Added 1 new A* page:I don't often show the first inking bit I do after pencils, which is kind of just trying to capture the important part of the pencils in ink so I can then erase the pencils and work the rest of the way in ink:
I'm thinking though that maybe that stage is a bit too conservative, and I should go right in to just inking up a storm rather than getting those first tracings down; I haven't tried that so far because a) erasing scuffs the ink a bit, so for looks it's better if you can have a minimal amount of ink in the way when erasing, and b) I'm scared. But that "tracing" stage must necessarily prevent me from being more expressive with how I go about inking, so eh...I don't know, maybe I'll have to ink some practice drawings to work up the nerve or something.
Also, I guess maybe I don't show the first inking stage much because it just tends to accentuate drawing problems that I spend a lot of time working out later, bleh. : P
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The new month of expiring Netflix streaming movies is almost upon us and I'm still squeezing some in; just caught Æon Flux which I thought I'd heard was bad so I'd never watched it; it was reasonably decent, though! Now, when I was a kid we didn't have cable so I only caught bits of the original animated MTV show here and there at friends' houses, so I can't say how true this is to those--obviously live action can't really have the crazy exaggerated, organic style of the cartoon, and I suppose you do lose a lot there since that was such a big part of the show's original impact and atmosphere. This film version has more of the super antiseptic, clean, slick/cheap look of Ultraviolet, if you've seen that one (it came out in 2006, one year after Æon), only not quite so exaggerated. Both films have a violent heroine fighting an evil male dictator type in a futuristic city; Æon in particular has very A* themes--immortality and other things I won't quite spoil for you--which just goes to show how very original I am! Hmph. In Æon it's all down to more love and mysticism than science really, but still it was kind of fun, and Charlize Theron had a pretty good look going there as Æon. In fact I was thinking the profile of Selenis in today's page might be a bit Theronic--I tend to pause a movie to study interesting faces and lighting when they come along, and I did that during this movie a few times--but in the end I think Charlize got somewhat upstaged by Mia Farrow, and Fiona Staples' "Alana" from the "Saga" comic series.
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