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Woah hey it's been a while since I put up a new journal, so I wanted to get the old one out of the way with some new updates.
here's what's been happening:
   Bullet; Green School: I'm going to be entering my second year as an art major at a private (general humanities) college. This year I'll be continuing Italian (in order to study abroad in Florence Junior year) and taking a painting class, among other gen-ed requirements. 
    Bullet; Blue Work: over the summer I worked full-time at a summer camp for kids (which was super fun, highlights include face-painting and pushing a tire swing every other day :)). During the year I work 2 jobs at school for about 8-10 hours a week. Just enough to keep me busy between classes but still leave free time ^-^
   Bullet; Purple Art: recently I've been leaning away from serious paintings and drawings in the favor of more 3-D mediums, primarily clay sculpture (plus some textile and animation experimentation). Luckily I've found a really good community on tumblr for clay artists that has inspired me to challenge myself in this area. I have so many ideas and I get a rush out of making stuff for people so I don't think I'll slow down anytime soon :D I still dabble in digital art when it comes to doing commissions or fanart, and I try to keep up with my sketching for anatomy practice (I need to find a figure drawing class uuuurgh). So I'm still kind of doing a little bit of everything :)

   Bullet; Pink Speaking of commissions, I now have a pricelist up: chrysannarose.tumblr.com/commi…
I'm quite busy at the moment, but I am open to taking digital and sculpture commissions later on in the year. Contact me if you're interested!
 
What else...ummm I do have a tumblr for art and that's where I usually upload things first, and not everything makes it to dA. so check it out if you're interested C: I also nabbed the url unistar2000.tumblr.com since it's been my label for so long :aww: I just use it as a general reblog-sideblog.
sooo yeah that's mostly what's been going on! feel free to chat, I'd love to keep in touch with old friends (and meet new ones) on here :)



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But maybe something--

I've just finished submitting all of my college apps, art portfolios included.

They've been such a big part of my time recently and the process of preparing them has really changed how I view art.
I believe my art has really matured, and though I'm eager to share what I've done in the past year, it's bitter-sweet because I know that I won't be going back to what I used to do.
But when I study art in college, and later in life, I'll have to expand even more - so really this is just the beginning.

I almost want to start over, because what I'm known for on here isn't what I want to be. But that would take too much effort. :P So I'll upload what I have and hopefully find an audience adapted for that.
Recognition isn't very important to me anymore. Honest feedback is, but I can get that offline. So really this is a place to store my stuff, view other artist's work, and keep in touch with friends I made in the past.
I may start using a tumblr my friend made for me for less significant (and therefor more frequent) art updates. it would be at chrysannarose.tumblr.com if anyone's interested.

I can now happily say, the most stressful part of senior year is over. I am freeee! Now I can just enjoy viewing and making art without that pressure of the future lingering so much - and I'm looking forward to it :)

and my complete portfolio (the website I refer people to) is here: chrysannadaley12.daportfolio.c…
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Freedom

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Freedom at last - summer is here. And so soon, those past few months of school went by too quickly.
Well all those dreaded and stressful days of testing, writing, and doing schoolwork are over. It hasn't quite set in for me, but I can't wait for that feeling of 'wow no more responsibilities' to rush over me.

Of course that isn't true, I think I'll have even more responsibility than ever this summer, with work (first paid job!), college visits and decisions (one year left), portfolio work--it's going to be tough.
But the good thing is I have tons of time to do it, and tons of work to show for it! :D

I've been inadequate as far as my activity on here goes. I'm just not motivated like i used to be, to commenting and uploading in a timely manner. So for whoever out there is still watching out for my brief and spontaneous bursts of commenting, faving, and submitting, know that it will be just that - undependable. I wish it wasn't this way but that's just how it is; not that it's a big deal at all lol.

I have so much I want to share but I feel guilty when I don't respond to others first--so I hold off on uploading until all my art just piles up on my to-submit list. I plan to diminish it significantly in the near future.

Besides all that I'm so incredibly excited for the next few months to come. I'll probably be opening commissions again on Subeta (and ofc here but its so much work to find a buyer here) as well as in real life - and by doing so I'll hopefully expand my abilities in both traditional and digital art. My style has changed, or rather developed, and I think that will be apparent as I build up my gallery here.

I know for sure that I will be majoring in art in college--I can't think of anything else I would rather spend my life doing--but the specifics of course are fuzzy. Hopefully by branching out I'll be able to narrow it down and clarify what my strengths/weaknesses are.

So just an update about my life--for my own benefit if nothing else. Hope you are all well as the school year draws to a close!

Warm wishes for all of your summers,
chrysanna
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Explanations

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It's what most of my recent journals tend to be. (recent! ha! as if you could call last summer, and the fall before that recent!) Explanations; for why I'm so absent, or gone all the time, or not able to answer messages or check deviations and journals. Apologies; for not being active, updating only semi-annually; uploading floods of art one week then nothing for months.
I'll summarize the reason for all that to one thing: Junior year.
It's intense, and it's time-consuming.

And now my explanation for being here now: chicken pox.
It's only a mild case, but my winter break has been extended from 2 weeks to 3.5 weeks. That's the upside, I won't bore anyone with the details of how horrible it is to miss the last few days of school, including finals ;)

So i guess my point is, sickness+break=longer break=brief period of relief where I can go on a commenting-faving-replying-uploading spree. Be warned, I have deviations to go through back from late summer! Unfortunately I won't be commenting on any journals--I did read many though I just don't have the time to comment on so many.

Happy holidays, I hope all is well with you!

~Chrysanna
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Well hey there everyone, it's been a while hasn't it? First off and getting this out of the way, i have to apologize for being so invisible and late and not updating or anything. I haven't been very good to my watchers or watchees and I'm not even sure if people here are interested at all anymore. ;-; But now that school's out for the summer, I'll definitely have more time on here to hopefully re-energize (or something lol) my activity here :D yay!

I haven't been doing a lot of digital art lately, some here and there, but the good news is that I have been working reeeally hard on a bunch of traditional projects, for school and work and some doodles on the side for myself. I have a ton to upload that is different from my usual style, but hopefully somebody will like it. :3 That is, if i can get it on the computer--we have no scanner here an home atm and most of the pieces are too large anyway haha. But I'll use my old camera and see if that works. =)

Life is catching up, and my parents want me to get a job this summer. Like, a paying job |D So I've got to start looking around and applying. Speaking of applying, school is getting srs, and college is only 2 years away D: I've visited a few down in LA, and I'm looking forward to going up to SF for the big universities up there. =]

~~~ooh pretty journal skin~~~

tl;dr Anyways so summer is finally catching up weather-wise, and I'll have more time at home. I want to get back into the digital groove, so I'm thinking of offering requests or trades or something, or even commissions at some point if anyone is interested. I miss drawing characters haha.

Feel free to comment, it's been a while, I'd love to talk to you guys! :heart:

~Chrysanna

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