DeviantArt: Subscription & Portfolio
Finally! After more than a year of being a DA peasant, I purchased a subscription. Well, it's only for 3-months. I'm just trying to see the benefits of having a sub. Didn't really know what got into me & made me decide to get a sub. I do want to have a sub though, but I was thinking it's just a waste of money. Perhaps the ability to tweak the journal is good. Being able to customize your profile page is nice too. But besides those, I'm not sure what else's useful to me. Anyway, I'm just gonna try my best to keep my DA account active & updated. And not waste my sub --- unlike what I did with my Flickr (I purchased a Pro account good for a year, kept my account active for about a month or two, and left it dead till the subscript expired).
Also, DA recently launched a free customizable portfolio with no ads! Anyone who has a DA account can create a portfio. You can go to portfolio.deviantart.com to start on your portfolio. Since I'm now on premium membership (wow! that sounds really good) I can do more stuff on my portofolio like use my own domain name & multiple portfolio. I have started on my own but it's still in progress. You may visit babiefortin.artworkfolio.com.
Birthday: Fortin is now 25
I still can't get over "14 is now 25", it seems funny to me. So forgive me if it sounds nonsense to you. I just turned 25 last June 26th. I still can't believe I'm that old, coz people have been telling me I don't look my age. Perhaps it's because of my height & petite physique or my facial features.
I took 3 days off work, so in total, I had 5 days of freedom, 5 days to celebrate my birthday. On June 24th, I visited my boyfriend at their city (San Juan, Manila) to celebrate their wet fiesta. People threw water at each other, parade on the street & booze & food at houses. On June 25th, I stayed at home & had a small birthday treat with my family. On the actual day of my birthday, I had a photoshoot, watched Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen on 2D with my boyfriend and went to a comedy bar with a couple of my boyfriend's closest friends.
Here's one of the photos taken during the photoshoot. I was just the photo editor, but since the photographers were one of friends, I asked them to take the first photos of me being 25.
Art Updates
No major updates really, I guess for the past weeks I've not been shooting. I rarely bring my camera. Wish I can buy something compact like Canon G9. With photo editing, been doing this at the office. I am my project's slave when it comes to making postcards, layouting & editing photos. A friend also offered me work, editing photos for UK clients. I declined this offer since I'm already busy with a non-art related business, & I am concerned with lots of things.
Perhaps if the weather in Manila turns back to being sunny & warm, I'll try to go to parks & shoot some plants & flowers. No plans yet of doing shoots with models.
I think shooting self-portraits are easier compared to shoots with a model involved. With models, there are a lot of things involved. But with self-portraits, I just have to sit, reflect what my current state is, think of an idea & execute it. As I mentioned in my previous update, I think I've done more than 7 sets already, I've lost count. Here are some of my recent self-portraits.
Model, make-up, styling, concept, lighting, photography & editing by me,
Also, I recently bought a sketch pad. Really miss drawing. I've been drawing since birth & when I got out of college, I suddenly lost interest in serious drawing. Now, my project is to draw a draft of my dream house.
Online Accounts
I think I need to go to rehab! I've been seriously addicted to Playfish games at Facebook like Pet Society, Crazy Planets and Restaurant City. LOL I even neglect work & sleep just to go online & play. Even most of my photographer friends have been a bit inactive with photography & are just going online to play Facebook games.
I plan to update my Multiply layout before the end of July. But I have no idea on the design yet.
Features
Yey!!! I really want to feature artists I watch here at DA. Finally, I can share to everyone their very inspiring artworks. Will try to make a news feature on them as well.
For my first feature, here are some Filipino artists that I watch here at DA.
--- my all time idol
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Here some of Filipino artists that are already famous here on DA & I love their work!