When you sign up to an art website, typically you come with the intent to share your artwork, you ideas, or knowledge with the goal to improve as artists. There are so many people who mistake dA for a second Myspace.

I've been around for a long time, (longer than it says on the top there), and so often I see people who treat our poor deviantArt as anything but an artistic community.

I'll start off by saying, in the beginning, waaay in the beginning. I started on dA with great spirits and a clean gallery ready to create, and create I did!

Then I started going to school, taking art class after art class and learning more and more and more. After that I found that first first work was ended up being scrapped by the new stuff I learned and created.

In the beginning of my journey in the university, receiving critique from my teacher and peers was a stressful and terrifying experience to say the least. Now, it ends up being the most invaluable thing you can receive when you are trying to make your work be as best as it can be. And all the experiences in classes caused me to look more critically at my own work, and forced me to try harder.

Critique allows others to tell you things about your piece that you would have never even thought of on your own. It also gives people, artists or non artists, the chance to give you an honest reflection of your work.

Year after year we are taught to not take critique personally!

Think about it, if your teachers just told you everything you did was fine and just keep going. That sugar coated self esteem is doing nothing to help you advance as an artist. The main message I along with my girlfriend and all my other friends got over the years is when you receive critique, sit down, SHUT THE FUCK UP, and say THANK YOU, when they're done.

People who fancy themselves as artists but cannot stand anything other than "great job" or "nice" need to learn how to grow up. Of just GTFO.

Once again, people just don't get it.

dA is an art website, everything you post on dA should have some thought into it. If someone just posts a bunch of random pictures, no desciptions, no personal comments, just posted because they wanted to, what do you make of that? Now if one makes a mistake and thinks the images were posted with an artistic mindset and makes a comment other than "great work!" and the person FREAKS OUT on them, saying it wasn't serious, not to critique or ANYTHING, then I think that person just mistaken deviantArt for Myspace.

When you post a picture of yourself on a art website, it is a self portrait. And when you post a picture of yourself on deviantArt, it should be regarded as an art piece. And when you blatantly say you don't care for anything that remotely looks like critique on your image of yourself that you posted on deviantART, then why the hell are you on here?

some people just don't get it..

You're NEVER as good as you think you are you can ALWAYS improve, learning how to learn from others is the best thing you can do. Have a $700 camera and think you're just fine just the way you are? Someone could probably take more effective photos than you with a HOLGA!

Bottom line there is always room to improve, and opening up your minds to learn from what others tell you rather than shutting down will only help you.

Some people just do NOT get it!

going back to the (hilariously) serious rules of dA:

-It’s art if I say it is!

-Blurry MySpace pictures of myself, taken without even using the timer mode are art

-Comments any less positive than “OMG awesome!” must be considered flames, and even the slightest bit of criticism is worth starting a fight and getting banned over

-Submitting Deviations without commenting anything more than, “me again”, “lol”, “...” or “meh” is artistic



Some people are just a waste of typing



To do:

[X] Euphoria Bio
[X] Giselle Bio
[ ] Something cool for ~DLShowtime

Natural Setting Images:

[ ] Euph and Giselle messing around with the web cam
[X] Euph and Giselle doing something on the bed
[ ] Euph and Giselle during friday movie night
[ ] Euph and Giselle doing something explicit(probably)

Euphoria's Journal //
Entry date: 11.13.09 16:10 //
Subject: The big announcement, our site! //


Hi Everyone, so that big project that me and Giselle have been working on is finally ready to be announced. Pretty much with the encouragement of our friends, Giselle and I designed and built a website so we could explore our slightly 'devious' interests.



Maybe you remember some time ago when we were making this logo

I was so happy when Giselle told me the URL was available, originally we wanted a .net but she wanted to try out the new Web Page Address (.WPA) so we registered with that one.

Okay so about the site. I don't know if many of you have figured it out already, but Giselle and I are pretty close, and over the years we keep finding out more stuff about each other's interests, some of them not naughty mind you. So besides the live feed and our twitter, this site is going to let us show all of you a little more of our lives as we explore our kinks.

Besides stuff that we've already established we LOVE, like bondage, foot fetishism, tickling, super sexy pinup photography and the like.

for the site we plan to do some webcam shows, set up the video camera and do whatever, and plenty of photo shoots. Giselle got a hold of a Howitzer EOS Mark III SLR camera which is a big improvement from her Howitzer Anarchist XT I think.

We already called some of our friends who have what ever similar interests as us to stop by sometime to do some modeling for the site. So far we've had very much help! Our good friend agreed to come over some time to do some modeling for us, she's scheduled to come in the next few weeks while she finds some time.

