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secondlina) wrote2010-04-30 09:41 am
secondlina) wrote2010-04-30 09:41 am
More random sketches
This week, i've been in a really sketchy mood! Plus I finally got comic ideas, so expect comics to start appearing again! (YAY INSPIRATION). My muse has been slacking off. Maybe I forgot her in Florida a month ago?
Sketches are mostly "How to train your dragon" things. This movie decided it wanted to sit on my brain.
Today is my monthly "I go to my favorite store, come out with 60$ less and 3 comics more" day. European comics are so much more expensive then manga or American issues. But the quality of the print and covers is always so much better, it makes up for it. I ordered and will get to leave with this brand new series called "Witches" that explores famous "witch" characters through history. It looks and sounds really cool. And the drawings are insanely pretty.
I've been a little hit lately by how many good artists there are out there. You always expect that there are people who are better then you out there. But it's a little frustrating and intimidating when they post their drawings right next to yours offline or online. I try to use this as a motivator, but sometimes, when you see a 16 year-old kid that draws like some kind of god, you feel a little... tiny.
In an unrelated note, I am easily amused. You guys heard about that new romantic comedy called "The Back-up plan?" It's basically about the unmarried antics of Jennifer Lopez who is desperate for a child, and is artificially inseminated through a sperm bank. Newly pregnant, but not yet showing and unaware of her pregnancy, she meets Alex O'Loughlin, and the two start dating. Hollywood romantic complications ensue. It's a pretty ridiculously bad movie. But what really shocked me was the inital title (that is still the french title). "Plan B" (yes, "plan" and "B" are bilingual words and the expression itself is bilingual). What made my laugh is the fact that Plan B is a very well-known over-the-counter morning after pill (to prevent unwanted pregnancies). I'm guessing that 's WHY the english name suddenly changed. Someone in the marketing department went "STOP THE PRESSES!" Too bad the they forgot about the french. Whoops.
Aaah, marketing?
- Isa
Sketches are mostly "How to train your dragon" things. This movie decided it wanted to sit on my brain.
Today is my monthly "I go to my favorite store, come out with 60$ less and 3 comics more" day. European comics are so much more expensive then manga or American issues. But the quality of the print and covers is always so much better, it makes up for it. I ordered and will get to leave with this brand new series called "Witches" that explores famous "witch" characters through history. It looks and sounds really cool. And the drawings are insanely pretty.
I've been a little hit lately by how many good artists there are out there. You always expect that there are people who are better then you out there. But it's a little frustrating and intimidating when they post their drawings right next to yours offline or online. I try to use this as a motivator, but sometimes, when you see a 16 year-old kid that draws like some kind of god, you feel a little... tiny.
In an unrelated note, I am easily amused. You guys heard about that new romantic comedy called "The Back-up plan?" It's basically about the unmarried antics of Jennifer Lopez who is desperate for a child, and is artificially inseminated through a sperm bank. Newly pregnant, but not yet showing and unaware of her pregnancy, she meets Alex O'Loughlin, and the two start dating. Hollywood romantic complications ensue. It's a pretty ridiculously bad movie. But what really shocked me was the inital title (that is still the french title). "Plan B" (yes, "plan" and "B" are bilingual words and the expression itself is bilingual). What made my laugh is the fact that Plan B is a very well-known over-the-counter morning after pill (to prevent unwanted pregnancies). I'm guessing that 's WHY the english name suddenly changed. Someone in the marketing department went "STOP THE PRESSES!" Too bad the they forgot about the french. Whoops.
Aaah, marketing?
- Isa
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*laughs at the irony of the title* It's funny how a simple phrase or word can mean something else in another language. Example: I read how Avatar: The Last Airbender got change to "The Legend of Aang" in some countries because airbender means something else that's rather rude, but I can't remember what that was. XP
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The movie itself seems a little weird. I was unhappily dragged to see it with a friend. For a romantic comedy, it's pretty preachy. It was hard to ignore the whole "woman should have babies!!!! EVEN IF YOU ARE ALONE. The universe will help you in some way!" message. As much as I agree that having a family is part of the great experiences of life this seemed like a forceful "everything with a uterus should be using it!" type of message. It really felt pro-family and even borderline anti-single-moms and anti-abortion. So yeah. Weird preachy movie. The irony of the title kinda made it funny in that way.
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Plan B, eh? I only ever thought of it in the context of needing a backup plan for other things, not having/aborting babies. That's...kind of interesting, but also a bit disturbing. Regardless, I'd not heard of the movie, but given the premise I think I'll happily avoid it.
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I am quite pleased with all the HTTYD art~ I wish I could draw Toothless--he's so hard. D:
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HAHAHA Don't I know that angst. Especially with 16 years old who can copy a perfect painting of the masters like John Singer Sargent or J.W Waterhouse . WAUGH.
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They are talented, but still kinda frustrating.
"Look what I just painted!"
"....www...WOW. T-that's amazing! ........(whispered) damn you."
"what?"
"I said, GO YOU!"
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HOW DARE THEY!?
BTW, have you read the French comic "Muchacho" by Emmanuel Lepage?
It's stupidly gorgeous and only 2 volumes long <3
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....that comic IS stupidly gorgeous. One of my friends owed it. I wish to buy it myself... I didn't get to read it yet, but I did stare at the pages, hypnotized, for about an hour.
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BEAUTIFUL gay <3
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How to train your dragon won't leave me either, so you're not alone! Jason and I are planning on going to see it for me again, for him the first ;) As for art, we all have different styles and neither is necessarily better or worse but different. Try to remember that when you go to comparing ;)
Happy to hear your muse is back and look forward to what follows! =D