Blanka Rules

I figured I need to do more art for just fun and practice, and what better way to do it than with fan art?! I think I'm getting better with the brush ink, and the lovely lightening effect was done with some masking fluid I found. It was only meant to be a quick piece, so I didn't fix a lot of the mistakes. Hopefully you will enjoy it as much as Stuart, who can defeat every guy in SF4 except for this badass :D

More Life Drawing

Hmm, it might just be the crappiness of the photos but I might have gotten worse. But, for the sake of honesty, I thought I should post these regardless. I feel like I'm learning a lot, but my hand is not cooperating! I think I'll start using charcoal instead of prismacolor...

The First Skirt of Spring!

Its finally warm enough to not wear pants! Although I heard this weekend its going to rain... Damn you California!!

Thank you Fawn for your comment this morning that inspired me to sketch this.

Life Drawing with Karl Gnass

Please excuse the crappiness of these photos, I didn't realize how bad the light was when I took them. And on that note, please excuse the crappiness of my life-drawings! I am so rusty, and this class is after work and I'm always exhausted. However, I've been learning a lot, including how to work through my exhaustion and focus. Karl is a great teacher, he is really good at breaking things down simply and efficiently. Well, I have a lot of learning to do, so hopefully, this will be part one of an ongoing series of progressively better entries!

Sorry for the profanity, mom...

Well this is a little late, but oh well. I did this comic when my boyfriend and I kept encountering this dumb glitch in the PS3 version of Fallout 3 where a Brotherhood of Steel initiate pops up everywhere you go! Here's an example: Initiate Pek in Megaton.

Click for comic!

More Super Presidents!

Some more people have joined the crusade. Check them out!:

Erwin Ledford
Todd Oman
Miguel Puga
Stuart Livingston
Debora Arroyo
Arlyne Ramirez
Alfredo Coello
and me

Fan Art!

(possibly contains SPOILERS!) (also, don't be daunted by the massive amount of text!)

So I saw the Watchmen on Friday with all the opening day masses. Here are my thoughts if you’re interested:

I went in already accepting that it was going to be nothing like my experience with the book. Comics and movies are two completely different animals, and I shouldn’t be expecting the richness and detail and intimacy that only the book could offer.

To keep a lot of the action, leave out most of the details, and still keep somewhat of the plot, the storytelling would have to be drastically changed to be the least bit comprehensible. Not wanting to be a stereotypical geek who automatically loathes the movie because it’s not to the exact specifications of the book, I tried to remember this and be optimistic and open-minded to see the movie for what it was.

However, my brain wouldn’t let me!

Throughout the whole movie I couldn’t help myself from recognizing scenes and comparing them to how the scene played out in the book. I think this kept me from just letting me watch the movie as a movie. I thought there were some awesome moments and the actors for Night Owl, Rorschach and Doctor Manhattan were great. I was not happy with how Ozymandias wasn’t given much back-story. His character seemed shallow, not expressing his deep motivation for his actions or his paralyzing doubt at the end.

In the end, the movie felt like a movie with characters from a book I once read acting a story that I didn’t fully recognize. Kind of like fan art; an artist paying tribute to something much greater. I left the movie unsatisfied, and a little confused. I’ll have to watch it again to figure out if it was truly a good movie, because I’m still not sure. I was attached to the characters because I already knew them, but would someone who hadn’t read the book have had the chance to care about the characters in the short amount of time given to them?

For those of you who saw the movie but haven’t read the book, let me know what you thought!

Watchmen Out Today!!

I don't really geek-out about a lot of stuff, but Watchmen is definitely something the geek in me can't deny. I am a huge fan of the book and I wasn't so sure about the integrity of the movie, but I can't help getting excited. Thus, the shirt:



Rorschach's signature is on the back collar, and for you super watchmen buffs out there, hopefully you can tell what expression this is on the shirt! Oh yeah, and to clear up any confusion, yes I made it myself! with fabric paint and then folding it in half :)

(Yes I'm posing with my Absolute Watchmen. Yeah? What of it?!)

Presidential Super Heros!

Try drawing a president as a super hero, you know you want to! Drawing fat Taft helps me relax.

Check out these guys who did it too!:

Erwin Ledford
Todd Oman
Miguel Puga
Stuart Livingston
Debora Arroyo
Arlyne Ramirez
Alfredo Coello