Usually, Mondays aren't my favorite day of the week. However, this Monday was completely something different; @ 11:20 AM I was accused of plagiarizing a French Essay because of a "sufficiently and suspiciously enhanced vocabulary for the essay" (In layman's terms, she's accusing me of "cheating" my way into the essay due to using vocabulary not covered in the class). The actual culprit comes from two words that were not given in the class along with a badly structured sentence from my part of the draft.

Naturally, given in the fact that I was "plagiarizing" the work, I was called to her office. And naturally, I bring all of my evidence including the original draft and a copy of the essay in case she left hers. With me I brought ~VaderAyanami to accompany me, because I knew I was not going to take it lightly. When the meeting went on, I was expecting a civilized and calmed if not tense conversation with the professor to discuss the essay.

Yeah. About that "civilized and calmed" part...

Not even a few seconds where I enter the office and things went to Hell really fast when the professor pretty much started accusing me, with not a single hint of finding out what really went on with solid evidence in a calm state, that the essay was "too good for someone like you" and hinting that I translated the thing. I tried to provide evidence of the original draft of the work and the professor, in an increasingly heated attitude that could be considered downright hostile, head did not even let me show it to her, only caring about the final work.

No matter what I tried to claim worked, and using the fact that I only knew certain versions of the words and the constant pressure of her attitude versus mine and my wrecked nerves because of it all against me (To explain, the words I used were known to me in a pre-conjugated form, not in the neutral form, in only one word. The other word apparently was incorrect in the context I used them).

I understand that she only wanted to see the final work, but she could at least have considered seeing that I was not making it up, especially not accuse me for something I'd not do (and nothing that I know would work anyways, translators are broken as Hell so even if I did want to cheat, that's still not very smart). Or that she could lower her voice (I even asked her with a please but she still didn't, instead accusing me of showing some increasing lack of respect). Or that she would keep the fucking conversation private by closing the goddamn door (~VaderAyanami even tried defending me from outside, I had to even tell him to stand down).

Still, the disputed results is that we agreed to just give me a "0" on the grade, since after what happened, I don't think it's even fair that the evidence wasn't even considered. However, all was fine with that until she threatened me to report to the dean, despite my efforts to back my statements. Regardless of it being an idle threat or not, I consider that after all of my attempts to prove that it is not plagiarism a very major offense for me as a student.

I understand that this is a standard procedure for people that genuinely plagiarize work, but when you're falsely accused of this and you still get the consequences of being taken away of your privileges as a college student leaves a sour note to the whole constitution if I am forced off the college for something I didn't do.

Tomorrow I plan to go to the dean's office to report this with ~VaderAyanami and a couple of other people. But I ask you, very importantly, what do you think of this?

Generally Speaking :

Well, it has been a while since the last post in this website, which probably some of you thought I was pretty much a dead account. I won't blame you if you actually did think so, especially after I promised myself that I was going to start improving since December. Thing is, life had to be attended first ever since that massive emergency outbreak that led me to still lag behind all the commissions (between other things). In fact, things haven't actually been improving in a sense ever since I had to leave so suddenly in 2012's last moments.

Let me cut to the chase and explain a couple of things: I haven't been feeling quite well with things because of how I neglected them in the past year. I'm trying to get back at everything on my life again, from college, my art, to personal stuff. I've felt I ignored many things, costing me so many things. That's why I've decided to go silent for a couple of months until today. Even during the time, I was still playing a role to certain people here on the sidelines to see if I can still help them around; some of them were pretty much small time, but I one particular case, I had to devote some time to get this person back on track, for example.

Even though I am still not back, I can promise you that next time will be a bit of a shocker. In a way, my art style has re-arranged itself almost completely to fit with the new tools I just obtained to try to get back. I'll be back when I post the things I [need] to post [It will make sense when I get around that].

Towards Specific Things :

Commissions

I have decided to upgrade your commissions to match the current style as of this moment of writing, to make up for the time lost in the way. To further compensate the time I made you wait as well as for practical purposes, all of your commissions are now Print Quality and Sized. At least for one of these commissions (specifically ~TEAM-WANCHI-FURY's) I might have to resample it completely to achieve this.