In the future, there's going to be a lot of content, but for now, just think of the site as it being completely new. We will update all of you when we get said updates.

Love you all!

Euphoria and Giselle~


END JOURNAL//


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Words from the actual staff:

Man o man does college go into turbo when there's only a month left.

As Euphoria said (or at least she would say if she was tangible), they are making a website to explore their 'interests'. Mind you the site does not and will not exist, but my friends and I thought it was a neat idea and would be a pretty rockin' way to come up with excuses to come up with sexy scenes, plus it will give us opportunities to play with simulated lighting and perspectives from camera equipment.

At the moment, i'm developing a little mock internet browser so you can visit euphoria and giselle's site, the site itself will have realistic elements but the different pages will more or less just link to this gallery. Pretty much it's like viewing a gallery using a segway rather than plain ol walking, just something pretty to use, as well as a neat experiment in flash.

7 more pieces planned in the future, each idea solid and sketches nearly all done. When college goes away for the weekend, expect something awesome.



To do:

[X] Euphoria Bio
[X] Giselle Bio
[ ] Something cool for ~DLShowtime

Natural Setting Images:

[ ] Euph and Giselle messing around with the web cam
[X] Euph and Giselle doing something on the bed
[ ] Euph and Giselle during friday movie night
[ ] Euph and Giselle doing something explicit(probably)

Euphoria's Journal //
Entry date: 11.1.09 16:10 //
Subject: Serious rules of DeviantArt //

So encyclopediadramatica.com, a parody site of wikipedia, has a really funny article on DeviantArt. The humor rivals the website pages you could visit on GTA IV on the topics of myRoom(myspace) and such. On the bottom, there's a list of 46 rules that all members must abide by to be a proper deviantart user XD here are my selections:

-The longer the journal entries, the better my art becomes

-The more flashing friend icons, the better my art becomes

-Tracing and recoloring is the same as using a reference

-Blurry MySpace pictures of myself, taken without even using the timer mode are art

-Photoshop filters are the same as photography skill

-Lens flare makes EVERYTHING better!

-Critics are only critical because they are jealous of my stick figures

-All characters split into two versions when entering DeviantArt: normal and furry, and the furry version is always better than the regular one – cat ears are obligatory

-People don’t know there’s a Full View function, so I must inform them of it, and demand that they use it every time I upload something, no matter how crappy, by commenting “FULL VIEW PLEASE!!!!!!”
(LOL!!)

-It’s art if I say it is!

-2,000 pageviews means I have to make a kawaiiiii picture thanking people for looking at my other kawaiiii pictures, preferably with as many hearts as possible

-Comments any less positive than “OMG awesome!” must be considered flames, and even the slightest bit of criticism is worth starting a fight and getting banned over
(Major LOL on this one!!)

-If I fave one of your pictures, you have to fave one of mine, no matter how terrible I am, otherwise you’re ungrateful

-I have more pageviews, therefore my art is better than yours

-Making alternate accounts praising my main account is a brilliant tactic
(i knew someone who did this!)

-Copy-pasting an “I like your art” comment on loads of Random Deviant pages without looking at the art is a brilliant tactic
(they get blocked immediately )

-No matter how crappy my art is, and regardless of the fact that no one would hang it on their wall to save their lives, I must still make all my art available as Prints

-Submitting Deviations without commenting anything more than, “me again”, “lol”, “...” or “meh” is artistic

-There will be fav w/o comment drama. No exceptions.
(uber lol here!)

-The cool kids set themselves to invisible
(damn straight )

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The people who wrote the article are explaining it in a pretty cynical way, but it's still mega funny and true in some parts. I knew someone who tried using dA as a second myspace, pretty much as storage when their pictures were getting removed on actual myspace. I don't know if they're still around, i haven't logged into that place in 6 years.

Anyway that's all I've got, still working on that special project, updates soon!

Euphie~

END JOURNAL \\\



To do:

[X] Euphoria Bio
[X] Giselle Bio
[ ] Something cool for ~DLShowtime

Natural Setting Images:

[ ] Euph and Giselle messing around with the web cam
[X] Euph and Giselle doing something on the bed
[ ] Euph and Giselle during friday movie night
[ ] Euph and Giselle doing something explicit(probably)

Euphoria's Journal //
Entry date: 10.23.09 16:10 //
Subject: Completely Naked with 7.. //

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So I think I really impressed Giselle today which is nice because a few weeks ago something not so cool happened.

A while back when we were still in college, we both bought our own notebook PCs so we could do our work for class and so I personally could do my art work. We got them from different manufacturers to abide by Murphy's Law in case anything went wrong down then road.

