I just realized that today marks the 5th year I've been lurking around dA.... faving without commenting... commenting without faving.... reading journals and the dArama that goes with them, but not leaving an opinion..... feeding my secret anime art addiction..... I only have 6 deviations lawl... xD I'm not really an artist, nor do I have a lot of time to develop or practice any sort of skill lol.... It's kinda sad, really =\ I used to like drawing a lot. Now I just do a lot of reading and ingesting other people's ideas and opinions.... ah, well. Observing is fun, too. At least, I'm content with it haha.

It's a bit interesting to realize how much I've changed over the years, too. I used to be crazy about anime and be all "zomg i'll NEVER stop loving this shit!!" But then I guess I "grew up" in a way <-<;; (lawl not really j/k j/k j/k) and now I think of it as more of..... well.... a cartoon lol. And I don't watch a lot of tv, much less cartoons. And I'll be damned if imma spend the time to hunt that shit down on the internet and d/l it @__@~~ too much time.... I think the sad part is that I really DID love drawing, even when I could recognize I wasn't especially gifted. I never really considered myself good by any standards, though I appreciate that I could handle a pencil well enough to express my (often too over-the-top atm) emotions. I think it helped me learn to express myself. It also helped me learn a[n EXTREMELY] basic idea of how to draw pplz, which has really let me come along with my more preferred hobby- sketching and designing clothes. Try as I might, though, the faces always come out looking manga-esque XD OMG!! That reminds me of this huge project two of my friends and I "devoted" ourselves to working on =3... it was supposed to be called Demon High, and as a team of three would-be artists (though in all fairness, one of us actually has committed herself to her art, and developing her skills and technique~ <3 <3 ) inspired by CLAMP, we drafted out a basic storyline (complete with three lead female characters modeled after ourselves, of course xD), character profiles and info, background, worked out scenes and ideas and shit.... lol... Our enthusiasm for it would die down for a while, and eventually, just my artist friend and myself had any remaining interest in it. I feel bad for that friend, too Out of all of us, she would be the most likely to create any sort of manga.... Youthful dreams are good, ne~

lol that was some reflection..... at any rate,

YAY FOR FIVE YEARS~!!

Oh, and the real reason I'm on dA: I like to look at pretty things.