Mar 102017
Carja
Mar 072017
Mar 062017
Hello Top Men and Top Women! Not a lot to blog about this week, so let’s get right to it.
As all of you Topsters know, I’m a bit of a wrestling fan. But did you know that there is a local wrestling scene in my hometown? Well I did, but for some reason I hadn’t attended a show since sometime in 1999 or 2000 when a friend of mine was wrestling on the card. After one or two shows I stopped going. It wasn’t that the shows were bad, I don’t know, I just didn’t go. Well that changed this past weekend when I went to my first local show in 16+ years and I have to say it was a fun time. The venue is actually worse than back in the day, but the matches were entertaining so that’s a win. I will definitely have to go back.
Going from the local indie wrestling scene to the big time, last night was WWE Fastlane which was…a disappointment. At least my guy Cesaro made the card but it was a throwaway last-minute match that did him no favors. The worst thing was they took the belt off of Kevin Owens who has been the singular best thing on Raw, to put it on Goldberg, so they can add even more hype to the already-way-too-overhyped-doesn’t-have-a-chance-to-deliver match between him and Brock Lesnar at Wrestlemania in four weeks. Well darn.
Between wrestling shows, I spent Sunday afternoon at Les Dés Truqués and had myself a nice time chatting about board games (go figure) and got to play a couple while I was at it. One was a pirate-themed dice game with nifty plastic gold coins and the other was Atlantis, a nicely done game about fleeing the sinking island. I enjoyed both. Incidentally, for those curious, the games I couldn’t remember last week were King’s Forge and Ugo!. We discussed the idea of setting up some campaign games (like Mice and Mystics or TMNT) for Sunday afternoons so I might just get an opportunity to play through those yet.
That’s all for this week. Have a good seven and we’ll do this all again next Monday. Carja V.
Mar 032017
Flash! Baa-aack! If you get it, you get it. Anyway, let’s get to this week’s flashback. 🙂
Simon Tam is one of the most brilliant minds in the Alliance. Top two percent and what not. A top surgeon. But his sister was even smarter. When she sent him coded messages of how they were hurting her at her new school, he did everything he could to break her out. Eventually he succeeded and he sought to escape with her onboard Serenity. Having lived in comfort his whole life, he’s most at odds with living as an outlaw on the edge of space. Still, he somehow manages to hold his own and that’s not nothing.
Here’s Big Oonch as Simon. I had a bit of trouble colouring the vest. The shine lines came out really garbled so I went back a week after I had “finished and started over giving the vest shading its own layer so it wouldn’t ruin the rest of the picture. Other tidbit. I drew this set early but for some reason, I left colouring it until nearly the end of the set.
Here’s the comparison to the original. This was my least favorite piece of the original set. The brush tool I used to ink it was too thin and the shakiness of my lines stands out so much. While the clothes aren’t super flashy to draw, the new one is a ton better.
That’s all for now. Until next time, this is me saying “Until next time!”
Mar 022017
