You want everything to be just like the stories that you read but never write

Spent the morning at the gym with Nick, the afternoon drawing and writing as fast as I can, and the evening visiting Dad at the hospital. Dad's very sick, but has heart surgery tomorrow with a high probability of fixing it forever. Still, it would mean a lot to me if you could think of him tomorrow morning!!

Trying to draw 5 grayscale pages in 8 days. Normally not a hard task, but it's a new subject and I'm using brushes, so it's a bit more difficult than it sounds. Wish me luck! I'll post teasers if they're good~ (I swear, there will be art for you this week!!!) :P

=3=

I use this emoticon pretty often, but a lot of people don't understand what it means. I tried to search for an explanation online, but search engines read "=3=" as "3", and return useless hits.

Basically, I use this emoticon to represent a 'pursed lips, there's nothing more I can do' emotion. I like the way that '3' looks like pouty lips.

Something's always coming you can hear it in the ground

Sketch group pimp time~~
Yesterday, Angie, Emi, and I spent our cafe drawing session rendering each other's characters. It was the funnest sketch group yet! And besides being fun, we all left with gorgeous fanart!!! Check out these drawings of Delilah!!!:

From Angie:


From Emi:


I LOVE THEM SOOOOOOOOO MUCHHHH. <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3

Your tongue is twisted, your eyes are slit, you need a guardian

It's the end of a very long art day. I drew animals and characters from The Second Witch of Wilheim ALL. DAY. This is just a fraction of what I got done. It was a much-needed productive day:






I'm very happy with this project right now! Wish me more productive days~~~

These were all drawn with my new Pentel Pocket Brush Pen, recommended by Angie! I LOVE it!

I looked into your eyes and saw a light

Weezer's new song is nice.

I started looking up reference for a character, landed on Nestor Carbonell, and then just gave in and went off on a LOST hot man photo search. And I'm not going to tell you how long that lasted.


Hot.


Hot.


Hot.


Hot.

Yes, this is my porn. When does season 6 start again?

Under the heat of the southwest sun

It's on it's way! My new laptop will be here in early September!

You guys. I am so excited. I love my Dell Inspiron 600m, but it's 4 years old and technology has progressed in leaps and bounds over that time (not to mention between its invention and me purchasing it). Some upgrades I'm particularly excited for:

1.4GHz processor, 1MB cache ---> 2.4GHz processor, 3 MB cache
700MB RAM ---> 4GB RAM
30GB 5400RPM hard drive ---> 500GB 7200RPM hard drive
ATi Mobility RADEON 9000 32MB ---> ATI Mobility RADEON M96XT 1GB

Guuuughslkdfcmd. My time in Photoshop will be so much more pleasant~~~! (*u*) I spend so much time making a command and then getting up from my computer while it processes it...it takes my computer 5-10 minutes to download my e-mail every morning. I hope the XPS16 meets my expectations.

When she was 22 the future looked bright

This is how I feel today. Despite having jury duty this morning at 8:00, blowing out a tire on the way, being there for ten hours, and taking the wrong bus home (I ended up in Tigard. Street cred FAIL), I had lots of time to think, and I set art goals for the school year that I'm really excited about. Goals are just goals unless you work toward them, but it feels good to pick a direction in which to move.

Have some jury duty sketch dump, y'all:






Lilly Allen's 22 is great, and I like the music video as well.