Hey everyone,

this is your mate Carnie, with a simple question for everyone. After my years absence should i bother getting this place up again? I just wonder how many people still watch it in their lists.

if you want to hear more from devAus, write back to me, or contact devAus@gmail.com

-Carnie

Welcome to the first ever devAus ***Featured Artist***!!!

is a fairly new deviant having been on the site for just over a year. Her work is based in the Anime/Manga tradition that you find a lot here on deviantART but from the get go you can see that this girl has some talent! Hailing from Toowoomba Qld, I took the time to ask this 20 year old Anime artist some questions about her work...

Q: Hey Ardinal, thanks for letting me ask you a few questions! Ok first up, what brought you to deviantART?

A: A mate of mine =Shuki got me into it. That simple.

Q: You have been on the site for just over a year now, have you noticed much change in the administration and the community since you got here?

A:Well, er... there was the whole Jark and Spyed thing... having one of the founders of Devart kicked out of his position really shook things up. I'm just happy to have a web based community I can join, where I am able to share my art, ideas, and perspectives with people from all over the world. I don't think the politics had too much of an impact in respect to what I want from Devart, but yeah it was a pretty big change, especially to those who have been with Devart from the beginning.

Q: Have you been into the Anime artists community scene much, I know there are heaps of clubs for Anime artists, do you talk to the other artists much?

A: Not too much actually, I have hit a few chatrooms, and tried setting up a an Aussie related anime club on here, where Aussies could get together and work on there own manga ideas etc. but I jut haven't had the time. I have a anime club I run in my own hometown plus life crap to keep up with. Dev is simply a place for me to express myself one way or another, mostly through my art.

Q: You've obviously been a fan of Anime for a looong time, what is your favourite type of Anime art and do you try to use the characteristics of some of your favourite Anime in your work?

A:Hmmm... I would have to admit that my art was heavily influenced by Sailor Moon, as it was the first anime style I tried to draw back when I was 13. Since then, I think my drawing style is influenced more by Revolutionary Girl Utena. Although I am trying to find my own unique style Anime styles that I like and wouldn't mind being able to incorporate into my art, are Hellsing, Beserk or Cowboy Bebop. I dunno I guess I would like my style to look more mature and darker one day.

Q: Do you have a character that you use constantly, a main character with their own story and adventures that you create?

A: Why yes... I do. Funnily enough her name is Ardinal, which is where I got my Dev name from. She's an old character of mine that serves as building block for my style. I hope she continues to grow with my art.

Q: I thought that Anime was a mainly male dominated artform, are there any misconceptions about the people who draw Anime that you would like to lay to rest?

A: Can we say CLAMP. A group of women who have created a whole heap of famous anime, such as Card Captor Sakura, X, Chobits, Angelic Layer and the most recent Reservoir Chronicle Tsubasa. Naoko Takeuchi created Sailor Moon. Also here on Deviantart, the top anime artists are all women; Lasaro, Satomi-chan, Pu-sama, Misato-chan. S

Q: Do you think that the best Anime is still produced in Japan?

A: As far as I'm concerned, true anime can only come out of Japan. Artists from around the world can immitate the style, but I think they would end up lacking the cultural contexts and techniques that come from Anime. Anime was the word adopted by the Japanese from the French, becoming their word for animation. Anime has hence become the word we use to describe animation coming out of Japan. Even if other countries, like America, make something similar, I still think its not really Anime, but American Animation.
It can be argued, cos even I can be seen as an "anime"artist. But its simply because I have immatited the style, and if I ever published something it would have to be known as anime "styled" art, and not "Anime".

Q: Last question so I better make it an easy one. Do you see your art as a hobby, or a career path for the future, why?

A: I see my anime styled art as a hobby, but I also use it as practice for the animation work that I do for Multimedia, which is hopefully what I will end up doing as a career.
There you have it guys! The first devAus ***Featured Artist*** keep an eye on your notes I may be interviewing you next!!!

-Carnie

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The First devAus ***Featured Artist!*** will be answering some questions to do with their work and their time spent on !!!


Bought to you by devAus, proudly supporting Australian artists and communities on deviantART!

-Carnie

Some of you may have been wondering about devAus' inactivity of late.

It is with great regret that I had to abandon devAus for a short period of time to allow myself some personal time whilst I was dealing with lung cancer that I was diagnosed with shortly before christmas.

The result of which is that I have been given a clean slate of health and will be able to start to clean up the site and get it moving again with in the next few weeks.

Thankyou all for your support over the last few months it has meant a lot to me that whenever I come online there are still people keeping the chatroom open or posting things to me in encouragement.

It just shows how as Australians we are always there to look after our mates in the hard times...

-Carnie

Welcome to devAus. devAus is a non-profit organisation made simply to give the Aussie deviants out there a better connection to each other particularly working on promoting Australian clubs and Aussie devmeets organised by ANYONE on deviantART.



To join the page ~devAus simply add the icon to your journal entries and watch the page.

The Census will stay up: [link] so if you want to leave your name, please do so, I would love to have as many aussies on list as possible, and if you want a copy of the list just note ~CarnivalFreak!!


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