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cobaltplasma

Aaron Nakahara
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Artist // Digital Art
Badges
May the 4th: Celebrating Star Wars
Quartz: It's a big honor to be awarded a Quartz badge! (19)
Emerald: It's a great honor to be awarded an Emerald badge! (5)
Diamond: It's the highest of honors to be awarded an exclusive Diamond badge! (5)
Heart: Love is in the air, someone is thinking of you! (13)
My Bio
Current Residence: Hawaii
deviantWEAR sizing preference: M
Favourite genre of music: Ambient-anything..or big soundtracks, Two Steps From Hell comes to mind.
Favourite photographer: Ansel Adams
Favourite style of art: Manga-Western hybrid
Operating System: Mac OSX 10.8 / Win7-64
MP3 player of choice: iPhone (harhar)
Shell of choice: bash
Wallpaper of choice: changes every day
Skin of choice: changes every... well no... tan?
Favourite cartoon character: Spike Spiegel
Personal Quote: "You can't win if you don't play"

Favourite Visual Artist
Shirow Masamune // Hyung-Tae Kim // Samura Hiroaki
Favourite Movies
Star Wars
Favourite Bands / Musical Artists
Hmmm....so many to choose from...
Favourite Writers
Garrison Keillor
Favourite Games
World of Warcraft
Favourite Gaming Platform
PSP / PS3 / Wii
Tools of the Trade
Pentel Quickclick mechanical pencil, Staedtler Mars Technico 2.0mm lead holder, Intuos3, MacBook Pro
Other Interests
Everything: art, design, astronomy, biology, philosophy, gaming, culture, etc. etc. etc. :-)
DeviantArt has been one of my art homes for a very long time and I'm both sad that I feel like I have to migrate away and upset for the reason why. I absolutely cannot condone DA's fervant support of AI art, pushing it at the top of their home feed, even for pieces that haven't garnered many 'favorites'. It flies in the face of every person on this site that has endeavored to better themselves through practiced work, perseverance, and grit in order to refine and hone their craft. From amateurs to professionals, every single person who has strived to improve their craft deserves better than to get pushed aside by prompt-based generation. I remember when I first dabbled in MidJourney, I thought it was such an amazing, novel piece of technology, and wondered where it would go. Once I discovered *how* the AI was developed and future iterations of it along with other image generators, however, I couldn't use it any more, not with a clear conscience. Seeing DA double and triple down on
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Been absolutely swamped with work the last few days, I meant to post this up on the campaign page but just didn't get around to it. I figured since the campaign is funded, and a lot of the cool kids do it, I'd add a couple of small stretch goals :) Nothing major I think, if funding hits $700 then I'll include a mini art print (4"x6") and if it hits $800 then I'll add in a spitpaint version of one of the hero cards for my Fields of Eleria card game; Camathus' illustration started off as a spitpaint, so I thought that might be something cool to shoot for hehe. Still can't believe this is gonna be made :) http://kck.st/4b87Tfq
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I honestly didn't expect this, thought *maybe* I'd get to 25%, maybe 33% at the end of the first 24hrs...but my zine is fully funded, it's gonna be made, and that's insanely exciting! http://kck.st/4b87Tfq I didn't even think about stretch goals because I thought I'd hopefully make funding at the 11th hour and that'd be that, but now.. well.. I guess I'll have to see hehe.
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Phenomenal gallery. Incredible technique and superior talent. The best part no AI. Thank you.

Thanks :) I'm not on here much anymore but feel free to follow me on other socials (IG, Cara, etc.), same username hehe. Thanks again and have a good day

No, Thank you. Yeah, sadly most of the phenomenal artists I once knew are no longer members in this place. Don't blame them though. Anyway, thanks again.

Real art amongst tons of AI art crap, well done.


Regards

Thank you very much, I try and shall endeavor onwards! ^_^

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The movements are impressive. I love color, but yours is a nice pallet :)

Thank you very much :)

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