Wow, splendid Kelsey! Pfiuuu, many great pictures this week!

Thx ^^ yeah, there are alot of pictures this week....yeesh, I only chose a select few to critique and comment.

I thought is was called Badlands...oh no wait, that's America, nvm. Idk Australian geography. Anyway, this dragon is AMAZING!!! The pose and shading and coloring and emotion and everything is AWESOME!! The background too is really really cool, and I'm sorry you won't be able to recreate it. Then again, this picture is just too one of a kind, and very very cool! The position of the back wing confuses me a little bit, as does the thumb on the front wing, but those are minor issues compared to the rest of the awesome of this picture!

I bow before this awsomeness!!!!

*joins lom*

this is an amazing picture. you did a splendid job with the shading and texture of the background. the tiny speck of green on the eye gives it a nice highlight in the dark surroundings. the dragon is wonderfully done, and i like the white highlights you put on all the claws.

@Dark Dragon:Thanks, glad you like it ^^. @Rana: The position of the back wing is feasable, though I understand why its odd. It should be angled differently, and the shading makes it seem inversed. The claws are just tucked over the main joints of the wing, almost like the wings are forming "fists". @LOM: lol, you may rise XD

Ah, I get it. Again, they were only very minor problems but I seem to be dubbed the main critiquer on this site so has to find something, lol

lol, I guess so. its cool though. I like critique: give me the chance to fix my pieces

I like it too, but no one ever really critiques my writing very much, except for maybe a couple people.

if its on DA, I haven't seen it unless it was posted at least five months ago....I've been heavily inactive there but I refuse to delate all of the deviations I haven't looked through....call it a fault I guess

No, I haven't posted any of my writings on DA. Perhaps I should...idk. Still kinda paranoid of plaguerizers but...whatdeheck. Maybe it'll be worth it.

I post my stories there. they don't get much attention really though. (not many people have the time or patience to sit and read online when it only takes a minute to look over a picture and says whether its good or not)

Yeah...I guess. Alright, this afternoon I'm going to post one of my favorite poems (of my own writing) on DA. Will you check it out?

yeah, sure.

*posts it* http://jenu1.deviantart.com/art/Dream-of-the-Children-124022555

i've written many poems on DA and only one story.... oh i resad you poem i likes it have you read my two chem poems i recently posted on DA? they show my great chem nerdiness (0.0) <- me wearing the cool goggles) n.n

GASP I HAVE NEVER SEEN THIS!!! Gorgeous as always, though, and the shadowing and wings and head are beautiful! ^^

@Catc: I've read one of your chem poems, it was really funny! So, were you able to guess what my poem was about?

hmmm.... i shall gice it whirl is it a lack of a friend's or mother's love to a child.... oh wait perhaps foster care.. or the child died in an accident and the parents feel really guilty those are my guesses our safety video is HILARIOUS that we made... lets just say there is 1) a guy in neon yellow short-shorts that say Bahamas 2) Tungsten the Weasel ( is an adoable yet awesome puppet) 3) the rock band commercial song 4) glass beakers broen w/ a rainbow umbrella 5) pulling the safety shower lever and much much more! *has to watch it again xD* NO WAIT! the poem is about an outcast child that is not accepted by the "popular" kids n.n

It's actually not about any of those things. But good guesses, the one about the accident is very close. I'm going to keep the answer until someone guesses it. Prize=shiny necklace and lotsa swiss chocolate.

can i guess??? (even though i am your sister and you have already told me) @catc: this is how you do cool goggles/glasses

sounds like its relating to child abuse or a mother that was never good enough to her daughter

arrg!!! i know it but i dont know if i am allowed to give hints!!!!

@Kelsey: It could be considered child abuse of a kind...but not like you're thinking it probably. @Nayru: No hints!

idk... perhaps ignoring your kid..... chemistry.... making goggles look cool since 1812! i made that phrase up, for our chem t-shirts

Good one. Alright, I'll end your torment. It's about abortion--a woman having a dream about her aborted child. But it could be interpreted a lot of different ways, so I guess all your answers are right too. *gives shiny necklace and chocolates out to everyone*

wow never would have guesses that... *munches on a peice of chocolate*

Really? When I first wrote it, I thought it was obvious, but then I showed it to a lot of people and only a couple of people got it...do you think I should change it to make it more obvious or leave it as it is.

i would leave it as it is it is a beautiful poem and now that you say that i actually see it now

I think it should be left alone. You can make a more dramatic version of it if you ever want to be in some anti-abortion club or something, but I don't think you should change this one. I'm personally kinda for abortion, but its still a good poem, and the emotional quality throws out a strong message, which I highly respect

Mmk. I shall leave it as it is then. And although I have the feelings to write a very strong message about abortion, I kinda like the fact that this poem has more of a message of forgiveness rather than condemnation. But I'm glad you both like it too, I wasn't sure, since this is one of my first poems ever.

what do you do if you are thinking about suicide, not strongly enough that you might do it within an hour, but almost past the stage where you wonder if you should do it or not, and are thinking about how to do it

