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It's been a few years since art school, so bear with me in my first dA critique. In this image EDI has been rendered with obvious care...

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This is just a way for people who are waiting for commissions to keep up to date on how things are going, etc, etc. I try to update this each time I do a chunk of work... though I do have a full time job, so please bare with me. ;)

:bulletyellow: Batarian journal skin for :iconxenowriter: - planning
:bulletgreen: art trade with :iconxrebel666x: - final drawing 80% complete
:bulletblue: Bookplates for :iconkatlinegrey: - sketched
:bulletblack: :iconmythlover20: commission - COMPLETED
:bulletblack: :iconshygravel: commission - COMPLETED
:bulletblack: etsy commission - COMPLETED
:bulletblack: etsy commission - COMPLETED
:bulletblack: :iconkatlinegrey: Garrus and Shepard commissions - Completed

AWAY Oct 12 - Nov 23

Starting in Jan

:bulletblack: anonymous saren commission - COMPLETED
:bulletblack: :iconxenowriter: Andromeda commission - COMPLETED
:bulletblack: lady-halibuts-convos commission - COMPLETED.
:bulletblack: :icon100-1d314: commission. - 85% complete
:bulletblack: anonymous Garrus commission - Sketched
:bulletblack: :iconkatlinegrey: Yuri Gagarin commission - COMPLETED
:bulletblack: Eva etsy commission - COMPLETED
:bulletblack: :iconbeaniebat: Shepard commission - COMPLETED
:bulletblack: anonymous stargazer commission
:bulletblack: :iconkatlinegrey: Neil Armstrong commission - sketched

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Unfinished drawings and WIP list, partially for my own reference:

:bulletgreen: xRebel666x contest entry - Complete
:bulletgreen: Garrus fighting reapers on Palaven - 20%complete
:bulletblack: Elcor portrait, posing with kitten - Completed
:bulletblack: PDME: Krogan Crunch - sketched
:bulletblue: PDME: Elevator Insubordination - COMPLETE
:bulletblack: PDME: Tali Untitled - sketched
:bulletblack: PDME: Tali Chamber of pain - sketched
:bulletblack: PDME: Zaeed - sketched
:bulletblack: PDME: Irresistible - COMPLETE
:bulletblack: Garrus and Shepard (parts 4-8) - started
:bulletblack: Garrus/Wrex wrestling a tiger - sketched
:bulletblack: Turians in Afterlife drinking from crazy straws - planned
:bulletblack: Apocalyptic Proposal - sketched
:bulletblack: Garrus, Tali and Shepard action shot w/ explosion - sketched
:bulletblack: Wrex eating a giant alien fish - sketched
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Tagged... like a dead body

Wed Apr 3, 2013, 8:02 PM
I'm going to actually do this right this time. I was more of a 'start the chain mail' type than a 'participate in the chain mail' type, mostly due to my ability to create really awful but plausible consequences for not answering my uncomfortable questions. Anyway.

There are some rules and junk which I may or may not adhere to, like post dem rules, write ten things about yourself, answer the taggers questions, make up some new ones, and then pass that madness on. I'm paraphrasing.

So ten things about me...

1. I drink probably 2-4 cans of diet pepsi a day because the water where I live tastes like four hundred homeless people bathe in it daily.
2. While I enjoy zombie movies and tv shows as much as the next person. And after a childhood of living on the corner of a deadly intersection and witnessing RL gore regularly (seriously I could tell you armless stories), blood and guts don't really faze me. Despite this, I cannot play zombie games. Any game where zombies are after me, shortens my life every minute I play because my heart is beating me to death from the inside. Honestly. Even the temple of the dead in Zelda: Ocarina of Time was too much.
3. I used to play the piano for crowds, but never for money. One day I decided to play that piano romance solo from ME3 and accidentally cried on myself. God dammit.
4. I have a terrible fear of algae, drains, lights and other objects in pools. I am ESPECIALLY afraid of those things that automatically clean your pool and click as they move around the bottom. Terrifying. Why? No idea. It's not rational at all. I'm not afraid of these things out of the water, not afraid of being sucked in, or electrocuted or anything. I just... feel like I'm going to die. This makes my life difficult because I like swimming. :(
5. I'm allergic to eggs. Which is sad, because I fucking love eggs.  
6. I have art in several professional collections, all of it under false names because I didn't qualify to enter the juried shows... I just, really needed the money at the time. Collecting the money was... complicated.
7. I once got high inside someone's art project.
8. Late at night I would go into people's studio cubbies in university and fake their art, then hang their fake art on their walls and then watch them come in the next morning and be confused.
9. I sleep walk, and regularly talk in my sleep. I have been at slumber parties where I fall asleep in a basement with friends and wake up the next morning in a room I've never seen before. At least my clothes are still on.
10. Rereading what I've just wrote, I admit I'm a little concerned for myself.


