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Between the 1970s and 1990s, Cambodia was ravaged by civil war. Since its return to peace there has been a boom in tourism with over two million visitors every year. Keen to help this war-torn country, increasing numbers of tourists are now also working as volunteers. Most come with the very best of intentions - to work in schools and orphanages, filling a gap left by a lack of development funding.
But, inadvertently, well-intentioned volunteers have helped to create a surge in the number of residential care homes as impoverished parents are tempted into giving up their children in response to promises of a Western-style upbringing and education. Despite a period of prosperity in the country, the number of children in orphanages has more than doubled in the past decade, and over 70 per cent of the estimated 10,000 'orphans' have at least one living parent.
And perhaps most disturbingly, stories have emerged that Cambodian children are being exploited by some of the companies organising the volunteers or running the orphanages.
Reporter Juliana Ruhfus and director Matt Haan travel to Phnom Penh to investigate this phenomenon and end up as 'undercover volunteers' in a failing orphanage. Their resulting film for People & Power, Cambodia's Orphan Business, reveals how 'voluntourism' - the fastest-growing sector of one of the fastest-growing care industries in the world - is fuelling a high-profit volunteering business that sees volunteers' dreams exploited and Cambodian children separated from their families.
The team's journey starts with a visit to The People's Improvement Organisation. Here Western volunteers help Cambodian teachers in an orphanage and school that caters for children in a slum where families cannot afford to look after them or give them an education.Though the conditions are challenging, this could perhaps be said to be volunteering at its best, with the skills and labour brought by the volunteers making a genuine difference. But it seems to be an exception more than the rule; according to critics the majority of orphanages see volunteering as a way to generate income for their owners rather than as a way to help children.
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At Lighthouse Orphanage, the team gets to see voluntourism in action. In addition to gap year students, its owners have turned to school groups to increase revenues. Having donated thousands of dollars, Canadian high school students have spent a week refurbishing the orphanage and playing with the kids. And as the Canadians prepare to depart, a fresh group of foreign students - from a school in Singapore - are pulling up in a bus.Tour operators routinely assure such groups that they are bringing happiness to Cambodia. Sadly there appears to be little awareness of the psychological damage being done to children forced to form an endless series of new relationships with strangers - many of whom seem to get as much from the affection the 'orphans' are encouraged to display as the children do from the volunteers.It is also impossible for donors to know where their money is actually going. Various reports indicate that the huge influx of donor money has attracted unscrupulous business people to open orphanages for the wrong reasons.Yan Chanty and Kong Thy ended up on the streets of Phnom Penh when their French-funded orphanage, Enfant du Sourie Khmer, was closed down after it was discovered that the director embezzled money meant for the children. Now in their mid-20s Chanty and Kong tell us how the director forced them to act happy to encourage more donations.Both young men are deeply traumatised by their removal from their parents and life in the orphanage. Yet, Chanty and Kong are the survivors. They tell us how half of the orphanages' former inhabitants are now homeless and living on the streets, while many have mental problems and some have even died.And it is not just Cambodians who are said to be benefiting from the money being made in this business. International volunteering companies are also tapping into the profits.Having volunteered in Cambodia for the past three years, Australian Demi Giakoumis was surprised to learn how little of the up to $3,000 paid by volunteers actually goes to the orphanages. When volunteering through one of the world's leading commercial volunteering company, Projects Abroad, she says she was told by the director of the orphanage she was placed at, that it only received $9 per volunteer per week.Indeed, the overall picture that Demi paints of the industry is not charitable at all; children being kept in deliberate poverty to encourage ongoing donations from volunteers who have become attached to them and organisations that repeatedly ignore volunteers' concerns about the children's welfare.
