Sketch Your Life-Michael Nobbs

So I recently downloaded Michael Nobbs' free ebook 'Start to Draw Your Life' (Here ) and his book gave me more ideas for what to do with this blog, hopefully this will breathe some new life here. I'll try to do what he suggests, drawing something from my life, something small and quick every day and upload it here, not quite every day, I start school again in a couple of weeks and I don't know how much time I'll have to mess with scanning and uploads and the like but I can at least try a massive weekend dump every week. I try to draw a bit every day but it usually results in sketches and detailed drawings of people and the like, not exactly super challenging stuff or stream of consciousness style sketches like Michael Nobbs is encouraging, so let's see if I can take up his challenge.

His blog, I plan to read through it and see what information I learn from it, is here.

Green Arrow II

So the last couple of days I've read the few graphic novels I have that feature Connor Hawke, Green Arrow II. And surfing the 'net for more fan stuff and pictures of him.

I think, somehow, almost without my knowing it, he became one of the top five favorite DC characters in my list.

He's the son of the original Green Arrow, a Buddhist monk, gentle, kind, polite, loving, forgiving, vegan, patient, loyal, and a hopeless romantic. On paper, he sounds perfect, too bad he's not real. Anyways, he came about in the 90s I believe, and I think he's Kyle Rayner's best friend, they did a lot of team ups in the 90s. I missed a LOT of his storylines, it wasn't until I got a copy of Green Arrow:Quiver in a library that I got to read him for the first time, so all my exposure is from the Kevin Smith-and the writers afterwards-run, so I'm hoping to find other books with him in it, he just seems like such a stand up guy, I want to read more about him.

Anyways, so basically Connor Hawke's just an interesting and unique character-not just because of his ethnicity(white, black and asian all in one package) but because he's so mild and even tempered when the rest of the cast are volatile and temperamental. He's even keeled in the face of his father's outbursts, and Mia's antics and Kyle's energy. I really look forward to finding out more about him and his storylines in the GNs of Green Arrow.