Ok so I'm just trying to finish getting over a cold. Wasn't a killer one, but it was enough. So while I was laying on the couch loafing around under the blankets this weekend I was able to get some movies watched, so I figgered I throw out my thoughts on them.
Saturday I watched Timeline with Paul Walker, Billy Connelly and Gerard Butler. While not the greatest movie on the planet, it was enjoyable and even though I can't stand Paul Walker, it was great watching Billy Connelly. I just love everything that man does. Easily one of my fave comedians/actors ever.
Then I watched The Time Machine with Guy Pearce, the chick who played Jill Valentine in Resident Evil Apocalypse and Jeremy Irons. Could have been A LOT better but I liked it. It needed a little more fleshing out I think as it kinda moved in spots it could have lingered and lingered in some spots where could have moved. There was this one point where Guy Pearce gets to a point where we've destroyed the moon and it was just really neat the way they had it shattered in space. So while not the greatest movie on the planet it was decent. I didn't have high hopes in the first place really.
Next I watched the WORST movie I've ever sat thru, and I've sat thru a TON of craptacular movies. Alien Apocalypse with Bruce Campbell and Renee O'Connor, Xena's 'lesbian-not really' lover friend from said show. Holy shit this was horrible!!! Bruce should never have done this. I kept hoping for it to get better, and it never did. Even he couldn't save the damned thing. It was just gawd awful. Never watch it, ever. I mean it. It's 90 minutes of your life you'll NEVER get back.
Finally I watched this horror flick called Trespassers. Nobody famous in it really. Well the big baddy from it was in the movie with that chick who had to be a dude for a newspaper story, from way back in the day, oh yeah Just One Of The Guys. Yeah anyways......it was ok. A group of kids go to mexico to go surfing, and get eaten by weird cultists. I've seen worse and I've seen better but I didn't pay anything for the movie, so it was a way to pass some time while sick.
Sunday I watched anime mostly. I have tons of it, and I never really get to watch it. My girlfriend hates the shit out of it, and while I try to get her to understand that it's not all whiny screaming people, she doesn't care. But I watched this movie called They Were Eleven. A neat little flick that was Old School anime. The dubbing wasn't AS bad as that suggests but it was still bad. The movie itself was about a group of people trying to get into a space academy and they're put on a stranded ship and have to use teamwork to pass the test. There's only supposed to be 10, but an eleventh person appears and they're trying to figger out who it is. Not bad, and there was some nice mystery hooks thrown into it. If you like anime check it out. It takes a little to get into but it was really good.
Then I watched a little short flick called Animation Runner Kuromi. At only 30 minutes long it was a nice change of pace. It followed a girl who gets put into having to run an animation studio during the last week of production on a tv show and it's way behind. It was a funny look at the whole way they do things in an animation studio, and while not for everyone, was a cool flick.
Finally, cuz my girlfriend got home and didn't want to sit thru any anime I watched The Batman Superman Movie that the WB did in 98. I just love what they did with their animated Batman and Superman shows, pre-Justice League. The original batman's were hands down the best, but I liked it a lot when they gave him the flat black cape and put a little japanese influence into it.
But this move was cool. I always like watching it when I can. Not long, and having both Mark Hamill and Clancy Brown in it at the same time as Joker and Lex is always a treat. I just love Mark's Joker though, easily the best that character has ever had.
So there ya have it, a little movie review to tide things over til the next post. I'll probably start doing more of these as well as some comic reviews too, if I can get the chance to.
Ok so here's the final version of my entry for the 'Haps jam. I felt the water spout and her pose needed repair so I did them up differently. I filled in the moon a little differently as well. I left the wings empty of her circles, as I'm having Mike's brother Matt, and maybe Leaf is he's up to it, color her up. Hopefully my picture doesn't suck so bad there's no adding color to it haha! Got tons to do so i'm outtie, peas!
So this is my rough I'm working from, I decided to have her frolicking as water nymphs are wont to do by the light of the moon. I also wanted to try my hand at water serpents so this worked out nicely. So I decided to draw them up kinda proper really fast. So here they are:
And finally this is my(hopefully) final rough, there's a little more to the left but my scanner cut it off, just a little more to the lake shore, bushes and moon. I'm trying to figure out if I'm shooting myself in the foot, cuz without doing it as colors, a night scene on a lake is a real chore. Alot of blacks and shadows and I'm just not that good, especially when I'm trying to get this done and fast cuz I'm not going to have much free time before the deadline(Damn you Todd!). It still needs work, and I'm not 100% happy with Merrow, but dammit I'm loving the serpents, moreso in the side pics I drew up. If I had photoshop, a decent scanner and a light box I'd probably have this frikkin thing done by now, but no, I have to still be stuck in the stone age of art hahahaha! Alright peas out!
As I'm still kinda sick I wanted to throw this up here really quickly. I was going thru my cabinet looking for one of my dvd folders and came across this so I thought I'd post it. I started to do some sketches and what have you to do a tribute pic of my own for when the late, great 'Ringo passed. I never got far with it, as I got very intimidated trying to draw anything that he had before. I wanted to do a picture of Jarek crying on top of a bluff over looking the land, crying. I got a really good pic done of his face, but couldn't transfer it over, and then I had a lot of trouble with the landscaping. So as the time flew by I decided to write a tribute instead, as I'm a much better writer than I am artist. So here ya have it. If you're new here and haven't read the tribute I wrote, its the first post I made here. Ok gotta go hack up a lung(nice image right?) See ya!