...uh...not sure really...call a friend? seek family...possibly other help. No matter how bad things seem, they usually have a tendancy of getting better. You shouldn't worry about whats wrong with your life so much as whats good about it. suicide isn't the answer. If you look to the future, you'd probably realize there's a lot you haven't lived to do yet: bed with someone you truly love, get married, go sky diving, have children, travel, get your first car, wreck your first car and live to tell the tale, ride a motorcycle or spend a week out on your own cruise in a sail boat, paint your own room a funky color just for the hell of it then switch back to painting it white because it doesn't match the furniture....there's a lot of stuff left to do, which should all be done before your old and crippled. Maybe you should take some time to do something peaceful...I've been observing plants and seasonal changes a lot. Its a wonderful thing really because you begin to pick up on new and strange flowers growing in your yard or around the neighborhood and leaves that change from purple to green. You learn to become more observant. Its quite a wonderful thing, and its been giving light to a stressful past couple of weeks. Also, maybe you should call someone you really love and trust. My mom died a few months ago, and her boyfriend, Benny, hasn't been the same since. He called me last night, and he had been crying. He's aparently had a bad week and he wanted to apologize for missing my b-day. I talked with him for quite a while, exchanged fun words for a while. I think it really made him feel better to have someone to talk to

i cant tell friends or family 'cuz i show them the happy, joyful, carefree side and i just dont know how they would respond. i cant talk to anyone i dont know because i am accepted by absolutely nobody. and its not just a recent bad thing, it's been going on my whole life: no friends, losing family, unaccepted by society, completely alone, and a complete failure. even when i try to do things right i cant seem to be able to do it, and how can i marry and have kids if nobody can truely love me? i didn't used to think about suicide, but i also used to be able to sink deep into my mind and let my imagination carry me away. but i quit practicing imagining because i thought i was accepted. but i was betrayed and now i cant even see a simple flower growing in my mind. every joy that i had in life was torn from me because i spilled my heart and soul into a few people. and now they are gone. people treat me like an animal, telling me to pick something up and then saying "good person" as though i was a stupid dog!

oh dark dragon don;t worry that perfect someone will come along.... be it in high school, college, and perhaps your future job... those people were apparently not good people to start with and will get whats coming to them. trust me there IS someone out there for you... your mom and dad and siblings (if you have them) all love you and they love you for you.... perhaps you could call a help line where you are always ananomous trust me there are many more things in life that are in your future and are awaiting to bring themselves forth into the light of things....

*patpat* im pretty much the same way...when im depressed, i never show it and i cant seem to tell anyone, but suicide is the permanent solution to a temporary problem =/

You Kelsey and CatC are totally right. I'm not very good at psychology, I've never been in a situation like that, but I think you can't stay thinking about that, you have to DO things. Walk, run, take a trip to the forest and then shout as loud as you can, that's what I do when I'm feeling depressed.

*nods* Those are all very good suggestions *huggles Dark Dragon very very tightly* First of all, I want you to know that we love you, even if we don't know your face, you can always come talk to us, and I'm glad you did. Second of all, there is ALWAYS someone who loves you--ALWAYS! You may have to look back several years to find that one old friend, or you may have to talk to a family member you think doesn't like you, or maybe it's a new friend just waiting to be made, but there is always someone there to love and to love you. Third, I want you to know that I was in your exact same position. I went through a time where I felt that I had lost both my fathers (my earthly and my heavenly one) and I was very very depressed for over a year. There came a point where I was sitting on the stairs in the middle of the night looking at the knife drawer in the kitchen and wondering what the quickest place to kill yourself was, and this is what I want you to know: right then I thought of my future, of the teenage girl I wanted to adopt and save, of the stories I wanted to write, of all the people I wanted to get to know and all the people I hadn't even met yet, and I couldn't do it. I just couldn't end my life like that. And since then, I can't say my life has been perfect, or that I've been really happy ever since then, but I am so SO glad that I chose to live, because even two years later, I can look back and say that if I had taken my life right then, I would have missed out on so much! Fourth, I want to say this: those people that taunt you and hurt you and call you a dog, I want you to try something. Don't look at them as your enemies and your oppressors, don't lash out like a caged animal. Instead, see them for who they really are: people who are hurting just like you. That doesn't mean you have to be their friend, and that doesn't mean you have to do whatever they say. Instead, see that they too are broken and need love, but they don't know how to get it so they strike out and bully people instead, just to get attention. If you think about it, they're really very pathetic and sad, not to be hated but rather, people to be pitied. Last: know at least that I love you, and would be very sad if you commited suicide. *huggles Dark Dragon*

agreed esp with the last part i luvs you as a buddy too and i would also be very sad if you would end your life *megasuper huggles Dark Dragon as well*

*joins in megasuper huggles* Do you feel better now Dark Dragon?

Awesome pic, Kelsey!

*wonders...maybe this could be Dark Dragon's profile?*