Well it’s Christmas so I need to go with something appropriate for the day and season and the one that I could find at short notice was a Christmas Rhapsody by Henry Mancini from Santa Claus the Movie.
Santa Claus the Movie is a film I have very mixed opinions about. I enjoyed it when it first came out but as part of a list of Santa specific movies and TV specials it doesn’t really hold up. But I love me my Henry Mancini So here it is.
Enjoy.
Well today’s sketch is just one of the better random pages from one of my sketch books. The Camel was on of my “doing pushups” exercises. The one that consists of me grabbing a bound volume of National Geographic magazines at random when I’m at the downtown library and draw for an hour.
As for the rest. I’ve been drawing Koshare Kachinas ever since I had one do a cameo in the Area 51 Christmas story in 2008. There was something about dressing a clown figure as an office drone that worked for me. Something about an anarchist infiltrating the system I guess.
Let’s start this by saying outright that I’m very much a fan of Guillermo del Toro‘s work. Even his mediocre films or the throw away projects that he participated in for the fun of it are well worth watching. I enjoy his commentary on his DVDs and he’s on my short list, along with Alan Moore, of creators I genuinely would like to know. Not out of general geekiness but because you just know you could spend hours talking with them on any conceivable topic.
So every time I hear he’s working on something new I get excited. For example his upcoming experiment with the Kaiju genera, Pacific Rim. I liked the two teasers and now that the actual trailer has come out I am majorly psyched. It looks good. I’d heard that part of it was a recycling of some of the plans for a scrapped live action Evangelion movie that Weta was doing concept design for. Having liked what I saw for that project it’s nice to see it’s not going entirely to waste.
Anyway this looks good. As far as my own personal tastes go it’s seems just a little retro but I’s obviously a creative choice so that’s okay. Hope you all enjoy it.
Today’s Sketch is another from the Boston Museum of Fine Arts Collection. “Semiramis Receiving Word of the Revolt of Babylon” by the Baroque Italian painter, Guercino. done in 1624 It illustrates a myth from the Roman historian and moralist Valerius Maximus.
