A real reason I havent been posting much lately (even though I have been drawing a lot) is because I've been busy trying to hone some sort of a personal drawing technique. I guess I haven't really progressed too far in that respect (covered with eraser dust). However I am a little more pleased with myself now. I've been experimenting heavily with photoshop lately to some success. Still not a whole lot of improvement as far as coloring goes. I never imagined it could be so tricky. Shading is pretty complicated, at least for me. But I'll be slowly updating, and hopefully more often than what my previous track record shows.

I've also been mulling around character backgrounds and possible new character designs. That can take some time too.

Not much interesting has happened in my personal life lately. I'm still going to school (summer term). It's nice though, because for the first time in two years I actually received a financial aid refund rather than have to pay some if it off. I'm only taking 7 credits for the time being and I was delighted to get an email telling me I had a grand in my account. Time to hoard it.

A friend of mine who's in the Army just returned from Iraq recently and I haven't seen him for almost 2 years (he's stationed in Germany) and two weeks ago a red corvette came screaming into my driveway. It was good to see him again. It's pretty strange though because my best friend is preparing to deploy to Afghanistan for 7 months. His company guns is a sharp guy, but the people in his company are pretty stupid apparently. He has the old guy syndrome and tries to avoid them. He's been over to Iraq once all ready and he isn't too happy that he was placed in a compony full of incompetents simply because he has combat experience. But hopefully he comes back in one piece.

By the way, despite my deviation titled "No," (which was supposed to be a joke) I've been contemplating doing one or two requests if anyone's interested. Due to summer term I have a lot of off-time. People seem to think it's hell on earth for some reason, but it's pretty kicked back in all honesty.

-Have a good one.

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Requests:

In planning stage