Fanart, Fanfiction and Fangirling

It seemed funny when I first thought of it, but it's probably only funny in my head. Also why, WHY did I decide to draw the front of Aziraphale's bookshop when I'm clearly unable to draw any kind of architecture stuff? D:

( Boxing Day )

These PHD comic strips pretty much sum up my life.





Source: here and here

The last panel? That's me every other day. I'm not a teaching assistant but I have to fight with students and parents (especially parents) to have all the paperwork we need before the deadline. The latest case was a girl who took ages to make up her mind and decided to enroll after the final deadline. We usually have a couple of weeks of flexibility, but that means families have less time to complete the application.

When I created her account and sent her username and password I specified that she only had two weeks to do everything and I wrote the deadline in bold. I got no reply, so I called them to make sure everything was okay. The mother told me they had everything and they would start working on the application the next day. After a week the application was still completely blank (we can check the status), so I called again, I spoke with the student and she said they had gone on holiday, but she would start working on the application asap. Two days before the deadline, I got an email from the father saying they never received username and password. I saw red. I called them asking why they didn't tell me before, since we spoke on the phone three times. I said I would send the username and password again but they had to hurry up because they only had two days left. In the email I pointed out again what the deadline was.

And you know what? The mother complained with my boss because she "didn't like the tone of my email". Which had been read and approved by my boss before I sent it, by the way.

This is what I have to deal with every day. This and people who come up with the most ridiculous excuses to avoid paying us. The richer they are, the worse they behave. Excuse me if I'm stressed out.

I can't believe they made a film out of the PHD webcomics! I wanna see it!

PHD Movie Trailer from PHD Comics on Vimeo.

In other news, last day in the office today, pizza with friends tonight, two articles to write in the weekend and then I'm off to Malta (to work, not on holiday) on Tuesday. Busybusybusy.

Barely in time...

http://www.doitcomics.net/loshelmstedt/bbylh027.html

Any typos or funny sounding expression?

New Los Helmstedt comic strip!

http://www.doitcomics.net/loshelmstedt/bbylh026.html

For some reason, I have the feeling there's a mistake or typo somewhere. Could someone check, please? So I can send the link to a certain bassist and a certain guitarist...

Oops, I still need to upload the pictures from the last 4 shows... *headdesk*

Funk was quicker, but I have a Bela+Wayne comic too!

http://www.doitcomics.net/loshelmstedt/bbylh024.html

*collapses because of the heat*

I shouldn't have used that Bela pic as header image, now I just keep staring at it. *_*

Last night I went to the party meeting for the annual festival they're organising. Of course they've already done all the music-related stuff, so I can't help out with that; I'll be in charge of the bookshop instead. But I want to learn something anyway, like buroucratic stuff about permits and copyright money an the like. I mean, I know what you need to do, but I don't know how, and that's the reason why I wanted to help them, so I could learn something too. Whatever. At least I'm not going to fry fish.

Some time ago I got an idea for a webcomic, I thought it was a brilliant idea at first, but then lost all my motivation. I wanted to put it on my site using Wordpress, so I could manage it easily like a blog, but then I found out my host doesn't support Wordpress, or better, you need to buy additional PHP features to make it work, and even then Wordpress doesn't guarantee that it will actually work. I thought of just creating a standard Wordpress blog, but the name I wanted to use was already taken (the blog was deleted, but I can't use the name). I could use another name, the original one was nothing special and I was thinking of changing it anyway, but I can't think of anything at the moment. It just doesn't seem such a great idea anymore.

I'll just post the first panel here:



I just wanted to draw short, humorous strips with those two characters, but I'm not very motivated at the moment. I'll just stick to my Los Helmstedt comics, I already have an idea for the next strip. And I need to start working on my photographic portfolio. Not that I'll ever need a real portfolio, but it would be nice to actually have one.

Seekret Graphic Project of Doom is temporary on hiatus. The concert we were trying to organise was cancelled. I had to wake up insanely early both yesterday and today.

At least I drew another comic:

http://www.doitcomics.net/loshelmstedt/bbylh021.html

And now I'm off to the cinema.

Wanna see how I spent the afternoon?

http://www.doitcomics.net/loshelmstedt/bbylh019.html

I've finally learned how to make decent speech balloons with Photoshop. Long live the pen tool! Hallelujah! :P

Nooo, Schwarwel is starting another comic-course in January! I wanna gooo. T_T *SOBS*

Anyway. Yesterday my friends and I made the banner we're going to bring to Deluded by lesbians first concert on Thursday and it turned out amazing! We took pictures of the making of and we look like cool bohemian artists at work, HAHA.

Job is dull as usual. Here, have two memes/quizzes.

Found in pojypojy's LJ. I didn't even need to cheat.

Which creature of the night are you? Your Result: Vampire   You are a social pragmatist, as likely to kiss as to bite. Your sensuality and social pragmatism is the counter-balance to your existential angst and your tendency toward depression.
Incubus/Succubus
Sorceror
Cthulu Spawn
Werewolf
Demon
Ghost
Which creature of the night are you? Quiz Created on GoToQuiz

Found in robtengel's LJ. I'm a goth-punk otaku? What, really? :P
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