Ready for some R&R
Phew, a lot can happen in one week! Where to start...
I spent pretty much all of last week reading through 'The Stand' for science fiction/fantasy literature class, and finally got the dang thing doooone! Woohoo! *does victory dance over 1100+ page friggin' novel*
And to celebrate, I naturally had to do a bit of fanart from it:
Naturally, I had to draw Randall Flagg, because he scares the living crap out of me. Supposedly, Flagg or "The Dark Man" shows up in a ton of King novels (the only other one I've read for class, The Eyes of the Dragon, also had Flagg in it.) So here is as in The Stand, complete with lots of crows, because guys turning into crows = awesome.
And since Flagg has the knack of making everyone's life a LIVING HELL, this obviously was an inking nightmare. Stupid friggin' spot blacks and stupid friggin' texture on the corn...
*runs away from Flagg, waving arms and screaming*
( Because some of you dorks haven't seen Goblet of Fire yet... )
Manga Babble:
Been buying a ton of OEL and other manga lately...I'll need to rearrange my shelf space so they can stop being sprawled all over my room! I was really happy to find Mark of the Succubus AND Psy-Comm at Borders Express on Sunday, woohee! I'm probably gonna take them with me over Thanksgiving break to read so that I can enjoy them over a long period of time, aaaaand not-so-discretely-suggest-to-my-relatives-that-drawing-comic-books-is-a-viable-way-to-make-something-resembling-half-a-living-*cough*. XD
Also, I am now COMPLETELY hooked on Deathnote. I just picked up the first one last week 'cause I had heard good things about it and was curious, then I actually read through the first one in a fast sitting with my eyes glued to the page. And when I went to buy MotS and Psy-Comm, I snatched up the second Deathnote, and read that, too! XD I need to read moooooore...I was seriously not expecting to like it this much. I love the whole battle-of-wits storyline, and find it fascinating that the story almost forces you to root for the mass-murderer. (We'll see if that changes in future chapters...)
KH2 Babble:
Holy cow, so much new information is coming out now I don't know where to begin! Two new trailers and they are both frelling GOOOOORGEOUS! (And also make me tear my hair out on not knowing what context certain scenes are in!) And...and Stitch as a summon! (ZOMGYAAAY) And Yuna and Rikku! (FFX-2 versions, but OH WELL!) And Seifer and Raijin and Fuujin and even VIVI from FFIX! And a plethora of new Organization members! And tons of new scans of the Tron world! *explodes from waiting for game*
Speaking of Tron, we finally watched it on Saturday since![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
xanmuse happened to have the DVD, and I'd never seen it before. Holy cow, it was full of extreme 80's dorkiness! It was also full of plotholes and never seemed to have a central character, but it was fun if for no other reason than to see the oldskool CGI graphics. Now I want to play this world even more. XD We also watched the Family Guy movie, which naturally was friggin' hilarious and An American Tail, which I had never seen the entire way through. Ahhh, hooray for childhood animated movies. And I never even noticed until now that Don Bluth used rotoscoping in that movie...I think maybe I'm just overly sensetive to it now. But the characters are adorable, and I still pine for the loss of 2D animation.
Even though I've still got a few more things left to do for school, I feel that I've gotten most of it out of the way and am ready to go into relaxation mode. Senioritis kicking in, perhaps? In any case, I am more than ready for Winter Break to start.
Operator status: A little busy, but at least it's no longer Registration.
Serenity puppet show completion status: 50% Holy cow, yes! The script has been finished, and I also finished off making all of the puppets yesterday! If I am fortunate and time's on my side, then I should get the show up and on the site before Thanksgiving! If not, it won't be until after this weekend. That's basically my plans for today.
Drawing: That Flagg fanart took a ton of time, and the puppets was what I did yesterday. Now...not sure. I should work on some more practice stuff for Artifactory characters and/or portfolio junk.
