Showing posts with label Game of Thrones. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Game of Thrones. Show all posts
Wednesday, 12 July 2017
Speed Painting 61.1: Game of Thrones Season 7 - Heroes
A new season of Game of Thrones and a speed painting to follow. Been doing this on an annual basis now since it's one of my favorite shows of all time. Love too much about it.
I saw a wonderful piece by Even Ventrue that was done on this tone of some samurai character. Inspired me to try the same style on this one. I will be doing a Villains variation next to finish it in the next 10 days and upload it, similar tone and feel.
I did have the right and left with backgrounds, however I ran out of time to create them on the same level as these 5 characters so I removed them (for now). I will work on them and upload them on artstation/dev art and link it at the bottom for all to see. I think once I finish that aspect, the series will look even better. :)
The hype is real for season 7, and my body is not ready. Also, I have not seen any of the main trailers so I go in with fresh eyes. I'm so fucking excited.
Monday, 8 June 2015
Game of Thrones Depiction of History & People's Reactions
Game of Thrones is one the biggest shows on TV, and it might be argued that it is HBO's most successful tv show of all time. It's already broken a few records and one episode got ratings to a level that even the Sopranos never did. It's one of my favorite TV shows, and it is the non-complete book adaptation from George R.R. Martin's 'A Song of Ice & Fire'. I like to call him GRRIM since that is the tone of his entire story.
People die in Game of Thrones. A lot. People die so much that there's people out there that say that it is for shock value. While I do think there are very few and rare cases that people die because something had to happen, stating that as a general statement is utter bullshit. Maybe you should go watch some more comic book movie or comic where the hero always wins, and dead characters get brought back to life as if the 7 dragon balls are there to be used at will. They either find a reason, or there is universe #31241512 that all those people live. And that's fine if you prefer that kind of story that has no real sense of danger, but don't bs me with nonsense that people die for pure shock value. Have you read a history book? Maybe that's your problem. Get to reading and educate yourself, quench the thirst of knowledge and learn that people died a lot. Just as brutally as GoT sans the magic segments. Now, I will jump into spoiler territory below so if you are not caught up to Episode 9 of Season 5, it's time for you to book it out of here and catch up.
So there isn't a nice way to say it but on episode 9, but Stannis the Mannis did it. He burned his daughter alive to win the war and become the King of the seven Kingdoms. They even kept it long enough to hear her screams until she died. It was pretty damn horrific. I was literally wincing throughout that segment, as I felt uncomfortable throughout the entire event. Several people then posted that they are tired of seeing deaths for the sake of it which is wrong. I hoped he wouldn't do it, but it made complete sense that he did. Stannis' introduction is burning his brother in law. He later kills his actual brother and states later that he never loved the other one. I was just hoping he wouldn't do it.
These people that complain about violence, sex, deaths of good characters to me just don't want to face reality. Many things like this happened in slightly different manners. I hear there was no magic in the past, but I want to see the proof. But really, people were pieces of shit. It's nice to see a writer write a book with very gray (and realistic characters) and become incredibly famous due to it. The people that state that only bad guys win are completely delusional, forgetting that there is a very balanced way of good and bad winning like in the real world. Or the pseudo-intellectual snobs that make me roll my eyes that state GoT is so predictable because the bad guys always win. Their attitude atop their high horse, you have to wonder when they slip and fall on top of the pool of bullshit. Man those people aggravate me.
I agree in season 5 the foreshadowing for most storylines is obvious and I can see people's point but overall? I'd wager less than 1% are anywhere near on point of calling the plot points. Bad things happen all the time, and I would bet the people that don't want to see these events that want to stop watching are the same people that live in a bubble and don't want to know about the thousands of atrocities that happen in the world even in today's time. Must be wonderful to live in a blissful ignorance bubble, even though I am also an offender on many occasions.
I'm thinking that I should really stop swearing and cussing, adding so much color to my vocabulary on here. However, since I don't think anyone actually reads it, I'm going to continue doing it.
Ohh and Stannis...
