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The art of William Davies  

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20th Spacescape in the Works

Journal Entry: Wed Apr 30, 2008, 6:12 PM




Just for future reference, comments and advice for my work are graciously accepted.

NEWS



That's right, I'm finally getting on the job for my highly anticipated 20th spacescape. I'm really going all out on this one and I'm loving it. I've decided that I'm gonna lift my watermark craziness and re-release all my prior spacescapes as wallpaper packs along with the new upcoming one.

I hope you guys are as psyched about this next one as I am! =D

Posted on 04/30/08



So yeah.... I haven't submitted or worked on much art lately. This week I have a final exam for one of my online classes. I've also been spending time cutting down all the blackberry vines outside my bedroom window, so that we can hopefully plant grass and have an acre of back yard, as opposed to an acre of blackberries. So far I've cut down about 1/3 of the blackberries, and it'll probably take me another few weeks to finish and haul all the chopped vines away (since stupid laws won't let me just burn them all :P)

Posted on 04/23/08




I won a Wii last Saturday at a regional Mormon youth dance. Next week I'll have enough saved up to get Super Smash Bros Brawl! Woot!

List of Wii stuff wanted:
1 extra Wiimote & Nunchuck
1 Classic Controller
Super Smash Bros. Brawl
Mario Kart Wii
Pokemon Battle Revolution
Mario Party 8

Updated on 04/23/08
Posted on 04/19/08




Yay for freak snow storms in March! =D
Even more yay, 'cuz it's snowing in mid-April! I've never seen it snow here in April! It's so amazing!

:snowing:

Updated on 04/18/08
Posted on 03/28/08




No, it's not me, it's my sister. She's got herself a fiancé, so in June, I'm gonna take a trip down to Utah for her wedding.

Posted on 04/18/08




Yay! Thanks to *FatalImages, my subscription has been renewed! :hug:

I guess you all have to put up with another three months of Seattle weather forecasts, animated gifs, and "star-struck" journal backdrops =D

Updated on 04/06/08
Posted on 03/31/08




Hey everybody, a few of you might remember that about a year ago, I began writing a futuristic sci-fi novel. Life got busy and I kind of tossed it aside. I decided that I want to continue writing it this year, being as how I'm trying to not play so many video games in preparation for next year when I'll be off serving as a Mormon missionary. At any rate, I was wondering if there's any interest in reading what I write, so as to know whether or not it's worth my posting and editing it all here on deviantART.

Posted on 03/16/08




Yesterday I played brawl for the first time, and I must say it's amazing! After a few rounds of playing it, I was already as good at it as I am at Melee (I'm still so much better at the N64 one though :P), but in addition to my best Melee characters (Fox, Falco, Pikachu, Captain Falcon, and Peach), I discovered that I'm also really frickin' good with Pokemon Trainer's Charizard. It was awesome!

Posted on 03/12/08




:party:
Today's the day that only comes around once every four years! Let's make it a day to remember!
:dance:

Posted on 02/29/08




I added a new CSS to "Religion/Politics." Only "Friends List" and "Threads of Destiny" still need to be updated... :)

Updated on 02/28/08
Posted on 02/4/08




I'm still in progress watermarking everything... I'm still mad that I'm doing this, but hey, if it keeps abusers away... I suppose it's worth it.

Updated on 02/28/08
Posted on 01/31/08




Today is my still-born brother Joseph's 29th birthday. Happy birthday, bro! Our family still celebrates him even though he's not here, because we know he's smiling down on us from above.

Posted on 02/25/08




Hey, for my fellow Firefoxes, I just discovered that Firefox 2.00.012 is out as of two weeks ago!

You can download it here: [link]

Posted on 02/21/08





After three years of Cub Scouts and seven years of Boy Scouts, I have finally earned the Eagle Scout award! Yay! Only 2% of all Boy Scouts earn this award, and it is the result of a lot of work, community service, weekends in the mountains, and seven years of fun!

Posted on 02/19/08





ART TRADES


As usual, I'm still open for art trades, although I haven't mentioned it in my journal for a while, so I decided to make a box with all of my art trades in it.




Trade Status: 0% Complete
Details: We're working out the details for the trade.

She will probably trade me a religious photomanip.
I'll trade her a space scene for her father.

