I'm Back!

<sub>Am I? Am I really? No I'm not. Although I have plans for DeviantART in the coming month I will be saying goodbye to this place. It doesn't feel the same and things in real life are changing which I need to catch up with. I'm starting the second year of university, looking forward to that, and working all my other free days. It's because of this that I've found less and less time to do my art and even more so to come onto here and post/comment/discuss and whatever else you Deviants do.

My holiday was good for anyone who wants to know. It was very hot and I was quite tired most of the time. Going to bed at 4 or 5AM in the morning and waking up at 7/8AM does start to take its toll after a week or so.

Anyway like I said I have plans for being on DeviantART next month so look out on the first of October for what I mean. I'll post a journal entry all about it on that day. And thanks to everyone who posted they will miss me on my last journal post. I missed you all too!

Finaly, over the past month I've been working on deamonicangel.com deep within the dark corners of the internet and it's looking quite good. I've sorted out all the seperate sites I want on it and I'm just designing them up and putting some initial content on them. The site will be up completely in october sometime (I'll anounce more as the time comes) and you will be able to use that to contact me as it will be my hideout where I'm retreating too after DeviantART.
I'll be posting all my art work up there, sharing out tips and free things I've found around the internet to help people with their work. I'm sorting out my music site so it's easier for people to listen to my music. I'll also be blogging about music there when I find something I like... What else... Oh and the dream stories I've posted... I've decided not to take them and make them into stories but it's given me an idea to write stories in general. I will be blogging my thought process on each short or long story (depending how I feel) and will ask viewers their opinions before the final version is uploaded to the archive for people to read.

So I look forward to you reading my next journal more than this one. I might be leaving DeviantART soon but you wont be dissapointed.

Thanks for reading
~ Deamonic Angel</sub>

An Important Announcement

<sub>Well I must let you all know I'm leaving DeviantART. I would like to point out this IS temporary and that I WILL RETURN in September. My reasons behind this are varied. For a start many of you may have noticed that I've not been producing much work recently and I've lost my way with my poems. I know I've been writing my dreams as stories but that was there just to fill the gap in my lack of creativity recently. To be honest I just don't feel like writing anymore and I just get stuck with drawing. The ideas are there but that's as far as it goes and I think taking some time off may help. Also I'm going away for a month at the end of July so I wont be on then anyway.

So this is just it to say after I finish writing this journal entry I will not be on untill I return. I have reviewed all my deviations/messages/notes that I could get to as it's just become overwhelming and I know that when I get back there will be thousands so I will say in advance that I will not be looking at any Deviations but will spare time if you think I would like to look at it.

Anyway let me leave you with a list of things to do while I'm gone and maybe you'll see me round these places before I go on holiday:</sub>


www.deamonicangel.com
_{As you all should know this is my main website. When I get better hosting the whole things going to be networked into all my other sites so keep an eye out for that.}

www.deamonicangel.com/music
_{Check out all the music I've put up. When the sites are all sorted I'll be posting more music related articles here.}

www.silverstormentertainment
_{My new entertainment network. Check it out, sign up, meet new people, discover new music, share your music. Download others music free. Give it a go and sign up today, it could really use your help.}

Thanks for reading
~ Deamonic Angel

Name my new website

<sub>This journal post is mostly going to be about my music and most probably will be one of the last as I move my music away from DeviantART. Anyway after creating "Deamonic Angel Design Studio" I thought "That's a stupid name, sure I'm going to be part of it but it looks like I'm taking over". So Then came the suitable renaming to: StormGlade Design Studio, which to me sounds pretty cool.

Anyway my point is that "Deamonic Angel Entertainment" feels the same way...
I have a few more months before the domain runs out and I want to change it. I have come up with a list of names I quite like but I want some help from you guys (and girls).

Here's the list:
WebDrop
WildDrop
ValeWind
CrystalSong
NightSong
MoonSong
RavenSong
DarkRaven
DarkVale
DarkGleam
SilverStorm

I would really appreciate some help in naming the new site. It will be a community of people who love and make music. A place to network and discover new things.

StormGlade's hosting cost me a little and I want to get that initial investment back before I pay for my entertainment site to be hosted. When I know the name I can get a free domain with the hosting which would be really good and I can actualy get a proper networking script rather than what I'm working with now.

