Showing posts with label a song of ice and fire. Show all posts
Showing posts with label a song of ice and fire. 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.
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