Posted on 03/06/08




Trade Status: 50% Complete
Details: I'm complete with my end of the deal. I don't know how far he is, but he's doing several drawings for other people right now, so I don't mind waiting a while.

He will trade an Elation drawing.
I traded him:


Posted on 03/04/08




Trade Status: 50% Complete
Details: I finished my end of the deal. I think he forgot to draw me my picture, as that was 4 months ago... I'll have to remind him.

He will trade me an Elation drawing.
I traded him:


Updated on 03/07/08
Posted on 11/07/07




Trade Status: 100% Complete
Details: Trade is complete.

He traded me:

I traded him:


Updated on 03/07/08
Posted on 10/25/07





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:iconlinkmax:

=Linkmax is my best friend out of all the people I've met on deviantART. I've also since then met him three times in real life. He was the one who bought me my first dA subscription, he also worked with me on Star Wars: Threads of Destiny as a rotoscoper, and he's got some great visual effects work under his belt:






Posted 04/06/08



:iconalexiuss:

=alexiuss is an incredible artist, one of my favorites. He does amazing matte paintings. Here's a few really awesome ones:






Posted 03/27/08



:iconsupernes:

~SuperNES has been one of my best friends since elementary school. Since then, he's gotten pretty darn good at drawing, and he was more or less the one who introduced me to the concept of "Photoshop." He's got some really cool photography and other digital art in his gallery. Here are some of the ones I really like:






Posted 03/02/08




:icondragonwinter:

`DragonWinter is my favorite fractals artist on deviantART. She joined dA only a few months after me, and I've devwatched her for a long time. Here are a few of my faves from her gallery:






Posted 03/02/08




:iconspazznaticshuriken:

*SpAzZnaticShuRIken (a.k.a. Epic) is another awesome effects artist and has tagteamed with =EdgeFx1 in the past. He's another crazy cool superhero guy, another part of the inspiration for my Elation character. Here's some of my faves from his gallery:






Posted 02/29/08




:iconedgefx1:

=EdgeFx1 is another one of my favorite artists on deviantART, and was part of the inspiration for the Elation comics series that I've been Photoshopping off and on for over a year now. Here's some of his "hot" stuff from the last year or two:






Posted 02/28/08




:iconphoenix-06:

=Phoenix-06 is an awesome space artist. He does extravagant space paintings, which greatly surpass my own, in my opinion. Most recently he did a really cool series of sun paintings. Here are the paintings from that series:






Updated 02/28/08
Posted 01/15/08




:iconcoloneljinx:

*coloneljinx's art is incredible, and I was shocked at how few pageviews he has, so here's a few pieces of his work. He's really good at the paintings that he does and deserves more supporters.






Posted 02/04/08




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  • Mood: Triumph
  • Listening to: All-American Rejects
  • Reading: Three Against Hitler
  • Watching: Harry Potter: Order of the Phoenix
  • Playing: Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga
  • Eating: Cocoa Puffs
  • Drinking: Milk

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=WilhelmII:iconWilhelmII: 16 hours 8 seconds ago
Aren't we all? :P

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"Without God, what point is there to life? If we can't progress further, then we're all damned to begin with." - William Davies
~DilettoFiore:iconDilettoFiore: 2 days 17 hours ago
THANK YOU FOR THE WATCH FROM LIKE FOREVER AGO ... yeah i know, i'm lame and get things done late. lol
=WilhelmII:iconWilhelmII: May 1, 2008, 9:11:47 PM
No problem :thumbsup:;)

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~elmoye:iconelmoye: May 1, 2008, 7:58:04 PM
Thank you very much for the :+fav: and the comment... thank you

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=melody-musique:iconmelody-musique: May 1, 2008, 5:15:08 AM
why hallo thar >w>

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~enixeffex:iconenixeffex: Apr 30, 2008, 9:28:22 PM
thanks for the fav bro!

