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Hello everyone!!

It's been 9 years since I came to Deviantart, this was my first ever account here and it's connected to tons of really wonderful, amazing and also very painful memories :heart: I cherish all of those from the bottom of my heart and want to thank watchers, old and new, for showing interest in me and supporting me throughout the journey (be it recent or from beginning).

NARUTO has been a huge part of my life, I've written it many times and it must be the same to all of you (or most of you I think). Despite the things and drama that happened a lot of times, especially regarding shipping, I'm glad I got to experience this story, fall in love with its messages and charactes and find really nice people among you.

 This is a possible goodbye from me for now, since I have completely moved on from this fandom to a big extent. TERRACE is the last doujin I'll be making for NARUTO. I'm glad that it's this way because I poured a lot of my heart into it.

The story is still close to me and will remain that way, same with the ships and characters and the friends I've made through this journey. You all have taught me a great deal of things and I am happy I shared  my creative spark with you :heart: I hope that those of you who draw will find great inspiration for future! Thank you for all of your warm words and good-meant criticism! I want to create some more fanstuff for UNDERTALE on yoralim account and possibly finish the Portal fancomic on raintalker.

I've had some very intense encounters in recent months that have made me think of changing my path as artist. I have dedicated a lot of blood and sweat to fancomics, while completely neglecting original work for reasons that might have been real dumb (once I thought about it deeply). I'm a bit unsure where this will lead me to, since I lacked enthusiasm and made a lot of really stupid irresponsible and rude mistakes, hurting some very important people in the process, even without that being an intention. It was a huge blow, but something that had to happen at some point and I will have to face it and redeem my self by working even harder. And sorting out priorities.

I won't be able to answer any notes frequently, I'm not shutting this account down for sure - only in case of major issues with art-stealing or of other ill-mannerednature! I'll be sporadically checking my mails here. I'm real sorry for not being able to respond to all of you but I cherish all your good inteded words and support! I'm very happy you have enjoyed my works and hope it will remain a good memory to you all :heart:

 To those asking to translate the doujins - I'm totally ok with it, AS LONG AS CREDITED, SOURCED and not fiddled with watermarks or signature or made money from prints. I AM AGAINST THAT AND DO NOT WISH FOR IT!!! Also please no uploads on artwebsites! Thank you very much for respecting my wishes, all the best to you!

See you maybe sometime again!?Take good care of your self! <3
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Hello there, dear people! ♥

There was this anonymous call on tumblr from a very sweet person giving me a tap on the shoulder so I would write an entry at least! So you'd see how I am doing!
LIFE>>>
I currently "lost" one job because of my personal communication problems and low self-esteem (well...technically...it's not lost but they hired two other people to do my work there because I got the wrong idea and we got tangled up in communication. They might hire me back in January but I already felt quite depressed about it all). Luckilly, I gotten an offer about making a music video and it seems two other possibilities opened up for me as well.... I don't have any steady job for now and it's really bringing me down, since it only opened up a few old wounds that haunt me for years. There are unresolved matters in my life and I can't seem to jump those obstacles completely.... so currently I'm trying to make sense of all of that. Plus, trying to work on the concept of the video and several other smaller things. I was quite busy and did only a few inktobers on tumblr. The only thing making me feel better now is Undertale (I highly recommend you this game :heart: and HxH XD Also the beautiful autumn colors).

TERRACE>>>>
I have since now inked all of the comic pages from Terrace, they are just waiting to be colored :) So do not worry, I didn't forget about you at all!!! That said, Terrace is probably the last contribution to the Naruto-fandom /doujinshi-wise/ from me in the future. That's why it's kind of hard to just end it, because that means the end of one huuuuuuuuuuuuumongously huuuuuge era in my life. It's really really hard. I am not the kind of person who likes to cut ties completely. I might be not active or dissappear for a while....but I ain't into cutting ties. I have this feeling that cutting ties is an illusion. Whenever you encounter SOMEONE or SOMETHING, they affect your life, they change you and change is the only thing that is permanent (it is said).... so nope, cutting ties doesn't exist, because that one person or thing will remain in your life in the form of the current changed YOU. The connection isn't ever lost. So make sure you truly pick who you befriend and what you spend your time on - it's going to form your whole life from now on. I am happy I established this page and dived into the Naruto-fandom.

I'll write more entries after the doujin, I have lots of work now but I'll steadily work on those last pages thinking about you all!
Thank you for all the support and awesome comments :hug:
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FINISHED

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Hey guys! ♥

Today I managed to finish all the rough sketches for the final pages of the comic..... It's 15 pages in total (together with the covers for the chapters).....

