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MonstarGaby

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Hey there everyone, it’s been more or less 5 months since I’ve been actually active here on DeviantArt. Holy wow have things changed in that time.

Since then I’ve been hired (sorta), unemployed, and hired again!:yay: 

I really wanted to explain why its been so long since I’ve done anything on DeviantArt or Instagram, it's quite a tale so if you're short on time I recommend heading to the TLDR section down below.  

To get the story straight I’ll have to backtrack a little bit…

Back to the end of 2018~

It was December of 2018 and I had just finished my bachelors degree in Computer Animation. I was eager to start working and had managed to land a job through an internship program my school provided. It was basically a freelancing agency, where they would get graphic design jobs from various clients and then pay their workers bi-weekly. During my time at the internship I had enjoyed the atmosphere and workflow we had going in the office so much. I learned how important communication between a team is. Being able to create content and share ideas on the spot was amazing. Even if the work was frustrating, at least we could have a good laugh at the end of the day knowing there was a job well done. They had hopes to moving to a more reachable and large location, which sounded promising. It was a really pretty pictured they painted and at the time I thought it would be a great place to work full-time. Anyways, I completed the hours for my internship and they offered me a job at the office. Sadly, I couldn’t take the offer because it would require me to use my first paycheck on parking fees and gas alone.

Not to mention the hour commute there and back through heavy traffic. In Miami. :faint: 

It just didn’t make sense to me financially SMH Especially if I wanted to start saving money to pay back my student loans. But I was desperate to start making money in order to help out at home. I thought I could work from home for the time being, at least until they moved and then I could return to the office. I started in mid-late December and did this for almost a month. And then I quit.

My reasons for “quitting” (cause I don’t know what else to call it, it was a weird situation) was basically a lack of communication. 

At first I would get jobs assigned every other day or so, spend my time completing them, and then waited for payment at a bi-weekly schedule. But as the days went by, communication became less and less, even when I asked if there were any work to be done, I would wait for hours on end before I got a response. Then there was radio silence for about a week and a half or so. Eventually, I had enough and had to face the fact that freelancing this way wasn’t going to work out for me.

I had hopes for that job, I really did. But things turned out differently…

NEVERTHELESS, I’m so glad that they did :D

Through this experience I realized that I needed a more stable job, and to actually be able to get out of the house and get work done. Without any distractions or worries about where my next paycheck was coming from. I started applying for jobs looking for graphic designers, and filled up my physical portfolio with as much work as I could. 

In my frantic-ness of looking for a job, I was struggling with whether or not to ask others for help. It was something I wanted to do on my own, but realistically every place I looked at either wanted 3+ years of experience and it wouldn’t be a bad way to get a foot in the door. Eventually, I told my mom to tell anyone she could that I was looking for employment as a graphic designer as well as other family members who gave me a lot of good advice! 

Fast forward to a Friday in February 2019, my mom tells me to start preparing a portfolio, I’ve got an interview on Monday! It was at a beauty manufacturing company that needed a graphic designer. I was so nervous on the interview, but once I started talking about the programs I used and the work I’ve done, it was smooth sailing. I started working that very week! And I’ve been working there ever since. The end. :XD:

But in all seriousness I was a nervous wreck while looking for a job. Which brings me back to why I stopped posting for such a long time. After “quitting” the first job I got, I wanted to jump back into DeviantArt so I decided to start working on a commission sheet. I started posting my latest works and made a schedule from myself. When I posted “Mage In Training” I was actually in the process of fleshing out where I wanted my art to go. I wanted to focus my skills towards creating more fantasy related drawings that tell a story and get back in the swing of drawing tra-digitally.

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Then I got a job, started working and had less time to work on my own art.

But I haven’t stopped wanting to post and share my art, so throughout these months I’ve been working on office setup:work: revamp that way when I get home from work, I can get back to drawing what I love :heart:

I’ll be working on things throughout the week and so far have planned to post new content on the weekends here and on other social media. It may take me awhile to get the swing of things again, but I’m sticking to a plan! Thank you for reading or skimming, I appreciate it either way and I hope you’ll stay tuned for more of my work! :wave:

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Hello everyone, I've been pretty dormant recently on DA since some point last year, and in all seriousness since I started college. Looking back on old journals I written it really hard for me to stay here for long periods of time, especially when I'm in between classes and low on sleep :/ The main cause of it all is become I'm building up my skills to become a 2D/3D animator, and trust me its not easy but I love it so far :heart: 

This journal is basically explaining my change in username, why it takes me so incredibly long to post sometimes, and some life updates :aww: 

Let's start with the username part cause I believe that's the easiest to understand :XD:
It's been years since I first started DeviantArt, I was around 14-15 years old and let's be honest, not the best with usernames. I just put my nickname and a few random numbers together and boom! xxGaby1699xx omg so many x's Don't get me wrong, I really liked it but I just feel that I've grown out of it. I started cringing just looking at it back in 2015, this has been a looong time coming :XD: So I started writing down several weird names of things I like and trying to mash it with my own, taking my love of fantasy/mythical creatures, anthros, and all things magical and awesome! It wasn't until Zero2one took my pencil away from me and wrote down the obvious that MonstarGaby was born! Man it was right in front on me literally had variations of it shattered and just a bunch of critter words everywhere
Sooooo what the hell does it mean? Beside me being a "little monster" to people close to me and me loving stars, this name for me is a reminder of all the unlimited possibilities when drawing. It inspires me to be creative, to be a new me and draw things I've never drawn before! ie. dragons, warriors, mythical creatures, all the things I've said I would draw but haven't set my mind to imagine in detail. Just hearing the name makes me feel all bubbly and happy to create something from my perspective that could possibly make someone else bubbly and happy as well, a happiness overload! :meow: It just makes me so happy!! :D

Now that we have that covered let's move on to why I've been inactive on DeviantArt in the past. 

So around some point in 2015 I got really frustrated with my digital work, my tablet and laptop were giving me problems, and I just didn't have the space to do what I love. I felt like I'd hit a rut with digital art and couldn't understand why it would take me such long periods of time to complete a piece, only to get frustrated with it. For a while I just focused on school and didn't draw anything more than a doodle. Until 2016 when I learned about alcoholic markers, I was so amazed that a marker could blend so well that I went research crazy on different mediums getting my hands on anything I could try out. So I switched from drawing digitally for a while to focusing on other art mediums such as inking, watercolor, and my newest collection obsession: markers:aww::heart: I also went back to improve my basic traditional drawings and my general thinking process behind each drawing. 

Long story short, I hit a rut for a while, and then started making artwork through out the years and just not posting it anywhere :XD: Nowadays I spend more time at desk/computer space and on my phone, than I do on my laptop, which is where I used to edit and work. 
I've been trying to figure out a way that I could spend more time making art and taking less time to post it. I've decide just use my phone to post my artworks instead of my longer process of drawing a piece, then scanning, then taking it into an art program to work on it again, then post it. The act of having to scan a drawing is always what makes it feel like a chore to me since my scanner is at a very uncomfortable angle. It's just so much easier to take a phone and use any app to get it on my computer anyways! Wish I had thought of this sooner but oh well no time like the present! 

(TL;DR Section)
Which brings me to my exciting news: I'll be posting a lot more frequently by using the DeviantArt app and Instagram. I'll be posting things from 2016 until I get to present day artworks (this is a whole other journal for another time) 
You can now find me on Instagram:D Feel free to follow me on whichever is more convenient to you and all feedback is appreciated! Finally, thank you so much for enjoying my art! :blush::happybounce: Talk to you guys next time! :wave:
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