BetterthanBunnies

Hey all you crazy talented artists.  Thank you so much for the birthday wishes!  I ate SO MUCH CAKE.

First off:  I am SO SORRY I haven't updated this poor DA page in over a year!  I'm the worst.

Second off:  I'm working at cleaning house internet-wise, and I'm sad to say that I will have to let DA be "that" closet...you know, the one that's in a basement that has spiders in it.  Not that you guys are spiders!  I'm not saying that!  I'm sure you have less legs than a spider!  I just need to be careful what I can keep up on.  

Deviant Art has been such a great place to make new friends, discover your beautiful artwork, and meet you all.  I feel so honored to know every single one of you.

This doesn't mean you won't see me again--hit me up on the sites I'm active on!
Pinterest - www.pinterest.com/betternbunni…
Instagram - www.instagram.com/betterthanbu…
Facebook - www.facebook.com/profile.php?i…
Tumblr (kinda active) - story-monster.tumblr.com/
Twitter (Only update to post storymonster blog links...twitter creeps me out!) - twitter.com/_StoryMonster_

And of course, my blog home:
www.story-monster.com

And hey, just shoot me a message on any of these and say "I'm _____ from DA, let's be pals!" and I'll be a-followin' you back.

Many thanks to all of you inspiring, fantastic artists <3

Happy New Year, yeh ol' yahoos!  I hope your holiday was a good one ^_^

{I stayed up until midnight!}

{Almost.}

{Eeeeh who needs midnight anyway?}

I've been thinking about my New Years goals these past couple of weeks, and art, and design-life things.  One of the design principles I learned in school is that Big, Medium, and Small put together make appealing design.  I've noticed that's true for balance in life, too--I have to have my day job (big) and freelance (medium) and then stuff I do just for myself (small).  

So, think about the art goals you're making for this year, and group them into those three categories!  Then, post them below.  I'd love to hear them!

Here are mine:

BIG - Create 2 3-minute animatics for my portfolio.  {I've been wanting to do this for years.}
MEDIUM - Post more on my blog
SMALL - Practice drawing in some form for 1 hour every day {drawing, boards, speedpaints, etc}


I hope you all are doing well, and I have the best wishes for you all in 2015!
-H

And front!  I'm both here!  lolol.

Hey guys.  I'm so so soooo sorry I've been MIA for over a year and half!  I think getting a job at Disney interactive ate me up!  However, I have the best intentions to keep up on this site.  In fact, I got a premium account here for a year!  So now I HAVE to keep up on it.  (Because I hate wasting money! lol)

Here's what's happened to me these past few months:

-I got on full-time at Disney Interactive, where I've been working as a story artist on Infinity 1 and Infinity 2 (which just came out last week!)
-I got engaged to be married!
-A month before the wedding, he broke up with me!
-I got thrown into jail for setting my ex-fiance's house on fire!

Hahaha.  Totally joking about the last one (though I wouldn't blame myself if I did.  Hee hee.)  Needless to say, it's been a crazy few months!  But I'm back at the grindstone and hoping to keep up better with DA and my other art sites.

This leads me to wonder:
Do you guys feel like DA is dying?
What art sites do you think a lot of people are heading to?

I have a poll down below...I'd love to hear your thoughts!

The animated short I headed up is live!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ssHhz…

The artists did a good job, didn't they?

Backgrounds - Ben Simonsen
Animators - Adrian Ropp, Aaron Mann, and Chad Erekson.
Music - Stephen Anderson
Audio & Mix - Jeff Meacham
3D train & Effects - Travis Deming
Animation producer - Joe Fowler

Such a talented team.  They were so patient with me.  Gosh I'm a lucky kid!

At the beginning of the year I made a goal to keep up on DA better.

WELP 5 months later, I finally show my ugly mug here again...man you guys!  I'm despicable!!  You should kick me offa your DA lists!  You should send me angry emails!  You should set my house on fire!  Or at least set *someone's* house on fire...I'd hate for anyone to feel left out.

I've done pretty crummy with the speedpainting goal too.  And the goal to not do fan art?  I'm scratching my head over that one.  Dang it, I LIKE doing fanart!  Why did I want to do less of it?  I don't even remember.  I think my brain is dying.

Here are some good things:
-Still working at Disney...& I love it ^_^
-I made a massive book deadline...ON TIME (big deal for me)
-Had an ultra-sound to see if I had any cancer growing inside me (they have me on cancer watch, because of the tumors I had last year)...and I have a clean bill of health.  Hooray for no cancer!!

and

-I'm directing a project at my full-time job, it's only a 3-minute animated short, but still, definitely a humbling experience and I have a learned a lot.  The delivery date is tomorrow, wish me luck!  With good fortune it will be live on youtube next week in time for Mother's Day...I'll be sure to share the link.

I'm bummed because I haven't had much time to spend on art stuff.  I feel like I'm getting much better story-wise, but am going backwards with my art.  That scares me!  I need to spend more time practicing like I used to.

How are your guys's goals coming along?