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shoebox_project fans. Oh, how I love it. Both the writing and the artwork.
Although reading stuff like this does embolden the little voice in my head that asks why I bother with my comics, when they'll never be this good. I've drawn three panels of the new one but I think I'll start over. Partly because I sort of forgot that Sirius is supposed to be a gross zombie. See, part of the problem is that the only good reference I have for figure drawing is this book I got, with pictures of a bunch of hunky naked male models. Um. It's intended for artists. *shifty look* Anyway. There isn't much body-type diversity in there. And a lot of the poses are weird. I seriously need to take a proper figure drawing class. With a bunch of skinny male models, so I can draw Snape, Lupin and Draco.
I have much less trouble drawing women.
Back toshoebox_project: The writers are obviously very well-read. I like that. I need to read more. It's funny: I just read part of Romeo and Juliet last night and then this morning, I read the bit where Remus is having all the dreams. I haven't read The Count of Monte Cristo. I think I have a copy of it lying around. I guess I need to stop re-reading books. Like OotP. I've been reading a lot of non-fiction lately. Like, for the year and a half since I graduated from university. And while I was a student, my leisure reading was mostly fantasy (Wheel of Time, LotR, HP) because I didn't have the energy for anything challenging. I read part of Wuthering Heights but I wasn't impressed and didn't get far.
I ought to compile a list of Books I Ought to Read. There's a project for you all! Tell me some books/plays/poems people make allusions to frequently, so I can add them to the list. Off the top of my head, here's my list so far (leaving out the obvious series - HP, Hitchhiker's Guide, LotR - that practically everyone's read anyway) (also leaving out, with a few exceptions, nonfiction):
Have already read:
1984
Brave New World
Animal Farm
Hamlet
Macbeth
Romeo and Juliet
The Tempest
The Crucible
Death of a Salesman
A Doll's House
Crimes of the Heart
Gulliver's Travels
The Inferno (bits of it)
Beowulf
The Importance of Being Earnest
The Tell-Tale Heart
The Pit and the Pendulum
The Raven
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
The Odyssey
Oliver Twist
A Christmas Carol
Great Expectations
Sense and Sensibility (but I skipped around and mostly read the bits with Brandon. heh.)
Jane Eyre
Lord of the Flies
Heart of Darkness (mostly)
The Grapes of Wrath (sort of)
Of Mice and Men (actually liked it)
parts of One Thousand and One Arabian Nights (including the naughty bits)
Edith Hamilton's Mythology
A Passage to India
as little of A Farewell to Arms I could get away with reading and still write an essay on it
Slaughterhouse 5
Timequake
Breakfast of Champions
To Kill a Mockingbird
Catcher in the Rye
Cyrano de Bergerac (read it and seen it performed) (this remains my all-time favorite play)
The Wizard of Oz (just the first one)
Call of the Wild
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (and the inferior The Adventures of Tom Sawyer)
Fahrenheit 451 (didn't enjoy it nearly as much as I thought I would - too heavy-handed for my taste)
The Great Gatsby (loved it)
The Island of Dr. Moreau
The Metamorphosis
The Joy Luck Club
I know I'll look at my bookshelf when I go home this evening and realize I've left off some and want to kick myself. Anyway.
Need to read:
The Iliad
The Aeneid
The Three Musketeers
The Count of Monte Cristo
more Shakespeare
stuff by Asimov
stuff about the Arthurian legend - I did actually buy a copy of Mists of Avalon, though I've yet to read it
probably more Dickens, though I don't like it so much
probably Hemmingway, though I really don't like it
probably Faulkner
The Communist Manifesto
Catch-22
definitely more poetry
The Outsiders
Little Women
Don Quixote
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Crime and Punishment
The Brothers Karamozov
Anna Karenina
The Scarlet Letter (though I saw the movie, starring fine-ass Gary Oldman, so I don't know if I really need to read it)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Moby Dick
Return of the Native (though I have the book on tape, read by really really fine-ass Alan Rickman)
Alright, that's all that I can think of. Got any more for me?
