Frame of Reference

This weekend was absolutely beautiful! Even though I had to work both days of it, I still managed to really enjoy it. Friday night was spent at my mother's house watching The Wedding Crashers. It was a dumb movie but we made it a lot of fun. Saturday we went to the zoo. It was so crowded though!! So many strollers and people, yuck! It didn't help matters that all of the animals seemed to be sleeping. I guess we just went at the wrong time of the day. I did manage to get a few shots of a sleepy Meerkat. I love those guys, they are so animated and fun to watch. I also got a lot of drawing done. Not as much as I'd like of course. Last night I went back over to mom's place (her new house is so beautiful) and watched the antics as my sister and her boyfriend beautified the gold fish pond. We also grilled outside and had a lot of fun just joking around with each other.

So the past couple of days have just SUCKED! I seemed to have caught a stomach bug. It's a job hazard I suppose but it just seemed to hit me really hard. I couldn't do anything. The strength was just zapped right out of me (along with other things). But, I woke up this morning feeling SO much better! It's really amazing how good you feel when you have something awful to compare it to. Like I said though, today is a good day. I didn't get a chance work on my drawing as much as I wanted to. I finished Grievous and some of the lettering and I started on Jar Jar. It's a little disheartening seeing how slow the progress is, even though I'm really happy with what I've done so far. I just need to speed it up a little!

So here's another shot of the 'project'. Not much else to report I'm afraid....It's just been work work. The ruler is a standard 12' ruler. I just wanted to put it in there to get a sense of perspective. The little clone troopers are approx. 9 inches tall.

I've finally finished sketching the "foundation" for my Star Wars project. It took a lot longer than I orignally thought it was going to because I had to increase the size nearly 12 inches. Here is a picture that I've taken of the corner I'm working on. It's a little larger than an 8x10 section. I also saw 300 this weekend. I didn't really have high hopes for the story, I was mostly interested in the art of the movie. However, everything exceeded my expectations. It was highly entertaining. I definitely recommend it to everyone. I think there was a little too much sexuality but that would be my only complaint. It was visually stunning, the acting was amazing (Spartan women just rock!) and they really got the 'heart' of the story across I think. Oh yeah, the Star Wars characters belong to George Lucas and anyone else who owns the copyrights. I'm just a fan!

I've actually started the drawing! Very exciting. There is always a moment of nervous anticipation when I look at a blank piece of paper. I'm always thinking "Don't mess this up!" But after I grab the pencil and start drawing lines, it goes away pretty quickly. I must look insane to an outsider though. Here I am standing in front of a HUGE blank piece of white paper and I'm looking all over it and walking around in front of it like I'm actually looking at something. Which I am. I know where everything is going to go and I'm just trying to visualize it. So I watched two movies last night, Half Nelson and Babel. I would recommend not watching those two movies together in one night. They both are pretty depressing. I mean, each movie had it's good parts and 'hopeful' parts, but still...overall I was like SHEESH! Enough already, I need something to make me laugh. Here's my mini review of them. I'll do Half Nelson first since it was the ...