Only 7 more days of classes (*_*) and then finals.

Then three weeks off until my summer class starts, chemistry at 8am 4 days a week, and labs twice a week, plus working as close to full time as I can.

And working like crazy on Pilgrim_comic, both on pages and concept art/illustrations. :D
It's almost May, and I've only opened up Photoshop to paint once this year ;_;
THAT is pretty sad.

I was watching all the birds down in the water (cuz the gulls were making a huge ruckus and woke me up extra early), and there was one gull that had a little fish. It had pulled the fish up onto the edge of the ice and was very busily defending it from all the other gulls. Then this pelican comes swooping in, lands right in the water next to the ice and grabs the fish right out from under the gull and gobbles it up.

Oh man that gull was pissed.

Now that it is April, we are finally having ourselves a proper Dakota blizzard. ;P

EDIT-
Still had class on Friday, the worst bit of the storm went east into Minnesota.
My Chem lab on Thursday was actually canceled, but 7 of us showed up and the TAs were there so we did our experiments. We played about with a Styrofoam calorimeter, boiling/ice water, a brass block, and HCl + NaOH, crashed the data-collection software and generally had a good time. ^_^

I feel very blah. blahblahblahblahblah.
I cannot afford to be feeling blah right now, I've got studying and coursework to do.
But... blah. -_-

I think I will sit my blah butt down in front of my drafting table and see what happens. No, I should force my blah self to lay out some panels, if nothing else. Then to studying.

Blah.

http://pilgrim.smackjeeves.com/

I don't know how smart hosting a non-BL comic on SmackJeeves is, but while looking through hosts some months back, its layout struck me as the most intuitive.

Nothing really there yet, except the 'coming soonish' picture most of you have probably already seen. :3

pilgrim_comic has a ton of sketches up.

Comics by Elftowners

Pimping my wiki. =3

If you've got a comic, be it complete, updating, on hiatus, dead, or getting ready to start-- ADD IT!!

All formats, genres, and ratings are welcome! :)

Dang. Now that I've got a ton of people visiting my house because of being featured artist, I really wish I had something new and shiny and colorful to post.

Even though I'm on break, Priority #1 is to rest and recharge, I was quite close to burnout last week. 17 credits isn't bad, but it's the labs that are killing me. Only 3 more chem labs, 4 more bio labs +exam, and 6 more wellness labs. *phew*

Anyway, I'm going to eat, and play a little Sega Genesis, and then sketch and color and whatnot. The roads are still icky from heavy wet snow and I'd rather not drive to work today. -_-

Spring Break!! 10 days off! =D

Yay, my quest for a pale yellow Prismacolor marker has finally ended! There is actually a place in town that has a pretty good selection, as opposed to driving 45 minutes to Hobby Lobby. Paying the extra 30 cents for them locally is better than what it costs for the gas nowadays. -_-

So now I should be able to properly render blonde hair instead of drawing obnoxiously bright lines with Canary Yellow. :P
The colors I got are Creme, Wheat, and Tulip Yellow; the two former because I realized I didn't have any warm colors to shade white things with, only cool grey and blue.
And because I can't buy only one damn marker at a time. >.>

Also bought white India ink. I am hoping it will work better than white acrylic for highlighting comic pages / marker drawings.

And, I've finally gotten the last 3 volumes of Rurouni Kenshin. ^_^
It will take massive amounts of self restraint to not read them all at once. Like when I get a new Shonen Jump, I tear it open right away to read Bleach, I'm such an addict. >.>

One more week until Spring Break, then I need to do all my homework that weekend so I can relax and color with my markers~~

Just two more weeks until Spring Break! *_*

If I were to make some prints of my art/photography, would anyone be interested in buying them?

I deleted my Elfwood accounts, because I haven't updated in ages and do mainly borderline art now,

and removed everything dealing with my OCs/comics from DeviantArt. Their ToS/copyright policy irks me.

In the summer, I'm going to build my own art/comic site.

Ugh.

Spent 3.5 hours at work cleaning up after an eye-wash station leaked all over a pile of map transparencies. Of course, the additive that kept the water from going bad made a big sticky mess out of everything.
Luckily, none of the maps were damaged.

Bleh.

Time for homework.

Every time I see this picture, I just bust out with giggles. xD

http://www.icanhascheezburger.com

Yesterday it was 40 F. Today it is -35 F. Yet they still hold classes. 