Failed orphanage
Finally, SISHA, a child welfare and anti-trafficking non-governmental organisation, points the team towards an orphanage known as CUCO (the Childrens Umbrella Centre Organization). Following serious complaints from volunteers who had been placed at CUCO by the UK-based Projects Abroad and others, SISHA requested a series of government inspections. The orphanage failed them all.Wearing hidden cameras, Ruhfus and Haan volunteer for work at CUCO and without being asked to show any credentials or form of identification they are immediately taken in by its director, Sineth Sok. It soon becomes obvious that he is making no effort to comply with the government's minimum standards. There is open sewage in the courtyard, the ceiling of the boys' rooms lies open to the weather and, by his own admission, the director is unable to feed the children properly.Most shockingly, in a country which has made international headlines as a playground for Western sex offenders, Sok seems happy to allow Ruhfus and Haan to take children off for an 'excursion'. He even lines the youngsters up so the 'Western volunteers' can choose which ones they want. A short time later, the pair who have taken the precaution of asking a social worker to accompany them (in the guise of an interpreter), drive away with four of the children.When the team encounters a young Dutch volunteer at CUCO, it becomes clear that Projects Abroad still works with the orphanage in spite of the damning government inspections and the complaints about it from previous volunteers. The volunteer told the Al Jazeera team that he had not been given a criminal background check before his placement - which at the very least raises questions about the efficacy of the company's vetting procedure and where its priorities lie.As one of the world's leading placement bodies, Projects Abroad says it supplies 26 countries with 8,000 volunteers annually. According to its annual report, in 2010 alone, it had an annual turnover of $24m, making over $3m in profits.
Responses to allegations
Projects Abroad declined to give Al Jazeera English an interview to discuss the issues raised by the film, but said in a statement that the CUCO orphanage receives $50 per month for every volunteer placed by the organisation. The company said that even if the allegations against that particular institution were shown to be correct it would still be better for the children if the orphanage had vetted volunteers in place. It added that since 2010 it has done criminal background checks on all volunteers over the age of 30 and for those younger, they require a written reference from a school, college or named referee.In a further statement that arrived in the interval between the completion of this programme and its transmission, Projects Abroad told us that it had "never been made aware of the damning government inspections" at the CUCO orphanage to which our film refers.Al Jazeera also contacted Sok, the director of the CUCO orphanage featured in the film. He denied all the allegations in the film.The Cambodian government says it will clamp down on failing orphanages, and in 2011 launched a campaign entitled "Children are not Tourist Attractions". Meanwhile UNICEF asserts that 'orphanage tourism' and the related increase in the number of children in residential care is in contravention of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.
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This week's Read This Next title is Good Offices by Evelio Rosero, translated from the Spanish by Anne McLean and Anna Milsom, and coming out from New Directions next week.
Good Offices is the second novel by Evelio Rosero (after The Armies, 2009) to be published by New Directions. It's also the first to be translated by Anne McLean in collaboration with Anna Milsom.
In Good Offices, we are released into the world of Tancredo, a hunchback who has a deep fear of becoming an animal. Tancredo, the sexton's goddaughter (Sabina Cruz) and the three witchlike widows work for a corrupt priest providing charity meals for the local poor. Their endless labor has drained them of their humanity. Their daily routines are soon to be broken, however, with the arrival of a new priest: Father Matamoros, a drunkard with a beautiful voice whose sung mass is spellbinding to all. Under the magical and disillusioning presence of Father Matamoros, the women and Tancredo spill their confessions and turbulent stories.
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He has a terrible fear of being an animal, especially on Thursdays, at lunchtime. "I have this fear," he says to himself, and glimpses his hump reflected in the window. His eyes wander over his eyes: he does not recognize himself. What an other! He thinks. What an other! And examines his face. "On Thursdays," and then, "this Thursday, especially, when it's the old people's turn." Tuesdays for the blind, Mondays for the whores, Fridays for families, Wednesdays for the street kids, Saturdays and Sundays for God, or so says the priest.
Additionally, we posted an interview between Dan Vitale and Anna Milsom, which is definitely worth reading in full:
DV: How did you discover the book?
