JamesPrat

Haven't been active here on deviantART. I think it's my time to move on from this place.

I won't be deleting this account, of course not. Message me and I'll tell you where else on the internets I'll be. But for now, so long~

OH MY GOODNESS SO MUCH HAS HAPPENED.

So remember 2 months ago when I said I was going to BMT and won't be able to be on till march or so? Well it's almost march and I'm back! Aaaand I'm in the AF now. WOAH. My job is vehicle operations / construction equipment. So I'll be learning how to operate multiple different kinds of vehicles used for construction and stuff of the like. I'm going to school for that, and school goes till may 21st or so. 3.5 months, cause I started a few weeks ago and my computer only just now came in the mail.

What does that mean for my art? Am I back to posting stuff day to day again? Well... no. I actually gotta focus on passing school, and considering I'm in this super SUPER restricted environment (the AF is 'breaking me into' the civilian world after the strict training of BMT), I won't have much space to go out and take photos, or take a few hours of my day to draw. Every once in a while I'll submit something just to tell you all that I'm not DEAD, but for now... it's gonna be slow.

By June or so, I'm gonna see if I can start back up on my art. But we'll just have to see. I'm kinda thinking on going up to 2k deviations... HA. That'll be fun.

So I'm currently in MO going to school. I'll be stationed in SD after tech school where I'll be doing my job. Excited for this whole AF thing to get kicked off. I've already been blessed with so much free stuff and housing and food and insurance and a decent paycheck on top of it all... anyways if anyone out there is reading, I'M BACK.

What did I miss?

Bout that time ay chaps?

I get sent out to basic training TOMORROW. Gonna be inactive for a few months, so don't expect anything from me till march or so! I'm gonna miss you guys... happy holidays! Wish me luck!

I miss submitting photos! I miss Colorado! I miss submitting photos OF Colorado! Tell ya what. Bronze artist challenge finishes Nov 26, right? I so happen to be taking a week long vacation back there to see my friends and family before I'm sent off to basic training December 10th, right on Nov 26, soooo I'm gonna be taking my camera with me and snapping more shots! After those two months of training, it's back to photos for this account! With drawing on the side, of course (;

How's me? A little down still because I miss my home like hell... but God knows times will look up. Got a job at a coffee shop and I'm working there till I go on vacation. Good pay and free food and coffee all day, what better job could there be??

I've always been confused with what my dA should really be, my photography or my drawings. But I'm making it both. I've been here for 4 years and for 3 of those years I've been putting something up here almost every day. ALMOST EVERY DAY FOR 3 YEARS. Isn't that insane? Whether it be a photo or a drawing, deviantART, you, are my creative outlet. And I just wanna put my thanks out there!
This is NOT a professional page that I send my future clients to so they can determine whether or not my photography is worth commissioning or buying, this is my place to dump my art!

And I think it's safe to say that deviantART has been with me these whole 4 years through the good and bad times, and it will always be my place to vent out my art. Sure other networks have come into my life, Instagram, FA, youtube - to list the most important ones - but dA will always be my home. And I will never leave my home.

For a few boring updates (you can skip this paragraph because it's boring), I fixed up my page so that it showcases JUST my drawings. My photography is still there, in a separate folder. I didn't delete anything! I'm just experimenting what it would be like to be a digital artist on dA, instead of a photographer. It's been a month now and nothing's really changed, so I'm planning on changing my profile back to it's photography-base after the challenge is over. I can leave the majority of my drawings to my FA.

And that's my life. So what's up with you? Anything you're looking forward to in the near future?

inspired me - with his die hard determination to be a better artist - to do this challenge myself. I've thought hard about it ever since he attempted this half a year ago. I thought hard about how I'm going to set aside the time to do this and how much time this is really gonna spend on me to do, and I'm ready to try. So here's the challenge.

Bronze Artist Challenge: Draw 50 images in 75 days
Start: September 13
End: November 26

Specifically what kind of images? The biggest focus I'm going for is anatomy and facial structures. So for the next 75 days, you'll be seeing a new drawing from me almost every day to every other day. I'll be timing myself on each drawing, and I want to keep each drawing short (between 1-3 hours), but I can go over if I want.

I figured since this is the season that everyone is going back to school and college, this will be my education. Because I graduated, and the air force hasn't kicked off just yet.

But this is going to be overkill and I'm going to grow to hate it and I'm going to be puking TERRIBLE art at you relentlessly these next 75 days, and I understand that. I'm posting this journal so that you can all understand that, too. It's like school. You have to go to class to get information shoved down your throat and you go brain dead preparing and studying for the next day. I'm making it so I don't get any rest from education.  

I'm not very good at asking for and giving critiques on my own art, but all that has changed now. I'm asking for anything close to help. This is a learning period for me (It's always been a learning period, but I'm completely open for anything now). My watchers on deviantart are not quite as reactive as on furaffinity or instagram, but I hope I get SOME critique, if any, because this might be the only site I submit these images to.

What does this mean as far as requests / trades? They are completely OPEN. Just give me a reference sheet and hopefully you'll see your character in that week, if not later. Only furries for now, and I'm going to draw them all as anthro, even if they're feral in the reference sheet.

I'm going to be working heavily on improving my weaknesses, and increasing my list of strengths.

Strengths: Wolf heads. No-gravity poses. Simple expressions - confused, irritated, neutral, curious. Body structure.

Weaknesses: Felines, horses, scalies. Gravity poses (Standing up straight). Expressions - happy, angry.

I've obviously excluded a ton of stuff on these lists (like backgrounds, I suck at those), because the main focus of this challenge is to challenge my anatomy and facial structure skills. Also I can't draw cats. Hopefully by the end of this I'll know how to draw cats.

I START TOMORROW. LETS DO THIS.