As well as naming the site I would really appreciate anyone going to: [link] to click on the banner at the bottom once or twice. Ok I know I shouldn't say that but I want to see if I actualy get paid for getting clicks...

Anyway sorry to ramble, you can rearrange and change any of the names above but I will review any suggestions that you leave in the comments.

Thanks for reading,
~ Deamonic Angel</sub>

I need to catch up a bit...

<sub>Well I supposed I have to do a journal entry now. I know before I said I would try and get these out every Sunday but for the first two Sundays after my last journal I didn't realise I had forgotten untill the monday and thought there's not much point. Anyway a month later I feel like I should come out from under my rock and say something.

I'm not going to say too much but I've been finding things hard recently and just thought I'd take a few days away from DeviantART and whatever else. I haven't been looking at deviations much or replying quick like I usualy do and so my message center is a bit backed up right now. I don't think I should say sorry to anyone as it was my choice to dissapear for a few days but the only other thing is I want to say a special thanks to one person on here who makes me feel good about things and has listened to me. She knows who she is.

Anyway I think I should get down to business...</sub>


Art

<sub>I'll keep this short. I'm not sure what styles I'm on at the moment. I've been doing album covers for my new albums/mixtapes (see music). I've also created my own gallery on my website: [link] You'll need to be signed up to be able to see the pictures and I'll only let close friends in as some are special and some are never before seen. I'll use it as a place to put everything before I consider anything for DA, that way I have a backup copy and be able to get some small feedback before I release it here for a more detailed critique.

I also decided after my last journal that I would put my dreams into short stories. At the moment I've only been</sub>


Music

<sub>Just a list of bits I'm working on right now:

Music Maniak Mixtape: 15/06/09 Download it for free on: [link]

Mixtape Deamon: In production
(Need to finalise tracks and put them together)

Untitled underground release: TBA
(Random songs that have no place anywhere)

Kaotik Kover Songs: TBA
(Cover songs)

DeviantART Musicians Mixtape: TBA
(Needs more track contributions)



On the last note: I hate this hot sunny weather! Bring on the dark rainy winter!!

Thanks for reading,
~ Deamonic Angel</sub>

I'm busy but there's always time for a dream or two

_{Hello, it's that time again (Journal time). I havn't really got that long I have to go to work in a bit and wont be back untill really late tonight. I also have quite a bit of uni work to do for tomorrow and quite litteraly no time so I'm going to try and keep this journal short.}

Art

DeviantART.com
I'm not submitting art for a while. I've got enough to do. I am on the other hand working on wordpress themes for my sites. Most designs get deleted or saved to work on another day so when I upload them to my theme testing site I'll fork out any that look mildly appealing and put them up here. The best I shall offer for free download so you can use on your own site.

Portfolio
Well like I just said I'm running through themes for my sites and I've just completed (after all yesterday afternoon, last night and this morning) a theme for my portfolio website. YES I know it's not all that good. It's slightly too narrow for the images and there are some odd bits but give me some time on it! I'm doing my best for the time I've been given!

You can find it here: [link]

Design Studio
Ok I've decided to get this thing rolling this week, or at least start it this week. I'm going to freely advertise for people to come and help on the job board forum as I really want this thing to work. I will be looking for one or two people from each design background to be part of the design team. I'm not sure of a name yet or of a URL but at the moment the site will be located at: [link] If you did just click that URL you wont get nothing, the sites not up yet but hopefuly I should at least have a splash page by next week.

Music

<sub>deamonicangel.com/music
Still no change in the site. I'm working on a great looking theme but as I said on my twitter: [link] I'll be releasing the all new site with my upcomming mixtape. The mixtape is 4/17 tracks complete and it shouldn't take long to do the rest.

deamonicangelentertainment.com
I think I'm giving up with this site. Nobody's really coming to do anything. There's been a load of signups but they're all inactive acounts...

What do you people want from me!!!