Because it's been more than a couple of months, I will give myself a very strict deadline this time. I need to ensure these are done before the end of March, with partial refunds up to 50% if I fail so otherwise. I don't like keeping my customers waiting, regardless of situations...

In addition, after the initial commissions set complete, I will take my time to be in touch with the audience and then I will hop back to the commissions. I plan to add in new types of commissions that can be done thanks to the new tools.

The FZ Studios Team

Core team members has disbanded between September and November. This has crippled any mayor standings on some of the team's mayor debuts such as that of Freedom Planet. For this reason, the team will be on hiatus until I can figure if to use it as an artwork team, or to support sponsors in the later future.

Freedom Planet

As pretty much the single member representing the entire FZ Studios and watch list here, there's a 10% I might be back. I need to deal in with many technical and personal problems first, the latter being much more important to address at this moment. This without mentioning I have to give my main role to a more capable artist in the meantime to suppress delays. I will give my final word on the Puerto Rican Spring Break's Good Friday (April 5, 2012) at the latest. Until then, no samples will be released to the public until the decision is made with GalaxyTrail Games.

Note that despite this rather near-guarantee quitting, this does not guarantee that I will not help the team in any way, regardless of status. By terms of the deal, I would be quitting in the actual game's development, not in the entire series. Wherever this would be the case will be up to GalaxyTrail Games to decide.

Urban Legend / Winning Edge / Star Force Wings

The series were combined into single canon continuity to ease the writing behind these series. A few select people have known this already, but this is the official announcement. The Urban Legend series is the chosen "leading" series at this moment, as the series contains mayor keys as to why the other two timelines happen. As such, at the EXACT DATE of June 1 I should at least have Issues #1 and #2 done, posted in a weekly basis. The number of pages per week will be decided at that time at the latest.

Dark Raven

Even though it was intended to run along the Urban Legend series, I will be limiting myself to Concept Art in the meantime. This series is a series of its own, and it is going through a mayor re-writing to best fit the intended demography and effect of the series.

Rosethorn / Gelid Salvation

Rosethorn was a hentai series I was going to collaborate with someone, but was cancelled due to the ties being broken. It is more than likely to be replaced to favor a new side-deal with *R-no71's Gelid Salvation in the near future. We are still working on the deal privately for the time.

Music

As I can't really put music here, I am still debating on how I can debut them to my deviantART account. Because it's likely I am going to also do animations as of now, I am re-purposing my YouTube for both of these art classes. Once more, more info later.

Hope you guys are doing good~

EDIT (Dec 24, 2012 @ 6:00 PM GMT-04:00 San Juan, PR): To address the sample issue temporarily, I will provide this deviation's numerous sketches from the most recent styles to show you the sketch/lineart samples as of now, for those unfamiliar to my style:

I will try to update the real samples as soon as the assets go online, hopefully between tomorrow and Thursday, San Juan Time.

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Due to emergency measures and personal encounters, I was not able to get the commission samples for this Winter Commission update as for the current time, so because of this I will be limiting my selection to sketches and vector inks in the meantime.

Sketches are going to be priced at $5.00. Just for the meantime while I undergo this "Emergency Plan", if you want a rough sketch instead, which will be faster but much less detailed, the price will be $2.50 instead.

Inked Drawings, or linearts, will be $10.00, made entirely out of vectors, meaning you can ask for a small to a large size at your heart's content. They can be of any two colors for both the background and the ink itself, and if you want the inked drawing to be transparent, I won't charge you extra either. Unlike the sketch stages, Inked drawings aren't affected by the emergency plan due to their time-consuming process.

When I get better gear back online, I will be back on track with the full list along with the samples. Hopefully, in the next 3 days I will have more than enough gear back to full function to be able to provide the rest of the item list, including Flat Coloring and/or Shading,Gradient Shading, CGI Backgrounds and Shading, and many others. If everything goes well, I will also provide Discounts to mass commissions orders as well as to the customers that help during this first rough run.

