Ladies and More Ladies

I have been really bad about scanning and posting, sorry!

         
Wednesday - I saw The Grey (for work! really, I swear) and felt the need to draw a badass swaddled in skins, so there you go.
Thursday - I always draw things too close to the gutter in my sketchbook, so here is the horror of my younger days a normal teenage girl recoiling from the inside of the page. Get thee to the periphery! (of my life.)
Friday - She was supposed to be doing that thing where your hand supports your head under your mouth but that pushes the lips up in a weird way ... I think perhaps it would have been more successful in colour but perhaps my skills just aren't nuanced enough yet to pull off something like this. Or maybe I should've, y'know, tried doing it myself in front of a mirror, as one is supposed to do ...
Saturday - One of my problems with women in fiction (and, often, in real life) is that they are 'wet' ... well here is one literally wet.

The Grey ... and inevitable related stuff

As I mentioned in my previous post, I saw The Grey for 100% genuine authentic work purposes last week. I figure I might as well throw a review up here, if for nothing else than practise, as it's been out for a while ...

For those not in the know, it is a film about a group of guys whose plane crashes in remote snowy wilderness and they try to get to civilisation while not getting eaten by wolves. ( Halfhearted attempts at criticism follow... )

Anyway, inevitable comparisons came up in my mind, and it got me thinking. I'm sure everyone who knows me is by now heartily sick of me telling them I'm not freezing to death in Antarctica, when they ask me how I'm doing,* but how would people who were in such a situation inject a dose of wryly optimistic perspective? I mean, what's worse than freezing to death in Antarctica?



*In the interest of journalistic integrity, this statement rarely comes in answer to 'how are you' but rather at the end of a long angsty conversation about the state of the industry/studio/department and the woes therein. It's important to remember how small our worries are.