Deviation Actions
Hi all, Mikeru here.
Welcome to my first post as a deviant. Since this is a joint account and we are each doing rather different things here, I will take this opportunity to introduce our modus operandi.
The TLDR of it all is that for a start, we will mainly share Marie’s pencil/pen illustrations and I am the blogger and the copywriter of all other text here (including the post you are currently reading), and my artwork will come later.
I will get her to share a bit based on what we discuss in our conversations. She is quite confident of her English as a foreign language, but as with many learners, it is admittedly limited by native standards, so I will extend her points.
HOW TO INTERACT WITH MY ACCOUNT
For Marie’s side, we are quite free and easy with regards to the artwork we share here.
Previously, most of Marie’s artwork was posted on her own Instagram and in integrity of such, they will be watermarked with her handle here, but each deviation description will contain the link to the original un-watermarked post on Instagram.
All of her work with minimal editing will have a watermark; the original image is on her Insta
Contact
For my side, as the dominant English speaker of the two, I am the point-of-contact (POC) on this account.
You talk to me via Notes, although the process is quite un-real-timey a la emails, or, if you are comfortable with sharing your personal FaceBook account, private messaging (pm). You don’t have to Add me as a Friend, all you need to do is to send me a pm to that account and we can talk from there. Currently, it’s an empty page only meant for pm-ing.
Blogging and Requesting
IRL, my skill sets lean more towards non-fiction writing/copywriting, so from time to time I will also talk about the writing projects that I am in, and plan to blog quite frequently on this journal, on a scale comparable to a personal blog you see on another medium like WordPress, Blogger and Ameburo. I don’t feel like setting up a standalone blog on another host for now, because I only intend to do so if I have an in-depth pet topic to write about and I currently don’t.
For the blog-esque parts, I will be using the Journal itself and one album – MikeiRamble: basically just treat this as Instagram for deviantart where the focus of the deviations here are the texts itself and less of the artwork, serving more as a diary for my more visual-intensive textual posts.
I am currently also self-studying how to do art marketing and would appreciate information or opportunities to promote gigs, such as promoting indies games, other amateur artists, fashion models, movements etc. All these can be discussed through pm.
Art-wise, my medium for now will be sprite work, besides viewing them, I can take small requests for spriting for Pokemon games.
P.S. Clarification on the account’s name and Marie’s name
Marie is also an English name, but in her case, it is a Japanese native name, so it is written using hiragana in Japanese as まりえ. It is thus pronounced as ma-ri-ei in English.
Sometimes I refer to ourselves by our stylized collective, Mikei★Marie, which quite obviously comes from the first 2 alphabets in our Japanese names, ミケ mike and まりmari, I added the “i” and “e” at the back for easy pronounciation for English speakers that I coin it for.
If any of you would have asked why is the account is only named after me and does not her name in it (the latter which I considered earlier on), she personally prefers that I name it after myself. Regardless of collective, do credit us evenly as equals.
- Mikeru
