Hellos alls!!! (^.^) Yes, I am reiterating the title!~~~ (>_< )

Fear not, for I still exist, at least in the real world, but not so much here on DA. Unfortunately, drawing is not a subject that I seem to be finding time for anymore. I still draw random and sterotypical pictures when I am bored at school (*although I really should be studying), but coloring them has been an entirely different matter! (~_~)' For some reason, I can't seem to finish them up!!! Weirdly enough, I possess a ridiculously high quantity of half colored, or half drawn images lying around in my folders. It's rather tragic, to say the least.

I wish to complete them before Christmas break ends, but I have to finish up on my current commissions first before I even touch them!!! (^_^) So alas, they shall continue to poise in tranquility until their the time arrives, ... I suppose.

Another factor at hand is a direct result of the SL game that I am currently involved on. I am working really hard on acquirng a massive array of clothing articles outfits to sell in the game, which is quite time consuming as well. I've mentioned this before in the spring, but I think many have missed out on this information! (^_~) It is actually quite a fun hobby, but challenging at times because I can never quite make things the way in which I envision them or would otherwise be able to draw them. SL is a difficult tool to fiddle with! (>.< )'''''' If you've never seen SL, then it may be difficult to imagine what in the world I am talking about!!! (@__@) The following images are to help clarify:

* A pictures of our digital store, but some things weren't loaded before I took the photos, thus the blurriness in some areas.

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* Example outfits:

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So yes, I really really want to post some new images, but it is just taking longer than I wish! I also think that perhaps my lack of motivation for coloring my images is due to the possiblity that I may be growing tired of utilizing only traditional media. I think that maybe I will try to digitally color some images in the future! (^__^)' I am rather curious about the process involved there. Any tips on the matter would be helpful as well!!!

Wait! One more random thing!

What's up with the Deviant note spamming? (o_0) 10 weeks and 4 days since my last login, and I recieved 31 of them despite the inactivity. Is this a trend or what!? It is quite pesky to say the least especially since I can not even begin to imagine how they mangaed to navigate to this inactive account. 'Tis insanity!!! (@_@)'''

Anyways, thank you for your time and support everyone! I appreciate it beyond words!!!! (0^____^0)

Ciao for now,

Francessca~

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Postscript: Due to the exhorbitant hecticness of this school year, I will be unable to accept new comissions or collaborations until further notice! (@___@)' Work, academics, miscelaneous projects, community service, gregarious relations, slumbering, current commissions, and about five trajillion other entities ruthlessly pilfer every hour of the day. (>.< )' I apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. Grazie!

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Art Trades:
Closed for the time being! Too many to do right now! (@_@)

Collaborations:
Closed! (>.< )

Art Requests:
No requests please. (^.^)’’ Grazie!

Commissions:
Status: Closed!

* Sketch (pencil) = 5 U$D
* Inked Sketch = 10 U$D
* Black and White Character = 20 U$D
* Color Character Portrait (Face to the bust) = 25 U$D
* Color Character (Full body) = 35 U$D
* Color Illustration (with background and multiple characters) = 50 U$D or more depending on the intricacy involved (^.^)

Shipping and handling charges will be split 50-50. I pay half, and you pay the other half! (^_~)

For further information on commission work, please visit here: [link]

Displayment:
Other places where my anime/manga works can be found!

[link] <-- Official Site (*.*)
[link] <-- Tokyopop
[link] <-- ArtWanted

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Sister:
Luccia Loren!



Friends:
Those I know in real-life!



Featured Artists:
Go visit their galleries! (*-*)



D.A. Accomplises:
My partners in artistic crimes! (^_~)


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Hello!!!

There's truly nothing much to say, other than this is a pointless journal entry!!! (@_@)''' .... (^_^) I'm just writing it because starring at the previous entry has grown quite tiresome!!! It's dated way back to May 23, 2007! XDDD That's so long ago!!! Not much activity on this account, right?

