Random rants about whatever happens to come into my brain at the time. >_>

Anger Issues

Lately I have been in a bad mood. Its a mix of stress and other fabrications of my life that have just pushed me beyond the normal limits any decent human being should ever have to endure...

An Update On Life

What have I dont since I've been laid off???

- Wrote/drew a 3 book Manga
- Wrote/drew an ABC book
- Wrote Warriors Orochi Book 1
- Wrote Warriors Orochi Book 2
- Wrote Wandering Soul: Adventures With Kitarro
- Wrote To Hell and Back

Stuff Still in the Works:
- Writing Tormented Soul: Adventures of Ezekiel
- Making "Hearts"
- Writing BattleUp

All this stuff and none of it nets me any profit. I feel like it should with as much as I worked on it all. -_- I need a job or something but I really cant see myself doing anything other than writing... on a side note, my computer keeps trying to die. WHY!?

Contest Let-downs

Just a quick quip.

I have been here on the Otaku for many many years and I have entered lots of contests. Although this has nothing to do with anyone in particular it was weighing heavy on my mind. Call me cyncial or annoying - whichever but I believe that if you promise something you should always make good on it.

Most of the time contest winners receive art as a prize. I love receing art from other people no matter how crappy it is. I think it is a great expression of recognition when someone takes the time to draw something for someone else. That being said, I believe if a contest owner promises art to the winners of a contest then they should keep that promise and follow through with it.

I am really tired of entering contests and winning only to be let down. This has happened to me on several occasions. I get my hopes up because I will receive a message saying "Im going to draw your prize - tell me what you want". Then months go by and I'm thinking "what is going on with this? am I ever going to get it?" Then I notice they have submitted other work or started new contests and it feels like they have completely forgotten about me.

Then comes of the process of me being a jerk and messaging them and asking "um... did you forget about me?" and receiving no response or a response saying they'll get to it and then they never do.

Its so aggravating and frustrating. I dont mind entering contests even if there are no prizes. Thats not why I enter. But I hate when I enter a contest that uses "fake" prizes to gain more applicants.

Maybe its just me but if I enter something and win I expect to get the prize listed - whether it be art or just the notoriety.

I know this was something completely random but it had been weighing on my mind recently since Ive submitted work for several art contests. I just hope I dont hit a repeat like I did in 2007.

Conflicted

So today I thought I would do a little updating to my website. I went to the various art challenges on this site to write the details down so I could document those details in my website alongside my art (mostly for reference later).

I checked on the Heaven and Hell challenge that I had entered a while ago only to see that the instructions for the contest had changed. Here's what it says now:

this is it! what would happen if heaven and hell, COLLIDE!
not just a tap on the shoulder meet but a full on boot to the face!
you can make it any genre you wish! comdey, violence, gore, romance! you choose!

"Boot to the face" ... hmmm... isn't that? Oh yeah, that's what I drew and submitted for the challenge. Imagine my ... amusement to find that I had been referenced (if that was indeed what he was doing). Then it occurred to me; now when people read this and view the submissions its going to look like I took those words and put them into picture form not the other way around.

I have conflicting feelings on this. I dont want to be considered an uncreative 'hack' who needs someone to reference them in order to draw. I know it's petty complaining but its just one of those things that slightly annoys me - like salt in your eyes.

New World

I added a new world to my portfolio. I started writing it a few months ago. It details the adventures of my demon, Kitarro. For those that dont know, Kitarro is a demon bounty hunter. He goes on lots of good adventures with lots of different people. Some of them are people I have made up and some are taken from animes or mangas or even video games.

I will try to put up as many chapters as I can but some of the chapters will probably be broken since this has to be rated PG-13. I always try to keep my writing tasteful but I know that some of the chapters in this story are definitely not PG-13 so they won't be added to the world. But not to worry! They have no bearing on the plot so if you miss it it won't matter.

However, if anyone wants to read the full on stuff you can check it out at: http://evil-squid.livejournal.com/

And now, Im done plugging so enjoy!