People die in Game of Thrones. A lot. People die so much that there's people out there that say that it is for shock value. While I do think there are very few and rare cases that people die because something had to happen, stating that as a general statement is utter bullshit. Maybe you should go watch some more comic book movie or comic where the hero always wins, and dead characters get brought back to life as if the 7 dragon balls are there to be used at will. They either find a reason, or there is universe #31241512 that all those people live. And that's fine if you prefer that kind of story that has no real sense of danger, but don't bs me with nonsense that people die for pure shock value. Have you read a history book? Maybe that's your problem. Get to reading and educate yourself, quench the thirst of knowledge and learn that people died a lot. Just as brutally as GoT sans the magic segments. Now, I will jump into spoiler territory below so if you are not caught up to Episode 9 of Season 5, it's time for you to book it out of here and catch up.
So there isn't a nice way to say it but on episode 9, but Stannis the Mannis did it. He burned his daughter alive to win the war and become the King of the seven Kingdoms. They even kept it long enough to hear her screams until she died. It was pretty damn horrific. I was literally wincing throughout that segment, as I felt uncomfortable throughout the entire event. Several people then posted that they are tired of seeing deaths for the sake of it which is wrong. I hoped he wouldn't do it, but it made complete sense that he did. Stannis' introduction is burning his brother in law. He later kills his actual brother and states later that he never loved the other one. I was just hoping he wouldn't do it.
These people that complain about violence, sex, deaths of good characters to me just don't want to face reality. Many things like this happened in slightly different manners. I hear there was no magic in the past, but I want to see the proof. But really, people were pieces of shit. It's nice to see a writer write a book with very gray (and realistic characters) and become incredibly famous due to it. The people that state that only bad guys win are completely delusional, forgetting that there is a very balanced way of good and bad winning like in the real world. Or the pseudo-intellectual snobs that make me roll my eyes that state GoT is so predictable because the bad guys always win. Their attitude atop their high horse, you have to wonder when they slip and fall on top of the pool of bullshit. Man those people aggravate me.
I agree in season 5 the foreshadowing for most storylines is obvious and I can see people's point but overall? I'd wager less than 1% are anywhere near on point of calling the plot points. Bad things happen all the time, and I would bet the people that don't want to see these events that want to stop watching are the same people that live in a bubble and don't want to know about the thousands of atrocities that happen in the world even in today's time. Must be wonderful to live in a blissful ignorance bubble, even though I am also an offender on many occasions.
I'm thinking that I should really stop swearing and cussing, adding so much color to my vocabulary on here. However, since I don't think anyone actually reads it, I'm going to continue doing it.
Ohh and Stannis...
Friday, 3 April 2015
Speed Painting 34: Game of Thrones Season 5
Here's my new speed painting for the month. Came out a day late. I'm going to find out the programmers who work for Google/Youtube and fight them. Ok, I need to calm down a little bit pretending to be an internet tough guy. I won't talk about the description or my process too much as it runs into 'have you seen season 4 of Game of Thrones' territory.
Monday, 7 July 2014
Game of Thrones special, how good writting of one series is ruining my enjoyment of others
I am a massive fan of Game of Thrones. I haven't read the books yet, and I'd imagine that short statement is going to send alerts to the snobby GoT book readers who want to ruin the enjoyment of this series to everyone who hasn't read the books because they're assholes. Jesus, what a way to start, insulting the only follower of my blog and making them run away. Upon finishing season 4, I went to see the new X-men movie which many people were raving on about it being so amazing and the best one yet. It's not, First Class is by far the best X-men movie (I tend to forget my opinion isn't worth as much as I think it is).
very minor spoilers of X-Men: Days of Future Past
After finishing the movie, I had a bit of an awkward reaction. I didn't know what to feel. It ended on a really good note, and by that I mean the typical everything is dandy and happy. Now having watched Game of Thrones where bad things happen to good guys and good things happen to bad guys, it felt weird. Maybe 2-3 years ago, I would have just said allright and moved on. But this felt so Hollywood-like that I ended up being very disappointed for the ending, overall movie was a 9/10. Now maybe I am turning into the people I dislike that are wannabe critics who didn't get much attention from their divorced parents and want to be the most cynical people on the internet to get attention .. who knows.
Not to mention comics have always been known for reviving and bringing up dead characters like it's a fucking game, something that bothers me overall. You can't kill a main character, to make us all feel and thing bring him 10 issues later. Or you can always go about the way shonen manga and just kill them only to show them 3 chapters later that they're not really dead. Great job everybody, you're really giving me a sense of danger, especially knowing at the back of my mind that they will come back eventually for marketing $. Can characters just stay dead?
