Long time no see!

If you've checked Pilgrim lately, you'll know that the hiatus grew into a restart. It's my own fault, I glazed over some plot holes because I wanted to start the story and it came back to bite me. There was also this "lol magic" element of the story that was really starting to bug me, so I cut that out. My goal is to get it going again sometime this summer. When I relaunch, I really want to update twice a week. Between bits of script and bits of storyboard doodles, chapter one is *almost* ready to be properly thumbnailed. Everything just feels a lot more solid now.

Also, I finally came to my senses and switched my major to visual art. I had absolutely no desire to work in a lab or do research, which is what the degree I was pursuing offered. My plan is to take both fine arts and graphic design courses, plus some business related classes. It'll probably add another year before I graduate. I've always heard that art programs that don't require a portfolio to get in are a waste of time and money, but it's local and I've already met some of the instructors. They are very skilled, and the figure drawing professor is a good teacher.

I ought to go work on Pilgrim now. I'm nearly done with the chapter one character designs, and then I was planning to rough out the first page or two. On Bristol board. I'm used to my paper having a bit of tooth, so the smoothness kind of freaks me out. Plus I got this new Pentel Pocket Brush Pen for Christmas and I want to try it out. Its a brush-pen, with actual bristles, and refill cartridges. Sounds nifty.


PS, here are some good webcomics to check out :)
http://www.wintersinlavelle.com
http://www.templaraz.com
http://thenextadventure.thecomicseries.com/
http://hanna.aftertorque.com/

Later!

Guh. Had 6 exams/quizzes this week, and I'm pretty sure I bombed 5 of them. 
Gotta hiatus the webcomic and focus on school. Just no time for drawing at the moment.

One more assignment to submit and then I can spend the rest of the evening drawing oh yes~~~


Holy crap, just noticed the featured wiki. Awesome!

Look up Batman Music Meister on Youtube. You will not be disappointed!

Cold has improved quite a bit. At this rate it might be done by the weekend.

Also turned 22 today! This cake is very rich, I'm having a hard time finishing an itty bity piece...

I think I ought to climb into bed and work on Pilgrim, either writing or fine tuning character designs...I still don't have a proper character sheet for anyone, boo.
Gareth finally has all the details of his outfit worked out :D Just needs some turnaround head shots. I feel pretty comfortable drawing him now. He's easy to draw, compared to Rae :V

I went to the campus bookstore, but they didn't have bristol board! Only sketch / watercolor paper! I want to try drawing a page on bristol board! And do some more illustrations, and redo the website layout!

So much I want to do, so little time.
I'm always the most ambitious when I have the least amount of free time >.<

I caught a cold. Or some sort of illness.

Woke up Monday with a very sore throat, and while it's mostly gone today I'm bouncing between being completely congested and not having enough tissues. I'm tempted to take my tissue box with me to campus tomorrow, because I've got 5 classes. One is in a lecture hall with 400 other people :(

I really hate getting sick. Especially on a Monday.

I've got a physics lab report to finish, and then I'll eat some pie and crawl into bed with my kitties and anatomy textbook.

Pilgrim now has a chat thread in the Gaia chatterbox
http://www.gaiaonline.com/forum/chatterbox/pilgrim-webcomic-updates-tuesdays/t.54497431/

No dice on the dream. I wrote / sketched what I remembered, so I have some record. The whole thing was pretty fragmented.

I sketched some other things, but forgot my thumb drive so I couldn't move them to my art computer. I've got to get it connected to the scanner and internet again, now that the siblings aren't around to torrent virus-laden shit.
I was gonna change some tones on tomorrow's page too. Oh well, next weekend.

H1N1 is going around campus now, and the admin is sending the sick kids home. I don't see the point, since they'll just be better in a few days. It's not like they disinfect the whole place every night, so it's gonna keep floating around.

Gonna do physics now, if the homework portal will cooperate with me.

I had a dream last night that might make an interesting short comic.

I wonder if I'll dream some more about it tonight if I have pizza, garlic sauce and root beer right before bed again.


Back to homework!

Holy buckets of homework. It's only the third day of classes, and I am already behind.

Ponyo.

As always the animation was superb, and the texture of the backgrounds was really visible on the big screen. But I had a harder time immersing myself in this one. A few parts were just a little too unrealistic for me. =/

Still a gorgeous movie though :)

PS I'm thinking I'll go to another in-state anime convention in January (provided the weather holds) and then I guess I'll try to sell off my excess stuff online. Still got a bunch of prints!

The prices of campus parking passes were jacked up, so between it and my textbooks I spent $750. At least grants are covering the tuition this year. I've got 18 credits this semester, classes start Sept 1. Still not sure if I want to switch to the Clinical Lab Tech program.

Otherwise I am trying to find someone to go see Ponyo with. It's not coming to the local theater, but one 45 min away has it. I've never seen one of Hayao Miyazaki's movies in theater, and I really want to.

DA updated http://darklawstudios.deviantart.com

Sogencon was stressful (probably because it was my first time) but also a lot of fun. There were a bunch of amazing costumes, and everyone was really nice.
I was able to make almost $300 without having a single fanart item at my table. :)

I'm definitely going to try and go next year, and make myself a costume. :D

Back! I did okay, I think. I'll write more later, I'm very tired.

I leave tomorrow! Hopefully I have enough stuff. Wish I had more time to do more commission samples, but oh well. I'll have to draw something to color with markers because I haven't used them in months and am out of practice.

Woah, I got a comic spotlight on www.smackjeeves.com !
and over 1000 page views for 2 days in a row

^___^

Less than a week to go now!

Back to inking comic / studying.

Irritated. And, of course, irritated that I am irritated, because it's a pretty stupid thing to be irritated about.

.<

Best go funnel this irritation into something productive.

Ha! Just need to make copies of the set of coloring pages I just finished, cut paper down to the sizes I'll be doing commissions at, and pack up the box.
I'll leave cutting most of the bookmarks til I get to the convention, so I'll have something to do at the table.

Now I can put all my attention on biochem!

EDIT
DA updated - 5 new inked / lineart images
http://darklawstudios.deviantart.com

Time to test out the paper trimmer I bought. It was cheap, I hope it isn't a piece of junk.

EDIT 2
The paper trimmer is very nice. It's a ProvoCraft Zision Trimmer. I got it for $7 at Hobby Lobby, but I've seen them at Walmart for about that price too.

Aiieeee, looks like artist alley is gonna be right in the main hall of the convention center. I hope I'll have enough things to sell.
I'm probably gonna have a 15 hour day Saturday...

Should have everything ready and my box packed up next week though!

pilgrim_chap2b
pages 10-17, have a look tell me what you think.
tomorrow I'll be prepping 1-17 to go in the minicomic. Hopefully I can get all the files ready in one day, there are several fixes I want to make.