Challenge Complete! (Hand-drawn Unleashed!)

 Christmas Card Challenge completed. Total card count 47-55 (there are some hand-drawn I didn't document before heading out).

And yet more cards!

I've been making more and more by hand, so I'll be doing a lot of scanning for Christmas day.
Anyway 3 digital ones ready and free:

More Cards!

Christmas Cards:



"Christmas" movies I've been watching while on this project:
Pacific Rim
The Count of Monte Cristo
Daybreakers

Christmas Cards 2013

Yep, I'm doing the Christmas card challenge again. So...free cards for you guys.

The Pirate in a Box

Step 1: Background

Step 2: Irritated/Annoyed Pirate

Many Steps Later:

A busy state of affairs

Every Tuesday a thought, a reminder to post something here enters my head. The problem is that I generally don't like to post unless I have something to show or say. So the idea that I don't have anything to show and therefore shouldn't post overtakes the reminder often.
I do feel bad about it though.
First, a promise to keep, the entire  crew for the Star Wars RPG campaign together:

Second: I have been catching up on a back-log of media, finishing a game, a few movies, and then falling into the pit known as Minecraft.

The game I finished was The Bureau: XCOM Declassified. I liked it for two reasons:
1) The story was enough to keep me in. (Where as in Enemy Unkown, it felt like I was just waiting for resources/fights to pop up)
2) I felt I had more of a hand in combat. Since it does have you play and control mainly one character in the field, I felt more like I could turn the tide of battle more directly.

The movies I saw where (with graded scale of 1 to 10, higher number better and keep in mind that I enter every movie thinking that it's not going to be that great. That means I'm ether pleasantly surprised, or right.)
We're the Millers: 8
The Worlds End: 8
Thor: The Dark World: 9.2

We're the Millers has some pretty memorable lines. Anyway, I will be doing my Christmas cards again this year, I'm getting a list together so I know how many I have to do.

Sorry

Work among other things have taken my attention away. Not that's a bad thing, we all have bills.
Anyway, to the game group we had a late entry, I did his character as well:

He chose the equivalent of a pale human, emphasizing on stealth. She (female character) joined our crew when I (Gand bounty-hunter) took up her bounty, found her, then pushed her out the window she was trying to escape from (had a car in place floors below). Now she is stuck with us, since it was ether join or I turn her in.
Now that I have the entire crew I can make a collage putting everyone together. Until then here is a quick 15-minute sketch:

Surprising Movies

So I been on a movie/Steam binge lately. Half due to late birthday gifts, half due to having a backlog of things I'd like to watch. So quickly now:
Now you see me: (I recommend)
Fast & Furious 6:  (Its passable)
Papers, Please: (I recommend)
Shadowrun Returns: (I recommend)
Hotline Miami: (I recommend, but it can be a bit frustrating)
Also I finished another member of the Star Wars RPG crew: Heta
Heta is our mechanic/hacker. She is also a 80s party girl.

Absence

So yeah, I'm sorry for the lack of updates recently. Over the past two weeks I've been doing some overnights at my job, as well as other hours that make sleep a more pressing priority. Also I couldn't anything to share ether, but now I do!
So my birthday past and the party on Saturday consisted of Talisman and the Dungeon expansion I got for my birthday. I also took one step further away from cavemen when I got my smartphone (Samsung galaxy S 3, i asked around and most swore by it so...).
In any case:

This is Se'lab the Bothan from our star wars RPG. She is also the captain by virtue of being the more sensible one and the only one who can actually fly the ship.

Overnights

Been recently working overnights which messed up posting schedule. I was, however, able to get another avi done:

Working workin'

Got my new job and is so far so good. I don't have an official uniform yet so not only do customers not bug me but half of the other employees don't realize I'm working there as well.
More Good News!:
I'm done editing the first recorded secession with my RPG group. I plan to animate to it, starting much the way of Extra Credits, or Brad Neely cartoon. Once I get faster and better (harder, stronger) I will flush them out more. I'm seven recordings behind (so far there are a total of eight), and most of them are two and a half hours long before editing. The one I finished got edited to a straight two hours, so even when I get to animating it I'll probably be releasing it in smaller clumps, most likely four thirty minute videos per secession.
Normal News:
I have three avatars I'm working on, one of them is for a guy in the RPG group.

Back on track...almost

Start my new job on Sunday, which is good, I'm starting to feel too much of the sloth. Last week a friend visited and it was fun all round. I may have gotten here into table-top RPGs (she bought her first dice yesterday). Made a few sketches for her when she was here (Luke and Tear based from Tales of the Abyss):
Luke:

Tear:

Together:

Just about settled

Sorry for the lack of updates, but last week was pretty much the wrap up of last month in terms of shit to take care of. Since my last update I am now fully moved into my new place and have (will have soon) new employment. Last week was full of birthdays and 4th of July-ish parties. And when I say full, I mean really just two. One 4th of July party, one Birthday party. There was another birthday for a friend who is out of town and I did an art for her.

Speaking of out-of-towners, I have a friend currently visiting me as well. It still feels a bit tense but not to the point of stressful.

What I've Been Watching:
- Game of Thrones season 3
- The Producers (again)

What I Want To Watch With Me Friends:
- Tucker and Dale vs Evil

Fathers Day Card & Extra

Fathers Day Card:


Extra (sketch for a friend):

Another Avatar

Request was for a short blond haired gent in leather armor with a short sword and a... fondness for ale.

Filler

The Moving Game

Next month I will be moving, so now I'm just trying to plan and mitigate the stress of moving as much as I can.
Meanwhile I decided to record me and my friends RPG session with aspirations to make something out of it. The total time recorded came out to 2hourrs and 30minutes. I've been about to cut 10minutes. out so far, most of it pre-game joking about. The actual gaming starts after the 13-15 minute after the start of the recording. I'm sure I'll have to do another pass on it, right now I'm just cutting the more useless stuff.

Oh! Watch Iron Man 3 if ye get the chance. I want to see the new Star Trek too but will have to wait after the moving kerfuffle. Iron Man 3 would be a good stopping point for the franchise but as with anything that sells well, it probably won't stop there.

Darth Indifference (Txt fight)

Kayle Sky Dirnberger came up for the main idea for this follow-up.

Preemptive Mothers Day Card

Research was looking through kitten faces for about fifteen minutes.

Dark Lord of Whatever

Let me start with an update: My grandma is doing well and is out of the hospital. I thank all for their well-wishes and so does my grandma. Thank you.

Now for fun. So with playing the new Star Wars RPG, we have been watching the clone wars animated bits and generally revisiting the movies. This promoted an idea, what if there was a Sith Lord, who cared so little about being a Sith that the Jedi never bothered to find him. Thus Darth Indifference was born:

Through discussion with my friends a short bio. for him came about. Basically he was a Jedi master during the clone wars and was so frustrated with the war that he deserted. His frustration and fear lead him to the dark side when he stopped caring about much of anything or anyone. He then came across a town were he thought he could settle. Once the villagers found out he was Sith (basically them spotting his lightsaber and asking him about it.), they became so afraid of him that they made him the leader (They figured that they should submit to him immediately before he tries to take over by force).
Luckily for the villagers he, while not pleased to be the leader, dose seem to take his job seriously as crime has dropped and agriculture yield has doubled under his rule.
He also trolls whatever jedi come his way, though he can't be bothered to kill them: