Amika-Crystacia

Okay, so when I apologised in advance for posting lots of pictures of Loch Lomond, I misjudged the proportion of my upload-worthy pictures from Scotland which were of the Loch. In fact, there were only a few of those and then some more of different stuff in Scotland...

Well... anyway...

I am still uploading Scotland stuff, but after the first unnecessary apology, I'm reluctant to issue another.




I'm not sure where I'm going with this.

I went to Scotland for a week and took lots of pictures, so now I'm afraid there's going to be a lot of those in your inbox...

I'll try to spread them out rather than dumping them all at once...

So, yeah. Sorry about that.

Huzzah! One of my New Year's Resolutions has been acted upon!

And It only took me three months......

Yes, I've posted some literature - poetry, to be more precise. Took me a while to talk myself into it, I have to admit, and I'm partly hiding in the assumption that not many people will read it anyway. But it's here, nonetheless, so I've kept my promise to myself.

I'd be really happy if you could take a look and, especially, take the time to read through the questions in the description and leave me a comment. I'm incredibly nervous about putting my words out there, but I really want some constructive criticism (and a heads-up about what I'm doing right, if anything!). I am quite serious about literature, as those who know me in real life will know, so I very much want to be half-decent at it. If my poetry is a shovel-load of hot, steaming nonsense then for the love of spiral-bind tell me so. I will owe you a lot for sparing me further embarassment.

I hope you're all having a nice April.

As you were.

Hello, small and indisputably elite group of watchers!

Well, Happy New Year, firstly. 2011 was a mixed year for me, hoping to take the good bits through to 2012 and not repeat the less enjoyable parts.

Thank you for watching me, here. Making progress with my art is one of the things which has been really good for me in the past year. I'm hoping that during 2012 I will post more realistic stuff and only the highest quality manga, since I'm trying to move away from that and draw in my own way; get some more original ideas out of my head (although there's no way I'm abandoning fan art. I'm comfy there); eventually upload some of my schoolwork when I get it back from marking and all that - there's some stuff I really like in there, so I'm looking forward to that - and lastly get some literature to a state in which I'm willing to upload it.

I am passionate about the written word - possibly more so than I am about art [ooh, wash your mouth out!]. I've been writing as long as I can remember but I've never published anything anywhere and, looking back, I'm glad. All the things I thought were of some worth when I wrote them years ago I realise, looking back, are really nothing special. Now I'm writing with much more thought and care, and I like some of what I produce, but the question is how am I to know if I would look back on it in years to come and feel as I do when I look back on my scribblings from years past?

So my new years resolution is to post some writing here on dA. The time has come to get more opinions and to put myself out there, afraid of poor quality or not. At least I'll know where to go from there.

In other news, I never write journal entries (maybe there's another resolution, there), and largely wrote this one because the journal entry on my profile sickened me due to its lack of capitalisation.

That will be all.

Amika.

omg, i got super llama! ^o^
i think i'm kind of behind ont he whole llama thing, but hey, i'm still happy! >_<
thankyou, everyone who has given me a llama badge!