Had my first character design class on Sunday. Axel's a pretty nice (and excitable) guy, and had a bunch of good stuff to show. And THEN, he told us the movie he wanted us to redesign characters for. And that movie was...

Killer Klowns from Outer Space.

And then. THEN. We were fortunate enough to get to WATCH THE WHOLE MOVIE.

This is probably some kind of MST3K karma acting on me or something, as I have a not-so-secret love for terrible movies getting riffed on the way I love to riff on terrible fanfics. And I can safely say that this movie was MANY. MANY. times worse than almost every MST3K ep I've seen, with the possible exception of Manos, because Manos is in a class all itself. As such, I COULD NOT KEEP MY MOUTH SHUT THE ENTIRE MOVIE. Because I was lacking a Joel and the bots to do it for me, my brain suddenly switched into emergency snark mode out of pure self-defense, and as such as I couldn't stop commenting on EVERYTHING. I probably annoyed the spit out of everyone else and the teacher, too, but I don't care, because they were laughing at the dialogue too. Every single frame of this movie deserved mockery. Sometime, I want to watch it again, but with an audience that will put up with me talking through the entire thing, because I want to fully riff the living hell out of it. OHGOD THAT DIALOGUE. A COLLECTION OF TWO-BY-FOURS WOULD HAVE MADE BETTER ACTORS.

But yeah. That's the movie we're redesigning. We need 20 pages of loose sketches by next week. Here's what I have so far...

( If you don't like evol clowns then...don't click? D: )

So.......yeah. School is weird sometimes.

Also, I've been coming to the conclusion that I kinda suck at manga-style drawing. Or at least suck at making it look any good. :/ I feel like I get much more dynamic lines and interesting expressions when I do more "Western"-style drawing. Then again, damned if I even know what my style is.

Also also, I love how when I type "clowns" into Google image search, I get more results of creepy evil fangy ones than I do normal ones.

( More schoolwork; not an evil clown! )

And finally, something else that also ISN'T evil clowns, thank goodness: a new Lunargyros page. o_o

I'll get on AIM later this evening after I've gotten some work done on yet another non-school project, because I really need to do that, and AIM is becoming more of a distraction to me. DX Uuugh, it didn't use to be this way! It's likely the Daisychain OOC chat's fault.

Drawing: A FRIGGIN' LOT OF THIS STUFF.

Writing: Little.