AM: Well, I met Anne at the BCLT summer school too—it must be a decade or so ago. We had a lot of fun and have stayed in touch since. Two years ago I was running a literary translation evening class at London Metropolitan University where I now teach and I invited Anne to come in as a guest speaker. She had Los almuerzos in her bag and suggested we might see about doing the translation collaboratively—I leapt at the chance, as you may imagine. Anne had already translated Rosero's The Armies and together they had won the UK's Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, so it felt pretty amazing to be discussing the possibility of working with such a formidable team. I got hold of the book as quickly as I could and the first thing I did was fall for the swooping rush of the prose. The second thing was to wonder how on earth to render it in English. Or perhaps I did those two things simultaneously. Translators read in a very special and peculiar way, I think, taking in the words as both readers and writers at the same time. It becomes hard not to do this, even when you're reading purely for pleasure.
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Evelio Rosero's first novel to be translated into English since his award-winning The Armies takes place on a much smaller scale than that hallucinatory story about the damaging effects of civil war in Colombia. Good Offices, lighter in tone and slighter than The Armies, documents the events of a single day in a single location: a Catholic church in Bogotá. The tale is told through the eyes of Tancredo, a young man with a hunchback, who assists the priest of the church, Father Almida, as an occasional acolyte but mainly by running the daily free lunches the church offers to the city's neediest residents: "Tuesdays for the blind, Mondays for the whores, Fridays for families, Wednesdays for the street kids, Saturdays and Sundays for God, or so says the priest."
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Evelio Rosero's first novel to be translated into English since his award-winning The Armies takes place on a much smaller scale than that hallucinatory story about the damaging effects of civil war in Colombia. Good Offices, lighter in tone and slighter than The Armies, documents the events of a single day in a single location: a Catholic church in Bogotá. The tale is told through the eyes of Tancredo, a young man with a hunchback, who assists the priest of the church, Father Almida, as an occasional acolyte but mainly by running the daily free lunches the church offers to the city's neediest residents: "Tuesdays for the blind, Mondays for the whores, Fridays for families, Wednesdays for the street kids, Saturdays and Sundays for God, or so says the priest."
Tancredo and Father Almida not only work at the church but live in its presbytery, along with Machado, the sacristan; Sabina, Machado's goddaughter; and "the three Lilias," a clutch of women who run the household and who have come to resemble one another so closely that they go by the same name. The novel opens on a Thursday afternoon, "when it's the old people's turn" to be served lunch, and Tancredo has just finished kicking out the last of the diners. The anger he feels at their insistence on remaining in the church hall long past the end of the meal stirs in him "a terrible fear of being an animal," although he is for the most part a mild-mannered, studious, and obedient servant of the church.
Beyond its opening pages, however, this short novel barely concerns Tancredo's primary job. We witness a meeting at which Father Almida informs Tancredo that, starting Monday, the sacristan of the church will begin assisting Tancredo with the lunches, but after this scene nothing more about the meals is mentioned, which is a disappointment—and an oddity, considering that the Spanish title of Good Offices is Los almuerzos ("the lunches").
Sabina, who lusts after Tancredo and has been waiting for a chance to be alone with him, is excited when Father Almida and her godfather are called away Thursday evening on a mysterious errand to dissuade Don Justiniano, the church's main financial benefactor, from withdrawing his largesse on the basis of unspecified "lies" purportedly being spread by other priests in the city about the church's use of Don Justiniano's funds. But ultimately it is the three Lilias, not Sabina, who take the most pleasure from what transpires in the two men's absence.
The book's plot turns out to be built on an archetype: the arrival of a charismatic stranger who forever changes the life of a small, well-ordered community. Father Matamoros appears during a rainstorm to fill in for Father Almida at seven o'clock Mass. In contrast to Almida's plainspoken efficaciousness, Matamoros is dreamy and poetic (and fond of drink—he swigs aguardiente during the service). But what most endears him to the evening parishioners is that he sings the Mass rather than speaks it, in a voice of great beauty and devotion:
Beneath the cold vaulted reaches, his voice seemed to come from heaven. He repeated his invitation to repent, singing: Beloved brethren, to prepare ourselves to celebrate the sacred mysteries, let us call to mind our sins. It was as if the organ were sounding. Tancredo lifted his gaze to the marble dome as if escaping and saw the host of painted angels flying among the clouds; he saw them return his gaze and still did not know whether to feel terrified or moved. How long it had been, he thought, since Mass had been sung. The purity of the voice was the air they breathed.