While I get the rules out there, I will go on and state right off the bat that I will not draw the following:

- Hentai (Mature Rated Content is fair game as long as it doesn't cross the line)
- Extreme Fetishes (Vore, Morbidly Obese Characters, etc.)
- Extreme Violence (Body Horror, Strong Violence Scenes)
- Controversial Topics (Blunt Religious Imagery, Offending Emblems)

I can draw (not exclusively speaking):

- Mobian // Sonesque Styles
- *Landscapes and Spacescapes
- *Basic Fractals for Backgrounds
- *Pokemon
- *Others

*I will be able to draw these later [after] the Emergency Plan, I'm letting you know in advance that, if you want one, you'll have to wait for these after I get out of the Emergency Plan.

If you're interested, drop me a note and we can negotiate the deals for the commissions. It might be helpful if you title said note under the title of "COMMISSION" or something very similar.

Drop a comment if you need to ask a question. I will be updating this to keep the list up to date as I undergo the current plan.

Tomorrow I will begin posting the commission information while I settle on with the most important assets I still have over from the "Dark Semester". I hit a new time low year and I can only say one thing about it.

Next year will be a hell of a year. Commissions are an obligatory tool of survival. I'm going to go big and fix mistakes left and right and claim my place back and then some more, starting college , the life, and then fr you guys. But I'll need your help. More on this tomorrow.

Let's get this show on the road.

As for now, I will be officially opening commissions in November 22, with the full "shop" open in December 17, 2012 with bonuses should my commission goal till then has been reached. I am not sure of how much that goal will be yet as I'm still calculating the budget requirements for both college and a Freedom Planet project as well as other, "secret" projects I will not reveal until they have been green-lighted.

However, I need money to be able to both sustain college necessities as well as also for the need of upgrades for the computer in order to keep up with the demands of my college and artwork needs as well as other things that are currently being labelled as "important". But before I actually set the commission prices down for the count I just want to know some things first from your feedback:

How much would you be willing to pay in real cash for my works, from sketches to a more fleshed out work?
What kind of works would you like to see from me?
Should I host the commissions prices in here (limited HTML coding, but with full dA access), my Tumblr (Full HTML integration, limited deviantART access), or both?
Should I also host Deviations as Prints to help with the side-cash?
Do you have any other questions and/or suggestions to outline?

Just one more thing before I go: I know I still owe some of you some works, that is why, regardless of what was ordered back then, they will all be upgraded into full CGI drawings using some of my current best techniques at this time, mostly for your patience and as for showcasing needs for the commission prices.

Feeling much better now. Carrying on.

I thought I might give a heads-up to let you guys know I kind of made up my mind. I'm not exactly "leaving" but I won't really declare any false signs of "activeness" as would be stereotypically stating every single time I think I might be active to at least 1 to 3 drawing per month, as a measure of karmic proportions to my overconfidence not in art, but rather in life situations and the eventual art block. For this reason, I am declaring my current status as "limited", that is to say, I am going to be around the site, just don't expect me to submit as much as I did back then as in, say, 2007? (it's been that long since my constant stream of devs)

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Which this said, I also would have to say that things in life have not at all improved, but ceased to stop worsening for just a bit (we'll pretend that [is] the improvement for now). Because of ridiculously numerous technical, personal, and act of god issues, you can say I've not been faring well since about August of this year, to which problems began leaking even to certain deviants around here. I'll get to them in a second, but what is there to know is that basically this semester can't be said as the "worst" one so far (because I had waaaay worse semesters, trust me), but instead as the most different of them all.

Because of these problems, I have managed to miss [a lot] of the goals I had established for a long-term in overall (art and life, alike), some because of the depression and some others because, well, to be blunt, because I was pretty much off-track with them, distraught with problems, extremely voluntary laziness, and even bitterness and jealousy. To say nothing about how I birthday illustrations, trades, and even what would've been a 2-minute animation for my anniversary gift with *TaiVixey (let alone missing it entirely, to much chagrin and regret nowadays) and the recent contest managements all went pretty much over the gutter over this mess, to a point where even college got affected (officially dropping out of a class for the first time) and altering my sleeping pattern all cause of the stacked up problems I admittedly even let up stack on purpose "to build tension and reason for them". I won't try to undergo the personal dispute as to why I did that, as it is a very touchy subject.

