Haha so all 2000 decks of cards have been printed!!! I will receive a sample by next week to see if the quality is to my satisfaction before the final payment to the company. After that I'll have to wait a few weeks longer for the shipment to arrive. Then I'll post samples plus details on how to purchase. Man this took WAAAAY longer than I thought. I originally planed to get it out by January but it's already June =_= and this is essentially my college fund and the first tuition + housing fee is due in August D: (I better not get in debt >< ) But this is my first time so I'll learn from my mistakes.

So aside from that... ARTIST BLOCK! In a good way...maybe? I haven't been replying or even checking dA for the past few says, not even my notes (which are pilling up) so sorry if you're waiting for a response ;_; I'm in a weird mood in which I don't want to think about dA or drawing. I get like this every once in a while when I'm in sate of "learning"...sort of. Basically right now I feel like surfing the net to read, look, and watch a bunch of stuff for future use so maybe it's a good thing and when the block is all over and done with, I might get better than before, or I might be so out of practice that I suck XD but either way, it can't be helped. I don't know when the block will be over and I'll probably be avoiding dA until then so sorry but I'll be back

Also, hint hint, the "learning" is partly for my research for Project WE MUAHAHAA!

Like the title says, there's been some illegal use and sale of images by dA artists on mobile phone wallpaper sites. kindly noted me about this issue which can be read here [link] you might want to check it out since your art might be on there. I don't see my work there but I haven't looked through everything yet. However, if you see the works of a dA artist on there, please inform them about it and also please help spread the word and make a journal entry. Thank you!

I would also like to thank everyones support on the issues mentioned in my last journal entry. I really appreciate it.

This is a rant, don't read it! I'm just posting to let out steam.

While I'm quite happy about the aid for wolves generated by my element wolves series, I'm also quite irked by a number of questionable comments.

I've always believed that ignorance is the lack of knowledge while stupidity is the lack of ability to process knowledge, but in these cases, I'm not quite sure which is which.

1. First several people have "corrected" my Chinese that was part of my wolf drawings. Many Chinese characters were incorporated into other languages such as Japanese and Korean through out history. Understandably some people thought I was misusing Japanese or Korean. I have no problem with simple misunderstandings.

However, one person insisted that my Chinese was wrong and that I didn't even know how to write my own name because I used simplified Chinese. I was born in mainland China and I was taught simplified Chinese like the other 1 billion people in China. This person was from Taiwan and grew up learning traditional Chinese. So we have slightly different versions of Chinese, no big deal, right? Well, according to this person, I'm wrong no matter what because simplified Chinese was a result of the Communists trying to erase Chinese culture, and by using simplified Chinese, I'm like a Nazi because I use simplified like most Chinese people, just like the Nazi who all agreed to kill Jews. What? If that didn't make any sense to you, then you are perfectly fine.

2. I think it's quite obvious that I drew the wolf series to promote wolf rescue. The recent wolf delisting has already resulted in the untimely death of over 69 wolves; I think I have a right to be angry about that and I should also have the right to do something about. Apparently, several people believe I don't have that right because I'm just another stereotypical wolf lover who only cares about the cute and furry animals. I find it ridiculous that just because I'm trying to help one species, people would bash me for not helping another? Hello? I'm not stealing aid from other animals to give to the wolves and just because I'm helping the wolves now doesn't mean I have never helped, or never will help any other species of animals.

This happens every time. When I wrote about kids in Iraq, people bashed me about not talking about other kinds in 3rd world countries. When I drew "Selfish" to bring light to the 50,000 dog slaughter, people bashed me for caring ONLY about some dogs and not other animals. When I was angry about the puppy thrown off a cliff, people bashed me for caring about just ONE puppy. What, I have no right to be angry that a puppy died because it was JUST ONE puppy? And now people are telling me off because I ONLY care about wolves instead of lesser known animals. I'm ONE person and I can only do ONE thing at a time so just because I'm helping wolves right now doesn't mean I won't help other species. I thought this was a fairly obvious fact but after reading so many comments about the same irrational crap, I felt the need to to rant it out.

3. I'm not some dumb artist who can only draw and fail in academics. Not to brag but the fact that I'm valedictorian probably means I'm not as dumb as what some might think. This is why it irks me when people who have done zero research and have zero knowledge in ecology lecture me on how "wolves need to be killed because they are overpopulating, killing off all the prey, and will come into the city to eat people." Anyone who is not completely uneducated will know how false a statement like that is. At first I found it hilarious, but then I just found it sad. It's partly because of people like this that innocent animals are being killed for no real reason.