I have to answer truthfully that this story has been haunting me for months. But whenever I saw the binder with the outline I just ....could not get my self to do anything at all with it. I really don't know why, but I couldn't. And from experience I know that one can't force himself to write or else it would end up badly....so I waited for a day (like today) when I would finally be inspired enough to finish it. I teared up in the end..... the story meant a lot to me, it was FUN, I felt so sorry for Neji - all over again..... I wanted a happy end for the boy.
I am very sorry for procrastinating from it for so long, I had also irl issues to settle.

..................... and truth to be told, I was also on a HunterxHunter spree recently.....the show GOT ME BY TO THE CORE. If there's someone among you hesitating whether to watch it - I RECCOMEND IT FULLHEARTEDLY FOR IT IS A TRUE MASTERPIECE :heart: The first arcs aren't as good as the Heaven's Arena/YorkShin/Chimera Ant ones .... I also watched the version from 1999 and it gets its job BETTER DONE in the first arcs than the rewamp!!! The atmosphere is darker and there are really nice new touches to it that weren't in the manga. If you can swallow the oldschool animation, you'll also be rewarded.
2011 version has its trumphcard though, which the 1999 version doesn't -The Chimera ant arc, which is ....oh boy....I cannot even put to words what it meant to me and what it did to me.........but.......THINGS..........~~~....... so if you ever decide to watch the show and want to skip the "boring parts" (they are not that boring but they cannot even compare to those two arcs I mentioned), go with 1999 York Shin arc and the 2011 Chimera Ant arc. But beware - if you skip the "boring arcs", then all the buildup of the relationships the show did very skillfully will weaken its effect. Specially the Killua-Gon brotherhood. The whole thing hit me hard in the face specially because of the huuuuuuuuge build-up these two had in those arcs (beside all the great developement of the secondary characters).


So.......yeah.....getting back to the original point here ..... TERRACE IS ONLY A STEP AWAY FROM BEING DONE. I wanted to assure everyone who doubted or was afraid I might ditch the comic totally. I did not ;) :heart:

Spoiler photos and bonus sketches on my tumblr >>>


raintalker.tumblr.com/post/125…

raintalker.tumblr.com/post/125…



THANKS FOR STAYING BY MY SIDE FOR ALL THIS TIME AND TAKE CARE!
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Balloon Girl

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If anyone interested in seeing some (very random!) excerpts of the movie, here they are. There's no real logic behind why I picked these parts of the movie, I happened to make test renders because of the sound and decided to upload these parts (also, there aren't spoilers there :'D there have been more nicely animated sequences in the movie, but I was afraid to spill the point of it.... ). I am prohibited to upload the full movie on the net for now, so this is all I can show. If there is a chance to show you the whole movie though, I will make sure to let you guys know! :heart:

The moive is 15minutes long, hand-drawn/digitalized animation - yeah, I was drawing it all on paper, scanlating and then I did the lineart with a tablet. It's a retarded way of doing things, but I did it anyways. Still was forced to do whole scenes digitally only in the end. There have been three good souls who helped me with part of the coloring process.

Thank you for all the kind and supportive comments, it means a lot to me :heart:



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Hello there fellas!

Since I was FINALLY able to complete my movie in time, I'll be able to bring Terrace back for its finale :)

I had a very hard time ever since christmas, without going into details - I had real health problems, my ekzema went crazy and I even raised a gangliome on my hand :D ..... I went on without sleep for a few days here and there, worked during nights and during day I was too tired to do anything constructive. It was a really hard time on my physical and mental health so I restricted my self from thinking about the doujinshi at all...I couldn't bare to think about another story beside the graduation movie... I am very sorry but I realized where my limits are and needed to act accordng to it so I wouldn't break down completely.

There's also the horrible narusaku bashing on tumblr and so on.... I had to take a pause from this.
There's a lot of Hinata-hate spreading and to be honest, I had a very very hard time my self to not shift too much from my viewpoint on her and keep loving her. They made her into a puppet....I hated it. Same with Sakura. Same with Neji. Same with Naruto and Sasuke. I really don't know why Kishimoto didn't see what he had done to his characters but hey....it's HIS characters..... I can't complain. He chose to do this and that with them or stick to this and that plan, even though it wasn't the best plan out there imo. I don't care anymore.

To me, the real essence of these characters lies and will always lie in the earliest chapters of the manga and in early shippuuden.

I don't care anymore about the rest.

I still have quite the amount of work on the movie waiting (on the sound especially...) but I met the most important deadline so I can breathe more easilly now.
I'll make sure to update as fast as possible, though I rather won't promise any exact dates. Just writing so I would let you know that I HAVE NOT GIVEN UP ON THE STORY. NOR ON NEJIHINA/NARUSAKU. THE STORY WILL BE FINISHED.

THANK YOU FOR ALL THE KIND COMMENTS, ENJOY THE REST OF THE STORY ♥
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