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.

More when I have it. :)

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.

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.

Show your support for finding a cure.

Visit the National Breast Cancer Awareness Month website and help "Pass the Word".

Check out Moonbeam13's News item on deviantART about the Weekend to End Breast Cancer for more ways to show your support.

Or if you're so inclined, we've designed up a poster and some wallpapers so you can show your support.

Poster 8"x10"	Wallpaper - Widescreen 1900x1200	Wallpaper - Standard Screen 1600x1200

So, think pink and be aware. Donate, wear a ribbon on your person or on your screen and we can help to keep breast cancer from taking any more lives.

That one's for free.

Oh well, class is about to start here. More later. :)

For now, I'm just getting ready for school to start up again next Wednesday. I got final grades back and I did better in my Art History class than I thought I was going to do, so it was good there. Now I just have to wait for Financial Aid money to arrive. The school was generious enough to delay my check because Summer grades weren't posted until yesterday. So I prolly won't see that until Wednesday, so I won't have any supplies for class unitl after the semester starts. Translation: Next week is going to be fun.

As far as vacation went, lots of Disney was done. I was happy to be able to get back to Disneyland again. It had been a few years since I'd been out there, so it was good. I didn't get to do much at SDCC this year. I was down there on Friday and when it was all said and done, I was only there for like 3 or 4 hours. But you know, it was enough to get done what I needed to do. I was able to grab the Jack Sparrow poster that my mom wanted. I was able to get a wallet for my COPIC markers. I was able to get some other supplies that I had been looking for. I got to look around most of the exhibit hall. It was ok for what I needed to do. Next year, the family won't be coming with, so I should be in San Diego the whole week next year. Of course, we'll see what happens...

One other thing that I did recently is get some new business cards printed up. These things aren't the normal business cards though. I had run across someone having mentioned a little printing company online called MOO. (You can get to them at www.moo.com.) They do these cute, little "MiniCards". They're like half the size of a normal business card, you can upload your own images for the front and then type some text for the back side. You can order one box of 100 cards for $20.00 and you can upload up to 100 images, so that every card can have a different image on it. I had a set of 11 different images uploaded, featuring some of the AtomicFoxtail comic characters, from Beyond Neverwonder and from my other series that's on the back burner, The Secret of the Sunsword. They arrived today and I have to say that they turned out REALLY nice. They'll be cool to hand out cause they're definitely different. I'll have to take a pict and post it so people can see what they look like. Cool stuff. (Click on the image to the right to see the cards.)

Beyond that, just trying to get back into the groove.

Now to get some sleep... and to get back to Neverwonder artstuffs. :)

Enjoy!

This is a group shot for my new webcomic called Beyond Neverwonder. It's kinda like an Alice in Wonderland meets Peter Pan type thing. But ultimately, beyond it being a webcomic, it's a project that I'm going to use to beef up my drawing skills. They've gotten rather bad over the years, so this will give me an excuse to keep up on it. It'll be updated Mondays. I figured that if I can bone up on artstuffs and try to be a bit entertaining at the same time, why not, ne?

If you want to see the comic, head on over to the website: www.beyondneverwonder.com.

It's Oni Link from The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask. Enjoy! :)

Those are on my deviantART site. As soon as I have more, I'll post them on there. (And prolly leave a message here.)

One thing I have noted, inking with Copics on sketch paper soaks up the ink too much. Need to use some better paper for inking stuffs. The Corinne art was drawn on a piece of notebook paper. The Ka'la drawing was done in my sketch pad. The lines look much cleaner on the Corinne piece.

Now if I can get some more artstuffs going. ;)

So here I am, just by my lonesome having to do it manually. My Drawing I class was really cool, and I wish I could have finished it... Now I just have to keep going without the help of a "teacher".

Here's some of the latest stuff:

 

Now, mind you, I haven't done this stuff in a really long time. I know that my proportions are like WAY off. (To be honest, they usually have been. Something that I need to practice more.)

The character sketches are kinda obvious. I've been trying to get myself to work on my Secret of the Sunsword project for years and I'm trying get into a groove to get that going properly. I've been sitting on the story for 20 years now. I just need to stop being lazy and do it.

The hands on the other, er... hand, is one of the things that I'm HORRIBLE at drawing. That and eyes. Those two things are things that I really need to spend some good time working on. I'm usually ok with other things...

As for not having a teacher, well, I have all you artsy types out there. Any comments? Criticisms? Suggestions? I know it is basically ick, so no one will hurt my feelings if you tell me it sucks. :P I'm much better at copying other people's art than I am at coming up with original stuff...

I'll be posting various things as I have them. You know, goofy sketches, character design ideas and the like... I'll have more. Hopefully soonly.