Well I have no interesting or creative way to express this, but I guess I'll do my best to.

Soli is not dead! Nor have I given up drawing or any other medium of art that I may have taken up at one point or another; I have merely been experiencing an art block of biblical proportions. OK, truth be told it's mostly just because I've been too lazy to actually put any thoughts or ideas down onto paper. >.=.> So! In an effort to thwart this art block/lethargic behavior, I have taken up the 100 Art Themes Challenge! 8D I know, totally original, right? Do wish me luck, I'm going to need it... I would greatly appreciate any support, I know I'm not the greatest artist in the world yet; but I'm going to do my best to get there.

On a side note, in my absence of dA, I joined the United States Army. I now handle communications at a brigade level, providing phone, internet, and other data services to almost 10,000 soldiers. When I set out to accomplish the 100 Art Themes Challenge, I was unaware of the upcoming deployment date of my unit. Within the next month of this post, I will be off to war in Iraq. Fret not my friend! For there is no need to worry, I will not be in any danger, this I assure you all. I will have access to the phone and internet; but it will be limited. In the downtime that I'm certain to experience, I will put my efforts towards tackling every one of those themes and, in one way or another, publishing them to dA. Without a scanner, everything will probably just be a picture from my digital camera; but it takes incredible pictures, so the quality will not be poor. I no longer have a working version of Photoshop, nor any kind of tablet interface with my computer. My HP tablet laptop was literally broken in three pieces, and no, it was not the severing of the monitor from the base. The monitor, and the keyboard/base were snapped in half. But I am saving up to get Photoshop CS4, and a Wacom tablet; but neither one of those may be in my grasp any time soon.

I have already sketched a few of the themes already, and more should be done soon. Expect to see results soon! I may even post one or two of them before I am done here today. I apologize for the lengthy journal entry, there were a few points I had to address and I wanted it to be known that I am not as ill-hearted as my absence may have led some to believe.

Looking forward to the bumpy ride, I say farewell for now! ^.=.^

Deh-hurgen vurden sha-hurtz


Sorry, I needed something that wasn't so generic as, "Happy Thanksgiving!"

I have some kind of gland in my body that just OOZES with originality when people become mundane and predictable...

Anyway, have a great Leif Erikson Day!

Society has forgotten what Veteran's Day is and what it stands for. I needed a reason to post a new journal, so this is it.

I know it's almost two days late, but still. Veteran's Day is more than just a day off from work or school. It's about remembering those whom have been or were lost at war. So let's take a moment and remember them, for they are not lost so long as we do not forget.

Oky, that's enough of that, now onto the more eventful stuffs.

We've been working on our finals project for some time now in my animation class, and I must say; low-poly modeling is a pain in the arse. Still, it's TOTALLY worth the effort. I think I'll have a final product done by tomorrow or the following day. Depending on how much time Mr. Shiro gives us to work tomorrow.

Two of the models I've been working in depth on, one for *Lintufriikki's conest, and a gift for *Tusami were on my flash drive. Low-and-behold, I go and lose my freaking flash drive!

SO, I had to go back to somewhere around square two for those two models. Cause I didn't keep up-to-date caches of them on my desktop computer. I suppose in one way or another it's a good thing though. Now I have learned my lesson and keep a constant cache of my .max files on my lappy, flash drive, and my desktop. Also, I now have better looking models than I did before. Woo!

Anyway, that's the update, so expect some uploads in the near future.

To take the 100 theme art challenge!

I discovered a while ago that I desperately need some kind of topic to work off from before my creative skittles will kick in. Therefore I have taken it upon myself to face this 100 art themes challenge! While I am going to try and do them chronologically, we'll just have to see how long it takes me to skip ahead to a different one.

0/100

THE LIST:
1. Introduction
2. Love
3. Light
4. Dark
5. Seeking Solace
6. Break Away
7. Heaven
8. Innocence
9. Equality
10. Breathe Again
11. Memory
12. Friendship
13. Misfortune
14. Smile
15. Silence
16. Questioning
17. Blood
18. Rainbow
19. Gray
20. Fortitude
21. Backstabber
22. Mother Nature
23. Cat
24. No Time
25. Trouble Lurking
26. Tears
27. Foreign
28. Sorrow
29. Happiness
30. Rain
31. Flowers
32. Night
33. Expectations
34. Stars
35. Hold My Hand
36. Hexagram
37. Eyes
38. Abandoned
39. Dreams
40. Rated
41. Teamwork
42. Standing Still
43. Dying
44. Two Roads
45. Illusion
46. Family
47. Creation
48. Childhood
49. Stripes
50. Breaking the Rules
51. Disaster
52. Deep in Thought
53. Keeping a Secret
54. Upside down
55. Waiting
56. Danger Ahead
57. Sacrifice
58. Kick in the Head
59. No Way Out
60. Rejection
61. Fairy Tale
62. Magic
63. Web
64. Shadow
65. Horror
66. Traps
67. Playing the Melody
68. Hero
69. Annoyance
70. Perspective
71. Obsession
72. Machine
73. I Can't
74. Are You Challenging Me?
75. Mirror
76. Broken Pieces
77. Test
78. Drink
79. Starvation
80. Words
81. Pen and Paper
82. Can You Hear Me?
83. Heal
84. Heart
85. Spiral
86. Seeing Red
87. Food
88. Pain
89. Through the Fire
90. Anger
91. Drowning
92. All That I Have
93. Give Up
94. Last Hope
95. Creature
96. In the Storm
97. Power
98. Puzzle
99. Solitude
100. Relaxation

*gasp* I know! Shock and awe! I've had like the HUGEST art block I've ever witnessed. I've doodled, but none of it seemed worth posting. Maybe I'll slap it all together sometime and toss it into the mix...

I have inspiration now! That could be considered the prime reason for the hiatus. That or I'm just lazy.

Expect great things *cough*quote*cough cough*