I haven't posted anything in awhile because as I said before I was thinking of leaving this site. I don't mind if you ask me why I've decided this, though to be honest.... I don't really know! I've just grown very distant from this site.

I joined deviantart 7 years ago, (June 21 2004 to be exact!) I remember stumbling across the site after finding artwork of some Gundam characters I think. I was 11, I don't remember much okey! But then after that I googled so many sites to find a place where I could upload artwork for free, and well, I joined deviantart and started posting my terribly drawn in MS Paint Sonic OC's that same day. I mean, of course I improved! But if you look through the gallery of Mighime you probably wouldn't have known it was me!

But anyway. After joining the site I made lots of friends and even convinced my classmates to make accounts. It was, well, really awesome for me I guess. Being able to talk to all these people on something that interested me, something that I really loved-- well, it felt great! It was nice for people to say things about my art I cared for, instead of my family just saying 'yeah that was nice' or classmates saying 'can you draw my art project for me?'

This is turning into a novel isn't it? Oh well.

I had a fallout with this site previously too-- back around 2006? I remember that because there was no art in that growth meme thing that I made. But anyway, after that I made this account here because I forgot the password to my older one. (I did remember it later though ahha) And when I think about it, the same thing happened! Making new friends and getting ones I know to join too. Maybe it's natural for me to go in 4 year spurts and quit? Who knows.

The only good thing about this site was letting me see so many different styles and artists and really pushing myself to draw better, you know? I guess if I continued to sit in front of my radio drawing like I did 7 years ago my style might not have changed. (Not that it's very good now anyway)

I just want to thank everyone who viewed or commented on any of my pieces; you guys are great! I've had a good run here, and I'm not sure when I'll be back. So if you still want to peek a look at my artwork I'll be other places--

You can e-mail me at
thenewageretrohippie@live.com or maddisonbarut@live.com  
(My Skype and MSN are connected to the hippie one)

My art will be posted to
pixiv [link]
I'll be posting my more refined and nicer looking art here

tumblr [link]
I post everything here-- sketches to the nice stuff! I post videos and song covers too


Thanks for reading this, and I hope you guys never stop drawing; or just being creative in general! Until another time, goodbye!