~Artraccoon

Howdy Y'all!!
Well the Artraccoon has finally moved, which was a real pain in the butt, I tell you!!
I'd say 80% of what I had to move were book boxes, loaded with over 20+ years worth of anime and manga books, Hobby Japan issues going back as far as 1983, and loads of comic books, science books, and military history & hardware books!
Needless to say, I hired movers for the first time in my life...money well spent. It still was a BIG disruption of my activities.
I moved out of the crummy apartment I've lived for almost eight years, in a neighborhood that has been going downhill since 2002, to a really nice place in north Arlington right on the edge of River Legacy Park( the Trinity River is out of view but it's only like 200 yards away). I mean, like 2 feet from the park and with no wall seperating it!! My view is no longer a crappy parking lot full of loud (and often drunk people), but it instead is nothing but TREES, and critters!! The sounds of leaves and birds, not cars and loud Tejano or Rap music!!
I even had a welcome intruder last night, a raccoon(s) paid my garbage can a visit on my patio. I hope to see them some night soon.
This new place is bigger, and so much nicer & peaceful...both of which will help me be productive.

Currently, I'm finishing my main A-kon 19 commitments, the Staff Shirt for 2008 I just put up, and now I've got like 4 or 5 badge art pieces to finish up with...then I've got to get some pieces ready to go to the printers so I can have a few things for the Artshow and for sale at my table!!
I hope to see some of you Deviants there!!

Following A-kon, I've got to finish the mutiviews and variant designs for the M-133 APC for Armorcast Matt, set up my Cafepress shop, and get some cover art and illos done, and go back to work on my starships book, and my commissions door is always open!

Thanks for reading my goofy journal and visting my DA page and gallery!!