Writing: I guess what I should be doing is working on my science fiction essay, since that's basically the last big thing that will be due. But I want to take as much of this week off from schoolwork as I can, so I'll probably just put it off. I got an A on the last essay when I essentially BSed it, so I can probably BS this one, too. XD
I spent pretty much all of last week reading through 'The Stand' for science fiction/fantasy literature class, and finally got the dang thing doooone! Woohoo! *does victory dance over 1100+ page friggin' novel*
And to celebrate, I naturally had to do a bit of fanart from it:
Naturally, I had to draw Randall Flagg, because he scares the living crap out of me. Supposedly, Flagg or "The Dark Man" shows up in a ton of King novels (the only other one I've read for class, The Eyes of the Dragon, also had Flagg in it.) So here is as in The Stand, complete with lots of crows, because guys turning into crows = awesome.
And since Flagg has the knack of making everyone's life a LIVING HELL, this obviously was an inking nightmare. Stupid friggin' spot blacks and stupid friggin' texture on the corn...
*runs away from Flagg, waving arms and screaming*
( Because some of you dorks haven't seen Goblet of Fire yet... )
Manga Babble:
Been buying a ton of OEL and other manga lately...I'll need to rearrange my shelf space so they can stop being sprawled all over my room! I was really happy to find Mark of the Succubus AND Psy-Comm at Borders Express on Sunday, woohee! I'm probably gonna take them with me over Thanksgiving break to read so that I can enjoy them over a long period of time, aaaaand not-so-discretely-suggest-to-my-relatives-that-drawing-comic-books-is-a-viable-way-to-make-something-resembling-half-a-living-*cough*. XD
Also, I am now COMPLETELY hooked on Deathnote. I just picked up the first one last week 'cause I had heard good things about it and was curious, then I actually read through the first one in a fast sitting with my eyes glued to the page. And when I went to buy MotS and Psy-Comm, I snatched up the second Deathnote, and read that, too! XD I need to read moooooore...I was seriously not expecting to like it this much. I love the whole battle-of-wits storyline, and find it fascinating that the story almost forces you to root for the mass-murderer. (We'll see if that changes in future chapters...)
KH2 Babble:
Holy cow, so much new information is coming out now I don't know where to begin! Two new trailers and they are both frelling GOOOOORGEOUS! (And also make me tear my hair out on not knowing what context certain scenes are in!) And...and Stitch as a summon! (ZOMGYAAAY) And Yuna and Rikku! (FFX-2 versions, but OH WELL!) And Seifer and Raijin and Fuujin and even VIVI from FFIX! And a plethora of new Organization members! And tons of new scans of the Tron world! *explodes from waiting for game*
Speaking of Tron, we finally watched it on Saturday since
xanmuse happened to have the DVD, and I'd never seen it before. Holy cow, it was full of extreme 80's dorkiness! It was also full of plotholes and never seemed to have a central character, but it was fun if for no other reason than to see the oldskool CGI graphics. Now I want to play this world even more. XD We also watched the Family Guy movie, which naturally was friggin' hilarious and An American Tail, which I had never seen the entire way through. Ahhh, hooray for childhood animated movies. And I never even noticed until now that Don Bluth used rotoscoping in that movie...I think maybe I'm just overly sensetive to it now. But the characters are adorable, and I still pine for the loss of 2D animation. Even though I've still got a few more things left to do for school, I feel that I've gotten most of it out of the way and am ready to go into relaxation mode. Senioritis kicking in, perhaps? In any case, I am more than ready for Winter Break to start.
Operator status: A little busy, but at least it's no longer Registration.
Serenity puppet show completion status: 50% Holy cow, yes! The script has been finished, and I also finished off making all of the puppets yesterday! If I am fortunate and time's on my side, then I should get the show up and on the site before Thanksgiving! If not, it won't be until after this weekend. That's basically my plans for today.
Drawing: That Flagg fanart took a ton of time, and the puppets was what I did yesterday. Now...not sure. I should work on some more practice stuff for Artifactory characters and/or portfolio junk.
Writing: I guess what I should be doing is working on my science fiction essay, since that's basically the last big thing that will be due. But I want to take as much of this week off from schoolwork as I can, so I'll probably just put it off. I got an A on the last essay when I essentially BSed it, so I can probably BS this one, too. XD