A sunny weekend behind, and business cards ahead

Good stinkin’ gravy, it was hot this weekend. I made it down to good ol’ Cabo Mayo to visit James. Had a very nice visit and actually spent nearly all of Sunday on the *gasp* beach. I took 3 showers that day, no joke. We met with some very good friends and then I drove very conservatively back home. The horrendous rumor (or truth?) that driving 55 mph will ease up on the gas burning compelled me to drive… well… 55mph. I’m sure the fact that I kept the air conditioner on completely negated any beneficial effect of driving like a grandma.

In other news, today I bit the bullet and ordered some business cards for vilsy.net. I may not sit in the Artist Alley at Anthrocon, but as I understand it is imperative to hand out millions of business cards while there.  While shopping around on the net, at first I couldn’t believe my eyes at the deal I found… 250 cards for $3.99!  In the end, I paid about 40 bones for 500 of them. *scratches head and tries to do the math*.  They get you in the shipping… and the fear that my exquisitely colorful design won’t print well on their cheapest card paper. So, I went for the ‘good stuff’ and the unbelievable savings just sort of… proved their unbelievability. Oh well. It needed to be done. Hopefully they will be beautiful! Now I am thinking about getting a bumper sticker with my website on it…. har har har…

As Seen On The Kitchen Counter

I never thought I’d give in to over-glorified, mile-a-minute infomercial blather, but I’ve finally caved in to purchasing the Magic Bullet. It’s not just the Magic Bullet, it’s the Original Magic Bullet. It’s every magic bullet’s grandaddy. Don’t get it twisted.

In all seriousness (I’ll try, honestly), yeah it’s one of those “As Seen on TV” products, meaning one in his or her right mind ought to steer clear of it. But by golly I am addicted to the smoothies at Wegmans… so fruity, so delicious, so peachy, so smooth… a 20 minute trip and a 5 dollar investment… I needed a do-it-yourself solution. We tried to go the smoothie route before but cleaning up and storing what was left in the huge blender was a pain in the butt. Plus I’m quite easily the worse cook/food handler on Earth, so making a big old pitcher full of purplish-gook and then realizing it was barely edible was a waste. So, the Magic Bullet not only saves time and space, but the environment too! (As in I produce less radioactive sludge before I realize it doesn’t taste very good and dump it into the sink or hock it back).

So I’ve only really used it thrice and I haven’t duplicated the wonder of Wegmans yet, but I shall persevere!

Gone Batty

I’ve finally gone batty. Well, in so much as that I’m drawing them. Several months ago while perusing the used DVDs at FYE, we came across an animated show called Silverwing which seemed to be based around crazy hair color bats. It cost us like 8 bucks and I love furries so we bought it. It seemed a little corny at first, but then the story really picked up and we watched like the ENTIRE DVD (13 episodes) in one night.

After doing some research we found that it was an adaptation of a book which I’ve finally gotten my hands on and am reading now. It’s a pretty neat story and whatever animation company worked on it did a pretty good job. Wasn’t Don Bluth… but they put in good effort nonetheless.

In any case, it’s inspired me to draw some bats… I drew Aero the Acrobat and Rouge from Sonic the Hedgehog a lot last year, so the style is close to theirs. I like the idea of drawing their wings correctly… but it’s easier to give them both arms and wings separately. Maybe I will try to do it the other way… This guy’s name is Demetrius, and when I have time I will try to design his counterpart, Lysander. Yes, he’s wearing reinforced panties held up by a belt and bandoleer.