to read online if people want to. If it goes well, I might try to print a whole chapter as it's finished and see if it reads differently when its in your hand as an uninterrupted story.
But right now, it's in the middle of being created. So in a way, I'm throwing out my story-pages fresh without holding anything back. People reading it now are with it from the very infancy.
If you feel like it breaks flow to read one page per week, do what another person I know is doing and leave it for a few weeks, then come back and read several updates in one go
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Well, it stands like a fan archive or something like that XD (it's like, when you get famous, i'll tell people i used to read your weekly spread pages!).
but yeah, skal is your first shot. And while i still can't get -much- of the plot (because er...well, there are nine pages), it looks great, honestly. Your style is pretty much unique.
-i'll keep watchin' ya
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Bahaha xD
I expect to learn a LOT from this. Already have. It's a really fun experiment to do on the side of 'serious' work.
Thanks for the compliment
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Jen! I'm really glad to find you here
In case you might remember, i've used to play in arelith under this same figtree-esque alias.
Your work is really astounding, i'll be sure to check up your updates around here
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Of course I remember you
Thanks so much for zeh compliments <3
I've been a bit... inactive, but I'm kinda back now
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You've got some absolutely brilliant photographs. Very inspiring when I need a boost to draw people
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Thank you for the watch; I am honored and I am very happy to have met you.I keep following your wonderful work!
HugsXXXXX
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Whee! Thank you so much!
I know it was a very brief meeting, and in the end I didn't even get in to the portfolio previews that Valia managed to get. 
Oh well.
Next year! More conventions!
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Don't worry! You are so gifted that it is absolutely impossible that you do not get excellent opportunities. Your work is FANTASTIC, there is no reason to worry. I am very happy to have met you, Valia and I were admiring your work for about one hour or even more and I am never tired to watch your awesome, great art.
I keep in touch with you; if there is something I can do for you, please let me know.
Lots of hugs.
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Thank you so much!
I promise I will be more active here from now on.
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The world will know about you.Just a question of time...
It was delightful to meet you.
Hugs+++++
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yay! now you're my friend on here as well! great stuff hunny! speak to ya soon!
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Wohoo! *does a little dance*
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Congratulations! 
And don't forget to fave so more people can see your art ^_^
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Halo...... XD...mm how cain i tell....
first, my english sucks!!!!!
Second.... yai..... mi nickname is Nebo, so..is so creepy taht dog have my name..sooooo..... i dunno... is rare......
And...... nothing....you are so Moe.... n///n ...... a Meganekko.... cute!
....cya
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Man, I've not been on DA for a while but what a treat to come back on and see all the new and awesome stuff you've done
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Oooh! Thank you!
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Jenny, Jen Jen, Deviant Watch me or suffer the dire consequences. it's Frankster xxx
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Hug? I'm a macho man, not a sensitive woman. I'll stand with my hands in on hips, hero style, and then proceed to punish you in a way so fowl I can't print it here. However you have Watched me therefore you avoid the chastising.
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Bad naughty mental images.
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Your graphics are wonderfull !!!
It's strange that you've got only 1000 pageviews.
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Maybe God of Deviantart hates me.
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Maybe he hates the glasses in your id pic.
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