Finally finished The Watchmen novel.

Great... but what an anti-climax!?

Looking forward to see how hollywodd has tackled the complex charater profiles, storyline and imagery. From what I have read, generally people who have enjoyed the film have not read the novel, and those that have read the novel tend to dismiss the film as 'rubbish'. I hope the case is not the same for me - do not know whether I could stand 3 hours and 5 minutes of a film which is 'rubbish'.

Anyway, here is the next drawing.



And here is a very quick digital edit to give an idea of composition. I plan to now stick them onto a canvas and try to work some tradtional methods into the backdrop before any more digital editing.

Okay so I was gone longer than expected. Again.
But I have been slightly busy...

First off, I went to see The Unborn at the cinema. And as the review stated in a previous post I made, the film was rubbish. Lack of story. Not scary. Cliched. The list could go on. But hey, it showed me how not to shoot my own story.

I have also been reading the Watchmen graphic novel. Do not like the artwork at all, but the stroy is very well told and has some interested sequences. Going to wait to see the new film after I have finished the novel.

Lastly I have begun preliminary drawings for a polished scene where Michael is getting angry and is looking for his children - ends up putting a pair of sheers through the thigh of someone who won't speak. Here is the first quick concept I have done;



And here is the beginning of a more polished drawing of angry Michael, for the same image.