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Gods Among Us

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How many of you artists out there truly want to achieve great things in your craft? To become the Champion of whatever you hold dear in this life? To be the best at it, the likes of which this world has never seen? What are you willing to do to make greatness happen in your life? To stand in unbinding union with success in the House of Creativity, and give birth to Inspiration. Will you greet failure as your enemy, or as your closest ally towards success? Will you let the impossible define your limits, or will you step up and define the limits of Impossibility?

Recently, I have made the conscious decision to be successful. No longer do I want to live in the shadows of my inspirations, but become theirs. I am tired of my dreams only being real in a reality outside of this one. I’m tired of living the struggle with little reward to show for it. No more excuses. I am willing to do whatever it takes to make it happen. Sacrifice however many hours of sleep it will take to make my dreams exist while I’m awake. For those of you out there who feel this passionate about what you love, I Challenge you to do the same. Embrace hard work as your new way of life, & NEVER stop Grinding. Be willing to fight for your dreams, until your Last Breath.

I am going to attempt to restructure my deviantart in the future, as I feel it is required for me to ascend to the level I seek to achieve. Instead of a primarily dragonball exclusive profile, I’m probly going to include other artwork that are a part of this journey towards excellence. I want to do great things, and help you guys who really want it to get there with me. At the very least, the best I can do now is inspire as many people as possible to chase their dreams, So all those on this path may one day stand… As Gods Among Us!

(p.s. I really appreciate all you supporter out there. & thanks for the birthday wishes as well! It’s hard for me to keep maintenance on my dA page, so all the latest work my take a little while before arriving to my dA page.)

To keep up to date with all my latest art, you can follow my instagram:

instagram.com/spartan1028/



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Hello my Deviant brothers and Sisters! :ahoy:
I hope all has been well with you guys, and hope u've been hard at work, staying bizzy little badasses! I am super excited to inform you all that I recently got an oppportunity to work for an animation studio that is currently under contract with Dreamworks! And so, for the past three months I have been helping develop a pilot for Dreamworkstv! This past Sunday, Dreamworks aired the pilot on their Dreamsworkstv youtube channel:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-Aot7… 

The name of the series is Tic Tak n' Toe, with the pilot episode being "Toequake." It's a show geared towards a younger audience, in a very different art style/animation style than I am acustomed to doing. & the series is more like "animated shorts" rather than the typical episode lengths.

This is my very first "Industry-related" animation gig, so I'm very excited about it. I am extremely blessed as well to have
Dreamsworks be the first people to do work for. I am hoping that from here, I can use this opportunity to begin to make the right connections and build credibility. So one day, the path to bringing to life my personal projects to the world will be within my reach.

Haha, this is the reason for my recent inactivity on DeviantArt, and unfornately shall probly keep me pretty ghosty on dA, as this dreamworks gig isn't the only thing I'm involved with right now, it's just the only one I can finally talk about lol. I am really trying to step it up and do whatever it take to make my dreams & goals become reality, which means a nigga has to stay on the grind lol. I hope this inspises you guys to continue to keep working hard & really chase your dreams, because I firmly believe that nothing is impossible.

I shall try to keep u guys updated on things, as they unfold. Also, your support in this 1st project (the "Tic Tak n' Toe" series) would be much appreciated. If you know anybody who'd be into this show, recommend it to em! Or if u just wanna help promote the shall, go for it! Your service to Sparta shall not go unnoticed. Not sure when episode 2 will be coming out as of yet, but I'll keep u posted! 


"Toequake" Tic Tak n' Toe Episode 1 link here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-Aot7…
Check out all of what's going on at Dreamswoks here:
www.dreamworksanimation.com/te…

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Hello my fellow deviants! I would firstly like to apologize for my long absence. Thank You Soooo sooo much for all of u whom have stuck around & continued to show support while I was away. Words can’t express how awesome of you guys are, seriously. Real life got REALLY crazy for me, to the point where I had to shift my focuses a bit to deal with everything that’s been going on. The terms “Struggling college student” and “starving artist” are all too real lol, but one must be strong to push through the many trials & tribulations of life if they wish to achieve all they are destined to become.

Quick updates since I’ve been away: went to Anime Expo for the 1st time (2014 & 2015…soooo amaaaziing), began making animations, started working on my own original comics/animation story (non DBZ related), & gained a newfound love for cosplaying! :D I was really blessed to make it out to the Expo this year, the experience was just what I needed to “recharge my batteries” so to speak lol. I unfortunately still haven’t been able to compete in my first Spartan Race yet due to financial issues, but am still trying to keep in Spartan shape to be ready whenever fate shall grant me the opportunity.

