Looking at DA you notice a few things. One is that everyone likes to draw fan art. I've drawn my share of fan art in my time, there's nothing wrong with that. It's a fine way to practice and express just how cool you think a game or comic or TV show is. The problem with deviantart is that people get so devoted to the characters of their favorite property that becomes all they draw. On the off chance that someone exercises a little creativity and makes up some characters of their own, they are then referred to as "OC" or "original characters". I like this term because it lets me know which artists I can safely ignore because they'll never really create anything original. You see people who have to specify that this is an "OC" are telling you that they draw so much fanart, they have to have a special name for anything that's not fanart. They're also telling you this "OC" is so bland and derivative, you couldn't tell just by looking at it that it is "original". Most of the time it is a generic anime face with a different hairstyle or a slightly different way of drawing the eye sparklies. What's also funny is that these kind of people are also the ones who get really up in arms about copyright and art theft. "this is my OC, don't steal! Copyright to me!" and so forth.
What's worse is that a lot of the time an "OC" is just a character the person made up to fit into their favorite universe. Like it's an "OC" but it's some fucking animal that hangs out with Sonic the Hedgehog or whatever. No, sorry, that's not an OC, that's not original at all, and it's barely even a character. If the "OC" is not supposed to be Naruto's best friend or whatever, then 90% of the time it just exists to stand around in cool/sexy poses and/or cosplay. The character doesn't fit into any story and it has no personality beyond being cool/sexy. These aren't really characters either! Maybe at best it's a mascot like the eSurance girl or Mr. Peanut or something. If you can't tell me what your "OC"s childhood was like and how that made them how they are today, or tell me about their family or past, or tell me how they'd react to a certain social situation, they are a shitty character and you are a shitty uncreative human being.
Basically, the thesis of this wall of text here is if you have to say this is an "Original Character" the odds are very good it isn't original in the least.

I've got my website now up and running at [link]. Right now only the Pinup tab is complete, but soon the rest of my artwork will be up as well as some comics and other such things.

Please check it out and come back often cause I'm working my ass off on this thing.

i've went over a year without updating my journal. damn.

ok, every two or three weeks someone new probably looks at this page, so let's get something new up here. uh, i got laid off from kinko's recently. also, you can follow me now on livejournal [link] and twitter [link] . i post a lot of drawings to livejournal and usually just yell about webcomics on twitter.

my commissions info is still here [link] and it's been updated with my recent swing back toward traditional mediums in mind. hit me up, i will draw naked ppl for you.

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From now on any fan art pictures will be going up here. will be used for original characters and more traditional artsy stuff.

if you bookmarked me because I draw lots of nintendo characters you should probably go bookmark because you won't see nintendo stuff at this account for much longer. I'll be moving them all over this next week or so.

thanks for your patronage

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