On the other hand, I have been able to retain confidence in my self enough to be able to hold on to my planners and, even if I would be technically late, just go along nicely and finish off my agenda with a [very loose] time management, as I'm far more focused on getting my stuff together as I'm forced to cancel the Winter Updates in favor of regaining confidence in myself. Unfortunately, this realization pretty much single-handedly defeated a much-needed recovery in various terms, but hey, I'm no stranger to a delay once more (This would be the 7th delay in a row since 2008).

To leave the journal without even bigger walls of text, I just want to apologize to the following deviants for my unusual behavior, in no particular order:

- Disappointing her in various points to a point our trust decreased, bad Anniversary Day, various other personal issues, etc.
- Used her at one point (she knows) and forced her to tell me things in an attempt to help her, between many other complicated, recent issues.
-For all the long-ass rants he had to endure, and the delays for the Freedom Planet project.
- The sudden breakdown I had before the rants I had done to Strife.
- Stopped talking to you in general among other issues.
-Once more the MegaRants, some other smaller issues, and the fact that I owe him commission money still (still trying to get PayPal to work)
- Admitted he bashed him from behind in blind rage, being a bad friend to him until I knew the truth. (This goes to one too many people too)
- For snapping at him numerous times out of nowhere. Apparently his ass seemed like a good target those times. My bad.
- Leeching the negativity as well as other things while abusing trust months ago.
- Not being present or as helpful when she really needed it, especially with the inter-personal issue one.
- Using him as a gateway to enter to a contest (at first)
- Promising and spamming about the birthday picture I never got around to do so.
- Between lack of replies and (way back then) sought out of his artstyle back then even in music (Oh, this bit me back quickly later on, trust me, Dan)
- (I am not above admitting this because she is a person like all of you), and I feel darn ashamed to take prejudice on you in the past.
- How many times did I shot you down for trying to cheer me up by now, between all the hold up to the request and other things?
- Keeping quiet after going "UGU" on the FZ Studios project (I'll fill you in later)
- Kind of shoving help down your throat during the breakdown a few weeks ago. (I'm still worried, honestly)
Recent Watchers - For being so friggin emo. I don't usually go like this; I hope I'm not giving bad impressions
Everyone Else - A long general sorry for all of you. I stopped here because I have a feeling the list is getting too damn long, not because I forgot about you.

That goes for my apologies. It's 4AM now. I should try to sleep and relax now that I got the apology burden off m chest....at least a good deal of it. Night, everyone. I promise next journal update will be more cheerful.

I need to vent it out, so bear with me. I'm getting really bitter with people, sick or pissed, even, if bluntly speaking. In a night alone, 7 people made it on the list. I am only going to say this one.

Don't hurt people close to me.
Don't piss me off.
You will regret that. I WILL make sure of it.

Reglas  :
1.Tienes que postear las reglas.
2. Responde las preguntas de la persona que te taggeó en su journal, Luego crea 10 nuevas preguntas para las personas que vayas a taggear.
3. Tienes que elegir 10 personas y poner sus iconos.
4. ve a sus DA's y diles que están taggeados.
5. No se puede re-etiquetar a la persona que te taggeó.
6. No se puede hacer "el que lea esto esta taggeado". Tienes que taggear a gente real.
7. dasdasdasdas sadsa dsadasda dasd asd sadas ¿ok?

1- Si te retaran a darte un baño de estiercol, con el premio de 5,000 dolares, lo harías?

Hmm ...

2- Pancha plancha con cuatro planchas, con cuántas planchas Pancha plancha?

Pues Pancha plancha con unas cuantas planchas, porque Pancha plancha en una planta de planchas hechas por Pancha, pero se cansa y se planta cuatro planchas para planchar con sus planchas.

3- Si 1/2x +1/2(1/2x + 1/2(1/2x +1/2(1/2x + ... = y, 
entonces x = ?

