The unfinished Warcraft fanart and Marvel couples

For the moment, it looks highly doubtful that I'll get around to finishing the fanart of Rhonin and Vereesa any time in the near future. But I've pretty much lost the mood when my Warcraft kick passed on. Maybe it'll be back, maybe it won't. More likely, a Starcraft kick will start first when Blizzard releases Heart of the Swarm.

On another note, another for the moment defunct interest was in several Marvel couples. I finished two couples, but I never got around to finishing the third. Yet. I'll likely go back and finish my list. (I had several couples, not a long list but still more than three.)

 The first one I completed was Havok and Polaris. The 2nd is of Namor and Dorma. (she's dead, so it's unlikely many will know who she is.) I'm pretty happy with both so far, though that as usual won't be the case in another year or two from now. Plus, I already think there's something strange with Namor's face.

Anyway, just to update some artsies on this blog. Maybe I should just start blogging my comic instead. That'd be more frequent at least.

Starcraft Artsies Update

Le Gasp! Two posts! In two days!

Haha! But no, since I decided to stop slapping digital paint on the Starcraft piccie I was working on back in August (that I only actually continued working on sporadically 2 days ago) I felt I should just post it on my deviantart and the blog since I originally intended for this blog to be an artsies blog. (However that dwindled to practically nil)

So w/o further ado :-

 

Raynor & Kerrigan - Deviantart post



Raynor & Kerrigan - Orignal Full

 
Hmm... as a small faraway looking pic, the butt on Kerrigan doesn't actually look too bad. But when I was looking at it to post on DA, the butt just looked... well, butt-ugly. Oh well, I really like Kerrigan's face in this picture though. Maybe I'll turn it into a pic avatar.



Source Code, Fast Five and Thor

This blog really has hardly any artwork on it at all. *hangs head*

But, just some thoughts on the few movies I've watched in the month of April. Spoilers may litter around.

Source Code -
Fairly entertaining if you like the whole sci-fi, time-hop-slash-alternate universe thing. (Which I do, really) Though I suppose some people would probably be bored in their seats after watching practically the same scene over and over when it resets. Overall, it was a good movie, not a must watch or die movie for me, but a movie that was good none the less. Of course, my brother and I disagreed on a little thing at the end which was, there were two Colter Stevens mind psyche brainwaves in one reality. After all, I argued since Stevens was supposed to be inhabiting that body when he got unplugged, (and to me, looks like he's stuck in that poor man's body) that he's essentially Colter Stevens brainwave possessed. Coupled with the fact there's that particular reality's Colter Stevens still in cold sleep, I'd say you have two of em in one universe. My bro disagreed though.

Fast Five -
What can I say, I loved it. Every unrealistic, speed heisting, unbelievable bit. Honestly, I wasn't so interested in the first Fast and Furious. But Fast Furious 4 and Fast Furious 5 totally hits my interest zone. I will now anxiously await Fast and Furious 6 which is supposed to be in the works, and hopefully- Vin Diesel will be reprising Dom Toretto. (Because honestly, it looks like number 6 might involve the mystery around Letty's mysterious revival and c'mon... Dom and the police chick? Bleh... Sorry, can we go back to the original pairing guys?)

Thor -
Another movie that was okay for me, didn't leave me screaming for more, but it was entertaining. Especially when Chris Hemsworth as Thor kicks butt. (I'll admit, I totally love his accent in Thor and he's easy on the eyes. Tall and muscles that aren't over the top. What girl can argue with that?) Now, some points on why I only felt it was an okay movie. For one, I felt it was a little rushed with the whole story trying to tell and fit more that was allowed within the time of the movie. But hey, I'm not surprised when they're trying to show a whole origins story for the coming Avengers movie. Another thing was, I felt the antagonist of the whole movie was kind of screwed up in the fact I couldn't really tell what goal he was doing everything for til he shouts it out in the end. In my opinion, bad story telling as I didn't really get the foreshadowing of why he was doing anything that he did. But, an argument in his favour... daddy-issues. The man had serious daddy-issues.

Okay, well that's it for my blog entry for the year I guess if I keep with the 2 entries per-year. Lol. :p

Japan Earthquake/Tsunami Disaster and Facebook

First off, I pray for the country that they will make it through their crisis in these dark hours. Hopefully their death toll won't be as bad as predicted (though it does look very bleak at the moment) and that nothing else happens in the mean time (disaster-wise).

Now, something very disturbing has come to light with the earthquake/tsunami disaster in Japan that I found quite shocking while browsing through my list of notices on Facebook. A friend posted picture(?) of several various facebook comments from Americans where some actually jeered at Japan's time of tragedy equating a natural disaster and threat of nuclear meltdown as "payback" for Pearl Harbour. It is saddening to think that there are apparently malicious and small-minded bigoted individuals in the world that will laugh at a country's misfortune.