Game of Thrones makes me feel for characters, the sense of danger is real and not fabricated nonsense. I like that the bad guys had good qualities and that the good guys have qualities you see in bad guys usually, because none of us are perfect. We're all extremely flawed starting from me and then moving on up to much better human beings. I think great, realistic storytelling may have influenced my preference and opinion on storytelling after becoming such a big fan of Game of Thrones. Cheesy good endings have always irked me a little bit, but it's now more apparent after watching a series like GoT that's brutal in too many ways to list. I hope writers and directors take a note from GRRM and others like him to write more realistic storytelling from now on.
very minor spoilers of X-Men: Days of Future Past
After finishing the movie, I had a bit of an awkward reaction. I didn't know what to feel. It ended on a really good note, and by that I mean the typical everything is dandy and happy. Now having watched Game of Thrones where bad things happen to good guys and good things happen to bad guys, it felt weird. Maybe 2-3 years ago, I would have just said allright and moved on. But this felt so Hollywood-like that I ended up being very disappointed for the ending, overall movie was a 9/10. Now maybe I am turning into the people I dislike that are wannabe critics who didn't get much attention from their divorced parents and want to be the most cynical people on the internet to get attention .. who knows.
Can dead characters just fucking stay dead?
Not to mention comics have always been known for reviving and bringing up dead characters like it's a fucking game, something that bothers me overall. You can't kill a main character, to make us all feel and thing bring him 10 issues later. Or you can always go about the way shonen manga and just kill them only to show them 3 chapters later that they're not really dead. Great job everybody, you're really giving me a sense of danger, especially knowing at the back of my mind that they will come back eventually for marketing $. Can characters just stay dead?
Game of Thrones makes me feel for characters, the sense of danger is real and not fabricated nonsense. I like that the bad guys had good qualities and that the good guys have qualities you see in bad guys usually, because none of us are perfect. We're all extremely flawed starting from me and then moving on up to much better human beings. I think great, realistic storytelling may have influenced my preference and opinion on storytelling after becoming such a big fan of Game of Thrones. Cheesy good endings have always irked me a little bit, but it's now more apparent after watching a series like GoT that's brutal in too many ways to list. I hope writers and directors take a note from GRRM and others like him to write more realistic storytelling from now on.
Thursday, 3 April 2014
Speed Painting 22: Game of Thrones
So Game of Thrones season 4 comes out in a few days. I don't usually paint black & white illustrations, but I decided for it this particular issue, partly from a creative side and mostly from a lazy side. For this piece, I decided to illustrate Oberyn and Tyrion accross from one another as I get the impression they will play a massive role both in the Kingdom and among one another (I haven't read the books).
The sparrow and the tagline "all men must die" in Game of Thrones season 4 promos have been everywhere, and gave me the idea to make something stark in contrast (color wise) with the rest of the illustration. The two songs are also part of the GoT promos, and I thought I'd give some love to two good songs. Joffrey sitting on the throne like the douche that he is, and I included him there because I have a feeling he's finally going to die.
I was going to initially illustrate Captain America: The Winter Soldier, and even begun the speed painting. However during the early process of painting the piece.. for the first time ever, I scraped the piece and started from the beginning with very little time. This also explains part of my reasoning to go B&W in terms of color. Enjoy :)
Sunday, 21 April 2013
Speed Painting 10: Daenerys Targaryen (Game of Thrones)
Well if you want to watch Game of Thrones but don't want it spoiled (tv show not books), look at my other videos instead. There is this character in the show, white hair, young, that wants to rule over Kingdoms. Oh yeah, she also has three fucking dragons with her as they goes after what she thinks is rightfully hers. I love strong, deep women characters in TV series rather than a pretty face, and Daenerys fits this criteria very well. I illustrated part of the scene at the end of season 1 with her when her dragons finally hatch from their eggs and come to life, and added a few things such as one flying and another breathing fire. This happens a bit later in season 2 and season 3, but I wanted to give a slightly different perspective. If you somehow read this and don't watch the show, watch it. Go watch it right now.
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