My computer is fixed now, but it needs a sound driver and more fonts. I want that glorious Old English-style font that I use to watermark my art back! ;_;

I started playing FF7: Dirge of Cerberus, which I bought like eight months ago >.>;;; today. I really, really suck at FPS. Vincent looks so cool in the cut scenes, and then I do his character no justice at all while I run around trying to target things and not get my ass shot off -_-'

Speaking of Final Fantasy, I finally got the Advent Children soundtrack, and the Kingdom Hearts 2 soundtrack. ^_^ I now have 3/4 of a gig of Final Fantasy music on my MP3 player. *bweee*

I ended up being lazy and not doing too much of anything over break, but I guess that I am pleased with what I did accomplish. At least now I feel that I have recovered from my first semester of school and that trip to Utah. Somehow I managed to get on the Dean's list. I was so sure I would wind up with at least one B, so that was a pleasant surprise. School starts again on Thursday, and I have an 8 AM class MWF. Joy.

Anyway... Webcomic progress report.
I really, really, really want to start penciling. I told myself I would finish the storyboard for chapter one first, though. It's almost done, I'll likely finish it tonight. And I'm glad I'm redoing them too, I originally had 15 pages of prelude, now pg 15 is the final scene of chap. 1. I was putting more panels on each page, but not speeding the pacing up any. After all, this story is (in theory) supposed to be the length of a one-shot. 
Foo. I worry that my art/comic ability has gone backward because I (almost) stopped drawing during school. And it's been something like 18 months since I was last doing comics on a regular basis. This webcomic ought to get me drawing on a regular schedule again. It worked in high school, so it should work in college too.

Anyway. Back to storyboards.

I'm still out of town, but you guys have GOT to see this. It's freaking amazing!
http://www.holdman.com/christmas/video.asp

PS, be sure to show other people too. Happy Holidays!

Went down to Omaha to see Spamalot. Hilariously offensive as all Monty Python skits, especially those French taunters. The whole theater was roaring with laughter just anticipating the scenes. Funfunfun.


My comic script seems to be writing itself full of angst and shoujo drama. Normally that crap makes me gag, but the character's not angsting because of the love interest; instead it's because they cannot protect another character that saved them earlier on.

Which feels very odd, since I've always considered my comics/stories more shounen oriented. Hur.

...Actually, it's more like panic than angst. Panic and frustration and fear!

For all the shit that character has been through in life, they hold it together quite well.


The English language could use a non-gendered singular pronoun. "They" and "them" don't work as well as I would like. -_-

Haha, turns out there is an anime convention an hour south of me this weekend. But I've got other obligations, go figure. ): Maybe next year.
I wonder if I would turn a profit if I were to get a table in the Artist's Alley. Probably not, since I don't draw fanart, and I've mixed emotions on drawing whatever is popular just to sell prints.

Had my first two exams today. I think I did all right, but I'll find out next week. Now I at least have a better idea of how my study habits need to be adjusted. I'll need to get my act together if I want to do a webcomic too.

Monday is a holiday, so I'd best stay off the internets and actually do some concept art/designs for my webcomic. I still want to launch it over winter break.

I donated blood this week too; funny how I don't mind the needle but can't stand having my finger pricked. Trying to explain how much 495mL was to my sister failed too. Quarter of a 2-liter soda bottle. There was one guy there who was worried that I was going to pass out the second I stood up. Haha, I have a sturdier constitution than that.

Man, it's taken two weekends to finish updating music on my mp3. 'Bout time I got some Beatles on it. -.- Now if only the damn thing could hold a charge for more than an hour. :P

Hmmm... So look for the possibility of an actual refined piece of art this weekend. Later! >.>

Edit: Y'know, I need to buy Rhapsody in Blue sometime. Amazing piece of music. C:

Edit2: O gawd, my bunny is still outside.

Phew... went to Utah with my dad for my grandmother's 80th birthday. It was hot over there, and rather smoggy from all of the wildfires, especially that one down by Milford. We came through Yellowstone and the Bighorn Mountains on the way back, it was gorgeous.


I want to get moving on a comic before my university classes start in September. I had one in mind, but it took place in a large city... So I've got another one that is more fantasy-like; taking place mostly in the forest, a small town, and a fortress. I think it should be about 200 pages long, and there are 7 major characters. It's a (very) heavily altered version of a horribly drawn comic I entered it Tokyopop RSoM3. Back when my ego was waaaayy overinflated.

Anyway, it's a girl-is-transported-to-another-world type story. But, instead of making it a satire, I'm trying more to subvert things. Especially the things that bug me about those types of stories- no language barrier, prophecies, cutesy animal companions, bishi heroes, angst, the villain with good, if twisted intentions...
You know, mix it up, but keep it fantasy-drama. Serious drama, not omg-which-bishi-to-I-go-with? drama. *gags*

The character designs need a whole lot of work, but the personalities are pretty solidly developed. The world setting is good, the backstory needs a little more work, and the outline is about half done. I'm not entirely sure how it's going to end, but I've just gotten an idea today that is rather appealing. No scripts yet, but I've got several bits of dialogue that really need to be recorded.

The work is all cut out for me, I just need to do it.