I mean, honestly? Payback? Apparently it's simple to conveniently forget that America has already exacted their "payback" by nuking two whole cities and contaminating land with nuclear radiation that has had lasting effects even up til today. Those on that facebook pic said remember Pearl Harbour, well I say what about Hiroshima and Nagasaki? Sure, Pearl Harbour was tragic, but so was every other place  in the world where war has erupted. People saying how sad and sorry and badly wronged their side was, are just being childish. Every side in a war is wronged not because of who shot who first, but because people DIE.

You say karma? Well in that case, if you wish evil on others, karma's going to come back and bite all you small-minded people too doesn't it?

Stop being vindictive. Stop passing down your hatred to the next generation. And stop whining about how sucky your stupid life and government is. Treat people as how you would like to be treated and not kick them in the face when they're on the ground.

Okay, rant over. I feel much better now since seeing that disgusting pic of facebook postage.

Movies and Starcraft

I'm waiting for Starcraft II campaigns on Zerg and Protoss... starcaftstarcraftstarcraftstarcraftstarcraft... Lol.
I've been busy (which was interesting) and also, this month, I've actually seen more movies at the cinema than I usually do... ever I think. (I think what, I went to see, hmm... 3 movies this month in the span of 2 weeks? - That's loads for me anyway.)

So, Sorcerer's Apprentice? My opinion of it was, fun movie, interesting to watch, doesn't blow me away or anything for sure because it's a typical good versus evil story in my opinion. (With geek science thrown in to the mystical)

A-Team? I loved how the characters were portrayed, some very cool lines and planning by Hannibal. Sweet action with the whole, "flying tank", that was possibly one of my favourite scenes in the whole film. Murdoch is seriously hillarious. Didn't like the lieutenant(?) woman though, she just annoyed me with her whole attitude and prejudice towards Face and the A-Team.

Salt, hmmm, good storyline with plenty of twists in the plot but I feel it could have been better. (it got a star rating on the cinema page which suppose to mean (according to my brother anyway) that the film is supposed to be good as rated by viewers. Now, storyline-wise, it wasn't bad but the pacing of the film in the beginning didn't really work for me. Yeah, Angelina Jolie constructing a sort of explosive cannon, cool - but the whole running from the CIA agency was wa-ay too long in my opinion. (I almost fell asleep there despite the whole sequence of action scenes) So, yeah... not amazingly great for me, but not bad either. I would recommend it as a movie to watch.

And to end this little blurb, I have Starcraft artsies... sort of.

Kerrigan - After finishing SC2.

Raynor - WIP, part of a larger pic

And, yeah... got nothing else, shall go back to either rewatching BSG or spending some time pulling hair at bloody jiggling boobs rigging. (Don't ask)

Time is like a disease and immortality is over-rated.

My blog really has a low upkeep. (=_=) And I find it's more like dying abit slowly day by day. It's a painfully slow and ardous process that I begin to hate. Yeah... for some reason, I feel a little down at the moment. Maybe I need a sugar rush.

As a child, I used to think immortality and living forever would be nice. But now as I think about it, that would really suck big time. Really.

Anyway, this fellah here is one of many characters I've been redesigning for a comic idea I've been working on. So, far - though he's not the main character, he's quickly becoming my favourite for some reason. (I think it's the outfit)

On a side note - I've been looking over some issues of Marvel's X-Men and been going... "Wtf?" It's a sad feeling when you start to feel old for wishing for the good old days when storylines actually made sense and had an amount of continuity to it. (And I will stop now, before I burst into a full fledge rant of how characters are merely thrown into a situation then shoved into limbo or die only to resurrect like only... a million times.)

Artsies Stuff - sort of...

I haven't been doing any art in a very long time, and I sort of feel bad about it now. So, I really need to start drawing again, as I feel like I've regressed. =_=;; I feel a bit depressed atm also, with all this job hunt thing... (or maybe it's my frustration on not being able to express the impressions in my brain properly?)
So anyhow, I dusted off my Corel Painter, and have been trying out the different styles and looking to see how they're similar and yet differ from the actual stuff itself.

First up... a digital watercolour which I only happen to like the left side of the picture, wishing I had not put the girly in. *Bweh*


Next, I did a quick squiggle with Painter's charcoal and chalk of Batman - owned by Warner and DC Comics (forgot to put that on DevArt) - I do believe I like the digital charcoal... I don't stain my fingers! Lol, but I don't have as much control at this point - tactile sense really is darn important.



And lastly, it's my current try with painter's gouache style. Still a wip atm, I sort of had the thought to do a howling wolf in mourning. Hmm.... (poor wolf)



-Off topic need to get off my chest and out of brain self-argument-

Borders UK, is closing down- (Another 'what a pity') and I saw three books I was really tempted to buy. (4 actually, but I'm not counting that one) Though my brother would probably think me mad to buy those books. For one, they're heavy like nobody's business, and two... lugging them back home to M'sia in future seems a bit ridiculous.
(=3=) *But they're going on half price with another 20% off till Sunday...* And they'd really make nice reference books for cats, horses and undersea life. Booo....

-Righto, end of brain-argument-