Farsong Blog-o-Matic - February 19th, 2008

• A Tyrranical Romance
Speculation on the lovelife of the T. Rex, based on the fossil record and evolutionary evidence.

• Firefly Novel
Steven Brust, author of the wonderfully witty fantasy-detective series about Vlad Taltos, has written a story about the characters of Firefly. I haven't read it yet, but I like Brust and I like Firefly, so I'd consider it to be full of win.

I spent the better part of the afternoon working on this. Some of the time, in a half-distracted manner. I drew it because I wanted to. No other reason. It's a drawing based off a film I acted in over the weekend.

This is actually a composite; the characters were sketched individually, and I pieced everything together in Photoshop. I thought about adding text in Photoshop, but I liked the look of the handwritten title better. I struggled with the face shapes, though. I have a hard time making extras, or even drawing a lot of different people. I am pleased with the coloring/shading. Actually, I'm pleased with the whole thing, though I do see room for improvement.

However, it has been said that I have a very distinctive style. I do deem this a good thing.


( There's a story here, and it's worth telling )


Also: I learned more about Mormons than I ever knew before. Ask me about it.


And the day was rounded out with a delicious Ruben, a tasty, refreshing Pilsner, and a fairly bland, not-so-tasty potato(e) salad.

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*This is after editing. We shot for 14 hours, and used about an hour of tape. The video is 7 minutes. Had I been shooting, more tape would probably have been used.