In the beginning, I had a page at Homestead. It wasn't the prettiest page out there, nor was it the most interesting. In fact, it barely qualified as a webpage. I just needed a bit of cyberspace to slap some photos together, so that I could post them on non-laughable sites. I'm done with that now. Oh, the page still exists, sure, but I will no longer invest my precious time and effort into maintaining it. The camel's back was broken (by a straw, of all things) a couple weeks ago, when I tried to open the Homestead sitebuilder, and for the thousandth time, it froze my browser. Well! Living the life of a stressed-out art student has given me an insanely low tolerance for malfunctioning gizmos, so I hauled ass over here to FortuneCity and signed up for a spanking new page. Now, this isn't going to be the prettiest or most interesting page out there, but damn it, it's going to work.

Update (04/12/03): Took down one of the Jamie pics and replaced it with a drawing I did recently of Moiraine Sedai, a character from Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series. This is the first piece I've done with marker in quite some time, but since I have a violent hatred for pencil crayon (even though I used it in some of the lighter areas), I thought I'd give it a whirl. Didn't turn out too badly, except that I'm my own worst critic and every time I look at it, I see all the things I goofed on.

There's a reason for nearly half of the things I do. This page falls right into that logical 28 percent. My mission: well, I'm an art student, as I mentioned above, and as such, I like to show my work to people who never mastered the art of getting their crayons to stay inside the lines of their colouring books, and have them shower me with praise. Something like that, anyway.

Actually, I just like the idea of having my own little space to do as I like with... write and post photos, artwork, and receive feedback (positive or negative... I can take it). It's narcissism in its purest form. Whatever. I'm a 22-year-old who lives with her family and spends 8 hours a day in a crowded art studio. I need my own space, or I'll snap.

The drawings I've got up so far are based on characters from a book series called "Outlander" by Diana Gabaldon. A friend of mine from my online diary recommended it to me in August, and I read through the first four books in about a month and a half. School got in the way, once it started up again. Needless to say, I'm an obsessive person, and I felt the need to capture my mental images of the characters with pencils and paper. Up top are my pics of Jamie Fraser, who despite his fictitiousness, I am in love with. On the right is Claire Randall, the story's protagonist, with her jars of primitive medicine and doctor's log book. Oh, and there's a painting (done in acrylics) at the bottom of the page besides my links. It's of a porcelain doll I saw in a magazine a while back. More to come, though I'm not sure what, or how I intend to organize it. As Tori Amos says, it will all find its way in time.

This is where you can vandalize my page as you please. Meaning, of course, that you can make your mark on this nifty Tag Board I've been nice enough to set up for you. So, write a little note, click a little button, and get down tonight. Do whatever you want. You can say something complimentary to me, or trash somebody else. The sky's the limit. Just don't be a dick and spam... despite what you may think, people will not stop hating you if you do. In fact, odds are you'll just make the problem worse. Try to play nice, kids. If you want to say hi to each other and note back and forth about art, politics, sex, your social lives, or the latest toy surprise you dug out of the Froot Loops box, then go ahead. Just follow the normal guidelines of etiquette you would for a messageboard not ruled by me. If I see a whole lot of misbehavin', I'll just say "to hell with it" and delete the Tag Board out of spite. That'll teach you.

Enjoy!

~D