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Hey! My name is Joana, i'm a portuguese artist and huge metalhead! I'm new to this forum and i hope you all enjoy having me here!

I'd like to show you guys my work: i create original album artworks, logos and illustrations for bands and anyone who likes metal / dark theme related drawings and art!

Please visit my page and leave your like! If you need any information about my work, please contact me via Facebook or here at this forum

Thanks and stay brutal!

www.facebook.com/circewitchart

 

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Hey  Joanna

Would love to see some of the art. Yet  Fbook is a spy  some people unknowingly allow.  I keep a test account I look every few months  I will check it. It will point me to people I only talked to in person or on the  land phone. I dont contact or email online. It is the Perverse eye of the Myan calender's end teacher of despair; Marc Zucherburg.

So  please just post some on the forum we can see without the "Electric Eye"

Oh and hails and horns for using a real pic of you  for your icon. Many of "brave, brutal men" on here shy from it.

The nerve to be real is the essence of Metal at its beginnings. Thanks for keeping with that !

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6 minutes ago, natassja7 said:

Hi there and welcome :) 

12 hours ago, ProfessorBoozenthrash said:

Welocome forum. yes. That.

15 hours ago, deathstorm said:

Welcome to the forum 

16 hours ago, GorboGorboze said:

Welcome to the Forum.

Welcome to the Forum.

 

Thank you all! :) Stay brutal!

 

17 hours ago, GrayscaleDawn said:

Welcome. Some nice artwork you have there. :) 

Thanks a lot!!! I'm glad you liked it. It's still a very recent thing, but ill keep posting some new work soon :)

9 hours ago, MetalRecordingServices said:

Hey  Joanna

Would love to see some of the art. Yet  Fbook is a spy  some people unknowingly allow.  I keep a test account I look every few months  I will check it. It will point me to people I only talked to in person or on the  land phone. I dont contact or email online. It is the Perverse eye of the Myan calender's end teacher of despair; Marc Zucherburg.

So  please just post some on the forum we can see without the "Electric Eye"

Oh and hails and horns for using a real pic of you  for your icon. Many of "brave, brutal men" on here shy from it.

The nerve to be real is the essence of Metal at its beginnings. Thanks for keeping with that !

Thanks! I always try to put my own photo, i like always to keep it real. Stay brutal!

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13 hours ago, MetalRecordingServices said:

Hey  Joanna

Would love to see some of the art. Yet  Fbook is a spy  some people unknowingly allow.  I keep a test account I look every few months  I will check it. It will point me to people I only talked to in person or on the  land phone. I dont contact or email online. It is the Perverse eye of the Myan calender's end teacher of despair; Marc Zucherburg.

So  please just post some on the forum we can see without the "Electric Eye"

Oh and hails and horns for using a real pic of you  for your icon. Many of "brave, brutal men" on here shy from it.

The nerve to be real is the essence of Metal at its beginnings. Thanks for keeping with that !

Yeh fuck Facefuck..oh and btw I think most of us have,  at some point,  either used our own pics as our avatar or at least posted our mugs on the pic threads  (though not obligatory and why would it be, it's a forum for discussion) ..hmm..I think the regulars here are among the 'realest' metal people I have had the pleasure of contact with, you can figure people out a little even through this medium...

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19 hours ago, MetalRecordingServices said:

Hey  Joanna

Would love to see some of the art. Yet  Fbook is a spy  some people unknowingly allow.  I keep a test account I look every few months  I will check it. It will point me to people I only talked to in person or on the  land phone. I dont contact or email online. It is the Perverse eye of the Myan calender's end teacher of despair; Marc Zucherburg.

So  please just post some on the forum we can see without the "Electric Eye"

Oh and hails and horns for using a real pic of you  for your icon. Many of "brave, brutal men" on here shy from it.

The nerve to be real is the essence of Metal at its beginnings. Thanks for keeping with that !

