Thursday, 15 March 2007

The hogwarts anthem was only sung in the first book. It was never mentioned again. True story.

So what I have to share today is some really, really early concept art for a project I’m working on. I’ve just gone ahead and signed up to the Hogwarts Art School, a club on deviantart, and while I haven’t received conformation I’m pretty sure I’ll be in Ravenclaw. One part of joining the club is to draw your character and his/her possessions up in the room/bed you’ve chosen.
This is me just throwing around some idea’s and practicing for the eventual final project. I quite like them both, and I enjoy the idea of making them ‘interact’ with the background because I don’t/can’t draw background usually.
Just to make it clear, this background is one provided by the club and IS NOT drawn by me. Only the two crappy sketches belong to me. I’ve faded the background at this point to make the sketches more obvious.
I still have to decide on the characters age/ school year and the other important things which will be interesting.


I don’t have much to say. I’ve had very little sleep last night, a bit of a big day, and now I’m feeling like the world has taken on a fuzzy, embossed kind of effect.
I’m sitting in the lounge room watching lost and not feeling particularly interested in anything at all today.
There’s an advanced screening of Frank Millar’s ‘300’ in a few weeks that I can get tickets too, I have to talk to friends and family and see if they’re interested. The tickets are 16 bucks a piece but the environment should be worth it.

Hmmmmmmmm… Lost is just full of twists and turns tonight. It’s actually very interesting. Ben’s a great man/Ben’s a liar. Cool stuff.
I’m glad I’ve stuck with this show even when everybody else was bad mouthing. It’s very political this season, and maybe that’s why people have been sick and tired of it.

Interesting that Julie should say that the film she’s made, telling Jack to kill Ben, (or Benry as lost nerds call him) is “To Kill a Mocking Bird”. This show alludes to a lot of literature and films. Second year they referenced ‘Turning of the screw’ which is about creepy children who may or may not have magical powers – and that summed up Walt’s storyline (and one of the main threads) for the rest of the season. ‘Mockingbird’ of course is ultimately about taking the lives of those who are innocent – so maybe the show is suggesting (for the literary savvy amongst it’s fans) that Ben is the ‘Mockingbird’ of the others.

I brought me my comics today and so far I’ve read ‘Fantastic Four the End’ and the first half of the ‘Fantastic Four’ 45th anniversary addition. Fantastic Four the end was great; from the first comic in the series I knew how it was going to end, I knew that either Reed or Sue would find a way to bring the kids back. By the second it was obvious Sue would do it.
In the end it turned out to be a nice, cheesy comic where the family fell apart but was eventually brought back together and loved each other still. I’ve always loved that about the fantastic four, and it’s the one element most people can’t stand. FF is like the 7th heaven of the comic world – and that’s what makes it great. Everything about it I love, especially the Richards couple and their kids. And I can’t be the only one who thinks like that since the comics lasted 45 years. Anyways, it was nice to see the FF together and happy in the end, several hundred years from now, reunited with their children and friends and contented to finally live in peace. That last corny moment (where the entire Marvel-U was standing together) was especially moving with everything that’s been happening in main 616 continuity, mainly civil war and the death of Captain America.
I think sometimes, in these rough and awful times, we need to be reminded that sometimes the good people do win, and sometimes being there for each other IS enough.

Lost took an ‘oh dear – that’s black and deadly’ turn … awesome. But Echo’s with his brother now – and that’s cheesy and corny and great. See, I’m a sucker for family’s being together; even if it is in death – sometimes even I, cynic that I am, need to believe in that.

And that’s a wrap (I accidently lied at the start when I said I had nothing to say)

- Nat

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