Which perfectly good book was most brutally murdered by its movie adaptation?

sage_joch · 4 days

It's a terrible messy dreck. People constantly blame the studio for it being awful, which is part of it, but it's a combination of wrong casting and an overly long cut that still seems to miss all the points.

I didn't like 'The Road' either though, instead of just letting the actions show the nature of their life, they really forced the shit out of the sentimental parts, and don't even get me started on that weird as shit shot with Charlize Theron in the opera house that has no place being in the movie. Parts of it also seemed o make much less sense because of lack of snow, or ash, or anything, it was like they just turned down the saturation and everyone was immediately dirty and toothless.

I did love 'No Country for Old Men', though. And if you haven't seen it 'The Sunset Limited' is pretty amazing.

sage_joch · 4 days

All the Pretty Horses. Fuck you, Billy Bob Thorton.

whatshouldido2012 · 4 days

I'd quietly go to your other house mates and make them aware of the situation, see if anyone else is also being stolen from, and if they have more evidence to support your case, and then speak with them about what to do.

Glink · 4 days

I mean, if your want to draw more realistically, you still could take a life drawing class or find a sketch group (a lot of them meet weekly or monthly and you pay ten dollars and draw from a nude model for a couple hours). The sketch groups are particularly great if you aren't quite ready for criticism, but are also great if you are because then you can ask for tips on your work from other people. A lot of colleges offer drawing classes on weekends as well. I wouldn't say drawing realistically is the goal of these classes, either, though. You'll get better at realistic stuff, yes, but if you are going to draw people, especially, they really help you to visualize mannerisms which, to me, are more important than capturing individual features.

For the inking stuff, it took me a really long time to find the stuff I liked the best, but I started out with one of these. I still use the actual brush pen for certain things, but not the cartridge ink, but it really helped me to stop thinking about using it like a paintbrush and more like a pen or pencil. It's pretty much a very pointed synthetic round brush with a replaceable ink cartridge.

Glink · 5 days

The colored linework in my tumblr pieces is digital. All my digital pieces start out as black and white and grays, and I use photoshop to add color to everything. I used to work completely traditionally, and all the finished pieces on my website (http://stephengel.carbonmade.com/) are currently mostly painted pieces (there's like 5 that are colored pencil). I'm learning digital so that eventually I can do comics in a relatively streamlined and simpler way. All my painted pieces are acrylic paint. I'm not too experienced with gouache, I really only used it once, but to me it was similar to watercolor, which has always been my weakest medium. I'm too used to things staying put once they are dry.

May I ask what kind of look you are going for with your art? That can be the best springboard for trying out mediums for a lot of people.

Glink · 5 days

Thanks! I actually do my finishes on a separate sheet of paper than my sketches, and I use col-erase pencils instead of graphite. I put my sketch on a lightbox and put my finish paper over that and ink over that. The paper for sketches varies (usually something thin for light to pass through later), and the paper I ink on is Canson XL Mix Media. I generally use brushes for ink, but I do use a crow-quill nib every once in a while. I also do sprays of watered-down ink with a little spray bottle as well, to block in large darker areas.

Glink · 5 days

Thank you! I don't, unfortunately. I'm actually rather surprised people are so interested in the process! I'm actually still getting a handle on the whole digital thing myself. Up until recently everything I did was traditional medium. I'll try to put together a process post in the very near future, it would just end up as a very difficult wall of text on here.

Glink · 5 days

Thanks. I don't mind speedball, but it has a way softer, wetter feel to it. I prefer the sumi because it has a shellac-like feel to it, so it gets gummy and makes for really good dry-brush texture. It also stays really black until it's thinned a lot. I use prismacolor markers over it, and it stays put, but I noticed that the speedball tends to fuzz just a little. I tend to really chop and corner when I draw lines, but if you're doing something with really fluid strokes, the speedball might be better.

Glink · 5 days

http://www.flickr.com/photos/35205917@N08/6167437701/ Thanks. I definitely do a sketch first, I use prismacolor col-erase pencils in case I need to separate things by color, and because graphite smudges really easily. I do lots of little thumbnails beforehand also, to work out the kinks in composition and solidify my ideas (they're mostly stick figures).

Glink · 5 days

JONLAINGGGGGGGG!!!! Hi!!!!

Glink · 6 days

Yay! Thanks!

sumsh · 6 days

Whoever edits Tarantino movies for daytime tv should win an award for editing mastery. I was watching Pulp Fiction on AMC sometime back and they edited out the existence of the gimp entirely, and the scene still worked. Somehow. It was like some kind of glitch in the matrix.

aguirre1 · 8 days

I can form a bubble on the end of my tongue and blow it off so that it remains intact, until it hits the floor.

Ahdoes · 13 days

In Transmetropolitan, there's a group of people who try to become 'greys'. They're more of a cult than anything, though.

Broken_Slinky · 15 days

Fruit Loops, took one bite after not having them for about four years and couldn't even swallow them.

mohara33 · 15 days

SOON?

Fonik_Freak · 17 days

Mini Grendel arm.

country_hacker · 20 days

Rat King)

provaros · 21 days

Looks like the silicone life creatures in BLAME.

Romoraic · 25 days

You kind of have it backwards. Comics were originally mostly for adults, and at some point in the earlier half of the century, very subversive stuff became really popular (people really like smut and violence). Comics back then were also much more varied in terms of genres than most people tend to think, horror and noir stuff was huge (romantic stuff was so big, that at some point females were the biggest comic book audience). Censorship laws came into practice and pretty much wrecked the comics industry for a while in the states, until its grip was slowly loosened and pretty much void by the late eighties. If you look at comics from any other country in the period of time the comic code was in effect, you'll realize that since they had no censorship laws, they were free to be mature and subversive and crazy, and there is a much wider range of types of comics as well.

BlackMercury15 · 26 days

Actually, Stan Lee apparently refused Wizard World in Philly, at least. When I was interning at a company in 2009, my boss and a worker there made some asshole comments about Pittsburgh (where I'm from), and I kindly reminded them that at least Pittsburgh wasn't so inhospitable that even Stan Lee wouldn't show up to their comic-cons.

thebes · 28 days

I can feel this hurting in my head. Do you still have a lump? I still have one from a head injury years ago (it's not noticeable except to touch).

ahdanielsan · 29 days

At least three of the movies on that list are movies that took lots of reference from Moebius and not a word about it. Super shame.

Glink

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