Ghibli Ghibli Ghibli!

Yesterday a couple of DVDs I ordered arrived!

  Joe Hisaishi in Budokan - Miyazaki Anime to Tomo ni Ayunda 25 Nenkan. This is a recording of the live orchestra performance conducted by Joe Hisaishi, celebrating the 25 years of collaboration with Hisaishi and Miyazaki in Ghibli films.  They played thru the major songs from each of the films.  I nearly died when I found out such an event existed! These Ghibli soundtracks are so dear to my heart, and I listen to them all the time..  If I really could see anything performed live, perhaps this would have been the most meaningful to me...   Joe Hisaishi is having another concert in Hong Kong this December.  I will just have to keep dreaming, with the help of this DVD!

 I also picked up  Oga Kazuo Exhibition: Ghibli No Eshokunin - The One Who Painted Totoro's Forest  .  It's a video documentation - and slideshow I think, of an exhibition of hundreds of Ghibli background images.  You know, I'm kinda wishing I jumped on the Blu Ray bandwagon already.  Maybe a PS3 is in order...

I'm so excited for this next Ghibli film! It looks so gorgeous. Screenplay written by Miyazaki, and directed by Hiromasa Yonebayashi- Looking forward to seeing how this new director does!



(why do my youtubes get cutoff :(  somebody fix it!)


And in other Ghibli related news, I may as well use this opportunity to show off the Movie Moguls team - Studio Ghubblies!

 Lindsay, Haejin and I support the team as the "Ghublettes".  Here's a better look at the Tshirt Jance designed.  Very very mature, guys...

sketch

sketch from a magazine image i've always liked.  maybe i'll try again for a better result, but i guess i'll learn from any attempt

Figure Drawing, portrait session

We had Renee in for an extra drawing session tonight, and had her dedicate to 2 1hr poses so that we could focus on her portrait and get some more serious drawings out of it. Well.. i felt like i needed about 5 more hrs to be able to do something right. The drawings were HORRIBLE. so. I took pictures, and went home and drew from the photo :P

Figure Drawing

Here's some stuff from tonight's figure drawing session. We had the lovely Renee dressed up as a pirate slash gypsy!

Perhaps at some point I will catch you up on the rest of my life..maybeee..
Meanwhile, listen to THIS!!!

Drawing and moving, moving and drawing

Thank you Jance and Regina for helping me move stuff tonight. I can't believe how much we got done! This would have been a nightmare without you.
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Also, Here's a sketch from last night's figure drawing session. It's the only one I was happy with, although there were many lovely poses. I really feel the rust from that break we took from having the drawing sessions (just as I was getting back into the groove). Gotta try not to let it slip away...

model- tanya

Figure Drawing

Tonight was interesting... I got the impression that she was highly uncomfortable for some physical pain reason..It made it a bit uncomfortable to draw her as I felt responsible for not allowing her to rest...but i can only respect her for carrying out her commitment and working with us tonight. Hell knows I would say fuck it and stay home.

Anyway, I didn't really get drawings I was happy with, but here are the ones I don't mind showing.
model - laura

Figure Drawing

Maybe I'll try to have something to show for every week that we do figure drawing... Tonight i wasn't in a drawing mood, so most of the time I was thinking something else... but here's one drawing that came of the evening. She was a redhead, and the red ballpoint pen felt appropriate..
model - lynne



and I thought this one was plain cute, felt like posting it too..