Feyd Rautha

Sorry for the lack of updates. Work got really busy and then I was ill for awhile. Here is Feyd from the Dune movie by David Lynch. I couldn't quite get the Sting likeness but darn it, it is close enough. =) This picture is a part of the Unleaded Artists' challenge. If you have never visit there, go there for more great Dune pieces as well as other cool pics!

Quick movie rants:
Cloverfield (**** out of 5)
I liked the movie a lot especially the visual direction. It was not as cool as its hype but when it was over, I was hungry for more.

Enchanted (** 1/2 out of 5)
Pretty cool premise but I didn't quite like the ending execution or the main actress. I am sure I am probably too old for its intended demographic though.

Pirates of the Carribbean: At World's End (** out of 5)
What a mess! The story is super convoluted and way too dark (hanging children and women anyone?) for what it is. The main characters are all unlikeable double/triple/quadruple crossers. Uggh. I foolishly bought the first two movies on Blu-ray. Now I am seriously thinking about selling them.

Happy Valentine's Day & Chinese New Year!

This post is dedicated to my princess wife and my Jedi son. I love you very much! It is almost not Valentine's Day, sorry for being so late getting the picture done. I hope you like it.

For everyone, "gong hay fat choy"! May the force be with you and most importantly, I wish everyone good health throughout the year.

I am sure most of you are done with your romantic evening but if you are still in the mood, I recently watched a Korean romantic comedy that I really enjoyed. It is called, "My Sassy Girl". It was made in 2001 and it broke all kinds of box office record in many parts of Asia. I am too tired to write a brief overview but if you are remotely interested, try looking it up. I heard that there is an American remake on the way. My spider sense is tingleing because I am almost certain that Hollywood can't make it as good as the original... Another good Korean movie is, "200 Pound Beauty". Take a peek at both.

Guys movies wise, I recommend the live action movies, "Death Note" and "Death Note: the Last Name". I have never watched or heard of the manga or the anime before seeing these films but I was surprised at how good they were. The plot was pretty interesting and I especially liked the weird but cool genius detective, "L". I guess a lot of people liked him too because recently a spinoff movie, "L, Change the World" was released. I am looking forward to seeing it.

Got to sleep...ZZzzz

Colors!

A co-worker introduced me to Colors!, a Nintendo DS homebrew painting program. Even though the software was extremely simplistic, it worked great and it has a brush stroke by brush stroke replay feature! I was so blown away that I had to order the hardware immediately. Anyway, that is why I had abandoned my amazon warrior painting for now. This week's post is my 2nd painting that I had done with Colors!. The painting time was about 1.5 hours without my usual Photoshop tricks such as layers, transparencies or undo's! Come to think of it, this is kind of like painting traditionally. I am semi-proud of myself for this because my 1st painting was pretty nasty and it is now in crappy paintings heaven. =)

Anyways, check out the official Colors! website and make sure you look at the gallery. Some of the pieces are unbelieveable. http://www.collectingsmiles.com/colors/
If you have Colors!, you can even download the paintings and watch the replays on the DS to learn how it was done.

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year everyone. This week's update is a work-in-progress sketch of an amazon warrior. This is about an hour of doing some shading, adding foreground details/effects, on top of a pencil sketch that was done awhile ago. I'll work on this picture some more and post the progress next week.

Happy Holidays!

Sorry for the highly inappropriate picture for this update. As usual I don't have too much time to plan things or execute on them so I went with painting another Conan. At least the colors are somewhat in season. Ha ha. Stretching it, I know. Before I go, wish everyone a great holiday and happy new year! May you have good health and have quality time to spend with you family.

Cammy Two

It is not even Christmas and I am already missing it. Truth to be told, my favorite months all year are the last three. It's got cooler weather, chances of snow and some nice holidays to look forward to. Not to mention that I really enjoy Halloween with my son and the festive mood around Thanksgiving and Christmas. With luck there should be another update to this blog before Christmas. Meanwhile, I hope everyone enjoying these few days as much as I will. Drink a lot of eggnog and get ready for some serious partying!
This week's update is Cammy again. Not much to say except that she was done within two hours based on an older pencil sketch. For those who remembers the first colored Cammy picture from almost a year ago, that shared the same pencil sketch as the base but at that time I did a lot of modifications while I painted. This latest piece is almost a direct paint over of the sketch. Anyway, because of time, I barely cleaned it up so excuse all the warts and all. Gomanasi. =)

More Doodles

Here's another assortment of doodles from the notebook. Like the last batch, these were drawn during meetings and usually reflect what I was NOT doing on the project. In this case, you can tell that my project has no school girl using a samurai sword or the little mermaid or my co-worker or a nameless girl. =)