Haven't been doing much, packing stuff, playing old computer games and other things I'll ramble about but here, have some sketches.

( Click onward, warning image heavy )

I hate not doing art posts more often but life catches up with me and I rarely find myself wanting to unearth the scanner to get this stuff posted. Here's hoping I at least do one more post like this before the summer is over.

So my immune system is not as good as I had previously thought it.

Rather than fighting off con-crud and not getting the strange bronchitis mix my mother has my immune system has decided to pick and choose symptoms and I seem to have developed some sort of "walking crud" if you will.

I really don't feel any sicker than if my sinus' had revolted (which they do often) except for a slight temperature with the sensation of my head being not quite right. This is actually worse than normal crud where I just sleep it off till I feel better because I don't actually feel BAD, so I still feel stir crazy and have the urge to go places and do things rather than stay in bed.

So I'm sitting here killing time until my sleeping pills kick in.

Before my temperature rose I did manage to get to a book store and buy some comics with some of my con profits. I picked up the Clover omnibus and the latest Courtney Crumrin and was very happy with both.
( this turns into a review so click if you care )

Well now my sleeping pills are kicking in so now I go off to hopefully sleep and get rid of this crud. I will probably ramble on about Courtney Crumrin comics later so later folks.

So, I came back from A-kon, had to help my sick mom yesterday then I got about twelve or fourteen hours of sleep. I'm feeling much more human, though my voice is still lurking on the gravely octaves of exhaustion and talking too much.
( cut for ramblings )

So I returned yesterday from a short excursion home to try to salvage what I could of my earthly possessions from my flooded childhood home.

Things weren't as bad as I thought they were; they were in fact worse. The rain seeped through the weep holes in our brickwork into the low parts of our foundation and into the house. It was assumed most of the damage would be to areas along the outside wall, in my room the water seeped and soaked along all four walls and into all my closet, there was no carpet left to salvage it all had to be ripped up and my furniture moved or disassembled. When we ripped it all up the only dry patch in my room was a 2ft wide squarish patch in the very center of the room.

Loss wise, its hard to judge, I lost a few blank sketchpads,a large quantity of loose sketches (mainly concept work for a story project I hope to do one day.)My first sketchbook (from when I was like nine) go damp but it has dried out and while not in great shape it is still around,

I also lost some old roleplaying logs and a few books and comics and an untold amount of clothes and socks. However I did end up finally throwing away lots of stuff that should have been thrown out ages ago.

Thankfully, my furniture looks like it might survive, and my printer and scanner appear to be unscathed. But it still seems like it will be a while before I have my bed back in the room.

So the situation could be better, but it could also be much much worse

So I've got one thing on my list of large important projects done. This would normally be a relief if it wasn't for the fact that the local weather has seen fit to dump another project on my door. Apparently my parent's house has seen fit to flood for the first time in over 20 years.

So now I'm taking some time out of what would be a light work day working on my animation project and buying spray paint to go home and try to clean up my room and salvage what I can.

Wish me luck folks.

Greetings y'all*
So that time of the semester has come. That time when all classes have to have something earth shattering and amazing NOW. This plus the fact my fight or flight instinct is hung up on con prep means I'm a worn out mess.

On top of this its allergy season so my sinuses are clogged and my brain feels like its been wrapped in cotton fluff, this tends to wear me down so classes have really become those things between nap times for me.

I think I'm going to collapse in bed and hope my brain is better in about 6 hours.

Send help, send caffiene








*shut up, I'm Texan I'm allowed to use y'all

Con season is upon us once again and I am now preparing more pieces and buttons for such occasions.  

While I'm at it, I feel that this is an appropriate time to announce : 
as far as I know I shall be at  A-KON 20  this May.  I will post more info pertaining to my location in the con when I get such news.

I am looking towards going to other cons but for the moment this is the only one I have lined up so far.

Greetings from college. I have been busy avoiding actual work so I havent much to show for it.

But hey I saw Watchmen over break, so here, have a chibi.

So scans_daily got banned from livejournal.

More Info Here

I personally think this is a shame cause, yes scans daily was posting copyright material but they were doing it within limits and would have taken it down if someone complained. Banning them is a bit extreme. All in all it was a nice community where some of the actual comic pros would show up and post, which was neat. And you could see scans of comics from ages ago and stuff from yesterday.

And in their defense I actually bought a fair amount of comics (some stuff I wouldn't even have given a second glance at in a shop) from stuff I had seen on scans_daily.

1. Open your library (iTunes, Winamp, Media Player, IPod, etc.)
2. Put it on shuffle.
3. Press play.
4. For the first question, type the song that's playing.
5. When you go to a new question, press the next button twice.
6. Don't lie and try to pretend you're cool...just type it in.

