Aww, I have champaigne all over my t-shirt now...

SO!

Here I am now. My name is Dean, the name with which I was born, not some internet identity crap. This blog is mostly to catalog my thoughts and serve as a running tab on progress on the projects I intend to run in the coming months. I welcome everyone's support and feedback, anyone that would give me the time of day. This will also serve as a forerunner to my next site that I am in the process of designing. Eventual goals will be to master CSS, learn PHP and build a fully functional site that will house my blog as well as my webcomic that I am also currently putting together.

A little about me:

I have been calling myself a college student for the past two years now, but I have been struggling so much to get things together to be able to even go. I've attended a cumulative freshman year over the past two, because my finances are a little more than prohibitive of keeping me in the most prestigious art school in the country. In my spare time, I burn it reading webcomics, an art form with I've fallen deeply in love, so much so that my girlfriend is moving out (LOL, not really). I have some very long loose ends that are in the process of stringing themselves together into a proper noose by which my neck shall hang...in the next six months or so. Video games are not the best use of my limited time. The "t" key on my blogmachine doesn't work as well as it should. I am 20, male, and have been claimed. I am half Japanese, half doesn't-matter,-I'm-Japanese.

I figure it's time to stop simply believing I'm an artist, and actually produce something worthwhile. I've never had a Deviant Art account, I don't enter any contests, I don't draw anything simply for the enjoyment of it! How do I have any legitimacy as an artist? It's time I stop consuming and start giving back! I'm not going to lie, a profit is the eventual goal of this venture, as I am human, and am subject to needing food every once and again, but I want to put food on my table doing the things I enjoy, not because I jockey a desk every weeknight from 6:00-10:00, although the flight benefits are pretty awesome.

This is an effort to build an internet presence. It seems like the thing to do these days, and anyone can do it. As of (yesterday) today, I resolve to turn things around, and be the content producer/supplier I've always wanted to be! Of course, I can't do it alone. I look to thousands of people just like me who enjoy taking serial nibbles of the Inernet everyday to take a second to look right back at me, if only for a few seconds!

I pledge to make regular updates on progress. A new site will be up later this month, or the beginning of the next, but it will only have a comic and a bit of self promotion.