DeviantART Musicians Mixtape
The CD Cover contest is OFFICIALY OVER!! I will be noting all the judges after this journal with links to all the covers. The winner will be decided by the one with the most votes by the judges. If they all chose different then there will be a poll set out for a week for members of the mixtape to participate in. I think it's fair that if the judges don't come to an overall decision then the people who are submitting the music should get the chance to have a say in what it looks like.</sub>


Life
Dreams... Anyone a good dream analyser? I'm not going through all my dreams of late or in detail but I know a few of you want me too but I don't realy have time right now.

Anyway my first dream involved me wearing a rusty metal... thing, around my left wrist area. It went up my arm and over my hand but anyway. It cut through my wrist from the top and was held on floppy by a few centmeters of skin at the bottom. There was no bone on the inside but despite absolutely no connection to my body in anyway but the skin, I was able to move my fingers normaly. I was taken in by somebody claiming they could fix my wrist so I did what they said, putting my arm under some sort of heat sensor. Anyway to cut a long story short I felt pain when he turned it on, the only real pain I have ever felt in a dream. I've been shot, stabbed, hit by a car, in all my dreams but never felt real pain. The second machine he took me too was a drill no idea why but before we proceeded I woke up (thankfully, if I was getting hurt in that dream I wouldn't like to put my hand under a drill, even if it was ment to fix me).

Second dream, the night before last, it was a beach area, allot happened but it's getting fuzzy. The sea was coming up quite large and threatening to flood everything. A hole had been dug right allong the length of the beach to stop the flood waters effectively creating a barrier next to the sea, and giant hole to take in the water, and another barrier up against the land. Sorry if that's a bad mental image but I can't explain it any better. Long story short again, a bus drove by and fell in the hole and I watched all the passengers throught the bus window fall into the hole. Inside the hole the bus was on its side with the door...

New Journal Style
<sub>Hello and welcome to my new style of journal. I know that reading a journal can be quite boring for some readers which is why I've come up with my own unique way of helping people to read my journal.

There will be seperate categorys such as "Art" or "Music" in normal bold type. Under each will be bold subcategories which will be in small bold type. With this simple system it should help my readers find exactly what they want to read and forget about the rest. I would still appreciate it if you read my whole journal. Lastly I would like to say my journal posts from now on will hopefuly be posted once a week on a Sunday.</sub>

Art

<sub>DeviantART.com
Things on here are slowing down slightly with me moving more towards digital work rather than traditional at this time. I'm still working in sketchbooks away from here but none of it will be of "Deviation Standard" as they're just small visual journals I'll be using to generate ideas which could help me with future work.

The "Bring your vision to life" contest I have entered has been under a bit of discussion lately between me and a few other participants. The rules state "No watermarks" but surely the one provided by DeviantART would be ok? Apparently not. Contacting the Admins told us that NO WATERMARKS were to be used. A bit fishy if you ask me. I doubt they will page through every deviation beforehand to check for rule breakers but I have decided I will not remove my DeviantART watermark untill judging begins. A couple of others have agreed that this would be the best course of action as we wouldn't like our work to be taken now, would we?

Portfolio
I've been recently trying to come up with a solution for my work where I can display it on my site for people to come and view. I know DeviantART IS the perfect place to do this. It's all here, everything I need, but what happeneds if something goes wrong? What happeneds if my account here gets deleted? I would like somewhere else to host some of my best work in a clean and clear format but I've been really struggling with how to set it out, what script (if any) I should use on my site. Nothing seems to work... Back to the drawing board. I wont be focusing on this too much during the next week as I have other things to do but I'll give it a think over as I'm going about my day.

Design Studio
This has been a couple of months in the making but unfortunately to say it hasn't started yet either. I want to create my own website for people to come, share art experience, work together, share tutorials, post links to other art places and the like. It will also be the place where I can be asked to work on a design project for somebody with other designers.

At the moment nothing is final but I'm looking for people who would like to jump on this project with me and help me to get it up and running. So if designing is your thing let me know and we'll see what happeneds next.