( click on for the over produced avante garde film that is my life )

I started listening to Jill Tracy recently and blame her entirely for this piece. This is not a finished piece by a long shot but is the mock up to work from when I get around to doing the actual piece.

Well folks, the new Doctor Who has been cast. It's apparently this guy. No, its not a woman or a black man, sorry. I dunno why everyone seems to think the BBC would/should take such a risk as to go against decades of tradition and cast something outside the Doctor's norm (white and male). As a Timelord it makes no sense for him to cling to one race repeatedly, this I agree with. But as a company not wanting to rock the boat too much it makes sense. If Doctor Who isn't broken why fix it?

The new guy doesn't look like much, he really isn't terribly photogenic in the photo-still sense. It looks like hes got one good side and rest of his face is odd angles. I mean no insult to the guy, there is enough of that going on right now. I merely over analyze faces and I like faces more if there's some interest there, gives them character, makes them stand out. So he looks good but in a very unusual sense that works very well for this role.

But you really need to see the guy actually moving and talking to get a good idea of how hes going to be in the show. He actually has lots of little quirks and such that would probably translate to his performances. True he doesn't have his character built yet or anything but I'm optimistic.

Oh yea, this evening Disney got back to me and I received an e-mail apologizing for the inconvenience of the lack of digital copy code and sent me a new one in the same e-mail. This is a vast improvement from the complaints I've heard earlier of people having to jump through hoops and then wait for the code to come in on snail mail.

They however did not mention the fact that the main disk itself doesn't work. I shall have to call Disney's tech support as soon as the holiday week is over and complain again.

Well 2008 is over with, for many this was a terrible year, for me it was no worse than usual. Now 2007 and I had many issues with each and I couldn't wait to see that year go.

But 2008 and I have little issues, we never talked to each other but there were no flaming bags of poo on my door step either. (As a native Houstonian I do not hold any hurricanes against the year, thats just par the course anymore.) This was a year that I actually enjoyed rather than spending six months or so in a slump and shivering like a battered house wife.

Well goodbye 2008 I'm hoping 2009 will be as decent to me as you were.

Well I finally scrounged up my old Photobucket account info so I figured I better make good use of the thing. So here have a rather large random art post.


And with that I'm going to try to head for bed before the sun rises again.

Not much going on here just felt like posting some animation trailers of stuff thats coming down the pipeline. Sadly its all 3d, I miss 2d animation stuff like woah these days.

The new trailer to Pixar's Up. Not entirely sure what this is about but it's Pixar so it should warrant attention.

Aliens vs Monsters from Dreamworks. I'm still reserving my opinion of this, most Dreamworks stuff I loathe to bits besides the obvious exceptions (Shrek, Shrek 2 and Kung fu Panda) but this shows a bit more promise than the usual celebrity voice tricked out event. Besides the giant insect/hamster thing amuses me way too much.

And this one I just heard of, 9, a film produced but not directed by Tim Burton. This looks interesting (in a weirded out Little Big Planet kinda way) aesthetic wise. Though I'm not sure how well it's going to do toward general audiences; the seeming dark subject matter and presentation is going to be a hard sale for a society who still treats all animation as stuff for small kids.

While not terribly new I should probably post this one anyway, Coraline directed by Henry Selik and based on a book by Neil Gaiman. I am a fan of both individuals and am curious to see how this comes out. Plus it's stop motion which is an amazing if dying art that you just don't see too much of anymore.

So, three days, three copies of Wall-E, and four DVD players later I finally get to watch my special edition DVD of Adorable Robot Adventures. We had exchanged the first and second copy and were about to write the third one off when we discovered that the reason my disk wouldn't play on any of the players in house was due to some strange form of copy protection that was only used on the three disk edition of the movie.


Upon discovering this we tried to use the digital copy, at least then we could actually WATCH the movie in some format. Unfortunately the digital copy disk needed an authorization code to work. A code that never actually made it in the packaging. One of the three copies we went through had an 800 number to receive said code stickered on the outside of the shrink wrap, the rest had no such beast.

So we paid 35 bucks for what at this point amounts to a disk of special features telling us how they made a movie that we can not watch.

( Click for an arduous tale of trying to actually watch a movie )

So long story short, had to recreate the end of Cinderella to get the DVD to work (is this the player that will do it? NO, next fit...) which is ridiculous. Out of the five DVD drives in this house only one of them can play the DVD.

This is unacceptable, if any other company did it there would be a recall and an apology. But this is Disney, these disks have been out for a month and there has been no admittance of error. An angry e-mail has been sent from here to Disney's DVD support office where I am optimistically hoping someone gives me a fix or replacement or something.

Hilariously enough just when I was in the middle of finally watching the movie and starting to calm down my dad came in showing me another Disney DVD that was purchased for Christmas that has two discs, both of which are labeled "Disk 2". This will be handled tomorrow, until then we just sigh and move on.