Gnawsome-Opossum

Main art blog: gnawsomeopossum.tumblr.com/
Love Live art blog: love-liver-and-onions.tumblr.c…

I'm not abandoning dA entirely but this place is kinda dead and I wanna be where the people are. Gonna keep posting finished artwork here but my tumblr has all that stuff plus I'm posting sketches and rough work there too now. My Love Live blog also has a ton of stuff I'm not posting here since I don't wanna flood my gallery with weeb trash. So yeah just check out my tumblrs and there will be far more content than you'll see here.

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Here's a post I made on tumblr. I want to get the word out to as many people as possible.

I've been on tumblr for just over a year now (I think anyway) and I've never gotten fully accustomed to the place. Sure, I find the interface fun for browsing through other people's blogs but as for actually making my own posts... I can't seem to get accustomed to it. Deviantart has been my primary platform since I was twelve so I guess I'm just old fashioned.

Still, I have a tumblr blog for my art: monsterbuckett.tumblr.com/ Nothing special really, just using it to reach a broader audience.

I also had a "trash blog" where I reblogged whatever I felt like. After a while, though, that lost its novelty. It felt like a chore to keep up with so I decided to get rid of it.

The reason, I think, that I stopped enjoying my "trash blog" is that I'm not satisfied with just sharing stuff made by other people. All that browsing reblogging, commenting and tagging eats up a lot of time and for what? Nobody ever looked at that blog. I had nothing to offer that couldn't be found anywhere else. I thought doing it for my personal enjoyment would be enough but no; it felt like I was throwing content into a void.

So I'm restructuring on Tumblr. I'm replacing my aimless trash blog with something with a purpose. Introducing www.tumblr.com/blog/love-liver…, the blog that will be home for all my ridiculous cartoon redesigns and comics for that school idol anime I like for some reason.

Why that topic? Well I really like Love Live for one. It's kind of a dumb show but it just makes me really happy. The other reason is that I spend a lot of time on public transit and the Love Live characters are what I like to draw while I'm on it. Plus I find the idea of subverting a moe anime and its fandom by drawing the characters as grotesque cartoons to be really funny.

As for here and my main art blog, I'm continuing to work through my backlog and getting that stuff posted. I also plan to do some work on my professional website, such as cutting a new demo reel (if I can get permission to use the animation I've done for work anyway). Once those things are done I'll focus mainly on Love Liver and Onions. I want to post on it regularly enough to develop a following.

Hello, deviantArt friends.

Well, it would seem my first animation contract at BIg Jump has come to an end and I am now moving on to another studio, that being Mercury Filmworks. I enjoyed my time at Big Jump and wish I could continue to work there, especially since it took me till the very end to get accustomed to the workflow, but this sort of jumping around is pretty par-the-course for this line of work. Now I'll have to start getting accustomed to a completely different work environment. I hope I can adapt quicker this time.

I bought a new desktop computer recently but this purchase has made things pretty tight for me financially. A proper work computer is something I did need though. My old laptop wasn't able to run the softwares I use very well if at all, and I'll be expected to be able to work from home if the need arises. Not to mention the fact that I want to be able to work on personal projects as well. As a graduation gift, my mom is going to help me pay for on of these babies: www.yiynova.ca/Products/?objID… It's a much less expensive cintiq alternative that I've heard pretty good reviews for. I can't wait till I can finally get it!

I've sought out help to get my finances in order because I'm notoriously bad with money. I haven't screwed up too badly yet, so if I live frugally (which I already do) and keep putting aside money from every paycheque, I should be able to get my crap in order.

As it stands now, I'm a college trained professional making little more than minimum wage for my animation work. This sucks balls, but hey, at least its minimum wage in the career field I went to school for! The jobs aren't hard to come by and the more I improve, the more money I can make. Hopefully someday I'll be making a decent wage!

Hello deviantART!

I'm in my last semester of school so I've been crazy busy and haven't had time to update anything here. I've done a lot of new work I want to post but it'll have to wait till after I graduate.

In the meantime, you can check out my website where I'm showcasing the best of my recent work. I'm trying to get myself out there as a professional animator so I can get a studio job.

Of course, deviantArt isn't for that. It's just a fun place where I can post whatever I feel like. I'm not connecting my site to this account (it wouldn't be professional) but please feel free to take a look if you're so inclined: aleenabeckettart.wix.com/monst…