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=WilhelmII:iconWilhelmII: Apr 30, 2008, 5:09:05 PM
lol, you're counting? =D

What can I say, I like Sonic a lot... heck, I like all of Nintendo & Sega's platform characters. :XD:

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"Without God, what point is there to life? If we can't progress further, then we're all damned to begin with." - William Davies
*Wrightie213:iconWrightie213: Apr 30, 2008, 4:27:00 PM
cheers for the fave. This is the second of my sonic works to make your Fav's glade you like my stuff :)

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=WilhelmII:iconWilhelmII: Apr 30, 2008, 1:50:39 PM
No problem :aww:

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"Without God, what point is there to life? If we can't progress further, then we're all damned to begin with." - William Davies
~NiaWolf:iconNiaWolf: Apr 30, 2008, 11:42:12 AM Mood: Pride
Thx for :+fav::flirty:

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=WilhelmII:iconWilhelmII: Apr 30, 2008, 9:20:03 AM
It's not just dA's policy, it's the policy and law of this country to not distribute media depicting nudity among minors. I do understand what you were saying; however, I have a different opinion, and that does not make me short-sighted. I was acting on conscience and moral values.

"Listen to the conclusion of renowned historians Will and Ariel Durrant. Out of the vast experience of writing a thousand years of history, they wrote:

“No one man, however brilliant or well-informed, can come in one lifetime to such fullness of understanding as to safely judge and dismiss the customs or institutions of his society, for these are the wisdom of generations after centuries of experiment in the laboratory of history. A youth boiling with hormones will wonder why he should not give full freedom to his sexual desires; and if he is unchecked by custom, morals, or laws, he may ruin his life before he matures sufficiently to understand that sex is a river of fire that must be banked and cooled by a hundred restraints if it is not to consume in chaos both the individual and the group.” (The Lessons of History, New York: Simon and Schuster, 1968, pp. 35–36.)

Self-discipline was never easy. I do not doubt that it is more difficult today. We live in a sex-saturated world. I am convinced that many of our youth, and many older but no-less-gullible adults, are victims of the persuasive elements which surround them—the pornographic literature which has become a multi-million-dollar-a-year business in the U. S. alone, seductive movies and television shows that excite and give sanction to promiscuity, dress standards that invite familiarity, judicial decisions that destroy legal restraint, parents who often unwittingly push the children they love toward situations they later regret.

A wise writer has observed that “a new religion is emerging throughout the world, a religion in which the body is the supreme object of worship to the exclusion of all other aspects of existence. The pursuit of its pleasures has grown into a cult; … for its ritual no efforts are spared. We have bartered holiness for convenience, … wisdom for information, joy for pleasure, tradition for fashion.” (Abraham Joshua Heschel, The Insecurity of Freedom, New York: Schocken Books, 1966, p. 200.)

Nakedness or near-nakedness has become the hallmark of much public entertainment. It reaches beyond this into the realm of sadistic perversion. As one seasoned New York critic remarked, “It’s not only the nudity; it’s the crudity.”

Can there be any reasonable doubt that in sowing the wind of a sex-saturated world, we are reaping the whirlwind of decay? We need to read more history. Nations and civilizations have flowered, then died, poisoned by their own moral sickness. As one commentator has remarked, Rome perished before the Goths poured over its walls. “But it was not that the walls were low. It was that Rome itself was low.” (U. S. News & World Report, May 28, 1962, p. 90.)

As with the bud, so with the blossom. Youth is the seedtime for the future flowering of family life. No nation, no civilization can long endure without strength in the homes and lives of its people. That strength derives from the integrity of those who live in those homes.

No family can have peace, no life can be free from the storms of adversity unless that family and that home are built on foundations of morality, fidelity, and mutual respect. There cannot be peace where there is not trust; there cannot be freedom where there is not loyalty. The warm sunlight of love will not rise out of a swamp of immorality.

To hope for peace and love and gladness out of promiscuity is to hope for that which will never come. To wish for freedom out of immorality is to wish for something that cannot be. Said the Savior, “Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin.” (John 8:34.)"
- Gordon B. Hinckley, “In Search of Peace and Freedom,” Ensign, Aug 1989, 2

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"Without God, what point is there to life? If we can't progress further, then we're all damned to begin with." - William Davies
~Jodi-Ann-Photography:iconJodi-Ann-Photography: Apr 30, 2008, 8:41:28 AM
why would you waist your time and every one else's to tag things that are in your mind mature? DA only has that policy so they don't get sued from people like you who care way to much about small things like nudity.
and your right this conversation is over, one day you'll wake up and hopefully understand what i was actually saying to you here, becuase i'm obviously waisting my words trying to deal with some one who is so short sighted.
~Jodi-Ann-Photography:iconJodi-Ann-Photography: Apr 29, 2008, 9:20:39 PM
the point of the entire converstaion was censorship on nudity, however, my point is if there was more nudity it wouldn't have to be censored becuase no one would care, they would see the beauty, including all people not just people over 18...
=WilhelmII:iconWilhelmII: Apr 29, 2008, 9:19:47 PM
The fact of the matter is that as the policy currently stands on deviantART, all nudity is to be labeled as mature content, and until that's different, I will continue to tag things that ought to be under that policy.

