Sunday, June 25, 2006

  Hey everybody. How’s it going?

It doesn’t look like anyone saw my post yesterday, so if you haven’t I’d greatly appreciate it if you’d go back and read that first really quick (it’s relatively short, and this post builds upon that one).

So anyway, guess what I was up doing ‘till nearly 4 AM last night.
Yep, same thing as the night before last. *0* EVA is frickken’ awesome.
I’m currently on episode 3 of volume 3, meaning I’m almost halfway done with it. Man, that series is addictive…..despite Asuka’s voice. *_* I have no idea why, but I can’t seen to tear myself away from the dubbed-version and switch to subtitles like I said I would. Probably ‘cause Shinji’s dad’s voice sounds so cool….though his is the only one that sounds cool. Like I said yesterday, EVA’s like the majority of animes, meaning the dubbed voices SUCK!!! @_@ Seriously, Asuka’s voice is like ground-up glass being packed into my ear-canals with a wooden plunger. O_o’ Her shrill screeching is positively ear-splitting (that bitch ain’t from Germany, either).
Everyone calls Shinji a whiner, but after about 3 days living with Asuka, I would have to kill myself….and I might just have to draw a satirical cartoon about that and post it here. XD

But anyway, despite being 10-years-old this year (older than Cowboy Bebop), EVA’s animation still has me mesmerized. It has the technological intricacy and detail found in Akira and the facial-design, expressions and animation all nearly rival Akamatsu’s work (it’s good to see an anime that doesn’t make the faces look goofy. Lord knows we don’t need another Cyborg 009 or Boys Over Flowers).
In addition, I love the color schemes. Shinji looks OK, but Asuka and especially Rei look fantastic in their Plug-suits. A lot of the environment-shots are absolute works of art, and the detail used in the lighting is spot-on.

So, anybody else here an EVA-fan I can talk to? *_* Without spoiling anything for me, that is.

Here’s today’s Art-Feature:
“Twins” by Valkyrie Sorrow:



This isn’t normally my preferred style of anime artwork, but here I’ll make an exception.
First thing to be noticed is….the colors. @_@ They’re smooth and vibrant as can be.
In addition, the lining is smooth and crisp, and accentuates the beauty of the colors even further.
I also love the abstract layering used for the background. It actually came out better than drawing a realistic background, and I failed to notice until now.
As is appropriate for the current month, this is a summer pic. And on top of that, it’s a cute one. <3

But as for the subject-matter….I honestly have no idea what’s going on. We can assume that these 2 are the (fraternal) twins mentioned in the title (notice they have the same unique eyes; the crystal blue and the teal-green), but as for their actual actions, I’m not completely sure what’s going on between them.
Sooooo….I want you guys to explain it to me. ^_^ What do you see here? Explain the actions and/or event taking place based on what we can see here. This’ll be a fun artistic exercise. ^o^
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