Random rants about whatever happens to come into my brain at the time. >_>
- Created By Vecker
Ugh Spam
On another quick note... omg I am now getting spam on my guestbook. Ugh wtf... this is the reason I hate guestbooks. People always seem to know how to ruin them. I dont want chain letters! Please dont post them in my portfolio guestbook. Thank you!
Finally!!
Vecker got himself a job. Thats why I havent been on lately. Sorry for not commenting on people's stuff like I usually do. Right now Im on 10 hour days so when I get home I usually just go to sleep. Waking up at 4am sucks but the money at the end of a 60 hour work week has to be awesome, right?
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.
