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

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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!

WANT.

yeessssss~

Something clicked last night, and I was able to hammer out the last half of chapter 2. Now I need to edit and make sure it isn't total crap now that I've had some sleep. Instead of a massive 25 page script it's down to 12. Lots of talking in the middle and end bits. Should be longer than chapter 1, but I want to hold it at under 50 pages.

*happy dance*

Woo, got a free chair! Very comfy, and in good condition. Slightly damp from rain. Low to the ground, just what I was looking for to go in front of the Playstation.

My town really gets into spring cleaning, for one week you can pile all your unwanted crap on the curb and the dump will pick it up for free that weekend. Everyone else finds friends with trucks and goes scouting for the better pieces of crap. You can seriously furnish a whole house with what other people toss out, and lots of college students do, when they move out of the dorms.

Ugh, I'll have to spend this summer doing chemistry (biochem) too, because the fall semester course filled up. At least my minor will be complete, provided I pass both it and the organic chemistry I'm in currently. Otherwise I have 18 credits lined up for fall. It's gonna be madness-> Physics+lab, Molecular Microbial Genetics, Human Anatomy+lab, Evolution, and Intro to Religion. No art class, but time to attend the figure drawing sessions on Tuesday evenings. I was going to apply to be a bio tutor as well, but now I just don't think I'll have the time. Shame, $9/hour jobs are hard to come by in this town, even when the economy is good. But my current job is $8.75 and hella easy, so I cannot complain.

I've got three weeks until finals, and then the summer class starts early June and runs through early August. End of August fall semester starts. I'll be trying my hand at the artist alley of a local convention this summer. Need to reserve a room and get registration sent in. It's a small con, but I'm hoping I'll be able to break even. I also need to get a summer job. Biochem will interfere with my ability to be flexible for scheduling. :I
Although the economy has gone sour, locally things aren't too bad. Surprising, considering most of the jobs are manufacturing and construction. Lots of places still hiring, new shops / restaurants opening, etc. And the weather is improving. Soon I should be able to start riding my bike.

I finally got my hands on the library's copy of Watchmen. I'm still trying to decide what I thought of it. It's something that has to be read multiple times to really understand, I think, so I'll be buying my own copy. But lettering all of that, by hand...quite the feat.

pilgrim_comic is coming along, and looking much better now that I've got a better feel for the brush. I finally feel like I'm sufficiently warmed up again from the long hiatus between AG and Pilgrim. At any rate, I can still look at chap2 page1 after several weeks and be fairly pleased with how it looks. xD
But! I have to make sure that I'm not placing a higher priority on the comic than schoolwork. My GPA has taken a hit this semester, I need good scores on all my finals, so lots of studying!

I'll need to make a big comic buffer over the summer if I'm gonna make regular updates with 18 credits plus job work out this fall. =.=;

Arg the tones look so different between my art compy and my internet compy >.<

Ack, exams are sneaking up on me and I need to find a summer job. o_o