Two of my pieces were on display this week at a local fair! Every year, they have an art exhibit and judges judge the art, giving out ribbons to winners. I entered my drawings of Gideon (who is a German Shepherd mix that belongs to =Christianonfire7) and Matthew Gray Gubler.





Unfortunately, Gideon did not place. However, my drawing of Matthew Gray Gubler got first place in the "Pen/Pencil" Portrait & Character Sketching category!

I admit, it felt really great to see people walk by in amazement as they looked at my work. As William Turner stated in Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl: "A craftsman is always pleased to hear his work is appreciated."

On to other news...

I feel like I have been soo terribly inactive here on dA, and I feel awful about it. And school starts for me on Monday, which makes things worse. I have three days left of freedom and I still have a load of stuff to finish. I feel like I got very little accomplished this summer except for what few drawings I managed to get done. :C

and I didn't even convert Into Depp to Wordpress, which I'm seriously torn over. That was the ONE thing I wanted to do, and it looks like that will be a winter break project. Uunless I have some time during the school year to start what will be a very grueling process.

and I never got the chance to start my Victor series! Sigh.

At least Victoresque is nearing completion... I will probably be spending the next week or two dividing my time between school, finishing Victoresque, and finishing up with drawing John Wayne.

Hopefully I can manage to squeeze in the AJ Cook drawing as well. Hopefully before the new Criminal Minds season starts, which is September 21. I am so bloody EXCITED about that!!! It's going to be awesome having AJ and Paget back.

ALSO. I never thought I would find another band/singer as awesome as Coldplay but John Ondrasik (Five for Fighting) comes pretty close. <3 Once I get the spare money, I will most definitely buy all of the music I can of his.

That's all for now. I'll be writing here again this weekend once the trailers for The Rum Diary and The Hunger Games are released.

Thanks to my best friend, =Christianonfire7 for donating the points needed. I can never thank you enough.

I wanted to wait and activate it when I was getting close to Victoresque.com being completed. The site isn't finished yet, but it is quickly getting there and I am (slowly) conquering WordPress.

This is also a test journal. I am trying to code a journal skin, so this should be interesting.

and I finally bought David Cook's new album, This Loud Morning, which is amazing. I think it is better than his first album (which was also pretty amazing), actually. And I stumbled across this country/folk duo called The Civil Wars a while back, and fell in love.... so I bought their debut album, Barton Hollow, and it is absolutely beautiful.