I set a couple of hours aside just for me this afternoon and I realised I hadn’t seen The Terminator in a while and not on the big HD TV so I cranked the volume and pulled the curtains and had a blast.
Terminator really holds up well, even the eyeball scene which is the scene that always stands out for me ever since I was a young’un. I think the fake head actually adds to the horror of the sequence and so I wanted to draw that and it’s gross.
Whilst I’ve been enjoying a mini-break from the Star Trek 365 pics (I batched up a bunch of sketch cards to give myself some breathing room) I asked my Patrons over on Patreon what they’d like to see. One of them was something from Blade Runner and after drawing the Galactica the other day I must be in a bit of a vehicle bender because all I could picture was a moody picture of the Spinner taking off in the rain.
The argument could be made that the Adam West Batman is the most fun to draw, certainly I think the whole cast of characters from the 60s Batman are fantastic to draw.
I’m really enjoying these quick study sketches, they kind of have to be quick because of the Star Trek 365 being all encompassing. The xenomorph alien has always been a favourite of mine despite the many MANY attempts to completely dilute the franchise LOL. That first Alien film is still one of the most terrifying and brilliant films and I love the design of the alien.
What other characters would you like to see?
Whilst I won’t be doing a “Laura Dern 365” in 2019 as was suggested to me via Twitter the other day I was intreagued enough to draw our favourite paleobotanist Dr Ellie Sattler from Jurassic Park.
I really enjoy doing these ones as they’re a lot more free form and the colours blend nicely.
I fell in love with Dark Matter almost instantly but sadly right now the only legal way I can finish watching the series is by buying it on iTunes and my budget for media is pretty tight these days so buying individual shows is not on the cards. So sadly I’ll wait until one of my THREE streaming services get it so I can finish that journey.
This was suggested by Paul over on Patreon and was really fun to do. I’m really enjoying these so we’ll see what else they come up with.
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Now that I’m more or less settled in to my routine for the Star Trek 365 I’m trying to push myself to continue drawing other stuff. To eas myself into that I turned to my Patreon followers who have been giving me some ideas of characters they’d like to see etc.
Kelli asked for Vice Admiral Holdo whom I had no idea who she was as at the time I hadn’t seen The Last Jedi. Since then of course I’ve seen the film and to be fair I’m not really objective when it comes to Laura Dern, I’ll love her in pretty much anything. She has an amazing look as Vice Admiral Holdo so it was a joy to knock out a quick pencil scribble of her character.
I do think she was kind of wasted in the film but then this is a whole conversation I have no interest in starting lol.
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I don’t care if you have a hoverboard and self lacing sneakers, you fall into the jaws of a Nile crocodile you’re not going back to the future.
You materialise, you step outside of your time machine to admire the volcano off in the distance and the five seconds too late you realise that you’re parked on the side of an equally active volcano.
You’re also not getting your deposit back on your time machine.
In complete fairness this one would be worse if you were a female time traveller and I’ve depicted the angry mob as colonial despite the fact that you had a much better chance of being burned at the stake in Europe around the 15th / 16th Century. One guy killed 500 people in a two year period because even if you were just accused that was good enough for him.