4. This has nothing to do with the wolves but it irked me on an equal level. I'm an atheist, so what? But I've received several comments that went something along the lines of this "I think you're cool and we like all the same things, we could be good friend, but you're an atheist/ but I'm afraid of atheists."

What? Seriously, I thought we lived in modern society, not the witch hunt era. My best friend is Christian, my entire family is Christian, my college roommate is Christian and we all get along fine. I'm just as good as any of them. My mom was angry when I first became an atheist because she thought that without my fear of hell for doing wrong or incentive of heaven for doing good, that I would stray from the right path. Is that why some religious people are afraid of atheists? Are they afraid that I'm someone without moral standard because I don't believe some divine being is watching my every move? I won't go into details on why I became an atheist but I can assure all religious people out there that it's not so that I can do whatever I want without fear of punishment. There's no need to be afraid of me because I'm not going to stab you just because I believe I won't go to hell if I did.

I'll end my rant here. Sorry if you actually read all this. My deepest apologies for my incapabilities to tolerate inevitable stupidity and ignorance.

Some weird stuff happened so I had to switch to a different company but everything is looking good. The new company is more professional and they said once the contract is signed, they can make all the cards in as little as 15 days. Now that doesn't mean I will be selling them in 15 days. I still need to wait for the shipment to arrive and I'll need to do some research on the safest and cheapest way to ship it to you guys, especially the international ones because I think I have to fill out some sort of forms....

The price is set $15 per deck and shipping shouldn't cost too much because cards are fairly light and small. I will have about 2000 decks in stock so don't worry about running out of stock.

Soooooooooo yeah *cough* er....I'm 18 now D: What that means is that my mom can legally kick me out of the house now Awsome... I feel so ancient =_= where are my bygone days of youth?! T_T

I know I haven't updated anything in a billion years (hyperbole...) but I will start drawing again once I'm done with my AP Biology exam which is...tomorrow! (crap, I need to study) After that I will be working on a few end of the year school projects and preparing for finals. I will also have to write some BS speech about the great times in high school because they made me valedictorian. D:

Once I start updating, you can probably expect the following:

1. A very strange video (that will be on Youtube) about conservation and global warming. This will be my AP Bio final project but my friends and I will try to make this very entertaining and educational at the same time.

2. 3 requests for 3 awsome friends, two of which wants some Naruto related fanart. Believe it! *gets shot*

3. A series of 10 elemental wolves. I already have them all sketched out, I just need to ink and color them. If I decide to sell these as greeting cards, 50% of the profits will be donated to wolf protection programs (I need the other 50% for college ;_; )

4. A giant Evangelion poster that will have the 4 pilots. (But I might not do it, though I already have it sketched out)

5. A secrete project! *gasp* Code named Project WE which I will work on for the next few years (yeah, it's that big). But I will post promotional art every now and then

Well, I think that's all. Sorry again for being away for so long but I'll be back soon!

After a billion years, I've finally finished editing the cards. I've sent them over to the company and they are being evaluated to see if the cards are ready for print. If everything is fine, then they'll start making the molds for the cards and then print them. The entire process will take slightly over a month. Then I'll have to wait a bit longer for them to ship it over. If for some horrible reason they find mistakes that I need to fix and edit again, then I don't know how long it'll take. It takes freaking forever to edit them because the card files are huge for the best resolution, but that means I'll have to wait an entire minute for the computer to process all the info every time I change and save something on Photoshop DX

Anyways, once they accept the files, they'll give me an exact price for the total cost of printing so I'll be able to give you guys a set price as well. From the looks of it and my calculations, each deck should be $15 without shipping. I hope that's a fair price but if it's not, I don't think I can go any lower. The stupid unfair truth is that I got into Berkeley but I didn't get any financial aid fromm FAFSA at all because of my stepfather's high income. They don't care if I rank #1 in my graduating class or that my stepfather won't help me at all because I'm not his real daughter, but that's not what pissed me off. People with lower grades actually got so much aid that they can afford better housing just because their parents earned less money. I thought FAFSA existed so that low income families had an EQUAL opportunity to go to college, not a better one. This is reverse discrimination that says if you don't work as hard and make as much, it's not just okay but actually better because you can get more free money and live a better life this way. Why work your butt off when you can be lazy and get more? Sorry for my rant there, but I guess my real point is I'm sorry the cards can't be cheaper because I really need the money to pay for college. I don't want to get in debt as the first thing I do in the real world so I hope you guys will understand. When the cards come out, please buy them or tell your friends, I seriously need the help ;_;

Thank you for reading!