Definitely agree with that. I haven't touched facefuck in... years... I think I said it somewhere else but I don't do social media at all, it drives me nuts. Oh yay I can "friend" some fucker I said hi to at the grocery store last week. Dandy.

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18 hours ago, ProfessorBoozenthrash said:

Definitely agree with that. I haven't touched facefuck in... years... I think I said it somewhere else but I don't do social media at all, it drives me nuts. Oh yay I can "friend" some fucker I said hi to at the grocery store last week. Dandy.

I'm working on a new website to put my artwork. U can also see it here : https://www.behance.net/juanakarol808f

 

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Hey Joana how's it going?

On ‎22‎/‎01‎/‎2017 at 4:52 PM, MetalRecordingServices said:

Oh and hails and horns for using a real pic of you  for your icon. Many of "brave, brutal men" on here shy from it.

The nerve to be real is the essence of Metal at its beginnings. Thanks for keeping with that !

Didn't know I was here for my good looks, mate.  How many pictures would you like?

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On 1/24/2017 at 9:04 AM, FatherAlabaster said:

He may have been talking about himself. We'll just wait and see if he has the "bravery" and "brutality" to update his own avatar.

That is a picture of me to the left. My face,my slight beer paunch, my general hairiness,  in front of my building. With any luck it will be the same one I wake up with tomorrow, Ive rather gotten use to it. Its not going to get me in the movies, but its really me.   I do wish Id painted that door before the picture.

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2 minutes ago, MetalRecordingServices said:

That is a picture of me to the left. My face, in front of my building. With any luck it will be the same I wake up tomorrow, Ive rather gotten use to it. Its not going to get me in the movies, but its really me.   I do wish Id painted that door before the picture.

I don't see a face... It looks like a lady in a black gown.

That's not really important, though. Your initial post in this thread was kind of ridiculous. I honestly think your business would benefit greatly from being active on Facebook. There's really nothing else that comes close in terms of sheer volume. If you're worried about privacy and surveillance in the digital age, sure, I understand that, but this forum is every bit as public and searchable as anything on FB, and it's contradictory to say you want to keep everything away from the "electric eye" and then imply that people on the forum are somehow being cowardly by not using their faces as avatars. I can think of several good reasons why people might want to keep themselves more anonymous. In any case, as Natassja said, most of us have pictures of ourselves, and our families and pets and homes, in several threads already. It's completely up to you whether you want to be that forthcoming.

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16 hours ago, JoDarkGodess said:

some girls have more beard than you could ever have :P

 

 

 

or balls

Honey, I was born so poor  my neighbors where hogs waiting to be slaughtered. I was raised taught to slaughter what I eat after I raised it. Kill what you have cared for and eat them takes balls. Ive had the Balls to earn three College degrees , one in Audio with six professional audio certs, and pay cash  for an Olde Brick  Church. I record Metal and Advertise that I do in the Tennessee Delta section of the Bible Belt. Heretics still get arrested for absolutely nothing and drummed out of town. People in town walk up and ask me If I worship Satan. I usually reply where is my Lamborghini. Smiling at them instead of crossness, and rebuking their  rubbish smartly, takes balls. From where Ive come from, get to where I am and what I do takes more balls than most people will ever gather. I am the generation before you that endured and stood up to quite some amount of abuse for letting my metal hair, and the finger fly. Thanks to those like me , the hair and tattoos are now ok in many work places in America. Im not one of those with an office cubicle haircut feigning the fight for metal. I push that fight with a swagger and  bold smile with usually a un-nerving educated kindness to the religious right that would make Metal go away. I push the boundary every day.

Be careful in all endeavors bandwagon rallying behind anyone. If you listen to fools, the mob rules (Dio).

Earning my list of credentials not being born rich took extreme balls. Cordially, may you do so well sticking to your guns in art. It will not be an easy road. May you face less resistance from the inside than the generations that made the path.

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