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Two digitally painted portraits of characters from Guardians' Reawakening have been added to the Abmiram Art page. |
Well, Spring is finally here, and so is a new comic page. I didn’t expect to take that long getting a new one done, but it’s been a rough month or so due to some family stuff. It’s only two more pages until I can get to posting the older ones with just a few adjustments in dialog, so that’ll be nice. Hope everyone had a nice Easter/Passover or at least a nice Sunday.
Now I’m off to work on the next page while I still have some time to myself!
Got a new page up. It’s a mix of new and old art. I chose to keep the name plates thing from the first version so there’s no confusion about which character is which. Also it would sound really strange for them to be calling each other by name all the time.
This time the priestesses aren’t sending them off on their trip. Dakova can come up with arguments aplenty for why they should leave on their own, but she has her own motives. She’s determined to come up with an excuse to get out of there and find some excitement.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Page.
Well, my favorite book, The Hobbit, is now a movie. Or rather 1/3 movies so far. I was really surprised at how different it was at times. Usually they take your favorite book and chop it down to half its size in order to fit it into a ~2 hour running time. But this time they’ve stretched a little book out into three looooong movies, leaving no scene out and adding in plenty of new ones. I found myself a little bored during the added-in parts and extra battle sequences, but overall I enjoyed it.
Martin Freeman makes a wonderful Bilbo. The scene with Gollum was just about perfect. Middle Earth looks fantastic as always. For the most part the jokes and gags are funny. And I was really happy the songs from the book were left in.
But. . .there were just a couple spots that came off cheesy. I really didn’t like Thorin’s orc nemesis that was added in, but I’m guessing his purpose is to give the goblins and wargs in the finale a specific character as a leader. The prologue with Frodo served absolutely no purpose and should have been cut. If I want to see Frodo stare at me emotionally I’ll watch LotR again. The dwarves could have set up the quest just as easily. I think cutting the prologue would have made the running time a little easier on my rear end, too.
One other thing that bothered me was how un-dwarf-like some of the dwarves were. Thorin was missing his long beard, and he and a couple others seemed a little too human to me. I assume the film makers were trying to make a few of the dwarves more appealing to us humans, but I like my dwarves to be as dwarfish as possible. Gimli for example. If they hate elves it should be because the elves are a bunch of sissies, not because elves didn’t jump in to save them during a dragon attack.
I’ll give them a chance to grow on me in the next two films though. I can’t wait to see Murkwood and its spiders, the wood elves and their cellar full of barrels, and of course, Smaug. The camera people of Dale were once some of the worst of their kind. They failed to capture even one shot of the infamous dragon during his initial attack.
