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Eeeeeh! Guess who's finally back working on the continuation of that Doujinshi? Yaaaay! Told you guys I didn't forget about it... I unfortunately had an artblock D: But everything is fine now.
Super excited to post the soon to be made pages!

Whattup people, how ya all doin? I hope everything is fine!

I have a special question to make here:
What do you guys think about streaming art?
I've been thinking about it for some days now. As I'm working like hell because of my university, my undergraduate research and... life, I suppose, I'm not having the time I wanted to work on my social medias and to talk to other artists and friends I've made during my process of becoming a better professional. I sincerely miss Devianart and I want to find ways to keep interacting with people here, even when I'm extremely busy. So I thought about streams as a possible way to be open to other artists, as keeping in touch with old friends.

Is it viable? I dunno... one of the things I'm not so sure about is my internet connection. I think I don't need to tell you how brazilians aren't known as "the people with the greatest internet connection in the world", right? It's quite the opposite.
So could it not work? Yeah... I would guess. But it's still an idea.

If someone here finds it interesting, or has any opinion or possible ideas concerning my problem, please share them with me. I'd like to hear you all.
If you have streamed before, has experience on it or simply know how it works, I'd love hearing some advices as well.

As I said, I don't know if it'll happen... but hey, it's always nice to try. :bademoticon: 

Have a nice day!  o/

Hello! 
I took those past two days to clean and organize all the things I have in my computer, like drawings, animations, works I've made for my college, and so goes on...
As I didn't know what to do with those, and didn't want to just throw them away either, I decided to post them here.
So here I have a collection of photos I took for my photography class, which I actually liked (although those classes were quite tiring... I prefer sticking with digital drawings and animations. It's too much work for you to take photos, especially when you have to do it for your university... you need to schedule a day to withdraw your camera, then take the bus with it, then worry about deadlines, then it's not any kind of photo or theme you can take... it's hell).
I thought it would be interesting to share it with you, so you guys can see what I see. Maybe some photos can be different for some of you, since many of you are from other countries, have different cultures... or maybe some may have similarities... I don't know. Let's all see!

Before starting, I'll give you some background here. I live in a country city from Brazil, so there are things you can find in some of my photos that you wouldn't be able to find in big cities, as São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Salvador, Belo Horizonte... like a horse cart in the middle of the street. Heh. As I live in a country city, you can also notice there are some ugly places. Unfortunately there's some poverty in these surroundings and our mayor isn't the best one, so you can notice some streets are poorly maintained. Well, as it comes from brazilian politicians, they all suck.
But please, don't get misleaded. Those photos are in black and white because of the kind of work we were doing for my college. We were still learning how to control the intensity of light, that's why they had to be like that, so it was easier for us to notice when they were overexposed or underexposed. They're not in black and white to give a dramatic impact, to make a criticism... nah. It's just how they are.

Let's see the photos?

Let start with this one, because I took it from my house. It may look a bit out of context (although it was not), but I really liked its composition. It's one of the photos I liked the most. The only problem is that the ISO was pretty high, so you can see some particles on the background. But, oh well... I still like it.

Another one, but from my grandmother's house, this time. Some geishas decorations she has in her living room. I liked its composition too.

A close up focused photo I took from our garden. You'll see some photos like that, since we had to show to our professor how well we knew how to handle a camera.


And the last one from my garden, hah. I loved the texture of this one.


Now I started to adventure myself on the streets.


One of the things my friend from America likes to notice in my photos is how there's no green open areas, like gardens. We do have gardens, but they're all surrounded by walls. 


On the other side of the street.


Good timing!


Passing through between two houses, to access anoter street. This is not the nicest place for you to be, as you can see.


Now on that other street! Such journey. Got this car right on time.


This photo also had a high ISO, so there we have particles again. This one didn't get sent to my professor. Heh


And that's the horse cart! An exclusivity from small cities.


This is from a hospital's entrance. It's the only hospital we have in this small city.


And here we are in the city center! The building on the left is a drugstore and if you go forward from this position, you can see the city hall. The hospital was right behind me, in this photo.

And that's it!

That was my adventure as a novice "photographer". I took way more photos than just those ones, but I selected the ones that seemed more interesting and better taken. 
So what do you guys think? Did you like the photos? Did you see something similar to were you live, or different? Tell me, I'd like to know!
I gotta say it was an interesting experience. Never imagined that one day I would walk those streets holding a semi professional camera, taking photos of completely strangers while crouching. Yeah. 
Not to mention I swear a woman screamed at me when I tried to take a photo of her bird, that was in her garden. My dad, who was with me, said he didn't see anyone. But I swear I heard something when I was pointing my camera to that thing! It made me almost run away from there, thinking someone would call the cops on me! That would be just what I needed to finish my day!
My dad just stood there, though. He probably was thinking "what this paranoid daughter of mine is doing..." A photographer's life is dangerous!

So, some time ago I made a Speed Paint video (I even posted it here, if I'm not mistaken, but then I deleted it because I wanted to edit some things from the video), showing me making one of the pages of a "manga" I made for a competition. I still have no idea who won this competition, and I probably will never know. It happened on September of last year, if I'm not wrong, and the plubishing house that was holding this event still didn't say anything about the winner. I sent them a message on Facebook, asking when they would finally give us the results. They said it would happen on January of this year, but we're already on February, and nothing of them giving us news. I know this publishing house exists, because they have some works published, they also have an existing building and they're active on social media. So, I'm not really worried (but, even if everything were fake, when you decide to participate on the competition you have to sign a contract saying that you're letting them to use the work you're sending. Then, yeah, I believe I wouldn't have a lot of other choices. But I'm not worried. I just think they do a bad job and are not that well structured as I expected. So, patience).

Buuuuut, here's the video: 
(And I'm sorry if you don't like the songs I picked. Can work with Free Royalty stuff only).

Hey, hey! Merry Christmas, guys! As I probably won't be here tomorrow to write this text for you, I'm wishing an early Merry Christmas because of that. (Well, only one day earlier! Heh) 
So I'm hoping for tomorrow to be a great day, for everybody! If you don't celebrate Christmas, wishing you an early Happy New Year, then (yes, this one is really early. Hah, although I think I'll be making another post for the "new year occasion", anyways). I also hope everybody is doing alright!  I'm fine, only almost dying with the heat in here! We have a summer Christmas in Brazil. So, yeah! If you live in a country that has snow during Christmas, I envy you! I've never witnessed such thing! Actually, the only "snow" I've ever seen in my life was those fake snows you make with styrofoam. Pffff! But I'll see snow one day! Oh, yes! You can write down my words! Hah

Anyways...
Wishing you guys a lot of presents, and good moments with your family, and friends! 
Hoping Santa to be generous with you all!  
Oh, by the way...

  <- That's him coming to Brazil! Hohoho!

Happy Holidays!