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One of the biggest regrets that people have on their deathbeds is spending their entire lives doing what is expected of them rather doing what they dreamed of doing.


I learned about this and thought, ‘well I should learn from their mistakes and do what I dream of doing!’ There was just one problem: what do I dream of doing? I’ve had so many interests in life, but what was my dream? After years of intense thought, emotional distress, self-discovery, failure, and success, I realized there is one clear and important factor in everything I enjoy doing: I love creating. I grew up making crafts, drawing, painting, story-writing, music-writing, taking pictures, animating, and I wanted to be an artist. What stopped me was the fear of failure, fear that I wasn’t good enough to make it, fear that I wouldn’t be able to make enough money to support myself and would be struggling for the rest of my life. Now I’ve worked an office job for several years. I’ve learned a lot from that job, and I’ve saved up enough money to dedicate myself to a full-time starving artist. I’m facing my fears head-on, because I’d rather take the risk than to be on my deathbed, looking back, and wishing I would have at least tried my best and given my dream a chance.


-May Camp


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Favourite Movies
Pride and Prejudice, Wall-E, Oscar, Inception, The Prestige, I Robot
Favourite TV Shows
Game of Thrones, Black Mirror, Sneaky Pete, Dead Like Me
Favourite Bands / Musical Artists
Pentatonix, Linkin Park, Metallica, Yiruma, Tessa Violet
Favourite Books
Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin, Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, The Book Thief by Markus Zusak, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Series by Douglas Adams, Harry Potter Series by J. K. Rowling, Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
Favourite Writers
Douglas Adams, Shel Silverstein, Robert Asprin, Terry Pratchett
Favourite Games
Sims 3, Spore, zootycoon 1 and 2, warcraft 3, empire earth 2, pokemon, space colony, swords and potions, Oxygen Not Included, Stardew Valley
Favourite Gaming Platform
PC
Tools of the Trade
0.9 Lead mechanical pencil, colored pencils (Prismacolor), sometimes oil/acrylic paints, photoshop/gimp, Wacom drawing tablet
Other Interests
DRAGONS!!!! ...creativity, art, design, computer programming, juggling, fencing, reading, writing, poetry, piano, bouldering, behavioral psychology, philosophy, kittens

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thanks for the fav! :D

You're welcome!

Thanks for the fav on The Kevin Chronicles – Chapter 1 (Revised)

:happybounce:

Will Kevin ever defeat the Crime Lord, Sir Greedypants? Can he save his lovely photographer, Gary, from plummeting 3 feet to his death? Will his slow dancing skills ever help him to clean up the streets of Umbropolis? Tune in next week to find out. Until then, never trust a llama with your browser history, it only ends in tears. :cries:

 

You can find Chapter 2 here - The Kevin Chronicles – Chapter 2 (Revised)

Or the rest of the series can be found here.

Thanks for the llama :happybounce:

I knew a llama once. At least I thought I knew him. I mean, how well can anyone really know anyone, much less a llama. With their air of mystery and thinly veiled contempt. It’s hard. But I digress.

His name was Kevin. But for reasons I will never understand, he would only ever answer to Albert. Identity issues aside, things started out okay. The usual introductory sniffing and sneezing went well, despite his allergies, but then things started going downhill during the ritual licking phase of the pleasantries. We pushed through. And had it not been for the spitting, we might have even been able to make it work, but alas, after just 3 seconds of bittersweet brotherhood, we finally decided to part ways. It’s kind of sad, when you think about it. Spitting seems like such an innocent thing to fight over, but he was pretty adamant that I should stop and that was just never going to happen. We might have overcome that issue, but Kevin, like all llamas, was very competitive. First came the stench competitions. Then it was belching contests. And lastly, a painstaking count to see which one was hairier. You can clearly see why our relationship was doomed. The poor fellow was a bit of a sore loser.

So he snuck out, taking with him a failed friendship, an obliviously optimistic dread of the future, and my sixth favorite toothbrush. Now that he is gone, I can honestly say, it's for the best. He was too much of a chick magnet anyway and who needs that poultry drama? :shakefist:

 

Full disclaimer, as Kevin’s official biographer, a position of which he blackmailed me into (don’t ask), I’ve been instructed to inform you about his ongoing series. The journey starts here with The Kevin Chronicles - Chapter 1, and this gallery contains the rest. You should check it out. 

*End of cue card*

 

And don't worry, they're pretty short.

No pressure though, only if you want.

:D

That was beautiful.
Thanks.
Just spreading the crazy, one person at a time. But once my mass dispersion technology is complete, I will finally be able to implement my plans for world domination. :evillaugh: