Ladies and Gentlemen... I give you... my first fourteener!



( And I got a LOT of pictures... 50+ )

Ok, usually I don't make so many posts in a couple days but...

Look! Baby Ball Pythons coming out of their eggs on Ustream! They're soooooo adorable :D I just saw one yawn, heee XD
Come and watch with me!

So I'm sure you all know how much I love little miniature things....



It's a teeeennny tiiiiinnny Shield!
( More pics! )

I'm gonna join up artslam for the month of July. To sum it up you pick an idea, character(s), subject, etc and work on that each day for a whole month (or more if you choose). I only picked one month for now, then we'll see how things work out later.

My choice was adding more color into my sketches/concepts/etc. and do more environments! I really want to start upping my painting skills.

I is excited 8D

I've had a lot on my mind as of late over here... lots of art projects I want to pursue, namely the Artist's At the Ready OCT (aka "the real"). To be honest I'm second guessing even joining it, because if I do make it far into the rounds, that's going to be conflicting with me shipping out to Georgia in the fall, and I might not have time to keep going.
Also, I'm scared of being ousted in the first round again before even getting to prove myself, feh.

Speaking of college, that's a huge subject on my mind, with ponderings such as: I wonder what the food will be like? What kind of fun things are there to do in Savannah? How much time will I have for fun things? What should I take with me? What's life in the dorms going to be like? How am I going to make money for things to spend on myself? (clothes, shampoo/conditioner, toothpaste, contact cleaners, etc.) What kind of clothes should I start gathering up?
I really wish I could make a trip out there before classes start just to see Savannah and the college and such.

As far as summer is going, it's been cloudy, cold, and rainy :c which totally sucks... I want to be outdoors doing stuff, not stuck inside shivering. On the plus side said cloudy/rainy is coming in the forms of thunderstorms, so we've been getting some sweet thunder and lightning shows. Sister said there were some tornadoes up by her place the other day even (Fort Collins, top of the state, I'm at the bottom). Freeeeaaaky! They're not uncommon here though, my dad saw a funnel cloud thinking about forming last month, but nothing more since then.
Thankfully though, me and dad are planning a trip into the mountains to hike Uncompahgre Peak, one of Colorado's many fourteeners. I'm excited! My first fourteener! :D now that I think about it'll be a great thing to do as a send off from wonderful Colorado, maybe some day I can come back and hike the rest (all 50-somethin' of them).
So with that in mind, I've been seriously trying to think of ways to get myself in shape for said hike. It's an easy mountain, but I still want to be as ready as possible so I can really enjoy it, instead of just suffering up and down the trail. Walking, biking, and hiking come to mind... first two I can easily do on my own, but having a hiking buddy would be nice, unfortunately I can't think of a single person I could drag around the mountains with me that would be as eager as me, has the free time, and can keep up with my pace :/

I'm real tempted to ask Dad if we could try and hit up Wetterhorn while we're out there too. It's like, right next to Uncompahgre, just a little harder climb where you have to actually do some scrambling, but oh man, how cool would it be to bag two peaks in one day? Gotta be in serious shape for that though, so we'll see!

Sorry I haven't had any art for you guys in a while, I've been kind of neglecting it in a way... but at the same time I'm getting cracking on these refsheets (only three weeks left, gah!) so maybe once I start polishing those off I can post some WIPS.
Still staring at the sculpt, almost ready to work on it again.

Snakes and geckos are doing good. Although my female leo I bred this year (to see if I could get anymore hatchlings this summer) has been hanging onto her eggs for like EVER and is really starting to get me worried. Hopefully she'll finally lay those soon, because she's starting to look a bit stressed.
For some good news though, all the snakes are super happy in the new rack, and all extremely eager to eat. I even got an instant strike out of both BP's, wowza! That's probably because this rack holds heat so much better, so they're at the proper temps they should be on the warm side and thus more active and alert.

And I better cut this text wall off soon before it gets too epic XD toodles all!

