DeviantArtist Questionnaire

 Just because.

1. How long have you been on DA?
A year and... nearly four months. That's a lot less than it feels like, actually.


2. What does your username mean?
Not a whole lot, really. I'm an individual who identifies as female, is from a colder country than the one I currently live in, and generally comes across as cold and unemotional. It's a generic online username that I just kept using because I couldn't be bothered to think of new ones for different things that required usernames.


3. Describe yourself in three words.
Questioning, questing, quixotic. have i mentioned i hate any kind of short 'summary' style thing


4. Are you right or left-handed?
Right, although I'm surprisingly good with my left hand except when it comes to writing. Then again, my writing sucks even with my right hand, so...


5. What was your first deviation?
Oh gosh, I'd really rather not think about that...

The earliest piece in my gallery is Misty Distance, but that poem and quite a few after it make me cringe when I read them now. I keep thinking about just deleting (or at least storing) a lot of my older deviations, but then the question comes of where to draw the line between 'old' and to be thrown out, and 'new' and good enough for keeping... so nothing ever happens. (Please please please do not go exploring around my old deviations. You're unlikely to find anything worth the time, and I do not want to think about how bad I was at writing poetry back then.)

6. What is your favourite type of art to create?
I really like writing Within that frame, though, I'm really starting to enjoy short prose pieces. The trouble is that I don't write many of them just for lack of workable concepts... Eh, I'm working on it. That'll do.


7. If you could instantly master a different art style, what would it be?
 Either something musical or drawing - people, specifically. Music because everyone else in my family seems to better at music than I am and I don't take too well to people being able to do stuff I can't (them doing it better is one thing, provided that it's not something I consider to be extremely important to me). Drawing because... well, partly just because I like the way an image of a person can tell a story all by itself, and partly because I would really like to be able to draw my own fictional characters, except I'm not that great at drawing people. I keep thinking I should try to learn, but time and effort and stuff to actually draw on and pencils and stuff... it's too much at once, so nothing ever gets done. (Digital art would solve some of the material problems, but it'd just cause another one...)
 So, pending a change to the situation regarding my inability to motivate myself to do visual art: To all visual artists...


8. What was your first favourite?
Probably something I put in my favourites mostly to try to get the hang of the site back when I first joined. Let's go see...
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Apparently that's the earliest thing in my favourites. There's actually a surprising amount of visual art in my early favourites, which makes sense when you remember that it did take me a while to actually find the literature community around here. It's hard to get anything done when you're too wary of clicking on buttons of unknown function to find your way around the website.


9. What type of art do you tend to favourite the most?
Literature, easily Within that frame, mostly very emotionally impactful work, or stuff that I just think is really clever for whatever reason. It's kind of vague, but it's all I've got.


10. Who is your all-time favourite deviant artist?

Okay, asking for one favourite artist does not wash with me. Different artists do different things well. I might have certain preferences for the way some artists do things, but ignoring the ways other artists do similar things is doing all parties a disservice. i wonder why my mother used to tell me i ought to go into politics...

11. If you could meet anyone on DA in person, who would it be?
Okay, there's a bunch of people I could say here, but... well, here's a few examples: chromeantennae, DynamiteHearts, fiercestrawberry, scheherazades, Lissomer, AyeAye12, introverted-ghost, QueenElsaWitch. These aren't all people I talk to a lot, but they all make some great art, and I like talking to artists whose work I like. It's easier to start a conversation when you already have some kind of common ground (or at least common reference point...)


12. How has a fellow deviant impacted your life?
Well, the community at large sort of forced me to be okay with other people seeing stuff I wrote even if I wasn't entirely happy with it. More specifically, um... let's just say that I wrote this (and the other seven poems that followed) after some rather difficult conversations with another deviant. (Difficult for me because of this whole frosty stone face thing this INTJ's got going on.)


13. What are your preferred tools to create art?
I'd love to be able to honestly say pen and paper (the experience is just different) but my handwriting sucks and I can't write fast enough to anywhere near keep up with my brain. (I frequently write a word or even half a sentence that doesn't fit with the sentence I started because my brain got annoyed at my lack of haste and started wandering off while I was writing.) So laptop it is. I type pretty fast, not that it always helps...


14. What is the most inspirational place for you to create art?
Well, the laptop doesn't leave the house, so working on longer stuff (like those novels squirrelled away on my computer) only ever happens in the house, but in terms of poetry, having been to some atmospheric or at least different place (not necessarily still being there when I start writing) can do wonders. Then again, even after something 'inspires' me I often have to wait on my brain to make the concept work as any kind of written piece. That can take minutes or weeks.


15. What is your favourite DA memory?
I'm still pretty chuffed over 170cm, 53kg being featured by DailyLitRecognition. The entire Beauty In Raw Humanity thing has been wonderful to see. And the snippets of people's lives you see, through journals or pieces... it's quite something. said the young woman who still hasn't figured out this whole expressing emotions thing despite all the emotive poetry she writes


 Well, that took longer than I thought... I always have to go into more detail than anyone ever asked for when answering questions. Either that, or I'm hopelessly curt about answering.
 Either way, props to you if you read the entire thing. Enjoy the DA birthday celebrations, everyone, and eat cake if you can acquire any.