End of conversation.

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"Without God, what point is there to life? If we can't progress further, then we're all damned to begin with." - William Davies
=WilhelmII:iconWilhelmII: Apr 29, 2008, 9:15:12 PM
You don't need exposure to nudity to respect your own body. All you need is self-worth.

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"Without God, what point is there to life? If we can't progress further, then we're all damned to begin with." - William Davies
~Jodi-Ann-Photography:iconJodi-Ann-Photography: Apr 29, 2008, 9:05:52 PM
one, who says god is a man... secondly, if porn creates issues in the family, there were issues to begin with, and three... if every one was unsensitized to nudity people wouldn't have so many body issues such as anorexic or obesity becuase a body would be OK to have and not something that needs to be covered or hidden from the world. all art needs to be taken care of... i actually wish kids saw real art on a regular basis... that way they would lose those thoughts that nudity was bad... and learn to love what they have and respect themselves. as well as have open minds about all body types. i say do away with the content filter.
~Fjodin:iconFjodin: Apr 29, 2008, 3:17:51 PM
thx!

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~Lyridae:iconLyridae: Apr 29, 2008, 10:35:21 AM
thx for watching me... :ahoy:
=WilhelmII:iconWilhelmII: Apr 29, 2008, 7:20:04 AM
I never said that you have to "change" your work. I said that it isn't suitable for the young kids that come here to see it on display, because the body IS a mature thing. It IS a work of art, but it's God's art, a sacred gift which He has given us, and it should be treated with reverence and respect. The body is perhaps the most sacred gift we have. With it we manipulate matter and can create life. If nudity wasn't a big deal, then there would be a lot more naked people walking around out in public. That is the entire purpose of the Mature Content filter. I'm not saying your work isn't art, I'm saying it's a different genre of art that needs to be treated more carefully, because as I'm sure you are aware, pornography is addicting and it ruins families. I know that much from the failed marriages of two of my sisters.

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"Without God, what point is there to life? If we can't progress further, then we're all damned to begin with." - William Davies
~Jodi-Ann-Photography:iconJodi-Ann-Photography: Apr 27, 2008, 5:14:00 PM
Actually what you did, did offend me. to think that an 18 year old can be so blind as to look at nudity as more then just a body, as some kind of sexual exploitation and to think that any art should be marked as "mature" based upon nudity is rather sad and i hope that one day you realize, that those out looks in an artistic world will not be taken into any account. to be an artist is more then just what you do, its how you act, and how people see you, if your work is to exploit a body, isnt that the point? why would you or any one ever ask an artist to censor there work unless that person felt threatened or embarrassed? it is not the artist who needs to "change" there work to fit the social standers... every one, including you my friend need to open your eyes to more then whats in front of you, or else whats the point?
=drowningpictures:icondrowningpictures: Apr 26, 2008, 1:38:20 PM
thank you for the comment, i appreciate it
~Traxen24:iconTraxen24: Apr 26, 2008, 9:10:02 AM
Thanks for acknowledging my joining. Check out my recent Deviations.
~dnb-nOise:icondnb-nOise: Apr 25, 2008, 10:04:25 PM
Thanks for the watch mate.Much appreciated :)

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=WilhelmII:iconWilhelmII: Apr 25, 2008, 10:36:04 AM
I live in Washington state. There are normal schools everywhere here too. I just thought I'd try something different.

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"Without God, what point is there to life? If we can't progress further, then we're all damned to begin with." - William Davies
=Initio:iconInitio: Apr 25, 2008, 9:20:37 AM
Bible study? - Okay, we don't have that kind of things in Denmark.. And we can't take classes over the internet, probably because there is a school everywhere here.. Where do you live in the states ?

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