Well, this is my first ever journal on DA. Not really sure why I've decided to write it - this may turn out to be the only entry! But I shall try and keep it on topic with regard to art/DA.

My art
I've been submitting more things recently than before, and trying out some of the "new" features (they have likely been around ages but I only recently saw them) like being able to group art in the gallery for easier browsing.

This highlighted two things to me:
1. I need to work more on my own original art.
2. I have too many "work in progress" images!

I should get cracking...

Watermarks / Art Theft
A few peoples journals have drawn to my attention the fact that even on DA a lot of people claim others work for their own. This is wrong. Now, I'm pretty confident that noone would want to steal my art but it's the principle. I tried out DAs own watermark feature, but the graphic is huge, and really can detract from the image. After some fiddling about in Adobe FireWorks, I cam across a little, well, motif I guess, that I have now applied to most of my work on here. Hopefully, this wont detract from the final piece so much.

Final Thoughts
1. It's a sad time indeed when people feel the need to steal other people's work and claim it as their own. Sure, a lot of my stuff is fanart, (my creative-ness has bounds! [unfortunately]) but I never claim the compositions as my own.

2. I need to pull my finger out and work on some stuff while I actually have time (being unemployed apparently has some benefits). In my defence, messing with my crappy website takes up a lot of my time. Must - try - harder !

Cheers,

Esme

Very last words...
So, before I pressed "add" I was looking for ways to add bolded font etc to make reading easier on the eyes. Can't see anything, and for some reason I decided to try BB code which obviously didn't work in preview. So I go to the FAQ section, and apparently CSS and other cool things are for subscribers only. I mean, WTH? Gah.

However, it seems if you know CSS you can just type it in and it works, so stuff their subscriber crap. Of course, the preview may be lying to me, and I may have to eat my words...