Aside from that strange form of reasoning, nothing else is new! As predicted, I haven't experienced any opportunities to complete new pictures this summer either. (o_0) But alas, I still have a couple of illustrations remaining from spring, so I will upload them sometime this week!!! (^_^)

Wait!!! One more thing to note. I have changed my login status to public. Hopefully, this will allow you to see when my last login was so that if I don't respond to messages for a long time, you can see why!!! I simply haven't logged in yet to recieve them! (^_~)

Anyways, ciao for now!

Francessca~

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Postscript: Due to the exhorbitant hecticness of this school year, I will be unable to accept new comissions or collaborations until further notice! (@___@)' Work, academics, miscelaneous projects, community service, gregarious relations, slumbering, current commissions, and about five trajillion other entities ruthlessly pilfer every hour of the day. (>.< )' I apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. Grazie!

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Art Trades:
Closed for the time being! Too many to do right now! (@_@)

Collaborations:
Closed! (>.< )

Art Requests:
No requests please. (^.^)’’ Grazie!

Commissions:
Status: Closed!

* Sketch (pencil) = 5 U$D
* Inked Sketch = 10 U$D
* Black and White Character = 20 U$D
* Color Character Portrait (Face to the bust) = 25 U$D
* Color Character (Full body) = 35 U$D
* Color Illustration (with background and multiple characters) = 50 U$D or more depending on the intricacy involved (^.^)

Shipping and handling charges will be split 50-50. I pay half, and you pay the other half! (^_~)

For further information on commission work, please visit here: [link]

Displayment:
Other places where my anime/manga works can be found!

[link] <-- Official Site (*.*)
[link] <-- Tokyopop
[link] <-- ArtWanted

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Sister:
Luccia Loren!



Friends:
Those I know in real-life!



Featured Artists:
Go visit their galleries! (*-*)



D.A. Accomplises:
My partners in artistic crimes! (^_~)


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Well, a lot of you seem to have noticed that I haven't really been on DeviantArt at all lately. My commenting and browsing activity has almost surceased, and I haven't uploaded any arts, or updated my journal in a reeeeaaly long time!!! Almost 5 weeks of inactivity, to be precise!!! XDD

I just answered everyone's email inquiries earlier this morning promising to provide more details of why I have been absent in my journal! So here it goes!!! (^__^)''' Caution: This may become lengthy, so prepare yourself!!!!

Initially, I wasn't online because of final exams at my school. In order to force myself to study for them, I had to ban myself from all possible distractions, which unfortunately included DeviantArt! XDD Believe me, it is very easy to become distracted on the internet!!! It is a major time warper!!! (@__@)''' Sure, I may intend to only be on the pc for 30 to 40 minutes or so, but that time slot can easily transform into 3-4 hours, or more!!! That's why it is better to not get on the pc at all, or else I wouldn't study at all!!! XD Which would be bad ..., very, very bad! XD I actually took my laptop and put it on the top of my closet shelf because I knew I would be too lazy to grab a stepping stool and get it back down!!! XDDD

Okay, so now school is over, and final exams have tormentuously passed, but now there is another massive, time consuming obstacle before me. It goes by the dreaded name of "A Job." No, having a job is nothing new, but the amount of hours I have to work now during the summer is! XD Not to mention the time frame in which they transpire ... Since I got laid off from my waitress job due to overstaffing, I now work at a grocery store. This is fine and everything (I actually like it better), except for the fact that I only get 8.00 USD per hour. This means I have to work forty hours per week in order to make as much money as I did working 25 hours per week as a waitress! XDD It is really annoying!!! So, that automatically cuts my free time down by a humongous quantity!!! (O____O)''''' The other problem with my new job is the time frame of the hours. It is usually 11:00 am to 8:00 pm!!! (<_< ) That basically ends up being my whole day ... XD

