Secondlina's Panels

 For some reason, I keep drawing things to post, and then I forget to post them. Tsk. I have brain issues or something.

Link just scolded me because "I didn't post in a week". He's right! I used to be so diligent to post every 2 days or so. Must be fatigue catching up to me. Must try harder!

Tomorrow I start my work week again (I work Saturdays, Sundays, Mondays and Tuesdays). Gonna go put books on selves like a boss.

Yesterday, my parents visited. We went to see the "Indiana Jones" exhibit at the Montreal science Museum. It was cool. The exhibit was half movie props, half actual artifacts that influenced the stories and settings. It was really fun to do that with my family. Plus I got a t-shirt that says "It belongs in a museum!" thanks to my ever so generous father, so the geek in me is happy, educated and dressed. Eee. That was a good day. We also visited a medieval shop where my dad and me both got statues of "fat knights" (they are super round and cute) and we visited a ton of galleries with art that blew my mind! i,m always hesitant to enter those big expensive galleries to look at the art because I know I look like a poor, penniless art student. It felt good to go in as a group to gander at art. Now I just looked like a harmless tourist. *laughs*

Doctor Who fans, I have a print for you! Behold. I was trying to do a print with the 3 past doctors and the current companions surrounding the Tardis (and human tardis) in a pose inspired by the "Metropolis" movie poster (the Fritz Lang original). I think I did a good job. 





Who speaks German?

That is all.

No wait. 

PUPPIES.

Now i'm done.

- Isa

I have so many pages to scan and photos to post, i'm at the point where i'm performing triage. I think I should just upload the whole thing and update a little everyday. I really think I should tweak my scanner's settings a bit and clean it's window, poor thing. It suffers under my rule.

So yeah, got a few projects done, and finished my last shift yesterday. Whew. I feel good about that. I've been feeling like i'm living in a bookfort lately. I'm reading far too many boring things. Now i'll hopefully have more straight drawing time  (aka 5 hours of it without interruptions! Yippeee!) and time to see friends.

I actually saw my friend tama the other day. Although she's not in the greatest moment of her life right now, she seemed well and it made me feel happy. She even mentionned picking up writting again. Me and Tama have plotted often in the past to create comic stories... Maybe she's got a few storyboards in stores for me!

At home (which is only metaphorically a bookfort), there's a big change a-coming : we are getting rid of our pool. See, we have a in-ground pool at my house. Here's a tip, when you buy a house, avoid those with in-ground pools. Round out-ground pools are easier to manage. In-ground pools...basically if you don't care for them almost everyday they crack and break and become disgusting. Due to my family's rather hectic schedule (and to the fact that me being gone to Toronto for two months didn't make me very available to swin & clean in the said pool) our pool cracked. Turns out it's cheaper to fill it and buy another then fix the in-ground pool. So yeah... Never buy a house with an in-ground pool. Unless you have a pool boy.

My parents emptied out the pool today. Tomorrow, people will come to fill it up. I poked my nose out of a book to go take a walk in my pool....


Aside from that, I finished my neverland cup. For the character of Wendy in my lost girl theme, I designed a "mother" cup that will contain a miniture of neveland "floating" on green tea. The set comes with a green tea pouch I designed. It's very cute I find:


The cup is obviously a reference to Wendy's victorian setting. The mother word represents how she is a mother for peter but also how she leaves Neverland to be able to be a real mother. Neverland becomes some sort of escapism, lost in her usual routine (the 5'o clock tea).

Gah, all this thinking for lost girl projects makes me want to read Lost Girls by Alan Moore depicting the meeting of Wendy, Alice and Dorothy. Unfortunatly, the graphic novel, no matter how much of an important book is it for comic artists, also happen to be erotic. I've got no problem with the erotic part honestly. I own several borderline erotic graphic novels that I purchased because they were rose stones of graphic art. I mean, if everybody tells you you have to read something because it's part of comic history, you just do it. Besides, reading european comics made me quite used to graphic nudity and sexuality (the french are quite generous in that department). So, it's erotic. That's stil la problem though, because I can't buy it. It's 80$ and since it's erotic, it's impossible to find in a local librairy. To boot, i'd have to order on the web because the comic book shops here don't have to connections to order the book (because it's UK based) and/or can't order erotic materials because they are family oriented. Looks like I won't get to read that for a while. I don't think it's necessary for the evolution of this year's project, but it's definitly something that would have been interesting to check out.

I also rented out a million fairy tale movies and disneys to watch as I work. :)

-Secondlina






 

Holy cripes, there's actual talent here!

This is picture my little brother did for a powerpoint presentation in class! Pretty good heh? I'm thinking something's running in ze family blood yes...

On completly unrelated note, I did some internet tests in class the other day out of boredom and I found the results pretty accurate:

Which slayers character are you? I got Zel and Sylphiel, which is not only too characters I like but also two I find myself similar to in several ways. I'm a bookworm-scolar like them both, i'm kinda always directed on a sole idea for awhile (cure or learning the dragu slave) and i'm shy. So why is my avatar a lina? Well, that's from a more sparky period of my personnality let's say. I've changed a bit. And I like lina.

Which sin/virtue are you? I got here charity for the virtue and pride for the sin. It's really true ^^;; I like to think of myself as charitable and i'm most certaintly very prideful (people who saw the results vouched for it)

Which fantastic character are you? A knight *grins*

Which fantastic creature are you? A griffon *grins some more*