The pumpkin saw his shadow and there was one more month of summer

Oh, August...you perch on the brink of marvelous autumn, but so often contain more hideous heat and humidity than any of the prior summer months.  

Luckily, I work in a climate-controlled environment. 

I finished and sent off my first piece of real illustration freelance this week.  I sent an invoice and everything.  A generic, downloaded invoice without my logo or anything, but it was right before bed, and I didn't want to waste time I could be sleeping, especially on a Monday.  Let me tell you, as much as I love my Fridays off, this schedule is still brutal.  Anyway, my art was well received, and the studio is interested in working with me on a bigger project soon, about which I am very excited. 

Since I am between official projects...or rather, taking a tiny break before starting the non-time-sensitive commission that is waiting in the wings, I have been attempting to finish my moth rider.  I'm still struggling with the wings a bit, and making up the anatomy as I go, but not having a proper idea of where things went when I started really set me back a bit, and the size of the wings (much larger than in my original sketch) have changed my composition a bit.  We will see.