I recently deleted over nine hundred deviations from my deviantwatch. I had kinda been letting them pile up more and more, to the point where I realized I was never going to be able to go through all of them anymore. A new year is time for a fresh start! It should take me at least four years to accumulate that many again.

A helpful deviant recently alerted me to my first ever case of art plagiarism! You can see a screencap here -- the "artist" in question basically did a hack job of cutting Tutu out of my piece here, and pasting her on a white background along with a similarly badly extracted Fakir, drawn by some artist I've yet to identify. What I find the most hilarious is that they tried to pass this off as a single piece drawn by a single original artist, when Tutu and Fakir are drawn in completely different styles. XD I censored the person's username because they took down the piece already, so no point in stirring up more wank, but I still found it too amusing not to share. Also check out their response to being caught:

My comment: Hi there! I'm the artist of one of the pieces you plagiarized to make this. This is to let you know that I fully intend to report this to DeviantArt. But before I do that, I figured I'd give you a fair chance to take it down of your own free will.

Their reply: ...huh? oh.

CLASSY!

I guess I need to update this, seeing as it's been like a year and a half since the last journal post and the old one was getting moldy.

Um, let's see... in 2007 I bought a buttload of Copic markers. These days I'm rarely in the mood for CGing, so most of the color pieces I've been doing have been in markers. It's actually really fun, and not as hard on the wrists/fingers as colored pencils. But I still haven't tried doing any real complex backgrounds with marker; I'm too intimidated by the lack of an undo button. Hmm... come to think of it, I have a bunch of No Rest marker pieces that I haven't even bothered uploading. I'm so lazy. :/

I can't think of anything else to say here. Um, new art soon?

Club-type thingies:
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Wow, now that v5 has been launched I should probably write something new in this stupid journal; the last entry was me complaining about the just-launched v4... two years ago.

Well, first off, a big thank you to everyone who's been commenting, +faving and watching my stuff. I'm pretty crappy at replying to comments but I read every one, and they're very much appreciated.

In case you missed this, and have formed a club for people to post No Rest For The Wicked fanworks. Go check it out, contribute, etc.
Please take note, though, that if you want me to post your fanart on the actual comic website, you should either email me or send me a deviant note.

And I seem to have joined the following dA clubs:

Okay, what. The. Hell?

Is it just me and the stupidity of my browser, or are all the Deviation galleries coming out empty in thumbnail view?

My goodness, that's, like... two deviations in a row that involve bloody severed heads.

I... don't think this is any reflection of my psychological state lately. At least, not to my knowledge...