Kuro-Arashi-Ame

Hello Everyone,

Just wanted to give an update on some things since there will be some big changes in my life during August.

To keep the story short, I'm moving to a new state in August so I'll be inactive a bit.  If you send me notes or messages, I'm not ignoring you, I just probably don't have internet and will get back to you as soon as I get some.

By the end of August, I should be settled in my new place and online daily again.

Also, the reason I've been only posting 1 picture every couple months is due to my current life situation.  After the move, I should have so much more time for art!   I look forward to it!

However, I do not have a new job yet in the area I'm moving to.   I have savings to last a bit, but while I'm looking for a new job, I'll be doing commissions again to get some money to help support myself in the meantime.   I'll give a list of the prices and details in a couple weeks.  This time I'll be offering full color pictures, flat color pictures, lineart pictures, sketches, and the option for detailed backgrounds.

Hopefully everything will go okay. 

As always, thank you for your support and kindness!!

Hello everyone, it has been awhile.  Now before anyone gets alarmed or panicked, there is no need to.  I'm not going anywhere or leaving Devianart.    But there will be some changes, good and bad, that I would like to mention. 

As it usually has been, I submit a new piece of art once a month at minimum.  Well, I don't think I have that kind of time anymore.  From now on, at least for the time being, I will keep posting new pictures, but it will probably be once every two months.  This has been a hard decision for me since for the past many years, ever since I joined Devianart, I always made sure I could complete at least one new picture each month to post, and I really hate to break that promise to myself.  But as you can tell, unlike when I was in college or high school, I don't post as many pictures and they are becoming lazier.  I don't like that.  I now have a full time job in Finance (I wake up at 5:20am and come home at 5:30pm, which only gives me a couple hours to eat dinner, do some art, run on the treadmill, shower, and then go to bed at 9:30pm for five days a week).  I'm on the computer most of the day at work too, so when I come home, I'd rather not be looking at the computer screen.  I find this ironic since when I was in high school and college, I would see other artists say "I don't have as much time for art anymore and need a break", and I would think "but everybody has time for art!".  Well, now I know what they meant.  My digital art it slow to make to begin with, so it takes more time for me.  I'm slow at art.  However, I already have the lineart done for my next picture, so I can't wait to seriously color it and post it on here!  I'm disappointed in myself that I have to give up my monthly posting, but looking at the brighter side, with an extra month, I can give more time to the coloring and begin adding real backgrounds.  My shading has gotten pathetic and my backgrounds are beyond simple.  I want to really change how I color my art and make some cool/detailed backgrounds for once.  I think that would be wonderful and I look forward to trying new tricks!   Expect more impressive and less lazy art in the future!

In other news, over the past couple years now, I've always talked about doing a comic series.  Well, I finally finished writing it out, page by page!  So I would also like to begin drawing those pages as well.  That will probably take another year though before I can post any pages relating to it. I've been sketching out random scenes from the comic series over the years and now that it is written, the actual drawing can begin.

Thank you all very much for understanding, hopefully.  I am sorry to bring such disappointment with this change, especially since I always enjoy posting my art as much as I can.  I can promise though that in the future, maybe after a year, I'll get back into my routine of posting more frequently.    I have considered posting my sketches from my sketchbook on Deviantart since I sketch a lot more in my book than on my computer, but they aren't as exciting as the final pictures.

I will check up on Deviantart everyday, so don't worry, I'm not going anywhere, I just need a little more time is all.  I love you all very much! So stay safe, happy, and healthy!  Your support means so much to me!

I heard I can collect a DA badge, so I'm gonna add to this madness.

I joined Deviantart 6 years ago on April 1, 2008 because my friends from high school all had DA accounts and said that I should get one too.  We all were in art classes and loved drawing BS for fun.  So I came here and started posting inside jokes and other crap I drew at the time.  All of that has been deleted since and my art eventually took off in its own direction.  Why did I pick the name "kuro-arashi-ame" 6 years ago?  No idea.  I just needed a name for the account and I have ran with it since.


Now let's look at 5 art pictures!


<da:thumb id="259358239"/> These were a few of my very early DA submissions that I deleted from my gallery later on.  These were also my first digital pictures!   I kind of wish I hadn't done that, but I was lucky enough to find them floating in a random computer file, so they weren't lost forever.  This collection of pictures is mainly doodles of my high school friends drawn as anthros, early OC's, and random fanart that I did.



Hello Zexion.  I'm adding this picture here since it is my oldest submission in my gallery currently, after my mass deletion of early stupid pictures.  I loved Kingdom Hearts then and I still do now.  I drew all the Organization XIII members from the series as My Little Ponies on a camping trip once, and then they became some of my first digital pictures!  They are done in a more original MLP style, way before that Friendship Is Magic stuff.  Can't wait till KH3! 



This is the first commission I ever did!  Back in 2009, my high school friends and I were really into the website Gaia Online, and I posted some of my art around there.  One day, some girl asked me if I would do a commission of her avatar.  It cost 15K gold.  Yeah, the price has really inflated in the art shops there now on Gaia, but this for 15K was a good price back then.  After this picture, I decided to open an art shop on Gaia and ended up making 43 Gaia commissions and a few free pictures during that time.  Most that gold went to buying OC art for myself.  The art prices on Gaia are completely outrageous now, so I don't buy art there anymore.



This is currently my most popular DA submission.  She is also my favorite anthro OC and I have commissioned 60+ pictures of her in the past.  I really should do another picture of her again, even though I've already drawn her many times before.



Finally, this is my most recent picture submission of my OC Pricilla.  She is also an older OC of mine and one of my favorites.  My art style has come a long way.  With this picture, I've started trying different/small coloring techniques.  We'll see what style the future brings me.



Final Words:
All you people out there who keep saying "I'll never be as good as you" or "I'll never improve, I have no talent", stop it.  It takes years of constant drawing and effort to improve yourself.  If you keep saying that you'll never improve, then you are right, you never will.  You can't give up if you want to get better.  I'm no where near the best artist, ever, but I keep at it so I can get better.  And you can too!

To all my watchers, I love you all very much and thank you so much for all the support over these last 6 years!! You are the best and don't you forget it!