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Artist // Professional // Varied
- United States
- Deviant for 20 years
- www.janelledowney.com
- She / Her
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My Bio
Digital illustrator and jewelery maker living it up in Boston, MA.
Tools of the Trade
Wacom, Photoshop, Illustrator, Gems, Beads, Wire, Paint...
New Account, etc.
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Hey all,
It' been a while since I've posted art and even longer that I've posted a journal entry. As usual life has been nothing short of insane, and my undergrad education is finally coming to a close.
In light of this I've created a new account ~stillwaterslisten (https://www.deviantart.com/stillwaterslisten) to upload new art to.
I will probably still keep this account and use it for less formal things (jewelery, physical paintings, fanart, practice, poetry, etc.) as well as to comment/fav things so feel free to keep watching it. :)
To see more work, in-progress pieces, writing, etc. you can visit:
Current blog/tumblr: http://stillwaterstudios.tumblr.com/, which is actually u
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Onward and Upward
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Things I have done since I last updated:
Survived 4 studio classes/week for 2 semesters consecutively. Lost ten roommates in one year. Saw Coheed and Cambria, Say Anything, and Gogol Bordello all play excellent live shows and personally met/shook hands with Max Bemis, Eugene Hutz, Amanda Palmer and Steven Tyler. Started to develop an artistic style after a semester of utter confusion. Learned the basics of fencing and piano. Had an afternoon of Urban Exploration. Had shamanic experiences and danced with strangers and their spirit animals in a church. Got lost in Cambridge at night in ten degree weather and ended up starting to find myself. H
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Semester Five
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So I'm a junior. For once there is no significant part of me widening my eyes in horror- there comes a point where you're just damn happy to be working on what you really want to. The assignments are piling on fast: a self portrait about a duality, make a font, sketch for a story, draw hands to a poem, collect typography daily, draw until your hand falls off etc. etc...and I've got this great class called Intro to Psychology of the Self that is actually making me like psychology again, woah.
And I get a studio tomorrow. A little cubicle to call home.
Times are turbulent. Our economy is down, our apartment is expensive, my interaction with m
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Hi, thanks very much for adding me to your watch
Hey lovely, the other day I had replied to one of the amazing comments you had given to me recently, but Deviantart keeps eating them for some reason. I don't know what is going on, but I didn't want you to think that I was ignoring them, or that I didn't appreciate them. You have NO idea how much they meant to me. No one has ever done that for me before, sat down and given me a REAL rundown on how my art is. And how it could be better. And you are SOOOOOO nice about it. I needed that SO badly when you did it, and man I think I cried when I read them, I was so happy that someone cared enough to help me out like that. I feel like these days art is all people just trying to make money and they don't care enough to help each other get better like we used to! People used to red line for me, once upon a time when I very first ever started to draw ( back then everyone did that for everyone! ) and it helped me get better in leaps because I was able to SEE through others eyes. These days you are lucky to get three word comments. So I am insanely thankful for your comments, they have helped me to no end- and I could not appreciate them more! 
Thank you so much, you are such a great person, I am so thankful to know you! 
~Lai
Thank you so much, you are such a great person, I am so thankful to know you! ~Lai
Hey Lai,
Thanks for this! And you're welcome. The internet is so much more of a casual thing now. We're all growing up and our focus has to be on money with the way the worldwide economy is, and our exposure to art is at critical mass (facebook+tumblr+pintrest+reddit+ portfolio websites= way too much). We're no longer 13-16 year olds trying to learn how to make art and socialize.
That being said, I see so much art and so much anime especially that I am overexposed and just focus on watching people I either find exceptional or are friends from "the old days"- period. If a person appears to have created something new or exceptional FOR THEM, I usually comment, because I know this is huge.
I wish I could be producing half as much as I was a year ago, but ever since graduation it's been hopping from gig to gig trying to pay rent and prevent getting treated like shit. I'm poor, underpaid, overworked, and certainly not respected- the last part bothers me the most. So I do my graphic design jobs and keep my mouth shut, and I paint and make jewelry when I can. I've learned it's important to keep the artists working and positive, no matter what they're making. Because when they said, "It'll be hard," in art school I thought they were referring to your will to keep making art for yourself. They didn't tell me there would be absolutely no way to work my illustration skills into anything but freelancing for years or that industry jobs are few and far between because they lived in an older, better economy- they didn't know.
So of course it's all about money. All we can do is try to make time for the other stuff.
Stay awesome <3
Thanks for this! And you're welcome. The internet is so much more of a casual thing now. We're all growing up and our focus has to be on money with the way the worldwide economy is, and our exposure to art is at critical mass (facebook+tumblr+pintrest+reddit+ portfolio websites= way too much). We're no longer 13-16 year olds trying to learn how to make art and socialize.
That being said, I see so much art and so much anime especially that I am overexposed and just focus on watching people I either find exceptional or are friends from "the old days"- period. If a person appears to have created something new or exceptional FOR THEM, I usually comment, because I know this is huge.
I wish I could be producing half as much as I was a year ago, but ever since graduation it's been hopping from gig to gig trying to pay rent and prevent getting treated like shit. I'm poor, underpaid, overworked, and certainly not respected- the last part bothers me the most. So I do my graphic design jobs and keep my mouth shut, and I paint and make jewelry when I can. I've learned it's important to keep the artists working and positive, no matter what they're making. Because when they said, "It'll be hard," in art school I thought they were referring to your will to keep making art for yourself. They didn't tell me there would be absolutely no way to work my illustration skills into anything but freelancing for years or that industry jobs are few and far between because they lived in an older, better economy- they didn't know.
So of course it's all about money. All we can do is try to make time for the other stuff.
Stay awesome <3
Thank you very much for watching me. I hope that you're well ^_^
Hey, so... the stone I bought two years ago and never commissioned a wire-wrapping for... juuuuust sayin'... we should talk business at Flann's.
Hell yes! I'd love to see the stone/you soon; I've solidified my plans and I'm officially moving south in September. I'll check my Sat hours and let you know!
Yes please, I want to catch up and hear all about your plans!