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About Me Member Varied Artist Dani ZkiraUnited Kingdom Recent Activity
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I draw, I cook, I write, and I photograph, my name is zkira and I would like for all to get to know me as more than just a deviantArt artist. But also as the person who made the artist I am.

What is art?
"skill acquired by experience, study, or observation" or maybe "the conscious use of skill and creative imagination especially in the production of aesthetic objects" (as defined by www.merriam-webster.com). But what truly is art? To me it is the conscious or unconscious production of personal emotions, memories, events and transforming what is only viewed through the mind into concrete, physical form.


How I came in contact with art.
Actually it was my mum who started this crazed love of mine. It all began when I was four years old, and completely obsessed over dinosaurs, especially the movie The Land Before Time, and I asked my mum to please draw me the baby long-neck. At the time my mum didn't know about her artistic talents, but tried to draw my favourite dinosaur anyways (on the kitchen linoleum at my grandparents place, may I mention). She succeeded and now, years later, she is making her own paintings and selling them. How does this connect to my own art? Well, once my mom discovered her talent she decided to enroll her extremely quiet and extremely shy daughter in the rowdy and rambunctious, kid's art lessons offered at a nearby house in my childhood neighborhood. I must admit I didn't appreciate being left alone for two hours in an unknown house with a bunch of loud mouthed kids, but I did like doing art! And now, I keep working on art, only now I don't draw dinosaurs as much as before.

I cook...
Cooking, one of my many lovers. Not only did I grow up in a kitchen, but I grew into it. Both my parents are brilliant cooks, not as professionals though (even though they've always wished of owning their own restaurant), but in reality I owe all my interest in cooking in Beatrice. Beatrice, or Bea as I always called her, had been my grandparents cook when I was in my toddler years, Bea was a moody, and robust lady who didn't like kids, enough to say that I was no exception, she found me rather an annoyance in her kingdom (the kitchen).

But years later my grandparent moved to the United States, (at the time I was living in my home-country, Honduras) and Bea came to work with my family. Now I was 12, and much less annoying, so much less that I was allowed to stick around the kitchen and help myself to conversation with the most amazing cook I have ever met. She eventually got to trusting me with chopping her ingredients, and then I moved up to learning her desert recipes by heart.

I wish to one day pursue a career in the culinary arts business, I do not expect fame, nor fortune. All I want is to find that I am making some happy, I want my simple chicken soup to make someone smile while remembering good days at their aunt's house, I want my delicate crepes to transport the mind to a moment in France.


"The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.
—William Arthur Ward

Devious Info

  • Interests: I like to learn new stuff everyday!
  • Favourite movie: I think I like The Town but I also love Sweeny Todd
  • Favourite band or musician: Lily Allen and Breaking Benjamin
  • Favourite genre of music: almost all kinds of music interest me
  • Favourite artist: My mama'
  • Favourite poet or writer: Anthony Bourdain
  • Favourite style of art: I try new kinds all the time but basic manga is my favourite
  • Shell of choice: what?!?!!?!
  • Favourite game: Until now Prince of Persia: Forgotten Sands... I haven't played Assasin's Creed yet
  • Favourite gaming platform: PS3 and Gamecube (FTW!)
  • Favourite cartoon character: Cloud Strife! <3
  • Personal Quote: "Ego sum qui sum."

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:iconmadzmejia:
Happy Deviant-Art-Birthday Zkira
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~DeyMz

"Artists so get laid"
-Anilom Siul
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:iconamai-rini-chan:
OH EEM GEE.
This is that weird blonde chick named Chy thats in Ms Gates 5th period class that complains about how she can't do anything artist. O:

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Chotto Matte Nanchatte! <3
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:iconzkira1:
OMG I CAN'T BELIEVE SOME ONE FOUND ME HERE! XD I'm so talking to you tomorrow!

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I dream a lot. I do more painting when I'm not painting. It's in the subconscious.
~Diego Rivera

Check out my gallery: [link]

I promise they won't bite.
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:iconamai-rini-chan:
Oh yeahhh :iconprussiaplz:

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Chotto Matte Nanchatte! <3
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:iconkittygoth1:
THANKS FOR THE WATCH!
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Spinning Dicks Is What We Get For Watching An 18+ Moive
Evan: So you jack off with your strong hand eh?
Alice: You Jack off with your left foot evan?
Bruno = Mello
Harry potter has the swine flu I blame the owl
A new meaning to choking hazard... Blow job
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:iconzkira1:
what watch? Wait what's a watch? (forgive my ignorance)
by the bye... OMG HE'S BURNING!!! AHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!! burn baby burn!!!! ajhahahahaha! ok that's enough sadism for today... ^_^

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I dream a lot. I do more painting when I'm not painting. It's in the subconscious.
~Diego Rivera

Check out my gallery: [link]

I promise they won't bite.
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:iconkittygoth1:
... this is only the begining... want a whip?

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Spinning Dicks Is What We Get For Watching An 18+ Moive
Evan: So you jack off with your strong hand eh?
Alice: You Jack off with your left foot evan?
Bruno = Mello
Harry potter has the swine flu I blame the owl
A new meaning to choking hazard... Blow job
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:iconsilver-dog09:
Thank you so much

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Meglio vivere un giorno da leone che cento anni da pecora.
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