I'm not really a painting dude... and to be honest...i kinda hate painting, or coloring... i guess cos i'm very weak at colors. Most of the drawings i used to do were all black and white, pencils, pen or marker. Even with marker, my coloring is still pretty bad. :/ After spending near to 2 weeks of scouring for tutorials and books, i'm finally roughly on the right track...i think... :P Painter is a program that requires 80% personal skills and 20% porgram support.... meaning that alot of the finished work depends alot on the skills of the artist being able to do traditional art or not. Sigh...that is like killer for me...cos i'm only familiar with pencil shading, pen shading and inking etc...
After spending near to half a day trying to paint a potrait...i'm almost giving up...LOL! Worse part is, the image is pre-drawn...and i'm following a tutorial...Sigh...its really hard. Well, at least i can save on the washing of palettes and brushes. LOL! Well, hope this goes some where...
Having slacked for 2 weeks, and looking for materials "ocassionally"... its almost the end of my holidays. Hope i can at least accomplish something before this holiday ends.
Been playing Prince of Persia 08, its pretty fun, jus tt it has no link to the previous series of this game title. The gameplay is somewat similar, but combat wise is very idiot proof. The main objective of the game is more of a doing stunts and getting to difficult places with the ability of the character to acquire orbs rather than fightin monsters. In short, its like a super mario 3d complex...LOL! But its still fun and challenging to play if we embrace the new style of gameplay. i would rate it a 9/10. Woot~~ GTA4 for pc was a disappointment...cos i think my pc is unable to support the graphics and gameplay... Call of Duty 4 is really fun, simulating real-time warfare, playing it is like i'm in a real war time enviroment...
Apart from games, i guess i spent some time looking for some ebooks like 卫斯里 by 倪匡. A series of novel that i used to read during my poly times... its basically a series of sci-fi novel revolving around this dude called Wisely. I'm sure most of us would be familiar with this dude, having so many serialisation of this novel. Well, i still prefer reading it from the novel though...cos most of the serialisation is pretty crap... :P The novel had alot of really interesting scientific assumption that we can see in some of the sci-fi movie nowadays... I found alot of e-comics as well, most of them i wanted to buy long ago but could no longer get hold of...guess i would have to jus read them electronically.
I guess, i've been on a Movie rampage recently...watching up to 3 movies in a roll in a week...LOL! The day the earth stood still was good....nothing special...but good enuff for me...i really like the way they brought out the movie. The concept of a bio-space suit is really interesting as well, afterall most of the time, we think of the suit as fabrics or mechanical suits. As usual, Keanu Reeve is super suave and cool....woot...The whole show, kinda mocks humanity, showing human thinking that they're all powerful with their toys. But how it was all nothing in front of the more superior race.
After that i watched IP MAN, omg...its friggin good. Being a martial art craze dude... i've read about alot of different chinese martial art... especially those that are more uncommon...Being a fan of Bruce Lee, i've actually seen Ip Man's picture alot of times...jus that i din know it was him...LOL. Most of Bruce Lee's books that demonstrates certain moves have Ip Man in them. This show really showed alot of good moves and fight scene. No stupid bullet time...no gimmicks. At least to me, i was kept at the edge of my seat thru-out the show. And yes i would definitely watch it again....A side note, for some people who dunno who the japanese general is, he's the dude who starred in GTO with Takashi Sorimachi as one of his student. The last show, which i watched yesterday, Yes Man was really funny and heart warming as well.... nothing much can be say for this show, jus that you really have to watch it to laugh ur ass off.... LOL.