Luke Devlin's writing, design, etc.
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A couple recent(-ish) album art pieces for Tim Halperin. Usually I figure out a decent concept within two or three drafts. The Radioactive one took me ten.
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Whale.
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I subbed an art class a while back and spent the hours drawing. As I’ve mentioned, I’m really no good at coloring. I tried my hand at colored pencils for the first time in forever, trying to combine colors. Not the best. I did like the way Finn has an Iceman look to him.
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day ten: draw something you can’t live without.
I was gonna pick oxygen.
Until I was driving to the library today and saw this big dude walking (home, I assume) with a bag of toilet paper he just purchased. I was thinking about tough he looked and the small irony of him carrying said toiletries. Then, in the rear-view mirror, I saw him break into a clumsy sprint and leap straight into a puddle on the sidewalk.
I suppose if you aren’t living with surprises like that, you’re just not living.
Also, I need a colorist. I’m terrible at coloring. B&W forever. -
Drawing challenge, day 9: draw your favorite cartoon character.
Right, because I could totally pick a favorite.
I decided to pick one I haven’t drawn before: Bolin from Legend of Korra. He’s upset about something. -
30-day drawing challenge, day 8: something with your favorite color.
I don’t have much of a favorite color. I do have a palette that I use for a lot of stuff, like this website. I used the red for Blossom.
Powerpuff Girls has been on my mind ever since I learned that Cartoon Network was rebooting the series. One of my favorite parts of the animation was the way the trails behind the girls were these unbroken streaks of light, reminiscent of Tron’s light cycles. So I took my favorite part and changed it with the paint motion effects similar to Street Fighter IV.
I broke a lot of rules with this one. I don’t like using stock splatter effects and I don’t like putting work out there that I’m not satisfied with. But I gotta move forward on this drawing challenge because I said I would. -
In the younger days of Songza, they asked me to draw a little picture for them. Now it’s in their HQ’s kitchen. Makes me happy.
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Leave Some Things Sacred…Just Some
Quick thought…
I wonder if reading—particularly in “young adults”—would be encouraged by not adapting books into movies.
I recently caught The Perks of Being Wallflower: The Movie. It was about as straightforward of an adaptation of a book as I’ve ever seen. I enjoyed it and I have many peers that cherished the book in their teenhood (myself excluded) that also enjoyed it, so I guess Chbosky & Co. did their job well.
I’m glad they left out all the smoking.I, among millions of others, enjoy the plethora of excellent young adult fiction and am pained to see the film adaptations fall so short time after time. Perks: The Movie, in my opinion, effectively captured the emotional weight of the book, particularly in the last act.
Harry Potter tries, at least.Anyone who has experienced both the Potter books and films will quickly remind you that the magic (figurative) of the story is far more affecting in the novels. The films are wine coolers and the books are port.
I just want everyone to try the port.Catcher in the Rye has never been filmed, per Salinger’s request and other reasons. It’s a book you still have to earn. You can’t get it in an hour and a half. Because of this, Catcher still maintains its luster, its magic, its importance.
A recent great YA novel, John Green’s The Fault in Our Stars, is one I would never wish to be a movie. I want kids to earn it. I’ve heard stories from English teachers that claim it as the new gateway drug of literacy in their high school students. A film adaptation wouldn’t completely wreck that, but it wouldn’t help much.
In summary: Please, Hollywood, keep making adaptations of the sub-par YA fiction like Twilight and the Hunger Games. Leave the good stuff alone. Kids still need motivation to be literate and cheapening the magic doesn’t help.
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30-day drawing challenge.
Day seven: draw your family.Who you gonna call? My bro, me, and my sis.
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30-Day drawing challenge.
Day 6: something you’ve never drawn before.
I couldn’t think of anything I hadn’t evereverever drawn before so I just made something up.
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