Unfortunately for me, something did go wrong for me. About a month after the warranty on my notebook expired, the motherboard practically destroyed itself. Seemed my series of notebooks were on a bad product list and were prone to having motherboard trouble. The company wouldn't repair it for free, they were even asking for $400 to fix it, but in the future the same thing would happen so I just got rid of it.

I took a trip home while Giselle was at work to pick up my old desktop computer along with all the peripherals and stuff and brought it back here and set it up.

I didn't really think it was a big deal but once Giselle saw my 'old' computer she gave me that 'I want you now' look. I guess I never really had an opportunity to show her that I'm savvy with computers until last week

So my notebook failing actually came at a pretty weird time because the new Windows 7 operating system was set to come out the day after I brought home my desktop PC. So after work I stopped by to get myself a copy and I have installed it from a completely clean formatted hard drive and everything runs perfectly.

The great thing is I managed to save ALL my files from my notebook hard drive so I didn't lose any progress on that big project we're still wanting to put out. With all these set backs, things just got slowed down a bit but everything is better now

END JOURNAL//



To do:

[X] Euphoria Bio
[X] Giselle Bio
[ ] Something cool for ~DLShowtime

Natural Setting Images:

[ ] Euph and Giselle messing around with the web cam
[X] Euph and Giselle doing something on the bed
[ ] Euph and Giselle during friday movie night
[ ] Euph and Giselle doing something explicit(probably)

Euphoria's Journal //
Entry date: 9.5.09 17:15 //
Subject: My Birthday Soon! //

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On the 13th I'm going to be 22, time is going so fast, I can barely remember graduation. Giselle keeps teasing me about getting something really special for me and I've been under the bed and inside the closet countless times and i couldn't find anything so i'm just going to wait it out till next week, hopefully it's some replacement handcuff keys... the past few weeks we had to use paper clips, I actually had to go to work with them one day, even though they were only on one wrist that was really embarrassing. Summer has been really hot, I made the mistake of washing my car mid-day, the water practically evaporated before i could get soap on my baby >fail<
Mom and dad sent me my birthday gift early, it was a brand new graphics tablet! I'm actually writing this journal with the hand writing recognition function. It's not that good at recognizing emotes unless i'm careful though.
Giselle and I are still working on that big project I mentioned before, I have some friends who are already in on it who are going to contribute, all of you are in for a real treat. We just got finished with making the framework for the logo

Giselle has an amazing body, i'm so glad she doesn't mind posing for me, i suppose if i pamper her after it doesn't really matter for her anyway huh?
well, we're going to go to the beach for a bit, she's poking me with her board right now so gotta go!

love you all!

~Euphie

END JOURNAL//

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Words from the staff:

The origin of Euphoria and Giselle.

Hey everyone, so yes the intuos4 is more epic than i could ever imagine, i was toying with the alleged 'one gram of pressure it operate' and it's absolutely true, the whole thing translates strokes waaay too realistically it should be illegal.

Anyway onto the main point of this part of the journal, the origins of Euphoria and Giselle. For one of my writing classes I had to write a story about anything, for that class i recycled a story i wrote about the early years of Euphie and Giselle's relationship, after a couple modifications to the story elements it was PG rates and good for class, i didn't finish writing the story but i did have a nice big story ready to be continued.

Euphoria and Giselle were actually created on my 18th birthday with my best friend Lauren a.k.a. Lau Lau. We made them because she convinced me that it would be easier to work if i had a nice solid character to make pieces from rather than make a new girl for every piece. Euphoria and Giselle's personality characteristics were taken from my closest friends and their appearance was put together from various characteristics of my friends.

These are my bestest friends on the planet and also part of the heart that keeps this gallery running. Collectively they have the characteristics that make the girls.

Euphoria's big hair, color, complexion petite build, and legs and feet come from Vanessa. Her bust and other torsoe qualities are from Lauren.

Giselle's legs, complexion, eye color, and body, come from Lau Lau. Her physique and facial shape comes from Vicki, and her style and hair and her feet come from Kayce, her smile also comes from Vanessa.

As for their personalities, they are all taken from a bit of all of us.

So when you look at a piece that has Euphoria or Giselle, you're actually seeing a bit of us in that piece. You've heard of artists having a bit of themselves in their work, we do it literally.



To do:

[X] Euphoria Bio
[X] Giselle Bio
[ ] Something cool for ~DLShowtime

Natural Setting Images:

[ ] Euph and Giselle messing around with the web cam
[X] Euph and Giselle doing something on the bed
[ ] Euph and Giselle during friday movie night
[ ] Euph and Giselle doing something explicit(probably)