A mathematical problem?
El problema es una sequencia inifinita, pero tiene una particularidad en la que el dominio de x puede ser cualquier numero real excepto cero. Por lo tanto, 0 < x > 0, alternativamente escrito como x =/= 0

4- Si todos los gatos caen en cuatro patas, y toda tostada untada que cae al piso lo hará del lado untado para abajo, entonces que pasaría si un gato es atado por la espalda una tostada, y se deja caer al piso?

Filosofemos

Los polos opuestos se atraen, asi el gato puede levitarse o girar indefinidamente en el aire hasta causar una zona inestable en la que uno puede crear una maquina de tiempo que causa la muerte del gato (dado por circumstancias desconocidas (las hipotesis propuesta es que el gato puede morir dado a la inestabilidad de la inercia del momento o que simplemente el gato muera de viejo dado a la aceleración de tiempo dentro de su cuerpo con el portal), y eventualmente la tostada caera en el piso. Desde entonces la probabilidad de que la tostada untada caiga al lado opuesto del piso (o sea, arriba) va de 0% a un 50%, en la que dependiendo de los resultados de su caida puede provocar varios efectos de varios grados, hasta posiblemente letal.

Si sigue cayendo como de costumbre, o sea, con el lado untado al piso, ocurra nada, pero no siempre sera así dado que los reportes indican que hay una rara oportunidad en la que la tostada pueda o desaparecer en contacto con el piso o esta hecho polvorizo y lleno de hongos por la aceleración del tiempo. Por el lado contrario, si se logra que la tostada caiga en contra (por lo tanto, en violación) de lo que establece la Ley de Murphy, seria posible causar varios efectos en el espacio y tiempo de nuestra realidad, o en otra realidad desconocida a nosotros, con efectos no limitados a trastornos cronológicos, viajes cronológicos, alteración de gravedad, la creación o destrucción de energía del universo (algo que es sumamente constante a través del espacio universal, segun enmendado por la Primera Ley De Termodinamica), la re-vivencia de los dodos, mamuts, y/o dinosaurios u otros animales y/o plantas previamente extintos, la disfunción de la especie humana, la realizacion de que los mayas nos revelen sus secretos de trolleo clásico, que me den $5,000 sin darme un baño de estiércol, se altere la paz del mundo, la posibilidad de ruleta que extingue a Justin Bieber, Chuck Norris, Rebecca Black, Ray William, George Bush, Robert Pattinson o cualquiera de los seis ponies de MLP, cualquiera de los Power Rangers, cualquiera de las vidas que cojio Sonic o Mario especificamente, o cualquier otro no antes de Agosto 6 de 2012 a las 12:34:56 AM, entre otros efectos segundarios. De hecho, una famosa teoría conspirativa indica que usaron un experimento similar a este en la creación del Nyan Cat original, la cual no se ha llegado a la conclusión aun después de un año de su apariencia.

Cualquier otro detalle todavía sigue siendo de estudio.

My prediction of most of my readers (Even English-speaking ones):

5- Edward Cullen te propone matrimonio, tu respuesta es...?


Olvidalo Cullen, me voy a ganar $5,000 dentro de unos segundos

6-Qué fue primero, la gallina o el huevo?

Filosofemos nuevamente

Readers -> Olvidalo! <- Me

La gallina...con el huevo

7-Por qué Tarzán estaba siempre afeitado?



8-Te casarías con un hermafrodita?

Yo tengo ya a alguien, casate con la proxima persona tageada

9-Por qué llamamos "bebida" a la bebida, incluso antes de beberla?

Porque se bebe la bebida

10-Habrá una palabra más larga que "otorinolaringología"?

El musculo esternocleidomastoideo

Ahora llego mi tiempo / Now's my time (Due to the lack of Spanish-speaking deviants on my list, I'll just tag some English People too):

Rules (In English)
1. Post the Rules
2. Respond to the questions I asked you and then create 10 more questions for the people you're going to tag.
3. You must choose 10 people and place their icon on your journal.
4. Go to their account and tell them that they are tagged
5. You can't tag the person that tagged you!
6. You can't tag "whomever read this". Come on, let's try to tag real people.
7. Dihnsaiofnsaiofnasobnfoiashfiosahfoihsaoihfasofhoa Alright!?











