I’ve been doing lots of The Big Bang Theory fan art lately. So, I happen to like the show as it speaks to my inner geek.
All of these drawing are illustrations of scenes from fanfiction works. I’m trying to become more comfortable coloring my own art. Doing flats works for my lines, but I think I need a bit more subtle shading to get the look I really want.
Previews:
1 comment | May 22nd, 2009
T-minus 4 weeks until the braces come off.
Yay! :)
Add comment | April 23rd, 2009
Monday night I attended a concert at the Saenger Theater.
I was blown away by the opening act, a little band called Jukebox the Ghost. Before they began to play, one of them joked that while eating at Denny’s, they got schooled on the correct pronunciation of Mobile (Moh-BEE-uhl. It’s French.) Seriously, how you pronounce the name of my hometown is a valid litmus test for whether you’re native to the area. Dude, Ben Thornewill, killed it on the keyboards. The drummer was really good too. Of course one would reason that if a band was opening for Ben Folds, they’d probably be pretty good. Listening to the album now, I think the song “Hold It In” was way better live.
Then came the main act. I remember that he opened with “Annie Waits” and ended with…a song whose title has many asterisks as listed in the iTunes store.
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Add comment | April 7th, 2009
I’m trying to draw more and eventually work up to doing urban sketches.
Both of these drawing were done last month while taking notes. I found that drawing and taking notes isn’t much different than writing and taking notes.
Add comment | April 3rd, 2009
Just added a new photo on the profile page here. Check out my flickr for day-to-day photos.
Add comment | March 19th, 2009
Lately, I really gotten into the show The Big Bang Theory. I stumbled upon a fan community on livejournal. Every month they have a list of prompts for fan art and/or fic, and one stood out to me.
Prompt: Gender Swap – Penny is the geeky physicist who’s roommates with Leonard and Sheldon is the hot guy living next door.
Parts I like best: Penny’s face and hair, Sheldon’s expression and his forearm and hand.
_listening: “Unsteady Ground” . Catherine Feeny
_watching: The Big Bang Theory . Season 1
_reading: Scott Pilgrim vs. The Universe . Bryan Lee O’Malley
Add comment | March 15th, 2009
So, my 2yr mobile phone plan is finally up, and it turns out I’m eligible to get an iPhone as a upgrade. It’s an extremely enticing offer, since I reasoned that I’d just stay content with my current phone, mostly due to my present economic situation. However, I stand to get a pretty good tax return, so the option of iPhone just became more viable.
But, geez, I’m already looking to see if I can somehow get a MacBook Pro. It’s always important to count the cost of things, though. I already have an insane phone bill for how little I actually talk on it. I currently have 4,999 roll-over minutes, 480 of which expire in the next few days. Yeah.
I have a new favorite show: The Big Bang Theory. I saw one episode and the geek in me melted in squee.
Behold the awesomeness that is Sheldon Cooper:
That being said, Season 1 of the show is currently in my shopping cart on Amazon.com. :)
I also like The Mentalist quite a bit. I started watching it because I like Simon Baker (Something New). I watched the first two episodes of Dollhouse. The first ep was blah, the second still eh, but a bit more interesting. I’m not sold on Eliza Dushku’s performance. She seems really cool, but I don’t find myself investing in her character like I want to fully enjoy the show. Other shows I’m enjoying are Burn Notice and Leverage. Only seen two episodes of the latter, but I really enjoyed the chemistry of the cast, especially Parker and Hardison, and the finale had me hooked.
Add comment | March 5th, 2009
Finally breaking in my new recycled paper sketchbook, I drew something for the first time in several weeks. I decided to take another crack at the main characters from my novel: Tara, Miranda, and Seiahn. The first time I drew all three of them together was—are you ready for it—4 years ago. I drew Tara and Miranda again in 2006, but wasn’t able to get the right look for Seiahn. He’s supposed to be a generally handsome guy, tall and dark (”hot” as described by Miranda). His face came out pretty well, but I love that I was able to get his hair the way I wanted. I always have a problem drawing the shaggy hair on guys. And then, as I was drawing, I was thinking he might look better with shorter hair, but then I remembered that there was a specific reason his hair was the longer length…*sigh*
Miranda is seems to be channeling a bit of Ramona Flowers with her look, but eh. I created her before ever hearing of Scott Pilgrim. Though, originally her look was decided more goth, less artsy.
Tara came off like I wanted. She’s shy and naive and quite a bit nerdy. I hope she’s a little more extroverted by the end of the book. Or at least a little braver than she ever thought she could be.
Seiahn is…well, he’s mysterious.
Now…to draw E’lari.
1 comment | February 24th, 2009
Tuesday night, I discovered Seven Brides for Seven Brothers playing on TCM. It was close to the beginning, and I found that I had to watch the thing all the way to the end. It’s just that good.
In this sequence, the Pontipee brothers have come to town to participate in a barn raising. They meet 6 lovely girls, and get the opportunity to test out the manners taught to them by Milly, their new sister-in-law.
It really picks up around the 2:38 mark, and again at around 4:20.
Apparently, this is dubbed and subtitled in Italian. It’s the only one I could find of this particular sequence, but it doesn’t matter, because this number is all dancing, no singing.
This is a movie I really need to add to my DVD collection.
1 comment | February 19th, 2009
I got tagged on facebook to do this meme a few weeks ago.
Rules: Once you’ve been tagged, you are supposed to write a note with 25 random things, facts, habits, or goals about you. At the end, choose 25 people to be tagged. You have to tag the person who tagged you. If I tagged you, it’s because I want to know more about you.
1. Today, I am 26 yrs 2 mos 19 days old.
2. I won a coloring contest when I was 4. I remember it very well. I was in pre-school, and the teacher gave us all these coloring sheets with a Jack-O-Lantern on it. Then everyone started coloring. I went up to her and told her that she had forgotten to give me one, which was weird. She had one left, and she had already started coloring it, I guess to participate with us. She gave me hers, and she had already outlined the inside of the marker with an orange marker.
To this day, I think I was one of the few entries in my age group who actually colored inside the lines. Anyway, I won a $25 Eckerd Gift Certificate. :)
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Add comment | February 19th, 2009