So here are my answers to :iconburningrayn:'s questions =D

1. Your biggest pet peeve, if someone does this or you are around when it happens you just want to scream?
Hmmm... People who narrate what they are doing. I have god damn eyes, and I can see you and have the option to NOT WATCH YOUR EVERY MOVE. But if you start DESCRIBING IT, looking away isn't going help me much. So don't make me listen to you describe your existence! For fuck sakes. Err sorry, got a little emotional there.  

2. Favorite quote?
CAN YOU DO ME A KINDNESS???
-Winnebago man.

Also all sorts of lines from Spaceballs. Were you guys expecting something deep? Bah!

3. Vampires, Demons, Witches or Werewolves? (or your favorite supernatural race/creature)
Ummmm... whichever tastes best on my bbq.

4. Shoes, socks or barefoot?
Barefoot in my home and outside it. Even in the winter, -25, when I have to get something from the car. I AM MADE OF STEEL BITCHES. No I'm not. I have the immune system of a paper airplane.  

5. Your best attribute? (Could be physical, mental, whatever)
I couldn't really tell you. I've been told I can be very charming, although I worry I'm more than a little abrasive.

6. Favorite cartoon? (could be anime, old school, new school)
Ren and Stimpy/Futurama

7. If there are special features on a DVD do you watch them? (I myself have watched all 12 hours of special features for the LotR Trilogy)
lolololol when you said special features I immediately thought of the LotRs dvds and then I kept reading! lol. Back in the day when I'd buy DVDs, I'd watch probably 30mins max of any special feature thing. I can't really watch movies anymore. Can't do only one thing. Must do many things at once. Must watch movie, listen to audio novel and draw.

8. Did you ever cheat on a test in school?
Hell yes. Cheating is part of every game, and you only fail if you get caught. Well, no, actually I cheat constantly at board games and cards, but I didn't really bother at school. Never saw the need.

9. Do you prefer your games to be set in the future or past? (ie Mass Effect vs Skyrim)
I like both... I sometimes find fantasy a little too defined by Tolkien and as such it tends to be a little more static and dry. Still fun though.

10. If you had one wish what would it be? ( and no wishing for more wishes you cheaters!)
I wish I could ban all forms of commercials. Everywhere. I FUCKING HATE COMMERCIALS GOD DAMMIT.



Err... not sure why I'm so angry tonight. Anyway. If you've read this far, and that's god damn impressive, I have questions for some poor suckers I'm going to tag.

1. You're trapped in a wooden box. You can't tell where the box is, but one corner is wet. Inside the box you have a lighter, a toothbrush, a shoe lace, ten pieces of gum and a book about chicken farming. How did you get there and how do you escape?

2. If you were transformed into a doll, what kind would you be?

3. The world is ending, what would be your final meal?

4. Cue the zombie apocalypse. What's your game plan? Do you stay in one place? Or set out into the wild brain eating yonder?

5. What's your embarrassing gaming indulgence/confession? Oh come on, we all have at least one. I stopped playing fable 2 after spending an evening getting men to fall in love with my character and then having group sex in a strangers house while the owner was telling me to leave.  

6. Grossest thing you ever ate?

7. You're the queen of a massive black ant colony. The red ants are encroaching on your dirt patch and log. The only other tasty rotting log is a two days march. The red ants are smaller, but out number your soldiers ten to one. You can stay and fight, but you'll have to sacrifice most of your worker population and many of your eggs will die. You will risk losing your entire colony if you fail, or you can try to escape and risk the two day walk to a new red ant-less frontier, a journey that may take most of the lives of your colony and possibly your own. What do you do?

8. Where do you see yourself at 45?

9. Chicken, fish, beef, or none?

10. Are you physically and mentally exhausted from my questions? If not, I have FAILED.


And finally, the poor folks I am going to tag:

:iconxrebel666x: :iconxenowriter::iconvulpeinculta::iconpadzi::iconmoonecho: :iconnette80::iconlordess-alicia: :iconkatlinegrey::iconersbethshadowsong: :iconskyward-dreamer:

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late to every party
Artist | Hobbyist | Traditional Art
Canada
Hmmm... classically trained artist who has been a corporate zombie for so long it is starting to rot my soul.

Thank god for video games.

Been all over the world, but always love coming home.

