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It occurs to me that I should probably paint it with the reddish tint the lava should give it, instead of trying to add the correct colouring later. Oh well!


current mood: awake
current music: Lois McMaster Bujold - Paladin of Souls (Unabridged), Part 1 (Paladin of Souls (Unabridged))

Sketches finished!

( You know the drill by now )


current mood: contemplative
current music: Lois McMaster Bujold - The Curse of Chalion (Unabridged), Part 3 (The Curse of Chalion (Unabridged))

Insane in the Membrane progress:
Bloodsail Buccaneers: 839/21,000 Revered (req: honored)
Darkmoon Faire: 5,150/12,000 Honored (req: exalted)
Ravenholdt: 4,799/21,000 Revered (req: exalted)
Shen'dralar: 1,000/3,000 Neutral (req: exalted)
All four Goblin Cities: 0/36,000 Hated (req: exalted)

Each goblin city needs 84,999 rep (to get to 999/1000 exalted, which isn't required but which I prefer to do whenever possible. That'll probably be my last step, even taking into account the long and arduous task that is DMF and Shen'dralar, because as an additional bonus (and there's no achievement or feat of strength for this, it's just something I want to do because if I don't do it now, I won't ever be able to do it) I'm going for exalted with Bloodsail. I won't be able to get 999 (I think the best you can get is like 700-something if you're a human) but I'll get as close as I can get. From 11,999/12,000 Honored to 20,999/21,000 Revered, there's only one mob you can kill to get rep, a little goblin named Jazzrik in the Badlands. He gives 5 rep per kill, and is on a 6-8 minute respawn timer. You need to kill him 4,200 times (as a non-human), which works out to be a little over three weeks of killing him if he respawns every 8 minutes and you work around the clock, 24/7.

Obviously, I'm not doing that and so it's going to take me longer. Right now my goal is to do 1% (42 kills, about 5 and a half hours) each day, with more if I can stomach it and am really on that long. It's mind-numbing as hell, but as long as horde don't come to visit (and unfortunately there's been a steady stream of level 80 rogues and feral druids wandering into badlands the past couple days) I'm really only tabbed into the game for about fifteen seconds every eight minutes or so, and the rest of the time is spent in Photoshop or in my sketchbook (which is where all these sketches the past few days have been coming from).

And now for something completely different, ( TMI TMI TMI~ )


current mood: drained
current music: Britney Spears - Toxic (In the Zone)

Today's round of sketches contains—nay, is exclusively—dargons.

( Artz )


current mood: awake
current music: Conjure One - Damascus (Conjure One)

( Artz, again! )

Raid down! On to the darg0nz!


current mood: artistic
current music: The Used - The Taste of Ink (NoAlbum)

Just did all the practice exams for the California Driver's License/Permit exams. I -almost- aced them all... except one of them was like "It is a very windy day. You are driving and a dust storm blows across the freeway reducing your visibility. YOu should drive slower and turn on your:" and the correct answer was "headlights" except, thanks to both parents ALWAYS driving with headlights on for safety ANYWAY, that didn't even occur to me as a possible correct answer.

._.

Written test appointment for the 22nd. I'm not worried about that bit at all, it's the bit AFTER where I have to actually get behind the wheel where I'm terrified, lol.

I hate driving/drivers :(

Edit: 90% accuracy on the motorcycle tests, and 75% on the commercial license tests. COMMON SENSE IS HARD.


current mood: distressed
current music: The Lonely Island & T-Pain - I'm On A Boat (Incredibad)

( artz again )


current mood: drained
current music: James Patterson and Andrew Gross - The Jester (Unabridged), Part 2 (Books on Tape)

Artz!

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I fell asleep at like 5:30-6am, and the Comcast guy showed up at like 9:30 (we're switching from Pacbell/AT&T DSL to cable) >< SO TIRED, argh.


current mood: awake
current music: James Patterson and Andrew Gross - The Jester (Unabridged), Part 1 (Books on Tape)

So I have this nifty idea for the blizzard/bizzcon fanart contest, but I'm not sure if I have the energy to go from idea to completion in the next nineteen days or so (submissions are open July 7-24). Last year's entry is one I still like, but didn't win (I'm still not sure who the winners of last year were, to be perfectly honest). I don't remember what I submitted the year before, and I'm pretty sure I didn't participate the first year. Also, the official rules this year say nothing about size limits, colour profiles, or anything like that... just "Each submission shall be a high resolution "Photoshop" file." Last year there was an 8x11 minimum size limit (my original crop was less than that, so I had to shuffle some things around to make it fit) and it had to be submitted in CMYK (I worked on mine in RGB and some weird shit happened when I converted it... I got it all mostly fixed, but some of the colours weren't nearly as bold in the CMYK version that got submitted, though that might have been a monitor thing).

I also wonder if they want the original photoshop file, or a flattened version. I hate when the rules aren't so constrained that you can't breathe! (lol)


current mood: okay
current music: Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up (Whenever You Need Somebody)