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I love Astrid. After watchign the new short “gift of the night fury”, it’s pretty much convinced me she’s basically an over-achiever. When the whole viking deal was about kicking ass, she was THE ass-kicker. Now that Berk is all about innovation (mainly Hiccup’s), she tries really hard to be innovative and kind. When the situation seemed bleak, she worked hard to keep up morale and invent traditions. Of course, she’s more of a battlefiled maiden then anything else, so her innovative ideas were met with so-so results, kinda like Hiccup’s at first. So, yay, Astrid!

Hiccup is awesome, as usual. And his bromance with toothless is the best. :D The short really showed more of their abilities and their friendship. And honestly, that's why we are watching this in the first place. Dragon bromance. 



The other vikings are amazing too. Gosh, the EXPRESSIONS. I was disappointed by the lack of textures and lighting, but the facial expressions really made up for it. Especially Astrid's smugness. 

Also, be warned, the short features baby dragons.

Please ignore herp-dee-derp Toothless in drawing.

- Isa

 So. A whole day of drawing pages and cleaning the apartment. I'm kinda tired. I'm hopeful this actually killed all the bed bugs (we found a few and sucked them using the vacuum) but i,m aware that they might still roam. I'll wait a until wednesday. If we are still getting bitten, i'm calling the exterminator. Me and Link barely have any bites and we found a dozen or so bugs, and probably sucked in a whole bunch by vacuuming all the crevasses. Hopefully this is just the beginning of the infestation, explaining the small numbers. 

Basically, i'm optimistic, but as they say on all the sites about bed bugs - prepare for failure. They are very hard to eradicate without professional methods. But I wanted to at least try. Just in case. I'm not a big fan of throwing a ton of chemicals on my books and plushies.

This was a long day, so I sketched a few things.

It's a mixed bunch of How to Train Your dragon, Avatar and Namesake.

( BEHOLD SKETCHES OF AWESOME )
Also, a portrait of my current sworn enemy.



If you see him, knock him dead.

Bedtime!

- Isa

 


Apparently, there's going to be an extra "movie" on the "How to train your Dragon" double pack. Well, i'm happy that's what I ordered. I really didn't know about this. But it looks funny. I certainly look forward to more adventures with the gang. "How to train your dragon" really seems to be one of my favorite animated movies, if not THE favorite. It's coming out in 8 days and I can't wait. I guess it satisfies the love for dragons i've had since I was a kid. :D

Speaking of Dreamworks, i'm really looking forward to Megamind. Even more now that the story is a bit more defined by the longer trailer. Yeah, it looks cheesy, but so far, I love all the animated movies done about superheroes (like the Incredibles and Despicable Me). Also, i've learned lately that trailers are pretty misleading. So, even if the trailer makes it look very cheesy, considering some of the lines don't seem to stick with the images and the mouth moving, i'm hoping this is a chop job from the marketing department. So i'm expecting a good movie.

Still on the animated movie front, DISNEY! WHY CAN'T YOU RELEASE DECENT DVDS OF YOUR TV SERIES? I'm very inteested in checking out "Kim Possible" (thank you, elle_white ) because I discovered one of my favorite voice-actresses is Shego. Neat. However, there's no Dvds of the tv series anywhere! I decided to check out itunes. All four seasons are there, but they are partial seasons. Disney only released half the season of all FOUR of them. What the hell? The worse part is, it's not even a definitive cut. You stop at episode nineteen and then skip the 25th. Huh? Disney, how could you even screw up on itunes? You have no marketing or packaging to do! Only files to submit! Plus according to the comments, these have been in partial season form for quite some time. Wow. This kinda reminds of the horrors of the "Gargoyles" Dvd. Can someone please teach Disney how to make decent Tv series box sets? How can someone so adept at distributing movies such so bad at series? Do they even care?

I'll still check out "Kim possible". I hear really good things about it. And it gives me something to watch while I doodle pages.

- Isa

 

Worked hard to finish an exhibit watercolor painting today. Almost done. I had to stop because after a while, I get really tired of doing all those little lines. So after 3 hours of little lines, I decided to advance on my commission work. I'm like 4 months behind for this commission. Gah. The next commission on the menu is bonemarch 's. 

This one was a "How to train your dragon" commission, starring Ruffnut, Fishlegs and some purring Terrible Terrors. Aren't they just adorable?

Watched The Incredibles today while drawing. Yeah, I really want a Despicable Me/The Incredibles family crossover. Both groups of kids could go to the same school. It would be awesome.

I'm disappointed in the water system in my apartment. The water is never the right temperature. And sometimes it decides to randomly go warm, to burn you, for giggles, or something. It also tastes kinda funny. Not bad funny. The water is still drinkable. But it's got a little aftertaste. It tastes like stones or metal. I don't like it. I,m so used to the delicious water that I had back when I lived in Ottawa. curse you, old pipes!

- Isa

 Not much happening today. Woke up REALLY LATE. Guess I needed more sleep then I though.

I managed to watch the second episode of the new futurama season. Oh, Zap Brannigan. I love to watch that stupid idiot in action. He's so hilarious. Fry and Leela is still cute as hell.

Managed to draw two little drawings before bed yesterday. First, this How to Train your dragon fanart. It's for a collaboration with mirai17  (aka avatarmirai on deviant art) I love the expressions on this drawing. Everyone is so happy. I can just hear Hiccup asking everyone if they want to go on an adventure and everyone teasing him that they would not leave him behind and are ready for action. Oh, everybody is a few years older, explaining the longer hair, chin hair and Fishlegs gaining 500 levels in badass.



I am amused that Hiccup's voice actor is a French Canadian living in Montréal. I dream of meeting him on the street and giving him a sketch...

Speaking of things inspired by the norse, this ink sketch is for spankingfemme . Happy birthday! I wanted to draw you frolicking with Loki and Thor. sorry if the costumes are inaccurate, I don't know these characters really well. And the internet didn't provide pictures of them from the same decade. Fortunately, Link likes them, so he was able to tell me that Loki's horns and Thor's round-chest-plate-thingnies are apparently must-haves on their costumes. Enjoy!



Isa want cookies now.

- Isa