Spend my days programming and managing websites, nights I hold off the old ball 'n chain so I can write, draw... or game, depending on the weather.
Interests

I have a few Poorly Drawn Mass Effect comics that have been in the works for a while, which should I finish? 

28%
66 deviants said More Garrus
14%
33 deviants said Tali is lonely comic
13%
31 deviants said ME2 Thane Memory comic
11%
27 deviants said ME3 Javik comic
10%
23 deviants said More indoctrinated fish
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20 deviants said ME2 Grunt on Tuchunka comic
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16 deviants said ME2 Zaeed story time comic
7%
16 deviants said Stop making polls and draw
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7 deviants said ME1 inventory comic
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No deviants said PDME - meh

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*efleck Apr 22, 2013  Hobbyist Traditional Artist
oh GOD I AM A REAPER
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2 questions. Is your web cam Garrus taking it to the face againg? And, are you really late to every party?
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*efleck Apr 22, 2013  Hobbyist Traditional Artist
Garrus is indeed taking it to the face. And yes, I am late to every party. Always. But it's fashionably late. At least, that is what I tell myself. =D
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Mood: Wow! =Spyke1985 Apr 4, 2013  Student Digital Artist
I have to ask... Why is Violence, Voyeurism and Vigilantes not on DA? The writing for it is AMAZING, and I would've loved to have discovered it far sooner than I did. I had no clue you wrote. I have to say, you have more talent in your pinky finger than I will ever have in my entire being. I've been telling my DA friends about it, and they were just as absorbed by the story and writing as I am. Great stuff. :) Keep up the awesome work :D
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*efleck Apr 8, 2013  Hobbyist Traditional Artist
Good question... It's uhhh well, I started it well before I started drawing fanart. And it's... rather graphic, lol, so I don't know if it would be allowed on dA. Plus I'm a little embarrassed about it... hahahaha <-nervous laugh. It does need a serious proof read, which I've attempted to do, but I tend to skim read, so it's hard for me to catch the errors. And I haven't had the time to give it the love it deserves.

I've also got the final chapter 90% done. I had it ready last year, but then I lost the flash drive it was on, so I've had to rewrite it.

VVV is my dirty little secret ;)
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=Spyke1985 Apr 8, 2013  Student Digital Artist
My dear, VVV is the most well-written dirty little secret I've ever seen, and ALL of my friends agree. Most of us are writers, and we were all made to feel as if we were insignificant insects before a Goddess of literary prowess. I'm not joking, or exaggerating in the slightest. Your story deserves every inch of love (giggity) that it receives, and more.

The way you tell the story is the freshest, most unique thing I have ever seen in ME fan fiction. It reminds me greatly of some of the most intriguing books I've ever read, how it just sucks you in, and leaves you aching and whimpering in a corner, wishing desperately that there was more to be had if the amazing epoch you've been lucky enough to bear witness to.

If it seems like I'm gushing, it's because I am. I am not ashamed to admit it. Trust me, some of my friends gushed far worse than I am right now.

If you need someone to take on the honor of lovingly correcting any errors in it, I would be more than happy to take on the task. I have many references for my past beta and editing services, as well as ongoing 'jobs', should you require them. If you would rather not let anyone else touch it, I understand; but I am willing and able if you choose to do so.

Regardless, I thank you for sharing this wonderful story with us, and I do hope to see it either continued or completed in the near future, as you decide.

Also, as far as posting it dA, I really wouldn't worry about the smut issue. There is smut, as well as very violent and gory materials everywhere on dA; you just have to look. ~Zet-Sway's Thane drabbles are a perfect example of the smut. :) :P

Thanks again.

Spyke
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*efleck Apr 10, 2013  Hobbyist Traditional Artist
I never really considered there were more than a handful of people who had ever read it/enjoyed it. And don't worry, I like gushing :XD:. I'm not particularly confident in my writing, so it's always nice to hear. And well, I can take a lot of criticism about my art and drawing, and it really just rolls of my back. But if I ever do a search on VVV and find even one person complaining about parts of it or lol, commenting on how horrible the grammar is, I die a little inside. It's stupid, I know. I really shouldn't care, but it's a little sore spot for me.

So yeah, I'm much too insecure about the whole thing to let it see the light of day on dA. Perhaps I might put it on Stash and link it from somewhere deep deep inside my profile, lol :XD:

And if you are willing to take on the massive challenge of helping me correct errors, I would be forever in your debt. A few people have offered, but for some reason they never leave their contact info! You can even pre read the next chapter if you like =D

And thanks again for the morale boost ;) I appreciate it!
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