That's right!

That's right! Another post! 500 days of Summer isn't the only thing I geek out about - I'm also a massive, unashamed Trekkie. It runs in my family. And I was lucky enough to find someone in Berlin who is about as big of a Star Trek nerd as I am to annoy everyone else who couldn't give a damn what the strategic weaknesses of the Crystlline Entity are or what class the Enterprise-B is (Ambassador, if I remember correctly). Sadly, he's going home, so this is his goodbye card. It's posted in three stages of development, because I like things like that and I kept scanning and saving it, just in case - might as well do something with those other files! It's an idea I had way back when our other friend left for the first time, and it's supposed to be a bunch of us as the crew of the Enterprise of the Original Series. Go figure.

Clockwise from top left: "Uhura", "Bones", me hopelessly trying to channel Mr Spock, "Sulu", "Chekov" and Captain Jimmy :] (it's a bit hard to tell who's who without the uniform colours)

HB pencil, black biro, heavily photo referenced from Facebook and also with reference to various images of the original cast of the television series - uniform, Uhura's hair etc.

I'm pretty happy with how it turned out and damn if it wasn't fun to do! I'm going to have to reign in the geek again now though (I almost went overboard quoting inside the card...) and get back to work. 

Live long and prosper,

G x

EDIT: Starfleet ship class fail! The Enterprise-B was an Excelsior class ship - it was the Enterprise-C that was an Ambassador class design. I'll be leaving again now...

Finally

It's been ages since I last posted and I've had a couple of things knocking around for about that length of time, so I decided to finally finish one of them today so I can start on something new. Because I'm (suddenly) so impatient I actually skipped a more difficult to finish page in my sketchbook to upload this one now, so I'm going to have to backtrack a bit at some point - my work ethic functions in odd and unpredictable ways! Anyway, this page was some doodles of hopefully oblivious people on the U-Bahn (the quote was in reference to that), plus one of Momo <3, bottom right, that doesn't actually look like her. Oh well. The other page is some 500 Days of Summer photo-referenced fanart, because I absolutely fell in love with the movie, having missed it in cinemas when it was released (I watched Inglourious Basterds instead, which was well worth the extortionate amount of money the O2 charges) and neglected seeing it for about a year. I love HMV sales. £5? Bargain! The soundtrack in particular is fantastic - recommend. So, for geeky delight, Tom Hansen and Summer Finn :]  :

Left: HB pencil

Right: HB pencil, drawing ink, nib pen, coloured fineliners

Photo references here: https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEM4BwAAX-b0EZcIh8SbhZgE8K1ih457qAN8jXpVXPeMXXg7_6H2aUiKy4OD8N2HSrPSKGW1G-6cWvlsiebDEzd7t6SR25efCMsKex6lo5XpoTwmoiBoopcuDDKpDJVZSxhiHmxZ8vxdQA/s1600/tumblr_le5uzoh8mt1qcm9a5o1_500.jpg

and here: https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKVmQDPs57ETerXbLSr0YXbCn1CzaL3TmIO7atSrfZvx9tZOqlB2_ALXnGMfYWm1HHBpR1F8l5_ItS6mJ7DeyP5aTYHAVs_92j_d-UyVpcCWCax7spvDI1nRickfXQ3T9QwNlTHTNxh9NX/s1600/500-days-of-summer-500-days-of-summer-11124694-2559-1706.jpg

Don't judge harshly!

Hopefully the next wait won't be so long.

G x

EDIT: Argh, I hate spotting mistakes after uploading. Also, regrets for the bad quality pencil scans. Looks better in sketchbook, especially after sneaky corrections to bad anatomy.