Daphne

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• Watercolour on watercolour paper.

So I finally got around to finishing her. Failed attempt at going 100% traditional. I think Photoshop has forever spoiled me because no matter what I did, I couldn’t get the effects I wanted using watercolour anymore and had to resort to blocking out the background in bronze acrylic paint to cover up the mistakes.

I had originally overlaid textures to it to jazz it up, but it was starting to look messy to me, so I reverted it back to the pre-Photoshop file. Oh well. Lesson learned. Next time, smaller paper and no painting when tired.

Censorship

My mother watched me ink Daphne last night and decided to give me a critique:

Mama: Why don’t you put some clothes on her?
Me: Why, you don’t like boobs?
Mama: It’s not that.
Me: But I like how I drew her her boobs.
Mama: She needs clothes. Like maybe a sheer flowy robe thing. She’s Greek, right? Greek statues are all about the flowy robe things.

I AM BEING CENSORED! HALP MEEE!

The many moods of Batman

from www.comicgasm.com

I have a head cold, am stressed and working overtime, but this made me smile today.

Made for walking

Whoever invented the high heel must have been a man. My feet are killing me.

One of the company’s foreign suppliers is here for a visit so I had to be all corporate and presentable and spent the whole day  in heels yesterday. The WHOLE day. Til midnight. MIDNIGHT! Because we took him out for dinner and drinks after work.

Feel my indignation as I repeat words in caps lock for emphasis.

My heels weren’t even really high to begin with –about an inch and a half or so — but I swear, my feet still hurt like hell. Especially my pinky toes. Actually, my pinky toes don’t hurt because I CAN’T FEEL THEM ANYMORE.

In protest of my aching feet, these are the what I wore to work today (they’re also my latest impulse buy):

Vote for my friend’s film!

“Boy George” used to be a port short written by Rob Pena. Collaborating with alumni and students alike, they’ve joined Bloodshots to make the film within 48 Hours! After 47 Hours and 54 minutes of blood, sweat, and tears, they’ve brought this zomedy to life! (source)

This awesome zombie short was directed by my friend, Vince so vote if you love zombies!

TO VOTE:

EMAIL - bigsmashproductions [at] gmail [dot] com
SUBJECT line – “BOY GEORGE”
MESSAGE – “I vote for ‘BOY GEORGE’ as the best film of Bloodshots Canada 2009″.

DC Animated Movie Week

Okay, I lie. I didn’t actually watch all of these this past week, but I couldn’t think of a title.

1. Wonder Woman

The reason I wasn’t so into Wonder Woman as a kid was because of the incredibly cheesy Linda Carter TV series. I only started to like the character when I started watching Justice League and borrowing my cousin’s JLA graphic novels.

This re-hashed Wonder Woman origin movie is epic. Great dialogue and story, the animation and action scenes were fluid.  AND it’s produced by Bruce Timm, who I love, love, love for his work on Batman: The Animated Series and Justice League.

It’s also got a pretty heavy voice cast with Keri Russell as Diana, Alfred Molina  as Ares, Rosario Dawson as Artemis, and Marg Helgenberger as Hera.

And yes, the incredible, invisible flying jet’s in there too.

There are a few perks to owning your own circus

Barbara: You win, Former Boy Wonder. I am loving it!
Dick: Just don’t fall. I’m not carrying you up here again.

Aaaaaaaawwwwwww. If I happen to lose all feeling from the waist down in a horrendous incident involving the Joker, I’d like a former circus acrobat-turned-vigilante to take me on the trapeze.

Oh, Where did my manners go?

Been so busy with take-home work and what-not these past couple of weekends, I haven’t had the time to finish painting. So in lieu of having anything productive done, I bring you more Glee:

Kristin Chenoweth & the Glee cast – “Last Name”

I try not to be too biased when it comes to music, but for the life of me, I can’t seem to appreciate Country (and Pinoy radio novelty tunes — but that’s another story).

But thanks to Glee (and Carrie Underwood), I think I may have finally found a Country song I like. Actually two. I also like, “Before He Cheats“.

Shut up.

I’m a GLEEK!

If we’re friends on Plurk or Facebook, then you’re probably sick of me talking about Glee. But I can’t help it. It’s the  best thing to happen to TV all year. ♥

I Fail At Life

I started colouring Daphne in last night, and boy, what a fail in epic proportions that was. I’m glad I took photos of it as a pencil sketch because I realise now that it will look best just as line art. I need to pick up a good eraser that isn’t the kneaded kind and some new pens after work to remedy the catastrophe that was last night.

I’m really bummed out and I’m crossing my fingers, toes and eyes that I can still save the drawing.

In other not-so-bummed-out news, I still can’t decide which makes me more school-girl giddy: