Time waits for no man

I think it would be an exaggeration to say it has been a while. I got busy with life, trying to get a higher education, constantly looking for a better job and now…well honestly I was exhausted. I don’t think it really started to sink in till covid hit and well it didn’t get better from there for a lot of personal reasons.

After that, I ended up losing my biggest digital collection of my work to a disk drive failure while I was transferring to a new PC. Stuff that I had well had since I was in high school. I did keep a lot of the sketches, but the idea of having to go through them and scan them was daunting. A lot of others impressions of an artist hinges on the bulk of our work too.

I was depressed about it to the point where I couldn’t draw beyond personal things. Even though I wasn’t doing my best to publicize those works, their loss made me all too keenly aware that anything I did, could just be gone in an instant.

I think the only thing that pulled me back out of that, was the realization no matter what I did: time always marches forward. Everything lives and turns to dust in time. I’ve often said drawing is a moment captured in time, but even the medium it is captured in will be forever fleeting. Even digital works have to live in a physical medium.

But loss can only take so much. I know how to draw still, I even tried something new when I started streaming games for a friend after covid ended. Through that I picked up 3D modeling again and customized my own 3D avatar. I’d later even make a PNG virtual avatar. I even got so far out of my slump I remixed a song and did my own cover of it.

I even came back to this site and realized I still disliked short form social media and still deeply felt I didn’t have a centralized home. So, I’m finally putting it all back together. This site will continue to be my personal blog and central unit for all my online activities. I’ll showcase my best work on it and then use my Tumblr for my bulk art posts.

My creative well is far from dead, and if the world needs proof of my existence: I’ll keep striving to do that no matter what it throws at me.

And this time: I want anyone who ends up here, to see this living proof of my existence and my dreams.

-I am DaiTigris,
and I exist in this moment of time.

Dust and stuff.

Well Greetings….

I’m just making a post to say I’m still around and have plans to spiff the place up a bit and hopefully dispel any digital traces of dust lining about the site. In the meantime have a Waynamon(a Digimon) for your amusement.

 

 

Hope your having a good summer,

-DaiTigris

To meet life and live it.

I’ve neglected this site again with life being so busy for me. There are lot of things I’ve surprisingly become responsible for in such a short period of time that I was blown away by it all.  It really has all been a challenge and this site unfortunately fell to the back burner along with my art. Don’t get me wrong I still draw my heart out sketching, I just don’t get to work on full scale projects as much as I would like to.  However I’m hoping to change that soon and another piece of art should be coming up just as soon as I finish touching it up.

Otherwise, I’m going back to my goal of posting once a month, but this time it’s going to be either a blog entry or art. This way I can at least get something up, even if it’s just a sketch drawing.

Best of luck and may you have a nice day,

-DaiTigris

The Cat

Photo from family photo album.

“Warm kitty, soft kitty, Little ball of fur, Sleepy kitty, happy kitty, Purr! Purr! Purr!”

-Warm Kitty (Nursery song), Lyrics by Edith Newlin.

In Memoriam of The Cat (Tigger).

15 years old,

????, 1999-Friday June 20^th, 2014

 

Sometimes a cat will just adopt you. Strange as that sounds it seems that just like some dogs will follow people home, some cats will just show up on your doorstep and demand to be let in. The Cat was just one of those types, and I can not exasperate how much an influence she has been for all so many things in my life. Though she had a temperamental personality she was also sweet and caring.

Art, away!

First off good news and bad news. Good News, I’ve finally got some of my art up for you random people to look at. Bad news, I did not receive the time quantum flux capacitor that I asked for as a Christmas gift and consequently was unable to go back in time to properly poke myself to at least write another blog entry before 2013 faded away. Seeings as that is something that can’t be remedied, until someone gets me that silly time flux capacitor, I’ll just have to continue sticking sticky notes to my forehead every night. However 2013 was a good year and I hope that 2014 will be a year full of excitement and fun times. I’m working on getting more art ready to post so hopefully there will be more added to it soon.

If this is your first time here hello! Don’t feel too shy to pen down a quick message I’ll get around to answering quickly as I enjoy a good chat. Or if chatting just isn’t your thing you can just silently observe this blog from afar. Shenanigans may randomly explode from time to time and debates are always in good fun.

Still waiting for my time machine,

-DaiTigris

Little Steps, just one at a time.

Planing things out have never been a strong suit for me. It’s something that doesn’t come easily to me and it doesn’t help that I’ve developed some bad habits over the years (such as putting things off and never thinking beyond vague terms) that did not encourage any long term planing. I have been so used to having to do what people told me I should be doing that I rarely took in what I really wanted to do. I knew that I had come to like art but what kind and if there was more to life than drawing art for myself never came across my mind.

A little bit about myself.

Greetings and welcome to my Hearthside blog.

My my personal nickname is DaiTigris. I’m an aspiring artist and love creating designs for concepts.  I’ve created this blog not only to platform my art but to be able to share my interests in video games, music, story telling, and animation

As an artist I’ve been working in a variety of different artistic mediums and it’s hard to say that I’ll ever settle on just one medium. There are so many wonderful things out there and they all have a different feel to them. It is really exciting to try out new medium or a different technique as it’ll never be quite the same for each one.  Out of all the differing mediums I’ve worked with I have to say my all out favorites are pen calligraphy drawings, water color, and vector graphics.

At the moment I’m a high school graduate and working as a freelance artist and have been printing my own work. I hope that one day I’ll at least be able to pursue a carrier in illustration or game design.

Thanks for taking a look at my blog, there will be more to come soon.

-DaiTigris