300 Makes Straight Men GAR!

No that's not misspelled. It's GAR. I suggest you go look it up on google while cross-referencing it to internet memes or perhaps Fate/Stay Night. It is pretty appropriate in this context. Anyway, yes... I FINALLY managed to see 300 and I've got to say that asides from the sappy bits here and there and some fairly awkward CGI monsters... the movie's pretty much a masterpiece of art and action (and especially masculanity). Seriously... the dramatic and intense fighting scenes with the drawn out action and panned view... absolutely stunning. Choreography is par none. Blows Matrix out in that sense. I'm truly glad I didn't miss this on the big screen.

Yet Spiderman 3 is out! Agh! Gotta find time to go for that too!

Anyway, some good news. I'm off for an intervew for potential work soon. I shan't divulge where and when but I will say it's been something I've been hoping for. If I do get it I'll let you all know of my new position provided I'm not required to keep it classified.

So alright... the sketches. First one, obviously, King Leonidas in 300. I was kind of hardpressed to think of anything to come up with (particularly anything original) so I thought I'd do a tribute to the movie, seeing how much I liked it. The third sketch (and inked) one is based on a class in Guild Wars called the Paragon. It was my contribution to a commission request but obviously I wasn't chosen so I didn't go on to colouring it. The picture was supposed to be derived off the first pic (of 300) putting the Paragon in Leonidas's pose... but I messed around with the pose and weapons.

The second sketch is inspired by this fantastic toy I've seen in the comic shops of Gabranth from Final Fantasy XII. I thought that if I gave a poor sketch of it I could slowly get a better understanding of how to draw and come up with armour parts for any future characters. Seriously, though... it's about the coolest model I've ever seen. A pity the swords are too hard to include.

The fourth is something I was pondering over the past week. It came to me one day that I should do a tribute to megane-moe, i.e. the strange draw of spectacled characters. It's something I came upon while searching for the term 'moe' (pronounced Moe-Eh). I wanted to do a study of different expressions and fashions... so something like summer and winter... sorta. Well, I tried... honest. It just... kinda... fizzled. Lacked a lot of character, severly lacked charm so I gave up and just tried to do a simple winter meganemoe. Sigh...

Finally, the fifth is a study pic on the nature of this young girl's pout. Now... I COULD have included her mother and her disapproving glare to ward off you young punks out there... but I ran out of space. Maybe another time. Still, I would like to thank her for getting me Jump Ultimate Stars, which I am eagerly awaiting to arrive. Oh, man... Hollow Ichigo vs Kyuubi Naruto!

Anyway that's it. I'll leave you punks and punkettes for now as I go back to some preparations.