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.

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!