Then, there is this one other thing which is consuming my free time, however little of it there is. It is called digital dress making. Basically, it involves making clothes for avatars (which are the playing characters) in the online game called Second Life. Here is a link to the website [link] if anyone wants more detail on the issue. Actually, I think it classifies as more of a 3D chatroom than a game, but for some reason, it is still referred to as a game. (o_0)’ At first, I didn’t want to be involved, but my mom convinced me to help her (she makes a lot of clothes in the game too). So now, … that’s basically where all of my creative energy is going, at least for the moment. Making an outfit takes probably 6-10 hours depending on the details. That’s the time equivalency of illustrating a full colored picture!!! (^_^) (@_@)’ It is actually pretty fun though, because the outfits actually sell for real money, so it is a reasonably profitable form of art!!! Once you have one made, you can sell copies of it forever!!! Here are some examples of outfits that we’ve made (try to ignore the pixeliness, the game takes bad quality pics! XD):
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There are really a lot more elements to describe, but I think this pretty much describes the bulk of why I haven’t been on DeviantArt for a while, and may actually not be online very much even into the future! Don’t worry though, I will still try to draw some pictures when I get a chance! I still love illustrating pictures more than anything else!!! (o*____*o) I actually have three more pics to upload, but they are not really all that great … (~_~)’’’’ But alas, I will still upload them sometime when the opportunity arrives! Maybe sometime this week! (^__^)

Eeek, if you have actually read this pestilent journal all the down to hear, I am amazed!!! It was waaaay to long to say the least! (^.^)’’’ I apologize for that!!!

Anyways, ciao for now everyone!!! And thank you for all your sugary support!

Francessca Bella~

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Art Trades:
Closed for the time being! Too many to do right now! (@_@)

Collaborations:
Only if I get to be the colorer of the project! (*-*)

Art Requests:
No requests please. (^.^)’’ Grazie!

Commissions:
Status: Open

* Sketch (pencil) = 5 U$D
* Inked Sketch = 10 U$D
* Black and White Character = 20 U$D
* Color Character Portrait (Face to the bust) = 25 U$D
* Color Character (Full body) = 35 U$D
* Color Illustration (with background and multiple characters) = 50 U$D or more depending on the intricacy involved (^.^)

Shipping and handling charges will be split 50-50. I pay half, and you pay the other half! (^_~)

For further information on commission work, please visit here: [link]

Displayment:
Other places where my anime/manga works can be found!

[link] <-- Official Site (*.*)
[link] <-- Tokyopop
[link] <-- ArtWanted

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Sister:
Luccia Loren!



Friends:
Those I know in real-life!



Featured Artists:
Go visit their galleries! (*-*)



D.A. Accomplises:
My partners in artistic crimes! (^_~)


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Lately, a lot of individuals have been inquiring about what mediums I use on my pictures, so I am going to publicly state it once and for all! Hopefully, this will clear things up a lot and prevent further interrogation, at least to a certain extent! XDD (^___^) Also, whenever I get a chance, I will start adding in the medium description for the pictures currently in my gallery, and will state it in the description of newly posted deviations in the future! However, if I do forget to state the mediums in future uploads, don’t hesitate to remind me to do so! I am senile sometimes and really may actually forget! (>.< )’’

Basically, my pictures are either done in watercolor or colored pencils, but never both. I think coloring is my most favorite part of the entire illustration process! I sometimes draw the line art just so I can color it! I am hopelessly obsessed with coloring things! (@.@) Although … you can probably tell that already! I also tend to stick with specific color themes, rather than color spontaneously.

Originally, colored pencils were my first medium for coloring. As a result, all of my older drawings were done using them. On this DeviantArt gallery, those are primarily at the back of the gallery, and can be identified by the dates posted with the descriptions! I think the average date range is from 2002 to 2005 or so. The images are obviously old too because my line art had even more issues back then than it does now! I was still in middle school when I did the really old ones! XD

As for watercolor illustrations, they are mostly at the front of the gallery. (^__^) Of course, there are a few exceptions, but it really is mostly watercolor. So far, it looks like the plethora of future uploads will be in watercolor too. It’s currently my favorite medium! The dates of watercolor images are from about 2005 to the present, so hopefully that will help you in identifying them as well.

Finally, I think I should address the issue of digital arts. In short, I don’t have any uploaded to this gallery! (o.0) I actually only have one digital artwork, and it was created in Microsoft Paint during monotonous hours of boredom in school! XD I promise to upload it some day, but I don’t know when exactly! It will just be a surprise! It is actually not too bad considering what I used to draw and color it with … (<_< ) Overall though, I am really not into drawing digitally! I lost attention so fast, it’s scary! I prefer to use traditional medium instead … I guess I am just weird! (>__< )’

Okay then! I think I have babbled on long enough! (^_^)

Ciao for now!

Francessca~

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Art Trades:
Closed for the time being! Too many to do right now! (@_@)

Collaborations:
Only if I get to be the colorer of the project! (*-*)

Art Requests:
No requests please. (^.^)’’ Grazie!

Commissions:
Status: Open

* Sketch (pencil) = 5 U$D
* Inked Sketch = 10 U$D
* Black and White Character = 20 U$D
* Color Character Portrait (Face to the bust) = 25 U$D
* Color Character (Full body) = 35 U$D
* Color Illustration (with background and multiple characters) = 50 U$D or more depending on the intricacy involved (^.^)

Shipping and handling charges will be split 50-50. I pay half, and you pay the other half! (^_~)

For further information on commission work, please visit here: [link]

Displayment:
Other places where my anime/manga works can be found!

[link] <-- Official Site (*.*)
[link] <-- Tokyopop
[link] <-- ArtWanted

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Sister:
Luccia Loren!



Friends:
Those I know in real-life!



Featured Artists:
Go visit their galleries! (*-*)



D.A. Accomplises:
My partners in artistic crimes! (^_~)

More accomplises to come!!!! XD I promise to get everyone up ASAP!!!!

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Yay!!! Yesterday was my birthday and I am still super excited! (^o^) It has been a whole entire year since my last one too! That's way too long to say the least! ('~') ... XDDD But alas, it will always be a long wait in between birthdays I suppose! I just have to get used to that fact. (>.< ) Also, I seem to have turned 19 somehow. How ever did this happen!? XD I was just 18 a few days ago! Plus, what exactly is that age supposed to be anyways!? 19 is just a really weird, odd number, and I am stuck with it for a year now! XD

Okay, okay, I am speaking utter nonsense again, just like always! (@.@)'' Please free to ignore it all! I can't really think of any legitimate journal subjects as of the moment anyways!!!! (^_^) Although ... I know that I am forgetting something here!

Ciao for now!!!!!!! (^________~)

Francessca~

P.S. Thank you everyone for your awesome presents, in all of their varied and caring forms! <3 I was super surprised! XD (*-*)

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Art Trades:
Closed for the time being! Too many to do right now! (@_@)

Collaborations:
Only if I get to be the colorer of the project! (*-*)

Art Requests:
No requests please. (^.^)’’ Grazie!

Commissions:
Status: Open

* Sketch (pencil) = 5 U$D
* Inked Sketch = 10 U$D
* Black and White Character = 20 U$D
* Color Character Portrait (Face to the bust) = 25 U$D
* Color Character (Full body) = 35 U$D
* Color Illustration (with background and multiple characters) = 50 U$D or more depending on the intricacy involved (^.^)

Shipping and handling charges will be split 50-50. I pay half, and you pay the other half! (^_~)

For further information on commission work, please visit here: [link]

Displayment:
Other places where my anime/manga works can be found!

[link] <-- Official Site (*.*)
[link] <-- Tokyopop
[link] <-- ArtWanted

*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

Sister:
Luccia Loren!



Friends:
Those I know in real-life!



Featured Artists:
Go visit their galleries! (*-*)



D.A. Accomplises:
My partners in artistic crimes! (^_~)

More accomplises to come!!!! XD I promise to get everyone up ASAP!!!!

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