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For some time, I've stepped away from Deviantart. It's where I started taking myself more seriously as an artist, starting in 2012, as I was beginning high school and joining the Deviant Universe group. I started out with a character dear to me, Animal Boy, who I had created years ago when I was very young. Animal Boy's story was really my story, personally. I created the character as an archetype of myself in playground games, and even while I tried to restrain that, it continued into my first comics. In the Deviant Universe, every win for Animal Boy represented a win for me. As I was 14 at the time, Animal Boy's election to Thunder Force mirrored how quickly people embraced me in the group itself outside of the comics. Even though the story was already coming to a close, and I failed to produce story after story, when I graduated high school last year Animal Boy's story was definitively over. Before graduating, I thought there was so much more to do with him, I had so many ideas, so many stories to tell. However, when I graduated, I realized I was wrong. Animal Boy's story was my story, and it was a story about the coming of age. He wasn't as three-dimensional as I would have liked those years ago, but it didn't matter at this point. It wasn't important how interesting the character's personality or story was to me anymore because his adventures were more about me growing up and experiencing life than anything. When I was done with the DU, done with Animal Boy, and done with those stories, it was in part because my story of coming of age was over. Animal Boy and I parted ways because he was a part of myself that built me to where I was, but served little purpose moving forward. He will always be important to me and be a part of me, but I truly feel like his story has been accomplished in the way that I needed personally.

Immediately after this, two friends and I got started on a brand new work. We got together a whole host of ideas and gathered for a new adventure: Echoes of Oblivion. Our mission with this infinite world of the multiverse was to create characters that we really wanted to share with others and develop full personalities that were immensely more believable than my characters before. We instantly fell in love with the characters we had created that had real flaws and big personalities. We have taken a great deal of time to make these characters exactly how we want them, because we want to do our very best at telling this story. At this point, while we're far from getting our comic off the ground, I feel comfortable and ready to share them with the people who built me up to this point: all of you. 

I've moved all of my old work into folders, as looking back, I'm not too fond of all of the work being put on my front page. I feel as if I've come a long way from where I started, and want to be known for my art in the present, not in the past. 

I'm ready to take hold of the future, and can't wait to share all of my new art with you!

I've been gone a while, but I haven't stopped drawing or writing! I've got a whole host of new characters to share! Check out these Mock #1 Issue Covers I made for some of them! There's more to come, sometime soon!

   

There has been an awakening, have you felt it?

Two major projects coming up this new year!

The Darkness... 
As promised, the Hei$t has begun! A year long story I hope to update once a week, the Hei$t follows four of my characters, Inferno, Pachydoom, Rose, and Overflow. As to the plot, well, you'll see Expect lots of guest stars. How it's gonna work is it's gonna be single image pages with narration from one of the four in the description 

And the Light!
THE PROTECTORS HAVE ARRIVED:


As always, I'll be participating in the as much as possible! This is gonna be a great year, I can feel it. 

Also pardon the Star Wars reference. Star Wars VII and Age of Ultron are coming this year and I cannot wait. 

Watch out for a new story for 2015, starting January 1st!

I cannot believe that I got the third All-Star month for this year! Thank you everyone who drew something! I really appreciate it!

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