cloneddragon

I haven't really done anything relevant to my DA profile or worth posting in a long time. I still doodle from time to time but never finish anything worth sharing here (gaud it’s been a bad few years in my life). This past year though I took up 3D modeling and dabbling in 3D animation during the pandemic to, I think, decent success. I landed an internship this past summer modeling furniture and fixtures for an architectural visualization firm! Also I am now attending grad school attempting to change careers after the web development world burned me out for meh pay. Hopefully things will go well and I won’t be buried in debit and have a much better job soon! Idk what else I should go into details on in this journal, it's not like people on here probably even remember me anymore anyways. I'm not really on any social media these days so DA's getting more attention by this journal being written than the rest have in two years lol.

Down the road, maybe sooner than later, I will need to decide on if I'm going to re-invent this account to be who I am now or if I will leave it as a shrine to who I was as a teen and early 20 something. I'm inclined to leave it be and link off to a new account as I start becoming active again with new art. I have changed a lot from when Cloned Dragon was a relevant part of my life... so maybe my online presence should to?

Cloned Dragon is 15 years old after all (August 17th 2006), about as old as I was when I created them to represent me on the then bustling American Dragon Jake Long Fan Forums. Clone in many ways was a personification of who I thought I had to be, rather than who I wanted to be. And despite my many desires and plans to, never deviated greatly from that despite getting far less masculine over time and becoming a bit of a gay thirst trap near the end (lol).

But do I move on via a new fursona or just ditch the visible part of my furry self? I have never been able to really decide but probably shouldn't. There’s something I find really fond of having a fursona, a sense of being and time that's been lacking since I stopped drawing Clone. A uniform online identity in a way, that's both me, but not limited to who I physical am.

Also, furries are just so dang adorable <3

So here I am again!

And I am at last ready to be ME, artist me, nerd me, the whole ME for the first time :)