my top 10 movies of the year

by Johnny on December 25th, 2011
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i like year end recaps of the best and worst.  sometimes i agree, sometimes i whole heartedly disagree.  well, here’s my top movies of the year.

  1. The Adjustment Bureau – who wouldn’t do anything for love?  and dang it Matt Damon is charming!
  2. X-Men: First Class – Kevin Bacon made a great villian and this movie put Michael Fassbender on the map
  3. Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocols – i want to be Ethan Hunt.
  4. Crazy Stupid Love – one of three for the Ryan Gosling trifecta
  5. Thor – i’ve really gotten into Thor ever since Oliver Coipel started drawing it.  plus Natalie Portman!
  6. Transformers: Dark of the Moon – i don’t care what you say, it was just good fun.
  7. Ides of March – two of three for Gosling, i love political thrillers.
  8. Hanna – one of the best escape scenes i’ve ever seen.
  9. Limitless – seriously, who wouldn’t take that pill.
  10. The Girl with a Dragon Tattoo – shocking murder mystery.

and while i’m at it, here’s my 5 worst of the year, that i actually watched.

  1. The Green Hornet
  2. Hangover Part 2
  3. Midnight in Paris
  4. Drive Angry
  5. Scream 4

ps.  number 11 would’ve been Drive, making that the third Gosling movie.

agree?  disagree?  give me your comments or your top 10 movies of the year!

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panel – step by step

by Johnny on December 23rd, 2011
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I start each of panel these days using a 0.5 blue pencil lead. I used to use reg pencil lead but found during my scans, it would show up sometimes. (blue doesn’t scan in under b&w settings). I try to rough out the shape and make sure they make sense proportionally. more often than not, I have to do multiple erases before I settle in on what I think looks accurate. next, still using blue pencils, I flush out the details. and it’s great to know I still have inking to do because if I get something wrong here, I don’t redraw it and instead leave it to the inking step to correct. and finally, using a Pentel brush comes the inking. I pay special attention to the amount of pressure I apply, to try and give the picture more personality with line variations.

so, it’s a pretty quick process and I correct as I go with each step. I’d like to think with a more serious piece there would be more steps and I’d work a bit more on getting each step right before moving on. and of course, there’d be more background details.

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pointillism

by Johnny on December 21st, 2011
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flashback to middle school! back then, my art teacher introduced us to something called pointillism, which is basically using a bunch of dots to convey shading, with the spacing of the dots giving that illusion. now, this panel is prob not big enough to exercise this technique or perhaps I need to use a fiber tip pen.

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female faces – part 2

by Johnny on December 20th, 2011
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some sketches I did last week, practicing some female faces from the great Frank Cho. these are taken from Shanna She-Devil, which is actually a really fun comic read!

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face this

by Johnny on December 17th, 2011
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I don’t know why, but it’s so hard to push my art’s boundary. I start off thinking, “ok, get ready for some really crazy, totally different from my normal artwork!”. and then when I’m done, I see it’s not all that different from my normal stuff. I think a major reason is because I want it to look good! so, from now on in Finn, you might want to prepare yourself if things don’t look so pretty! in order to get better, maybe things need to get ugly for awhile.

which brings me to the art tonight, facial expressions.

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