Captain86

After working on my computer, off and on, for months! I broke down and put it in the shop.  Mind you, during the time before the shop, it would work, then stop...work for a week, then stop...work, then stop, then work again!  I got tired of the run arounds and ups and downs, so its in the shop.  Its been two weeks since it stopped working [again], and more than a week since it hospitalization, and its driving me crazy!!  I'm in the middle of a comic, which I'm very much into, a couple of Tumblr commissions (after the purge) and a few submissions, which, of course I can't finish!  I'm dying over here!  I'm submitting a few photos to cover the inactivity, but I need to draw. In the meantime, I'll submit a few of my photos, just to let people know I'm not dead!          Hope you guys like them.  I'll be up and running soon, i hope.    
Thanks for the patients!         

Hello my dA gang!

May everyone here in America and around the world...have a fantastic Thanksgiving!  All of you are special to me, and I'm extremely thankful for you!
Being here and having you superb artists as family, friends, colleagues, associates, and watchers has made me amazingly happy.  Thank you very much and have
a safe and bountiful holiday or day! You're the best! Take care my friends!

Hello Gang!

This is something I've wanted to do for some time.  There are many very talented artist here on Deviantart.com which should be featured in one way or another.
My first artist to be featured is my highly gifted son, Dimitri Denkens, or as most know him, DDimitri16.  I urge all of my watchers who sees this to check out his
page at ddimitri16.deviantart.com .  Hope you enjoy!

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Hello my Deviants,

Captain86 here letting you guys know that I will be attending the New York City Comic-Con!  Just getting tickets on the day you want to go is a lesson in patience 
itself, but I made it!  This journey started more than two years ago, starting with the online verification process.  After being cleared a few days later, you're given
a day and time to log on for a chance to get ticket(s) [badge] for the event.  Once you get the time and date you're suppose to login [apparently] at that specific 
time.  Two years ago, I didn't.  I logged in after work and only had access to Thursday.  Friday, Saturday and Sunday were sold out in minutes.  
I didn't even try last year, but fortunately my 2016 verification was still applicable.  So back in June of this year, I was able to purchase as long as I logged in at the 
time I was given in an email in April.  On Sunday June 9, 2018 (while on the job), I jumped on the web site at 10:00 am [exactly] and after in the cue for almost 
thirty minutes.
Needless to say, I got my badge last month and, if any of you guys are in the New York City area, and is attending the NYC Comic-Con, look out for me.  I'll be in
all black (of course) and rocking a T-shirt with the Ultimate Power emblem.  Hope to see at least one of you great artists up there.  See ya' soon!

 

     I think I joined dA for purely my own needs.  Basically I was just interested in
getting my work, finally, on the web.  My friends, who always admired my work,
encouraged me to open a Facebook account.  At 49, at the time, I was never into
social media at all, but I did so any way.  I displayed my work, but I was never
inspired to make anything new.  The only people who ever visited my page were
more interested in becoming "liked", or being a "friend".  I didn't feel comfortable
at all.  Most of my Google/Bing searches led me to DeviantART.  For some reason
I assumed it was just for established artist (whatever that meant), but I quickly
learned it was for all of us.  In May of 2013, I signed on.  It changed my life, but
not all at once.

     Within a few days, after submitting my work, I received a llama. I had no idea
what that was, or what it was for.  I learned it was a nice gesture from another
artist, and I returned it.  In time I got used to being online, and having conversations with other artist like myself.  I felt inspired, in a way I hadn't felt
since my days in art school, waaaaay back in the 80's.  I found myself creating
more pieces, and communicating with many different artist.  I did something I
never set out to do...I made friends.  Set up collaborations, and picked up new
techniques.  Signing onto dA was the best thing I'd done, artistically, since starting to draw, in the 60's.

     I've had nothing but great times on this site, but my finest hour was the day
I expanded my family.  Fate on this site called DeviantART has granted me very
close ties all over the world, witness to incredible artist, and my most precious
gift...A new family. A Brother, Sister, and a Son, whom I love dearly.  If not for
dA and its great array of talented artists, I probably won't be as inspired as I am
today...I wouldn't have the incredible friends I'm very fortunate to have...and
I wouldn't have my new loving and caring family.

     To all of you out there, who might be considering deactivating your accounts,
please don't, at least not yet.  DeviantART is a community of incredible vibrant
people who can lift you and inspire you in ways you've never imagined.  Expand
your base, learn from the others in the community, and share what you know
with the rest of us.  DeviantART definitely changed my life and my vocation for
the better. Allow it to do the same for you!  Thanks, to all of my friends and my
Family!