Illusional Reality

Since I'm most likely going to see Predators tonight I dusted off another of my old drawings, this time it's of a battle damaged predator. I could spend a huge amount of time doing the dreads but this will do for now.

I was going through an old folder when I came across some sketches I did a few years ago. I had completely forgotten they existed and as I sat flipping through them and thinking I should really start drawing again I realised that it was amazing these pictures ha lasted this long and I should make some digital copies before I inadvertently throw away the originals.

A few scans and a cup of tea later I'd manage to get my favourites scanned in and safe from over zealous cleaning hands. Looking through them I decided that I should have a play around with them in photoshop, I was never very good at drawing in colour so maybe I could do with photoshop what I was never able to with pencil.

I picked a drawing of Red XIII from Final Fantasy VII since he's pretty basically coloured and as good a place as any to start. It was near impossible to select the areas defined by pencil so i had to first outline the whole thing again then it just became a game of playing the the fill tool.

I've added the original and the edited version so that you can see the outcome.

This is taken from Yahoo! News..

Italian thief thanks police for rescuing him from his victims

An Italian thief thanked police officers for arresting him and putting an end to a beating from Korean tourists whom he had robbed in Rome, police said on Monday. Skip related content
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"I must thank you, they were massacring me," the 48-year-old criminal told police after he was arrested near the Theatre of Marcellus, one of the monuments in Rome's historic centre.

The thief, from the northern region of Liguria, stole a handbag from a Korean family when they were not paying attention. He threatened the family with a knife when he was spotted and then tried to flee.

Two men from the family, in their twenties, chased him for several hundred metres before they got him down with taekwondo moves. They disarmed the thief and continued to beat him.

A patrolling police officer intervened, separated the three and arrested the thief immediately.

"Normally tourists will just call us and report the incidents," the officer said. "In this case, the two got really excited and could have seriously injured the thief."

The young Koreans left after they got the handbag back. The thief was transferred to a prison in Rome and will face robbery charges.

Armed robbery in Rome experienced a sharp decline last year with 4,246 cases reported in 2008 compared with 5,133 in 2007.

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Got sent one of the most time consuming links earlier today, I present for your amusement, Shipment of Fail, some of the images are ok others are hysterical. I just couldn't stop myself from clicking next and next and next...

Every now and then I randomly come across bands or songs that I like via Pandora or Music-Map, but rarely though do I find a song i like as much as "Call Me" by Shinedown after listening to the song a few times I got their latest album, The Sound of Madness, and I'm very impressed, they come across, to me, as a slightly heavier 3 Doors Down.

The album is a great mix, easy to listen to and not realise its been on repeat for 2 or 3 hours. they say "the proof of the pudding is in the eating" so why not check them out for yourself.