Blimey, it's been a while since I posted. Still getting my head around some personal issues so not been up to too much so here's some random happenings...
While I await the returns of Lost, Heroes ans Smallville (look above for some of the characters in the newly promoted JSA Smallville telemovie: Dr Fate looks excellent!), some minor channels have been rebranded. I can now catch two episodes a night of Two And A Half Men on Viva, Moonlighting on CBS Drama and Star Trek on CBS Action (Sunday marathons!). This is the original and best series but with new FX shots, mainly of the Enterprise and the planets it orbits. Some of these shots are stunning but they still have dodgy phaser effects and the retro hairdos/fashions (although sometimes this works, as Sally Kellerman is still stunning in a 40-year old episode). Updating these effects is a weird decision as a result of this, but I'm just happy enjoying the Enterprise shots (though I prefer the movie Enterprise).
One other show that I'm watching is E4's Misfits, the Heroes-meets-Skins mashup of a bunch of youths serving community service inheriting superpowers after a storm. I wasn't sure if I was going to like something where all the main characters would be ASBO horrors but I've found it quite enjoyable and unexpectedly laugh out funny in places. Not a great show but fun and well-produced so I'll stick with it.
Not been doing much drawing but have done a few requests here and there, like the one above. I've become quite smitten with the grey Copic markers I've been using (although the main one I use has already run out). I wouldn't use them for everything but I like the results you can get with them. I plan on getting some flesh tones and doing a couple of test headshots (Erica Durance and Kristen Bell, I'm considering you!)...
I'm finding I've been buying less and less from the big comic publishers and more stuff slightly off the beaten track. I still can't get into manga as a whole but enjoyed the two books by Sonia Leong that I picked up at BICS and have been picking up a few more Cinebook editions after BICS and seeing as how they are now prominently stocked at Nostalgia in Brum. The high business action shenanigans of Largo Winch have been enjoyable but future editions will be single volumes. Currently each edition contains two volumes, one setting up a threat and the second resolving it, so spreading the individual volumes in separate editions may affect how effectively they read. Still, I've got the next edition of my fave Cinebook series, Aldebaran/Betelgeuse, waiting for me to read on my day off this week...