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3 Spaces For Rent

QUESTIONS:

2. Giovanni has 3 apples and Cynthia bought 1 apple from Hilda, all while Lloyd gave seven oranges to Cynthia while Roy and Luigi both exchange 4 bananas and 7 grapes respectively. Luigi then gives her apple to Amy while Lloyd took 2 apples to Giovanni, at the same time when Chris and Johnny both bring 4 lunchboxes filled with 2 apples each, giving their lunchbox to Amy, Roy, Lucy and Joshua. How many people does Steve has on his school bus?

3. You've got a test, let's say a Math test. You have not studied at all because you happened to forgot about it. You later find out there's more to the test, and it won't help at all when they say it's the test that will determine your overall grade. You got exactly one hour to study a lot of the material. Your reaction?

4. You have been forced to own a gun and shoot someone or else you will be killed with the both of them. One of the victims could be your beloved one (family, boy/girlfriend, etc.) and the other is a celebrity (president, singer, etc.). Problem is, they are wrapped up and you can't tell who is who. You got one on the left and one on the right; which one will you shoot, or will you not shoot at all and risk all three of you?

5. What would you change from this world? Why would you do that?

6. Oh no! Justin Bieber just asked you to appear on-stage! What would you do with (or to) him if you dare get up? As a matter of fact, what where you doing to even be around him!?

7. You somehow managed to get stuck in the world of your favorite video game or anime. Now what? Should you stay or leave, or what will you do in there?

8. You decided not to take a bathroom break on the mall. Suddenly, on the way home, your stomach growls in pain, just when you stumble across a 2-hour blockade on the highway, and you just happened to be in the middle of it. Will you hold on? Will you run across the highway to the nearest bathroom stall and risk your car?

9. What if I told you that there was no question #1?

10. What are the changes that you tried to find out if the last statement was false?

10. Shouldn't you be doing something important right now?

I've been quiet for a long time by now due to the exams and the lack of motivation lately. I've been getting homework as crazy and I'm having a bit of trouble getting myself focused to draw/write/compose/whatever as of late, but at least I've been working on some things to improve my artworksand the likes, mostly when it comes to making Ink Drawings. I did manage to address some long overdone requests for the time, however.

Stuff I've been doing:
I've been hooked ever since I got my hands on Minecraft, and I also happened to stumble across a really old game I had that was pretty much the sole reason I started making music in the first place [FreQuency for the PlayStation 2, from the makers of Guitar Hero]. I managed to start making a new inking system for my drawings, but the real question is how I'm going to manage to use it for later drawings. I've been doing more tests than drawing, and it's definitely not helping that I am very awkward when drawing around people.

Naturally, that is a huge disadvantage when you share room in your dorm, which is about more than the half of time I can actually have a break [comfortably]. It's got to do something which how my workflow works [draw as anatomically accurate as possible, with details and the right perspective as possible] plus the whole "Anti-Furry" thing that many people come to make about in and outside the Internet that marked a great deal of paranoia to work around people [Which is why 95% of the time I draw, I will draw alone, which is pretty hard to do in a shared room]. At least during those times I carry out the fixing and the manifestation of how I do stuff, but I rather just get the motivation to draw and, most importantly, get that paranoia out.

The other thing bothering right now is the fact that my priorities are going whack right now. I've grown largely out of control with how I sleep and eat, been less careful and far less tolerant for things around in here, to the point that it pretty much caused some awful changes around with how I work. I'm working to address those first, but at the rate I'm going, my autonomous controls will be the end of me.

Hopefully since I get out on Wednesday this week due to the oddities this week has, I'll be preparing some time to ease out the studies so I can get some time to draw and dedicate some proper time with my girl. With all of that in the middle it can be quite difficult to maintain something without sacrificing some other thing, and I've been expending everything to favor college and love life. Drawing isn't really much addressed as a big thing, to clear that out, but it's been a while since I got into my comfort zone for it.

It really worries me how deviantART just got quiet all of a sudden. I hardly hear from people anymore and that makes worried.

Visit `Lilyas's journal - [link] - and join her Giveaway worth of 1500 points.

If you try it, you might win it~