K, if we could go like a week without some sort freaky thunderstorm, that would be peachy.

Though it is pretty cool when the thunder is just a continuous roar...
Well, car's in the garage so I just watch for it now.

There is a fly in the apartment, following me around. Whenever I roll up some newspaper and go after it, it vanishes. One of my cats needs to eat it already.

I think I've only got 3 more pages to draw for the minicomic. I tested a toned page on the copymachine, and it turned to a moire mess. It can reproduce the lines just fine, so it looks like I'm going with black and white. Maybe I can get that all prepped for printing this weekend.
Tuesday's page is in the queue. :)

Otherwise, I have an exam tomorrow and need to study and have sore feet from walking around the arts festival all weekend.

My prints arrived today. I didn't realize they were being shipped from Hong Kong, so now the cost and time makes much more sense xD

While the paper is a bit more floppy than I would have liked, the colors and overall quality is gorgeous!
So I definitely recommend ArtsCow.com
I've got 10 5x7 and 5 8x10 of each bird-costumed girl, and 25 of each bookmark.

Now I just need to get the comic pages finished. I'm shooting for 2 this weekend, so I can start building my buffer back up.

This weekend is also the annual Summer Arts Festival, so I'll be quite busy trying to see all there is to see! 200+ booths is hard to cover in only 2 days!
They set up in a big park just a few blocks from my mom's apartment, and the food vendors and supply tents were already going up when I drove by earlier today.

I like dinosaurs just as much as I like Cheepz! :D
I've got Ch.Ch.be but need them to evolve so I can equip more!
Need to save a bit more for Ty.Go.li

Argh, I'm still finding hail pings on my car from the golf balls a storm dropped a few weeks back.

So I'm walking my dog. There's this cloud, that I think looks more like a giant plume of smoke than a cloud, and it's gradually coming closer. After we got back home I took a shower and was sitting down to work on comics when I noticed the TV had the county in a tornado warning. So I flip to the one local station that actually gives a shit about severe weather, and sure enough there's this storm coming, Doppler-indicated tornadic supercell.

I tell my dad and sister and go back outside to look at the cloud. Still coming closer. So we start gathering up things that might be blown away, mostly lawn furniture on the deck (ever since a huge storm several years back wrapped the trampoline around a tree, we pick stuff up). Anyway, by now the airhorn across the lake is signaling everyone off the golf course and out of the water. The sun's also setting.

Storm's pretty close now, and TV / radio says take shelter immediately. We're all outside looking at the thunder. It's lighting up the clouds from the inside, and the thunder is just one continuous roar. It's one of the coolest things I've ever seen, and I left my frikin camera at my mom's!

All of the sudden, it gets dark as night and this wall of wind hits us. Now we're all like "oh SHIT get inside get the DOG inside close the door basement NOW!" And then it starts hailing golf balls.

The power stays on, and in less than 10 minutes the storm had blown past. And we were back outside looking at the storm again and the dog was so excited about eating all these hailstones. Little brother called from the hospital to make sure we were still alive.

Then we all said, "Well, that was exciting!" ate some cookies, and went to bed.

Small art dump on my DA - http://darklawstudios.deviantart.com

everything for the convention is ready to be printed except the mini-comics, which should be just shy of 20 pages. I've been slowing the pace, because it's an important scene.

Pilgrim will have a 2-page update on Tues. :D

And I've got an exam bright and early tomorrow, lab exercises to do, and a 5 page research paper to write.

EDIT: Prints ordered. 175 for $2.45 with all the free stuff I get from that ArtsCow site. Shipping was $26, but that still breaks down to .16 each
should arrive late this week or early next

AAAGGHSFDFS

Drum Corps International is having an event in the region on Tues why did I not hear of this sooner?!?

D=

Got an 87.5% on Biochem exam. Little brother is doing much, much better.
Finished coloring bookmarks. Need to resume cranking away on prints and comic pages. And research paper.

Time to get to work! >:D

http://www.artscow.com and this site is having a big free prints promotion.

sleepy. need to study for that biochem exam. and remember to eat.

spent the afternoon at the hospital with little brother. observed whirlpool therapy. those burns were something else. watched Kung Foo Panda afterwords. the meds kicked in and he fell asleep, so dad and I headed home.

gotta shower, study, and get some sleep.

Little brother is in the hospital with nasty burns on his left hand and side. Don't know if skin grafts will be necessary, or how long he'll be staying. Gotta wear gloves and gowns just to go into his room. Still playing by ear at this point.

We went to see him today, he seems to be doing all right, but a good portion of that is probably the morphine. He wanted to sleep, and I'm sure he was getting fed up with everyone being noisy and teasing him.

Hopefully he will be able to leave later this week!

Art Dump!

pilgrim_chap2a first 9 pages of pilgrim_comic

DarKlaw Portfolio 2 comics about Gareth and Mina!


Progress report~
Business cards are gonna get printed up next.
Bookmark designs are inked and ready to color.
3/5 print designs ready to be inked.
Car's getting new tires tomorrow.
First biochem exam on Thursday.


Also, family emergency. Don't be surprised if I disappear for a few days.

Ack. For each item I cross off my to-do list, it seems like two more get added on. >.<

If I manage to keep on schedule, the first 9 pages of chapter 2 should be ready to upload next weekend. The next scene is going to be funfun~

After this week when my biochemistry class starts I should be able to settle into a routine. Things around here have been a little crazy the past few weeks. There's a ton of leftover food from the party, I've been eating lots of chocolate cupcakes and mini cheesecakes and I don't seem to be making a dent!

busy busy busy getting ready for kid sister's grad party / open house.

I posted some new things on my DA, mostly from my art class. Check it out -> http://darklawstudios.deviantart.com

Today pilgrim_comic is one year old! If this had occurred to me before last night, I might have had some sort of picture to celebrate. Maybe I'll have some time to whip something up this week.

Otherwise, Star Trek was AWESOME. xD

So I'm going to play Morrowind for a bit and get back to work on those pages. Down to the backgrounds.

HA! Got an A overall in Organic Chemistry. That was a miracle. And an A in Microbiology. It was the Genetics class that took a hit and wound up a B as I studied for those other two.

Anyway. I've got 3 comic pages sketched and I'm going to try and get 2 finished. Next weekend will be busy because my sister is graduating high school and the grandparents will be coming out. And there's a 2x4 foot canvas my mom wants painted by then. I don't think I bought enough paint...

something fun to watch~
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0N1_0SUGlDQ

Yay! We're back now, and updates should be on schedule throughout the summer.

Okay. One more final to go. My doggy and I are both getting sick of studying. It is too nice outside to be cooped up studying! Barking at pelicans and going on treasure hunts are much more fun! >:I

And here is something else that is fun to play with.
http://grimace-project.net/

Ng, I'm going to need to make a list of everything I need to do this summer, in order of importance. Otherwise I won't even touch (or remember...) half of it.

Back to the studying.

Freeware art programs for you!

The GIMP http://www.gimp.org/
Open Canvas 1.1 http://www.flat2d.com/traductions/opencanvas/opencanvas_en.aspx
Neko Paint http://npaint.sakura.ne.jp/en/
Paint.net http://www.getpaint.net/
Pixia http://www.snapfiles.com/get/pixia.html
ArtRage 2.5 starter ed. http://www.ambientdesign.com/index.html
ArtWeaver http://www.artweaver.de/index.php?en_version

Inkscape (vectors) http://www.inkscape.org/
Ifranview (processing) http://www.irfanview.com/

Pilgrim will be going on hiatus for two weeks so I can focus on my finals. Updates will resume second week of May!