Alice thinks she's seeing things when a mysterious hole appears out of nowhere, a hole that only she can see. She ends up in a world where things don't always reflect reality and the world you see in the mirror may just be the end of all things.
Life comes at you fast, so take note. Follow the slightly twisted real-life adventures writer/artist Tim in the form of Kit, a half-fox, half-human hybrid and his female alter-ego, Kat. It's a little slice of life that's just a bit off. Be careful. Something random might happen.
It's been quite a while since I've had opportunity to post something here. To be honest, there's little on the AtomicFoxtail end of things to talk about. I've been relatively slammed with school stuffs and it's put comic-related stuff on hold again. I'm working to try and get my schedule working in such a way that I'll be able to keep up with comic updates, but priorities are what they are and school and work stuff come first, unfortunately. SOmeday, there will be a teacher out there that will actually understand that there are more things in people's lives than just their class. When you have 4 teachers and each teacher expects you to spend 40-60 hours a week on THEIR classes, you run out of time to do much of anything. After I killed myself back in the late 90s, slaving away for my employer only to have said employer treat me and my coworkers like garbage, I swore to myself that I was never going to kill myself for anything like that ever again. That includes school. But, that also means that if all the time I have gets used up on school and work, no comic will be happening.
In other news, there's a new webcomic out today that is exceptionally cool. It's called By Moon Alone and it's really good. Hai has done an excellent job with getting the beginnings of the story and the art is just wonderful. Click on the banner and take a look. It's definitely worth the read.
Life has been kinda funky since starting school again, so things have been kinda out of sorts...
Since things haven't been rather noteworthy around here, here's an iKit Shuffle for the month of October.
It's been a rough month for drawing external stuff. All the drawing I've had time and energy for has been for classes, with a few rare exceptions. Most times I don't even have time to do "homework" because of how much time work takes up. As a result, poor Alice and the Neverwonder crew have been neglected. I really need to find time to get that going again.
Got tired of all the channels disappearing on Comcast's Basic Cable TV lineup, so we got the DirecTV turned back on. It's nice having all the old channels back. And the TiVo. :)
After getting said DirecTV turned back on, come to find out that they're trying to charge me for 7 Adult channel pay-per-view things that they say were done in 2000. Quite a feat considering that, 1) I don't use the Pay-Per-View, 2) I wasn't living in Utah in 2000 when they claim that they were done and 3) that my service at the Utah address was turned off in October 1999 and wasn't turned back on until 2003. I first called them on October 1st and today, October 31st, it's still not resolved. And I've spent at least 3 total hours on the phone on 3 different occasions to try and get this straightened out. I was assured by the last person that I talked to, a supervisor, that someone would call me back and tell me what the story was by the 30th. And it's now the 31st and no call. I get to play hardball with them now.
I hate charcoal. Drawing in charcoal is icky.
I like conte crayon. Much better for doing my figure drawings.
I also hate oil paints. While they have their appeal at times, things the last few weeks have just been frustrating... like curdling White... it's not liking the turpentine that I've been using I suppose... but it's the same as everyone else, so I'm not sure what's up there.
Today is my Dad's birthday and it's Halloween. The family is doing the usual setup, with Pirates of the Caribbean as the theme. Little bro is dressed up as Jack Sparrow and went to his Dance class dress up this morning. I'd love to have seen the reaction...
Since is it my Dad's birthday and there's little time for cooking because of the festivities of the day, that means it's Brick Oven pizza night. Best pizza outside Chicago.
And finally, got a copy of Mac OS X Leopard installed on the laptop. All in all, good stuff. There have been a few little glitchy things with 3rd party stuff, like having to do some manual configuration on my PHP installation and things like Xjournal not working (switched to iJournal, which I'm using right now), but the OS is really slick. Very nice.
I think that's it for now. More babbling when I have it.
Here's a little pubic service announcement for everyone here. This started up on deviantART, but it's a good cause to pay attention to cause it can affect anyone, so I decided to pass this on.
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
According to the National Cancer Institute, in 2007 there are an estimated 178,480 females and 2,030 males that will be diagnosed with breast cancer in the United States. Of these, an
estimated 40,460 females and 450 males will die from the disease.
It's a long weekend this week. Fall Break at school. I've been meaning to try to consolidate the sites so they have some consistency with the layout. I've got part one done. The main AtomicFoxtail site is done for the most part and now I get to move on to the Beyond Neverwonder site and the Foxtails site. It'll prolly take a little bit, but I'm hoping to get it done this weekend. It'll have to be in between drawing and coloring though. I'll have more as the weekend progresses.
It's been a rough couple of weeks the last little while. As some of you may have noticed (yes, all two or three of you ^_^), things haven't been moving too swiftly on the art front. The last 3 weeks or so have been slammed with school projects that have taken more time than I have and work projects that have taken time that they school projects should be using. I've had most of page 021 of Neverwonder done for a week or so, but with how crazy things have been, I haven't had a chance to actually finish it up. I'm hoping that now that I have the last 3D Design project out of the way and I'm kinda fudgeing my Illustrative Media class (I had another Devourer of Time, the Egg Pt. 2 that I never had time to even really start this last week... I'm going to have to make ths one up somehow) that I'll be able to get things a bit more managable. Work is still a variable, but there's little I can do there. Bills need to be paid, so work comes first.
Oh well, class is about to start here. More later. :)
In other news, there's a new webcomic out today that is exceptionally cool. It's called By Moon Alone and it's really good. Hai has done an excellent job with getting the beginnings of the story and the art is just wonderful. Click on the banner and take a look. It's definitely worth the read.
