my top 10 movies from 2012!

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man, I love putting together this list every year! my top 10 movies released in 2012 are:

10. Game Change
9. Skyfall
8. Lawless
7. The Vow
6. Argo
5. Prometheus
4. Chronicle
3. The Avengers
2. Les Miserables
1. The Dark Knight Rises

as for honorable mentions, I have Flight and Life of Pi. and I have to admit, I haven’t seen some potentially great movies, which I will, such as Django Unchained, Zero Dark Thirty, Perks of Being a Wallflower, Lincoln, and The Impossible.

if you’ve read this far, then you must really care what I think so I’ll keep commenting. The Dark Knight Rises has to be the top spot compared to all the others. it is the end to a great, epic trilogy that changed he landscape of movies, plus what a fitting ending. maybe I put Les Miserables higher on the list because that was the last movie I watched, but wow was it powerful! so many themes and great music that almost got me to cry. I think Chronicle was a small game changer for me because that is totally how real super powers would manifest itself in the real world. Prometheus was BWAMM BWAMM BWAMM. Argo, being kind if like learning history, was riveting and had a woman in the theatre cheering them on. I love hypothetical questions and The Vow presented a whopper of one. Lawless featured some superb acting from Tom Hardy, Guy Pierce, and Jessica Chastain. and finally, Game Change was such a unique insight into what probably really happened regarding the 2008 election and Palin.

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2012 art jamm week begins!

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for the 3rd year now, I begin my annual traditional today for art jamm week! basically it’s just where I take a whole week aside out of the year to concentrate on nothing but art and drawing. this year, my primary goal is to produce a few sequential comic book pages, in hopes of building my portfolio for eventual review. below are my thumbnails for a 4-page Magneto script I found over at http://www.penciljack.com/forum/showthread.php?59464-Sample-Scripts-for-Artists.

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return of sketch night!

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after a few months, I was finally able to make it back to the 1st Wednesday sketch nights over at the Geek Easy. fantastic venue as always.

as always, the night progress from 30 second sketches, to 1 minute, to 5 minute and 10 minutes, and then a contest sketch for 15 minutes with 5 minutes for cleanups. below are my drawings, which I’m happier about than most sketch nights. enjoy!

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Game of Thrones – Stannis Baratheon

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like many of you, i am super-excited to have the return of Game of Thrones!  and keeping with what i did with the first season, i’ll aim to deliver a sketch of a character every week.  this week we have Stannis Baratheon.  i think the show continues to do a fantastic job of casting great actors that embodies their character so well.

artwork wise, i’m continually trying to improve.  last season i took photos i found and drew them in my style.  this season, i take their likeliness and put them in original poses, and still try to develop my style.  i used Copic multiliner 0.7mm and 0.2mm pens.  and what do you think of the wood grain table?

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Alien

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in preparations for, what is sure to be an awesome movie, Prometheus, i’m going back and watching all the Alien movies, starting with the original from 1979.  directed by Ridley Scott, as is Prometheus, the original Alien is part sci-fi, part horror.  and for a 1979 movie, the special effects were quite amazing and holds up in the test of time.  one part that did bug me was that darn cat.  seriously, leave the cat and save yourself Ripley!  so, here’s my rendition of a movie poster done in 30 minutes, all digital.

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