After almost a whole year of doing desperate freelance work - sometimes on subjects I will hardly ever like - I can consider myself back on track, i.e. doing animation and illustration for self-produced projects.

And experimenting with my dA journal skin again. (Thanks `electricjonny and *Aapis for the help!)

Also, while cleaning up my journal entries history I found this short piece I wrote about a little incident I had in dA long ago (so long I forgot it happened in the first place). Maybe you can relate to the situation. (Note: The following is a poetical re-creation with edutainment purposes, and not the actual facts.)

_{-Hi, what you doing?
-I'm enjoying this painting.
-I see. Do you like it?
-The colors are saturated with a light touch of grey.
-Huh... I see. Do you like it?
-Look at the corners. There is a strong gradient of hues crossing the painting in a diagonal path.
-Hell, I didn't notice! I find it quite an interesting effect. Do you feel so too?
-I feel the gradient gets stucked at the center of the painting. Watch the composition.
-So you don't like the composition?
-I can see a hole in the picture.
-Well, maybe because there is a hole painted on the canvas. Do you feel like falling inside?
-The mood is overall luminous, but it breaks the composition rules. The painting is formally unbalanced. The hole shouldn't be there.
-Oh? It seems a beautifully painted hole to me. It brings back memories of my childhood.
-Excuse me, did I miss something? Are we watching the same painting?
-Yes, of course. We are in front of the same canvas looking straight forward, aren't we?
-Take a look on values. What do you see?
-Hmmmm. A very rich gamut of shades, I feel that the bird in the tree out there is alive and singing in all his beauty.
-I can't see a clear step from one value to another. There is no true scale of values, just a continuous gradient again.
-So?
-The work fails to hold onto Western painting rules again.
-Well... It is a Chinese painting from the 15th Century, as you can see. It is inspired from feelings rather than academics.
-See, it is a painting, isn't it?
-Of course it is.
-What am I seeing?
-Frankly, I don't know.
-Hello, anybody? Haven't we said we are watching the same artwork minutes ago?
-Yes, but you seem to be watching it from the distance.
-Excuse me?
-I think it's more fun to dwell into the painting and write down the formalisms later. What do you think, want to jump inside it with me?
-See, buddy, I don't like the way you are talking to me. I gave you my respect all the time, and unless you give me the same respect I am not discussing about art with you any further.
-I see.
-Do you?
-Yes, I see that girl coming in.
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-Beg your pardon, gentlemen, any of you can help me out? This is my first time at an art exhibition and I'd like to see the paintings with someone who knows about art.
-You've come to the man!}

November commissions: Info is here [link]

As a side note, my good friend =cganimation is preparing his T-shirt Christmas sale, both for girls [link] and boys [link] , so you can choose your design while he finishes setting up the kids store. If asked, he will be more than willing to make a design upon your request!