sorry for the delayed response, had to work. anyhow:

wow, you know thats incredible. its incredible how someone who knows nothing about me nor has any basis for an argument save for one photo can make these wide accusations. its even more sad that without any question or anything objectionable you and many others believe this person who clearly has some personal problem i do not understand. blindly, its just incredible.

there is no need to even begin to defend myself and my art, its blatantly obvious how immature this will become. all i am going to say for the cathedral image is i purposely blurred it when i repainted it, yes PAINTED it. i did BASE it on that photograph (how else would i paint notre dame?) which i infact stated in my journal entry as well as where the armor was partially inspired from. however i thought about it and i realized that at the end of the day even though i gave the photographer credit it is still not a good idea to do because of copyright issues of basing art on a photo i did not personally take. so i will not be basing my paintings on anything photograph related anymore, not a big deal.

but again there is no need to argue, i am not lowering myself to the level of an angry child. i am very sorry if this is hard to believe. the fact that you believing your friend blindly and how i am a fake "and stuff" is evident of your maturity as well. i am very sorry that you go around believing everything other people tell you and just join the band wagon because its easy. i won't be surprised if you run over to this nashi along with tons of others going "look! look! Look what elcarim said!!"i would certainly hope you would be more mature, but since i know anything i say to you or these people will be taken negatively i cannot expect anything less. i was not going to leave without giving you my personal thanks and a response, as politeness would dictate i am not going to leave someone hanging for an answer, thats horrible to do.

i hold no harsh resentments towards you or your little ban happy friend. infact, i want to thank you and your friend. why? because you two along with the other people responding to this fallacious claim have finally given me the reason that i have been looking for for 3 months to leave this site. it is irritating enough dealing with unprofessional children, people cyber licking my paintings because there "sexy", and spam the likes of which i wouldn't think would exist on an art website. but this, combining with the fact that a self portrait of MY FACE was deleted for art theft (because i apparently stole my own face too right? i cannot even begin to think what the admin of da was thinking) was just incredible and so over the top i wash my hands of all of it. thank you for giving me the final push.

i charged my commissioners what the art was worth and it was far less expensive then what a gallery would pay for it or what they would pay for something that quality had it been from a gallery because i believe in customer satisfaction. i find it incredibly immature of you to attempt to troll my page and had i been a lower caliber person i would report you and your friend, but since i lack concern for this matter any longer, go about thinking you and your friend is right in what your saying. frankly i don't care, do what you want.

and as for the contest, as i stated more commissions came up suddenly, along with personal projects that i was inspired to make, and i am sorry but i need to eat and 50$ is not enough to feed me, so i am very sorry that your contest ended up not being a priority; its nothing personal its just wants versus needs. please next time if your trying to talk down to me please try to make some semblance of sense, i had to reread "You should haven't" at least 4 times to understand it. i do not see how its unfair or not, that makes no sense. the contest is not almost up, i was going to give you more then enough time of notice and i don't really think me dropping out of a contest is that big of a deal considering there are plenty of other people entering who clearly you won't verbally attack for little to no reason.

again i am sorry for crushing your spirit and ruining your life with my foul soul and wicked disposition, and what would davey think?
1) daveys not even involved, and hes one person with one opinion. i fail to see how it matters no matter how musically brilliant and artistically talented he is, regardless of how much i respect and love his art. hes a person, not god and i doubt he would care.
2) what kind of response is that to add in? really? i mean i love afi just as much as the next df member, but theres a line and randomly adding in a musician to your heart destroying rant is just kinda weird. and frankly i think davey would call that a bit obsessive.

again, i apologize for your severe misunderstanding and any problems this may have caused you and your angry friend, and i hope you see you should question things before following anyone i have the proof to prove my claims, your friend does not. thank you both for giving me a reason to leave. i wish you joy and good holidays, farewell.

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let a fresh wind tare through your soul
swallow your sorrow and deliver you whole
give you a reason to believe again
but finish the prayer before you say amen.