I’m continuing with the series of Rhapsodies watercolor character sketches with Janet and Rowan. They are dressed in the brand new official Fitzpatrick Consulting polo shirts, which they will be showing off in their next appearance.
There were way too many possibilities for today’s prompt, “snow”. It took a few minutes to dispel any takes on the Snow Queen, partially because I want to keep things Halloweeny, and partially because they were all versions of Frozen posters.
I finally thought about winter in the forest and how it’s just as potentially scary as it is beautiful. The scariness may be improved by throwing in an actual threat. This made me remember a painting of the wendigo in the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History. In a moment of political correctness, I made the wendigo’s victims trappers instead of Algonquins.
I think I may be influenced by the wonderful work of Jakub Rozalski. I love the way he makes the supernatural elements in his work seem completely natural.
I’ve been playing around with the idea, that if I do some of my concept sketches on watercolor paper, I can paint them later. This didn’t well at first, because I was using some really cheap paper I was trying to get rid of. It wasn’t exactly what one would call water-soluble. because of this, I could barely do more than one layer on it. If I wanted to do more than one layer I had to wait for it to dry completely unless I wanted to ruin what I had.
Once I gave up on the stuff, things went much better.
So here are my first finished images of Dielle in the fall ensemble she’s going to be wearing in her next appearance.
Continuing my slow track through the works of George A. Romero, I returned to one of the recurring themes of my Halloween marathons, the zombie apocalypse.
Starting with Romero, the first film on my list was the third film of his Night of the Living Dead series, Day of the D
The apocalypse has been going on for at least nine months, with the cities completely abandon to the zombies. Meanwhile, hidden in a Florida bunker, scientists desperately try to find a cure for the plague of the living dead. But as the months of isolations go on, their military entourage has gone slowly mad… and the head scientist (Richard Liberty) has been
This was an interesting film. It was well up to Romero‘s usual standards. Makeup lies the effects are much better than his previous efforts., Though considering the past films consisted of painting people gray that’s not saying much. There were some very nice practical effects, the best being one of the zombies on an operating table with most of its spot lower half missing and it’s got hanging out.
To the movie’s credit, it also is the first one in the series of attempts to try any technobabble. For example, The lead scientist explains that the zombies aren’t rotting and don’t need to eat human flesh and it’s just instinct. Speaking of instinct, some of them are getting smarter.
Interestingly, my favorite performance in this film was entirely a p
The next film on my list, Train to Busan, starts with a man hitting a deer after passing a quarantine stop. After he drives away, the deer gets up, its eyes a pale white. We switch to downtown Seoul, where Seok-woo (Gong Yoo) a divorced and workaholic fund manager is taking his six-year-old daughter on the KTX 101 train to see her mother in Busan. Just as they leave Seoul, the apocalypse begins. Now the train must reach its definition as the country burns.
This was a very good and well-paced film, with some fantastic performance. Is taking his six-year-old daughter on the bullet trip train to see her mother in Busan. Just as they leave soul, the apocalypse begins. Now the train must reach its destination as the country burns.
This was a very good and well-paced film with some fantastic performances and the rise of the zombie plague almost as subtle as the one in Shaun of the Dead. Regrettably, I didn’t like it. My appreciation and tolerance for horror
I’m usually able to a detach myself from the horror and gore by studying the craft of the practical effects, this time I found the zombie effects too good to effectively pull myself away.
Also considering South Korea is a country that is no stranger to civil unrest, this was one of the most believable portrayals of the collapse of civilization I’ve seen on film in a while.
So so for me, this movie was very hard to watch… For everybody else, that’s a good thing.
Halloween marathon, I went back to the classics with James Whale‘s Bride of Frankenstein and its remake/sequel, Franc Roddam‘s The Bride.
In Bride of Frankenstein, we find ourselves back in the Swiss Villa where Mary Shelly first wrote Frankenstein. Lord Byron and Shelley ask Mary (Elsa Lanchester) Shelley if the monster survived and what happened next and so, Mary continues the story.
The Monster (Boris Karloff ) indeed survives and, having met a friendly blind hermit, has learned something about speech position. He also meets Doctor Septimus Pretorius (Ernest Thesiger) one of Henry Frankenstein ‘s former mentors. Together they confront Frankenstein. Henry (Colin Clive) is about to get married and wants nothing to do with his old life. Pretorius and the monster want him to make them a Bride.
This is definitely one of the classics of the Universal monster movies, the iconic end with the Bride (Elsa Lanchester again) screaming at the camera is just as cool as the textbook says. If I have any problem with it, it’s that it’s far more beautiful than scary. But who cares when it’s that beautiful?
The sequel, The Bride, starts up where the last movie ends with the Bride (Jennifer Beals) being created, rejecting the Monster (Clancy Brown) and the lab exploding. However, everybody survives, and Frankenstein, played by Sting, teaching the bride, now name to Eva, to be a proper lady. The monster goes out on his own and joins the circus.
This film isn’t quite as bad as its reputations Jess but it’s no masterpiece either. For the most part, it’s pretty corny. Sting has good screen presence but can’t isn’t much of an actor. And for all her supposedly being a liberated woman, Eva is quite passive when it matters. I enjoyed the monster’s story the most which
I’m getting back into my Game of Thrones series for the reason I started it in the first place, a way to warm up for Inktober. In this picture, we have Ned’s first encounter with Petyr Baelish, aka Littlefinger. Littlefinger tells Ned who the belongs to and tries to give him some advice. Then Ned says what many fans think is the smartest thing he ever said.
Too bad he didn’t stick to his own advice.
