First and foremost I'd like to apologize to (again) for taking so long on the stuff he paid me for a long time ago. I'm now almost halfway done...

Also I'd like to apologize to all the people I watch/know on DA, who may have put up artworks and been disappointed when I did not stop in to leave my amazing comments. I especially apologize to these people because I'm just going to clear all my deviations, on account of having more than 3k (and 913 messages).

So, the reasons I've been gone from DA are fairly simple. College kicked my ass, hard. I failed out of Chico State, and I was academically disqualified from enrolling in a California State University for a period of at least one year. Prior to this I'd been living in an apartment in Chico with my girlfriend, which was paid for by my mother's cash. Now, for obvious reasons, she's not too keen on continuing that setup, which I cannot really blame her for. So and I have spent the last month or two scrambling to get jobs which are capable of supporting this place. The current lease ends at the end of September and neither of us have been able to find anything. Before you judge us as slackers, however, please remember that we're looking for work (with neither of us having any real experience to speak of) in a town with a 16% unemployment rate and a lot of kids our age looking for similar work. So I don't really know what's gonna happen in the coming months.

Anyways, yeah, I'm not dead, but I haven't really been in a great position for art lately. Sorry for bein' a slacker.

PS I'm offended that there is no "blank" option, in the smileys for journals...

Sorry if the title offended anyone. But that pretty much sums up my feelings about the main topic of this journal.

So last Tuesday (yesterday as it happens) my gf, , and I signed the lease on an apartment, and we spent the night there last night. Sleeping on the floor. But it was OUR floor (kinda, renting and all). And we forgot toilet paper. That was a problem, lol but that's okay! It's still awesome. The bed and stuff is comin' up this weekend. So, we still don't have internet up there, probably won't for a while, so my presence around DA might be sketchy.

However, I have begun working on the next one of 's pictures, it is in the sketch stages and I should have a WIP thingy to put up soon-ish.

Also, holy shit people, it's October. CSU is fuckin' insane, one of my classes I thought was easy has turned out to be a bunch harder, so much so that I'm worried I might fail it! Other than that one class though, the other three are awesome. Well, two are awesome and the other is tolerable.

I can't wait for Fallout 3 to come out, even though I know I won't have much time to play it... T-T

Okay, that's all for now then.

I'm movin' to Chico, finally. Not really in the way I had hoped, as I'm just moving into my uncle's house. Lame, but still better than living in my redneck town. And hopefully it'll be very temporary and my gf and I will find a place of our own quickly. School starts a week from today though, and I have to say I'm actually pretty excited. I've got almost all of my GE bullshit classes out of the way, so it should be just cool electives and awesome Computer Science stuff from now on. Oh yeah, and on more math class *cry* lol.

Anyways, I'm not really sure what my internet situation is gonna be, so it's very likely I won't be around on dA that much for at least a week or two, hopefully no longer than that. I'll get on from the school internet when I can, but we'll see how that goes.

I'd also really like to apologize to cause this basically means that I'm gonna take *even longer* on the rest of his commission. I feel bad for taking as long as I have already, but there's not much I can do about that right now, except keep on workin' on it.

Stay awesome dA, I'll be back when I can.

So, my good friend has commissioned me to draw some characters of his... and he's gonna pay me $250! haha, so yeah, I'm pretty excited about that, so expect to see some WIPs of them in my gallery. I'll scrap the WIP pictures after he takes a look at them and such.

So, based on that I may add a journal about accepting commissions sometime, though I'm not going to take any until after this one for Ronin is finished.


Anyways, I'm gonna go put up the first WIP now

So, the Game Forge lost it's domain name, due to a credit card/hosting service foul-up. So the new site is [link] for any of you who may be interested. That's all I really have to say. We're almost done with the next two add-ons to Chaos Isle, I only have one more picture to make, I think, and even that will just be revamping a picture of Maya that I drew, the one of her running and shooting and such.