I think it's time I finally put the final nail in the coffin. Footprints is officially my final deviation. Don't take what I'm about to say in the wrong sense... Art is my life and my career, but I just don't see myself going anywhere with you, dA. For sake of my own creative security I'll be turning watermarks onto all of my deviations and leaving them up with comments turned off. I know people have downloaded my work from here and I'd like to make sure that if anybody cares to flatter me by winning some contest with one of my creations, I have the evidence that it belongs to me.

Here's my last journal and my last word on this website. It's truly been a pleasure being apart of this place and watching it build up from the dark depths of the web into one of the biggest art galleries on the internet. DivineNightmare, however, is my own naivete and childishness that I'd like to get away from. I'm not a username and I'm not looking to be an internet sensation. My name is Anthony and I'm an artist. That's what my degree in progress will tell you and that's what I'm saying here. No more kiddie gloves, friends. It's time to get serious and really go after my dream.

I wish all the people that have watched me and appreciated my work the best wishes and I know that their abilities will take them to where ever they want to go if they keep at it and truly believe. I still do and that's the one point that I'll never grow up from. People, experiences, sensations... they all come and go, but dreams are forever, as cheesy as that might sound. As long as humans are human, dreams will remain such.

Mirror in the sky, what is love
Can the child within my heart rise above
Can I sail through the changing ocean tides
Can I handle the seasons of my life, oh

If you're an outsider like me you'll know where I'm coming from with this next one, and I want it to resonate more than anything I've ever said that's had meaning to me... I want it to signify the new beginning that is before me. The new life that I'm breaking into. Two simple words can tell it all to anybody that's reading...

Stay Gold

-DivineNightmare/Anthony

P.S. Keep a look out for me out there in the real world... The best is always yet to come, my friends. Farewell.