Zazzle.com
If anyone has noticed (most probably not) I have been uploading a few of my deviantart images to zazzle to sell on various products such as T-Shirts and other forms of clothing, (They even do skateboards!). You can find my shop here: [link] I'm also taking requests so if you want to see one of my gallery designs on a T-Shirt just let me know and I'll put it up.</sub>


Music

<sub>deamonicangel.com/music
Hmm, nothing sitewise is changing this week or the next or for a while. Apart from my other 101 commitments I'm in the process of making a mixtape. The current project is about 4 of 17 complete. You can get the latest updates by following me on Twitter: [link]

deamonicangelentertainment.com
The music network is coming allong nicely, no crashes or anything major. It's been sucessfuly running for a week now so it's all good. I am definitely thinking about a re-design, as in the colour scheme and a couple of images. This wont happen for a while, I want to get more people on the site and interacting with eachother. I'm still looking for anyone from here to test it out and have a poke around, it really needs the help: [link]

DeviantART Musicians Mixtape
The CD Cover competition is coming to an end, I'm getting in contact with more musicians here on DeviantART, I've started it's own club page: [link]
Is there anything I havn't done for this project?</sub>



Life

Only a few of you know I recently dislocated m...

DeviantART Musicians Mixtape
<sub>I have quite an important update here if you're following my DeviantART Musicians Mixtape. I have created a new profile to run all this seperately to my main account. The new profile or "group" can be found here: [link] . I was reading somewhere a group system was in production here on DeviantART but there is no release date and with the competition coming to a close at the end of this month for the mixtape CD cover and the release coming soon I decided to start a new profile anyway.

I have quite a few plans and ideas for it but I'll wait for a while before I reveal the ideas.

So all those interested in the project you can watch the new account if you like, I will also be noting all the current project participants to sign up which I should make compulsory as I'll need to contact them all in one and with my current busy schedule I need something quick and easy.</sub>

Deviations
<sub>I've decided to look at using stock images for manipulations at the moment. I wasn't really a big fan of them to start with but I'm planning to release a music album sometime later this year and have been playing around with concepts for a few days.

I am also entering the competition "Bring Your Vision to Life". If you've seen my designs and like them I'd like to take the oportunity to say that I will be turning these designs into T-Shirts which will go on sale when I get round to doing it. I'll let you all know when they're ready.</sub>

Music
_{Not much is happening on my music front at the moment. My life is a little busy right now. I can tell you all I'll be releasing my first album later this year. I have too many unfinished projects I need to use up. I'm still unsure of what track I should put on the DeviantART Musicians Mixtape but I have quite a while before I have to decide.}

Web label
_{My interent web label: [link] is coming on quite nicely. I'm still a bit weary. The first time I installed the script it all died and after all those hours I put into it I had to delete the whole thing, reload the account and start from scratch. I'm not fiddling with any of the scripts this time so hopefully nothing will go wrong. *crosses fingers*.}

Life
<sub>In this section I'm not here to bore you all with my life story but I thought I'd let you know here how things are going for me. As some of you know I'm getting stressed over my university projects but I've managed to do quite a bit of reasearch and have completed half of my presentation this morning so for once I feel good about it.

This is my last day of holiday! I'm back to work tommorrow and then back to uni on monday so I guess I'll try and have some fun today. I'll probably end up on here all day.

Again I should say sorry in advance if I am unable to come on and reply to all your messages in the next week or so. After I do my presentation in a weeks time I should have a few extra hours free but then again I have two essays and a bit more reasearch to do...


*Side note* I'm experimenting with journal styles/layouts. I quite like the way I've set out this one so I'll be using this format from now on, what do you think?

Thanks for reading,
- Deamonic Angel</sub>

So it's that time again. Update time!

I really want to use this journal post to say sorry to quite a few people on here for not being on all that much this holiday. Hopefuly I'll be back on "full time" in the next week or two. Some personal things have been going on as well as a couple of projects dumpped on us from uni for the holidays. I've tried to get round to most people but I still seem to come on with over a hundred messages every time.

Anyway enough of that. Away from the art side slightly I want to ask for a bit of help. I'm trying to create a networking website for musicians and music fans. You can find it here: [link] It has just about everything a network needs, at least I think. I would ask for a few vicims... *ahem* I mean willing participants, to sign up and test out a few things on the site for me and tell me what could be changed. I've been working on the theme and styles and I'm quite happy with what it looks like, for now.

I think that's it for now. The CD cover contest is finishing soon, I think (woah, I'm thinking allot today XD). I might do some more pictures soon which I'll put up and maybe poems/stories when I've done all my uni work.

Thanks for reading,
- Deamonic Angel