Pretty Pretties part 1

I' m a visual person, I collect images I like, or images that are well done. I also like to share the pictures too, to get the artist more fans. I'm going to start a series called Pretty Pretties featuring artwork I like by artists I like, whether its fanart or offical, comic book related or photography or anything, whatever.I just want to share these works of art and hopefully have people like them and search out the artist.I'll try to post the name or site of the artist, but sometimes I just don't know who did the picture, I just like it.

I'm starting this series with work by American Virgin/ NYX cover artist Joshua Middleton.

To start with,why I like his work.

I find his subject matter very intriguing, and the way he places his subjects are very attention grabbing.Instead of just action poses, prepare-for-battle poses or face shots, he tries different perspectives and different poses that convey the character's personality or inner thoughts. He also uses colors and has specific techniques that I love and adore.I find his style over all very visually pleasing but also very emotionally moving.

I guess I can't share ALL the pictures I had from him, too bad.

He has a site here: http://www.joshuamiddleton.com/

And he even shares process works to show how his work progresses from line art to final project, its so awesome to look at!

Check him out and look at his pretty and neat art

RIP Dr. George Tiller

I know I'm like, three days late, but I'm sure you've all read about Dr. George Tiller being shot and killed by a pro-lifer? 

Yeah I'm not about to go on a tirade or anything or contribute anything new or significant or earthshaking or anything about the whole thing. This site says everything I wish I was verbal enough to put to words (here). 

I'm a supporter of abortion. I feel women have the right to choose what happens in their bodies, not an arbitrary body of politics or a book or anyone. It's my uterus, not anyone else's.But like I said, I'm not here to debate or argue. I'm sorry he died, I'm sorry he spent his life helping women who had no where to go, and was harassed for it, and threatened. I'm sorry he was killed and my condolences goes out to his family.

I'm writing this because the first thing that went through my head when I read the report, besides, 'poor guy.' was this: WTF? How ironic is it that a pro-lifer whose argument against abortion is that all life is sacred and no one has the right to decide who lives and who dies gets the right to go out and shoot and kill a human being in cold blood because he doesn't agree with their policy? Am I the only one who sees the irony of a man who declares that fetuses in a woman's stomach acids is so precious, so special, so sacred and unique and one of a kind and right from GOD's hands that he gets to go out and find a full grown human being, someone born, someone alive, and loving, and loved, and human, and breathing and walking, and, yes, right from GOD's hands, and kill himkillhimkillhim! Am I the only one confused and seeing the irony and kinda getting a bit mad? Don't tell me that fetuses are deserving of life if you're going to buy a gun and end someone else's life. Practice what you preach.

I Jumped Through Time

The title's from a song by Abney Park, called Post-Punk Apocalypse. Its a pretty cool band and song,I dig the whole visual style they've got going.

Anyways, so I've been kinda wasting my vacation, reading fmylife.com and reading the stories on the Star Trek XI kink meme.

I have so much unrestrained love for the new Chekov it's not really that funny. Except to E. it is.I made her drive me to Toys R Us so I could get a Chekov doll,who now rides around in my purse with me. I plan to get a Bones at some point too. I grew up on the star trek stuff, and Bones was my favorite on TOS, which set a precedent for me,I guess, all my favorites on the following Star Trek series were doctors: Crusher,Bashir,the Doctor.I didn't watch Enterprise but I'm sure the doctor on that show would have been my favorite.

So its a surprise that I'm head over heels a Chekov fangirl.Although,well...not that surprising..Look at him!

As a result of me liking imdb.com, I then sought out other movies the actor,Anton Yelchin,has been in.I've seen Star Trek,Terminator:Salvation, Alpha Dog and Charlie Bartlett back to back. I liked Star Trek and Charlie Bartlett best.

I then found a site that had a lot of Adam Hughes's stuff and so I've been stockpiling on his works.He's so awesome,I would die happy if I could ever get to be as good an illustrator as he is.

Which reminds me,not that I forgot. But I swore to myself I'd start working on my comic,but I haven't.But I guess I can justify it by saying I want to wait until I write all 24 scripts for the book,and I can't start on the second books til I get my 1st books back from my dad with his corrections to the reality of the characters,for continuity reasons,so..yeah. I want the book to be as good as it can possibly be,so I want to get all the minute details out of the way, the details that tie the world to the real world to make readers feel like they know the universe my characters are in. I want to get everything fleshed out and written out and perfect and seamless before I start illustrating,so that the visual clues and contexts are matching.

So that's out of the schedule until I see my dad and get his painstakingly poured over and written out notes and corrections. I love that I have my dad to check and correct my story's background.

But even if I have these reasons/excuses I still feel guilty and shamed.

I think next post I'll try to write about something of value.