wabitgirl

Well, it's been...four years now?

Weird. 

Anyway, I've been gone a long time, more or less. I come by now and again, just to look at things and occasionally exchange a word or two with an old friend, but for the most part, I'm not here anymore.

I don't really write anymore, nor do I make poetry or take pictures. The fire for art that I used to have to share, the vanity that I felt about my old pieces and the pride I had in my work, that's all gone, completely. I don't really expect to get that back, but I am trying to, eventually, figure out a way to get back into the process of making art again. If anything good pops up, I may post it here, but I'll probably forget. Anyway, I'm not really sure if anyone reads these, much less on an account that has been dead for four years, but I hope that any of you reading this are well.

Perhaps I'll see you all again.

Perhaps not.

All the best,

wabitgirl

So I get to this point with art at some points in time where I just feel the need to delete all of my filters and fucking cuss the hell out of some of the incompetent, douchebaggy, idiotic, fucking unskilled and retarded artists who post pictures of themselves nude, pictures of their ass or tit cleavage with no lighting or composition, often using their goddamn stupid ass web cams and the like to do it. Grainy, annoying, shitty, dark, failures of pictures. It makes me fucking sick, so I go and bash the living shit out of their photography. Why? Because I'm an asshole. Sorry.

No I'm not really sorry. I am really an asshole sometimes, though.

Get over it?

Yeah, get over it. I will, soon, for another couple of months.

So they made poles a premium member only thing, because they (they being the people who run deviantart) suck, but I'm curious. Do any of you think that the time at which you upload something makes a difference as to how much initial popularity it gets and that, in the long run, people who upload more stuff during the day, during the peak hours, are more likely to become more popular? This is excluding people such as Humon, Alexiuus, Pyromaniac, Kriswilson, etc.

Also, I'm one to believe that having an image as your preview, instead of words, is a damned surefire way to get more views. Thoughts on that?

I am currently on a family trip in Bolivia. Before I say anything else, two things; One: Yes, I realize I'm incredibly lucky and Two: I am incredibly OCD about the conditions and functionality of my electronics.

So, since coming to Bolivia, I have proceeded to lose my camera (which I have had for over five years) and my phone (which is newer, but is something I value dearly). Also, my computer has upped and fucked and died, probably hard drive failure, which means that I will have to pay exorbitant amounts of money to get it fixed, and now, having just found my iPod, it has also broken, for no fucking good reason. Essentially, Bolivia has fucked, killed or eaten every single one of my expensive electronics that I brought with me. And it has the gall to be beautiful and pretty and all picturesque while fucking doing it. I'm going to kill someone.

On another note, Bolivia is really cool, and if I ever find my camera, I will upload pictures of dinosaur tracks and stuff, and I will be taking some pictures with my sister's camera. I still hate this fucking country.

There a few elements to being successful.

Skill, luck, practice, and then a whole shitton of persistence. Basically, if you suck at something and you're not lucky, but then you do t a shit ton of times, you'll eventually get better and then you'll get luck sometime. That's how you get a DD. Post a thousand deviations and make a thousand thousand more photos or stories or anything, and and delete the bad ones as you get better, but keep them hidden somewhere where you can look at them so as to meter your progress. That's how you do it. 100,000 pictures and you may very well be a decent photographer, like some of the ones on here. PERSISTENCE, GODDAMN IT!!! MOTHER. FUCKING. PERSISTENCE!