First off and foremost I think anyone who reads this journal should check out the following links. These issues involve your rights as an artist, or as they would have it a lack there of. When I read/heard about these issues I was put into dis-belief that things like this could ever happen outside of movies and books.

Orphan Works Link
Good Rant Link

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Round 2 of the Byako tournament has ended. I won, but regrettably it was by default since my opponent had to forfeit the round. He was real cool about it though and did a fan pic of my character, so check it out Link

Round 3 of the tournament will be starting soon and in the mean time we were all challenged to draw our characters as ... wait for it ... rock stars! Oh yeah! Lol, I've already got more ideas then I could count for the next round, regardless of what-ever the special event is.