It's heeeeeere! ( pictures... )

Finished the armature last night! woo woo

( Finished wire armature... That didn't take too long. (mega picture heavy) )

(two posts in one day? wow!)
OMG I'm making another sculpturoz! And I thought it would be fun to document the entire process, for no other reason than because I can really, and it'll be neat to watch it progress :3

Anyhoo, wire frame to begin with of course! Pics of that under the cut :D
( Sculpt pics! )

aaaah, it's the time of year to start running fans again to help cool the house down :D I do so love the sound of fans <333333

I need like a "yay" icon XD

but yeah! I got myself more mini moos! o3o ( this time with ARTS )

This has been a very happy day for me... I have officially turned in ALL the schoolwork I need to be done for the year... and thus, be done with highschool FOREVER.
Oh man I don't know what to think, it's such a huge load of my chest... and I don't have to stress about it anymore, I don't know what to do with myself! I seriously just felt like breaking down and crying at one point even...

So yeah, I'm planning on getting lots done this summer. Both in terms of art, and in terms of fun. Yeah... lots of fun XD gotta get some fun in before I become a poor broke college student with no life.

Reptile Shows! Yayness!

Went to the Rocky Mountain Reptile Expo today... it felt sooooooo good to get out of the house, and the landscape isn't as dreary now that things are turning green so I really enjoyed the scenery. Also, holy crap we saw a ton of wildlife on the way there and coming back... deer, elk, prairie dogs like every ten feet on the side of the road, a coyote, of course one always sees pronghorn deer... the elk was the real treat for me xD.
Back to the show... There really wasn't a whole lot of vendors this time, but man there was a ton of people! So yeah, what was for sale was kinda "meh..." but the place was buzzing with all the people.

( ok so yeah, pics under the cut! )

I've been having an impossible time drawing stuff from my own head, but I got plenty of drive to open up commissions again for some reason, so I opened up for some icons! :D

Infos here if you want one!

EDIT: Archived video is up for whoever wants to watch! http://resourcescommittee.house.gov/index.php?option=com_jcalpro&Itemid=27&extmode=view&extid=246

Ok so a really cool thing happened this past month... the reptile community came together as a whole (specifically those people over at ball-pythons.net) and we literally flooded congress with our letters and phone calls on HR669! Reptile people rock man! We led the charge and made ourselves heard!

Today was the subcommittee hearing, which was broadcasted live online. I watched about the second half of it, and it was very apparent that they heard us. Although we might have come across a bit as panicky concerned pet owners, the issue was definitely brought up and I think we got some of those people really annoyed at all the phone calls, lol.

I hardly know anything about politics D: but I think things went pretty well.... obviously it's going to make it out of committee but the chair-woman expressed that she is well aware the bill needs changes and is willing to work with everyone to make it work. I think they're going to wait 10 days and review everyone's statements then vote on it or something *shrugs* I wasn't paying attention at that part.
On the flip side, there were some comments and questions aimed at people that were just unfair in their wording. But I was so excited to hear Marshall Meyers of PIJAC read his statement, he was able to handle any questions thrown his way amazingly well. The people that were for the bill seemed like they were stumbling about a bit. I just hope we don't get glossed over in our statements against it, there was the tiniest feeling like they just didn't take our man from PIJAC seriously.

But yeah, I still think it's just so flippin' cool how all us Reptile people came together, and along with the rest of the pet trade sent in almost 50,000 letters to the committee members. YES, we gotta keep this up too! HR669 isn't dead, and we can't forget S373 which is still lurking in the shadows, that one really worries me.

Man I haven't gotten up at 9 in a long time, lol... going to be tired today.

I so want to do this kind of thing too



The look on the kids faces towards the end there... Priceless! :D

So I like... turned a year older today :D 19 now! woot! So far it's been a great day ^^ gorgeous weather, nice lazy day. Me and my mom went up into the mountains because I was really craving some outdoors time, I got a lot of pictures at Bishop Rock so I'll post those later X3
And then I requested Chinese for dinner tonight so we got take-out, which was omg so good o3o and watched Heroes while eating it... and then we had cake 83... yus, it's been a good day.

So I decided to give you guys the gift of a birthday sketchdump!

( Yay sketchdumps! )

OMG o3o

( I FREAKIN LOVE MOO MINI CARDS )

Psssst.... I'm arting again...

Going to be working on my round 1 EfN comic some more X3 which isn't too exciting at the moment, but I hope to get lots done today.