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The Words & Pictures Podcast Episode 5

Episode 5: Creators Create is now online!

Go get it!

-Otis

Soldier & Child

Photoshop.

A little over two hours.

On a side note . . . I don't think I've had as much fun drawing something as I have while working on the piece. Not since I was a kid, that's for sure. I feel like something clicked while doing this one, I let myself loosen up and not worry about laying down perfect lines and it felt exhilarating. Expect more like this from me.

EDIT:  My wife gave me some tips to improve this piece and since she knows what she's talking about, I acquiesced.  Apparently, the fundamental rules of contrast and saturation have fallen out of my head in recent months as I explore new ways of working.  I'll try to amend my ways, dear.

-Otis

The Blues 2

Some sketches from the last few days.

Drawn with Col-Erase blue pencils.

-Otis

Film Faves 2008

If you'd like to hear my thoughts on these films, go listen to The Words & Pictures Podcast!

Previous Film Fave Entries:

• 2000
• 2001
• 2002
• 2003
• 2004
• 2005
• 2006
• 2007

-Otis

Movies I've Watched Recently

Bolt - Loved it.  Loooooooooved it.  My second favorite animated film of 2008, after WALL*E.  I haven't laughed that hard in I don't know when.  It's very close to bumping something from my 2008 Film Faves list . . . I just can't figure out which one to bump.

Charlie Wilson's War - A solid, entertaining film about a relatively unknown story from the pre-history of the War on Terror.  But I wonder if Mike Nichols and Aaron Sorkin (one of my favorite writers) truly understand and take to heart the ultimate moral conclusion of their own movie.

Frost/Nixon - Seek out and watch the actual interviews, instead.  They're more enlightening and most assuredly more factual (even David Frost has derided the film for its narrative liberties).  This is Ron Howard's first bad film, IMHO.

Gran Torino - "Unforgiven 2".  A good film and Clint is great in it (as always), but he's covered this ground before in better films.  Still, ya gotta be impressed by the guy.  At 78, he can still hit a solid double on both sides of the camera.

Hello Dolly - I felt like I was missing something, being such a fan of WALL*E and never having seen the film that features so prominently in the story of that lonely robot.  I'm happy to report that I enjoyed it.

Surf's Up - Surprisingly enjoyable and beautiful to look at.  Jeff Bridges is hilarious doing a repeat performance as "The Dude".

Wanted - Enjoyable, for the most part.  But I must be getting old, because bloody, fetishistic violence just makes me uneasy these days.

-Otis

Eye Candy

Mihajlo Dimitrovski - This guy has been an inspiration to me lately.  I wish I had the artistic cajones to be as loose with my work.

Amy Bennet - Haunting, fascinating paintings based on scale models that form a narrative when you have viewed them all.

Matthieu Forichon - Another digital painter who has influenced me recenlty.

Goro Fujita - Check out his iPhone paintings.  Very cool.

Régis Donsimoni - A Frech comic book artist that I would give my left arm to work with (I need my right arm for drawing, sorry).

-Otis

Nauticlue

Photoshop.

Two hours.

EDIT: I changed the title of this after an idea struck me. I couldn't resist.

-Otis

Indiana Jones and the Staff of Kings

The trailer for this new Wii game is more entertaining than the last film:

I'll definitely be picking this up when it comes out.

-Otis

NBS Nightly News with Ted Philips, March 11th 1970

Wolverine And The X-Men

This new show, premiering tonight, feels more like The Uncanny X-Men than any other film or TV series that I've ever seen:

I hope the actual show is as good as the preview.

-Otis