shoebox_project fans. Oh, how I love it. Both the writing and the artwork.Although reading stuff like this does embolden the little voice in my head that asks why I bother with my comics, when they'll never be this good. I've drawn three panels of the new one but I think I'll start over. Partly because I sort of forgot that Sirius is supposed to be a gross zombie. See, part of the problem is that the only good reference I have for figure drawing is this book I got, with pictures of a bunch of hunky naked male models. Um. It's intended for artists. *shifty look* Anyway. There isn't much body-type diversity in there. And a lot of the poses are weird. I seriously need to take a proper figure drawing class. With a bunch of skinny male models, so I can draw Snape, Lupin and Draco.
I have much less trouble drawing women.
Back to
shoebox_project: The writers are obviously very well-read. I like that. I need to read more. It's funny: I just read part of Romeo and Juliet last night and then this morning, I read the bit where Remus is having all the dreams. I haven't read The Count of Monte Cristo. I think I have a copy of it lying around. I guess I need to stop re-reading books. Like OotP. I've been reading a lot of non-fiction lately. Like, for the year and a half since I graduated from university. And while I was a student, my leisure reading was mostly fantasy (Wheel of Time, LotR, HP) because I didn't have the energy for anything challenging. I read part of Wuthering Heights but I wasn't impressed and didn't get far.I ought to compile a list of Books I Ought to Read. There's a project for you all! Tell me some books/plays/poems people make allusions to frequently, so I can add them to the list. Off the top of my head, here's my list so far (leaving out the obvious series - HP, Hitchhiker's Guide, LotR - that practically everyone's read anyway) (also leaving out, with a few exceptions, nonfiction):
Have already read:
1984
Brave New World
Animal Farm
Hamlet
Macbeth
Romeo and Juliet
The Tempest
The Crucible
Death of a Salesman
A Doll's House
Crimes of the Heart
Gulliver's Travels
The Inferno (bits of it)
Beowulf
The Importance of Being Earnest
The Tell-Tale Heart
The Pit and the Pendulum
The Raven
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
The Odyssey
Oliver Twist
A Christmas Carol
Great Expectations
Sense and Sensibility (but I skipped around and mostly read the bits with Brandon. heh.)
Jane Eyre
Lord of the Flies
Heart of Darkness (mostly)
The Grapes of Wrath (sort of)
Of Mice and Men (actually liked it)
parts of One Thousand and One Arabian Nights (including the naughty bits)
Edith Hamilton's Mythology
A Passage to India
as little of A Farewell to Arms I could get away with reading and still write an essay on it
Slaughterhouse 5
Timequake
Breakfast of Champions
To Kill a Mockingbird
Catcher in the Rye
Cyrano de Bergerac (read it and seen it performed) (this remains my all-time favorite play)
The Wizard of Oz (just the first one)
Call of the Wild
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (and the inferior The Adventures of Tom Sawyer)
Fahrenheit 451 (didn't enjoy it nearly as much as I thought I would - too heavy-handed for my taste)
The Great Gatsby (loved it)
The Island of Dr. Moreau
The Metamorphosis
The Joy Luck Club
I know I'll look at my bookshelf when I go home this evening and realize I've left off some and want to kick myself. Anyway.
Need to read:
The Iliad
The Aeneid
The Three Musketeers
The Count of Monte Cristo
more Shakespeare
stuff by Asimov
stuff about the Arthurian legend - I did actually buy a copy of Mists of Avalon, though I've yet to read it
probably more Dickens, though I don't like it so much
probably Hemmingway, though I really don't like it
probably Faulkner
The Communist Manifesto
Catch-22
definitely more poetry
The Outsiders
Little Women
Don Quixote
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Crime and Punishment
The Brothers Karamozov
Anna Karenina
The Scarlet Letter (though I saw the movie, starring fine-ass Gary Oldman, so I don't know if I really need to read it)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Moby Dick
Return of the Native (though I have the book on tape, read by really really fine-ass Alan Rickman)
Alright, that's all that I can think of. Got any more for me?
