UPDATE IS AT BOTTOM OF JOURNAL!!! PLEASE!!!!

I just wanted to take this time to say, that I have been spreading around messages on people's pages. My reasoning for this is so that I can get to know you all and to put a smile upon your faces. If there's a song in your heart, that'd be even more fantastic as well. LOL

My goal:I want you guys to all enjoy life and wether your making art, writing, or doing anything that you enjoy. I want you all to keep doing whatever it you do. I will help you all with that by motivating you and helping you along in any way that I possibly can. I know I'm a new face in the crowd, but I would like to turn that around so that I can get to know each and everyone of you.

A gift to you:Now, as an artist, I feel that I have a gift. In order to make myself and other fellow artists, art appreciators or just awesome people happy, I would like to make you guys something. Yep, you heard right, I would like to draw, paint, color something for you all.

Here's what I'll do:I will make you all something for free. I can't promise I can send it to you, cause I have no idea how to do that, but what I will do is upload it here, on DA, so everyone can see. If you don't want it to be uploaded and you would only yourself to be the only one to see it, let me know how you do that, and I will do that for you.

My second goal:I feel like art should be free and I don't think you should have to pay to do something we all love. So, I will be making these things for free. Don't worry about trying to get me money, cause I don't want it. All I want to do is help you all and makes stuff for you guys. I would like to be remembered for being as nice as can be and art is my strongest gift, so why not use it for you guys to enjoy? ^_^

Rules:There are none. I will draw you guys anything. No problem. I'll do fanart, yaoi, yuri, shojo ai, shonen ai, realism, paper mache, paper sculpting, duck tape shoes, clothes and accessories, paintings, cartoons, comic pages, tutorials (they will be for traditonal materials, cause I don't know photoshop and don't have it, sorry)and if you would like me to do something that envolves using another artists work, here on DA, make sure you ask them first and they ask what for, tell them about me and tell them to join in the fun and I'll make them something too! I'll make anything for anyone!!! ^_^ I don't care about nudity, besides, I think the natural body is beautiful anyways, and you should love your body and others bodies, no matter the size or shape.

Remember everyone, to have fun and give me fully detailed descriptions of anything you would like. Note me, message me, do whatever you need to do to get my attention. Keep in mind that if I'm working on a number of projects and college work, don't be upset if it takes me some time to finish your work. I will get to it as soon as I can. I'm making a comic as well, so I will have other stuff to do, but I would like to do this stuff for you guys because I care about you all. Have fun everyone and be as open as you'd like with me. I'm all ears. I'll be here waiting for you all. I love you all!!!

Thank you all and let's have some fun,

Marquil Akeem Horn

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EDIT:I didn't think many people would actually respond to this journal. I thought I would have like 2 or 3 requests to do, but the turnout has been like 15 people. THAT'S GREAT!!! But, what I wanted to say is that you people will be getting your requests, but for right now, they are going to be sketches with shading and lighting done in black in, like a manga page. I was going to do colored ones, but I just realized art school is right around the corner and when I wen to orientaion, they told me hold onto as much supplies as I had already, cause I guess we get options on what we can use, for some classes, and not having to buy more supplies would be great, so yeah, I'll make them sketch-like thingies, but they'll be better than a quick pencil sketch. Sorry guys, I really wanted to do something special, but I have to read a book, work, and have a boat-load of pictures drawn before I leave for school, and now I'm all busy. I'm sorry guys, but they're going to have to be sketchy thingies, in order for me to finish on time. Also, I don't want to keep you all wating. I'll color them when I have the extra time, but for now, I'm going to upload the sketches for those people who requested one by one. I'm sorry guys, I hope you can understand. You WILL get your request though, as promised. I just wish I was able to color them like I wanted to do. :sigh: I'll be uploading everything within the next 2 weeks. I'll do a sketch a day. On top of that, I have to have pictures for my employees at McDonald's done as well, and there are about 10-12 people I'm making one for. So that's about 27 pictures, so I have a month to complete all that, and read a 300 pg book before September 2nd. SORRY SOOOO MUCH!!! They won't be rushed drawings though, so that's good!!! I just you guys aren't mad at me..................:sweatingalittle:




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Hey everyone!!! I just finished all the requests I was given. I did about 20 all in one day. I drew and inked them. At first, I was upset, cause some of them looked bad, but then I said, hey, these are REQUESTS, and they don't need to be perfect. They aren't commissions, but at the same time, I was soooooooooo freaking tired!!! Requests take A LOT out of you and ESPECIALLY if you NO TIME!! I have no time for much of anything anymore, because college is comming up REAL QUICK and I still have to read that 400 pg book. OMG, SOOOOOO MUCH WORK!! I did all the requests on 7/24/09 I stayed up all night doing them. I'm glad I stuck through it and finished them, but I'm going to take a break from requests and I'm going to really buckling down and get my style really defined and I'm going to haul butt on my comic. I have to at least start some pages before I move to Detroit in a month. Cause once I move, I'll have no time to work on the story anymore for about 4 years, cause that's when college rolls in and my officially gets moving. I'm going to Wayne State for art, so hopefully throughout these 4 years, you guys will see an improvement in my art. I'll still be uploading works, but they'll most likely be all college assignments and stuff of that nature like: still lifes, anatomy poses, painting, ya know, the "collegey" type of stuff, that they make you do, so you can waste all your money. lol JK I'm ready to go. I can't WAIT to take those anatomy courses. Most people hate courses like that, cause they'll say, "I don't wanna learn this", "This is too easy" or "I already know this stuff", but for me, I'm like, "HECK YES!!!" This is finally a chance for me to realize my full potential as an artist and when I get the skills for the anatomy, new blending techniques and detail menouvers, Imma put that all into my manga, when I get out of school. That way, I'll have an AWESOME piece of work, by the time my book is done, cause I'll be applying those skills to making my book and for me, that's what it's all about. It's about getting new skills and applying them in different ways. Well, anywho, Imma go to bed now and when I wake up at 7 or 8am, Imma draw character designs all day. My goal is to fill up a 100 page sketchbook in a day. Think it's impossible? Oh, I've seen it done. I'm not talking about drawing half a face on a page and flipping to the next page, I'm talking about full blown, time-consuming poses, close-ups, angles, accessories and whatnot. I'll be uploading manga art within this month and then after that, you'll start to see more college stuff, with the occasinal manga thrown in, maybe. Alright y'all!! ^_^

Well, Imma go now, it's 3am and I gotta wake up at 8am. See you all on the flip-flop,

Marquil Horn