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Art

I didn't draw this! The original version is here, and was drawn by rantz. I was just using it for coloring practice, and was pretty happy with how it came out. I'm sad to say that I really know next to nothing about Witchblade, so I just kind of guessed at most of the colors. :D

Total Time: 1.5 hours
Tools: Tablet, Photoshop
Finished?: Yes

Rambling
Black Friday at OfficeHell was pretty much as expected. They were apparently super-busy during the morning, but I didn't have to go in until 1pm, so I missed most of it. It was pretty much completely dead the entire time that I was there, so they ended up sending me home early.

Surprisingly, I only had one customer freak out at me, and it was over the phone. We had a sale going on, as a lot of places did, that was only effective from 7am to noon. After noon, all the prices reset back to their regular price (except for a few which remained on sale, but at a higher price). This customer called, first asking me what our policy on price matching was. I told him that we weren't matching prices that day, because of all the Black Friday sales going on, but if he'd like to come in Saturday we can do so. Of course, at this point, he starts getting snotty with me; the conversation went something like this:

Him: WELL, I went to your other store, but I was an hour late for the sale. So I missed the sale price.
Me: I'm sorry to hear that, sir. o_o
Him: What can I do about it?
Me: Um.. Nothing, the sale ended at noon. The prices aren't valid after that. If you want the item, you'll need to pay the full price.
Him: So you're telling me that I'm screwed, because I was late to the sale?!
Me: ...Yes.
Him: That's ridiculous, give me your number to corporate!
Me: xxx-xxx-xxxx.
Him: This is ridiculous! [hangs up after ranting in my ear for another two minutes]

I just don't understand why people feel like exceptions should be made for them in cases like this. It was made perfectly clear in the flyer and all of the advertisements that we sent out, the sale ends at noon. If you're late, tough cookies. You had a span of five hours in which to get yourself to the store - if you choose not to do so, that's not our problem. Chances are the item that he wanted was gone anyway, since we pretty much sold out of everything in the ad by noon.

Buh.

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Art

Done! :D He actually didn't take as much time as I though the would to finish. The leaves were kind of added in as an afterthought, and I'm not sure I like them too much, but it needed something in the foreground and I couldn't think of anything else to put there. *deep breath* Despite my deep hatred of this particular shade of purple, I still had fun with this piece, and I'm pretty happy with how it came out. Expect to see me prodding around with some more fan art in the future.

Total Time: 2 Hours
Tools: Photoshop, Tablet
Finished?: Yes :D

Rambling
This apartment complex kills me.

It's, like, November, right? Freezing cold outside, the grass is no longer growing, there's still a couple of leaves falling off of the trees now and then. 8 am this morning, they had the grounds crew outside, sweeping up leaves. Not only were they sweeping them off the ground, they were also sweeping them off of the roof. With their giant power sweepers. This would be okay, except for the fact that they just did this not a week ago, and there are hardly even any new leaves on the ground, because they have all fallen off of the trees already.

As soon as it starts snowing, as it is every year, all of these grounds workers will vanish, like the flowers, underneath the snow. Not a single one of them will be anywhere to be found as the snow piles up outside of people's apartments, making it impossible to walk to their cars without a grappling hook and mountain climbing gear. The road will not be plowed until somewhere around mid-February, after the cars have already crunched the snow down into its own little snow-road anyway.

However, if one single leaf should fall off of a tree, seventeen workers will appear out of nowhere and descend upon it instantly, all with their giant noisy leaf blowers,to make sure it doesn't sully the look of the apartment complex.

Sigh.

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Art

Ironically, the first thing I'm putting up here is fan art. I never really do fan art, at all, but I got to thinking a while back that maybe doing some would be a good exercise for me, since I don't really have a whole lot of experience interpreting other people's characters. Hence, this. The Persona/SMT series is one of my favorites, and there's a whole buttload of different monster designs from it that I really love, so I figured it would be a good place to start.

So here's little Black Frost, because I always found him cuter than the regular Jack Frost. He's not done yet, this is just inked and flatted at the moment. I'll be coloring him and posting progress as I go along. :D

Total Time: ~45 minutes
Tools: Photoshop, Tablet
Finished?: Not yet!

Rambling

First post~ :D

I've mostly just started this blog for myself and anyone else who might, for whatever reason, be interested in my doodles. I'm also planning on posting "stages" of drawings here (like this one). Sketching is something that I don't do nearly enough of, so I'm hoping that keeping a log like this will help motivate me to do a little more of it. It's unlikely there will be any friends-only entries here, but feel free to add me as a friend anyway if you so desire, and make me feel loved. :D