As in the past I typically have tried to keep the artwork I post somewhat filtered to mainly DBZ related artwork, I am not positive on how often I’ll be able to post Dragonball artwork, as I have multiple projects going on right now. I’m not sure yet if I’m going to post my non-DBZ art & animations here on deviantart, in which case I would at the very least try to give you guys the links to my external sites in case you would like to check out my other works. I will however add a cosplay section to my dA, hopefully you guys will enjoy the journey of my crazy hobby of the cosplay life as it progresses.

Finally, for those I may have promised to draw things for, my sincerest apologies. I can make no promises when or if I’d be able to around to drawing said artworks, but please know that I haven’t forgotten about you guys. I have A LOT of problems I’m struggling to deal with here in the real world, so I don’t know how often yet I’ll be able to make an appearance on dA, but I shall attempt to make an effort not to be a ghost here. U guys rock!! Stay BADASS!!!

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I hope everyone has had a good break transitioning into the New Year. I have big plans for 2014, and am really excited to finally shed light on my dragonball universe that I’ve been working hard to put together. After placing a lot of thought into it, I have decided to postpone the “official” release of my OC’s & stuff to my deviantArt page until sometime in March. I want to use January & February to finish a few of the Art Request/Commissions I had promised to try & do a while ago. I feel like it’s only right for me to try and finish up at least a few of them, as I’ve kept some of you waiting long enough. I did however have time to prepare a nice teaser deviation to give you a very small taste of all the epicness that is to come your way sometime in March.
  
As far as Commissions in general go, I am revising my policy a bit. Rather than having a bunch of different prices for certain kinds of arts (half body, full body, fight scene etc), my new price for commissions in general is… 300 points. So in the future, if you ever wanted to commission me to do an art piece for you, 300p is my price. The reason I chose 300 as my new price was because... it is Spartan Law of course!
  
Currently I am in the process of moving (down closer to my college), but should be all settled in by next week, as school begins next week. So once all that is settled with, I shall begin working on finishing up the requests/commissions I have made prior commitments to doing. As the time approaches, I shall try to post another journal, preparing you all for the true the beginnings of a new chapter in dragonball mythology, hopefully getting you guys as excited about it as I am.
  
To all you deviants out their working hard on your own comics, characters, animations or fan-fictions to add to the legend of Dragonball, let us all put our best foots foward & make this a year to remember in fan fiction history! :seizurela: Ahoy revamp 
-Spartan1028 :woadspear: 


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First and foremost, I would truly like to thank all of you wondrous deviants who wished me a Happy Birthday! :happycry: Ever since school started, real life has been a crazy rollercoaster, so to finally come back & see all this love an awesomeness… words can’t express how much I appreciate this!

Special thanks to these angels of awesomeness: :tighthug:

:iconchrisbellah: :iconsonpanssj4: :iconlevadakot: :iconxunfortunate-soulsx: :iconshinigamimizuki: :iconladyalvarez: :iconiithedarkness94ii: :iconshad73: :iconssj10gogeto: :iconpure-midnights: :iconelectrojolt67: :iconsonicandvegetafan: :iconvegetana: :iconitsukiwuff: :iconsuzukoyan: :iconcherrywind101: :iconskysonssj1: :icondanielgonz: :iconchaannx: :iconbladeriver: :iconjihenixlu:

My newfound life attending the Art Institute has been a hell of a lot more intense than I imagined. I had originally planned to return sooner to deviantArt  (around my days off for Thanksgiving),  but as luck would have it, I ended up getting sick over the break lol. Fortunately, my first quarter of school finally finished this past week and I am also feeling better healthwise. I’ve got a bit of regrouping and catching up to do, but should be back in business again in no time!

In terms of new art, I’ve got a bit of figuring out to do, between commissions (art requests), and my personal projects in the works. I’ll take this next week to decide what I’m doing when, and most likely revise my commissions policies altogether. I do want to apologize to WhiskeyGal, I was really looking forward to taking part in the contest. I’ll try to figure a way to make it up, (maybe do a drawing for fun of your OC sometime if that’s kool with you.) I have big plans for new artwork following the beginning of the New Year, but will try my best to see if I can maybe crank something out before then.

To all my watchers & friends out there: thank you sooo so much for the support you’ve shown me. I hope my future arts do not disappoint and are ultimately worth the wait. :ahoy:



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