After this miracle of a Mass, the Lilias immediately and passionately ingratiate themselves with Matamoros, making him comfortable, bringing him food and drink and fawning over his talents. But the Mass of Father Matamoros also unleashes something disturbingly otherworldly in them, inspiring them (among other unusual behaviors) to conduct a bizarre and violent ritual in the church garden. Through the night and into the early hours of Friday, their power and ferocity grow to such an extent that not even Father Almida and Machado, when they return from their errand the next morning, are safe from it.
As difficult as it is to describe exactly what has happened to the Lilias, it is even more difficult to speculate about the significance Rosero ascribes to it. New Directions' fall catalog states that Good Offices is a "beautifully poetic and vivid satire of the hypocrisies of the Catholic Church," but the stability that Matamoros and the Lilias upset seems composed of far murkier and much more poorly explained elements than mere religious hypocrisy. Or perhaps it is the fervor of the Lilias themselves that is being satirized, but again, if so, Rosero is being far vaguer about his targets than true satire demands.
Further, at the end of the novel Rosero seems to be taking pains to cast Tancredo and Sabina as some kind of modern Adam and Eve, but over what new paradise (or hell?) they are to supposed to reign Rosero does not specify. We finish the book feeling we have experienced something unsettling, but unsure what, and still wondering what is to become of those daily free lunches we read about at the start.
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© Copyright 2015 Clayton News Daily
November 13, 2003Edwin Dery Mr. Edwin Melvin (Ed) Dery, 86, of Morrow, passed away Tuesday, Nov. 11, 2003. He was a member of St. Philip Benizi Catholic Church of Jonesboro. He is survived by his wife, Alicia Dery; sons, Ed Dery Jr. of Canton, Mich., Paul Dery of Canton, Mich., Jim Dery of Sterling Heights, Mich., Leonard Dery of Lantana, Fla., Leslie Dery of West Palm Beach, Fla., Charles Dery of Tallahassee, Fla., Richard Dery of Red Bank, N.J., John Longeway Dery of Orlando, Fla., David Dery of Gainesville, Fla.; daughters Ruth Poynter of Shelby Township, Mich., Louise Dery of Wixom Township, Mich., and Margaret Dery of Morrow; 17 grandchildren and five great-grandchildren. Funeral services will be at 11:30 a.m. Friday, Nov. 14, 2003, at St. Philip Benizi Catholic Church, with Father Vincent Gluc officiating. The family will receive friends from 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday at the funeral home. Ford-Stewart Funeral Home, Jonesboro/Stockbridge, is in charge of arrangements. (770) 210-2700. Mrs. Lizzie Hobby Mrs. Lizzie R. Hobby, 70, of Jonesboro, passed away Tuesday, Nov. 11, 2003. She was a member of the Jonesboro Christian Fellowship Church. She is survived by sons Allen Hobby of Jonesboro, Eddie Hobby of Jonesboro, Ronald Hobby of Millry, Ala., and Steve Hobby of Stockbridge; sisters, Frances Hay of Hampton, Sarah Allen of Griffin and Miriam Holder of Monroe; brothers, David Rutledge of Forest Park, Joseph Rutledge of Riverdale, James Rutledge of Barnesville and Waymon Rutledge of Hampton. She had 10 grandchildren and 15 great-grandchildren. She also had a host of nieces and nephews. Funeral services will be Thursday, Nov. 13, 2003, at 2 p.m. from the chapel of Ford-Stewart Funeral Home, with the Rev. Lynn Head, the Rev. Marty Smith and the Rev. Bobby Stapp officiating. Interment will be in Sherwood Memorial Gardens. Ford-Stewart Funeral Home, Jonesboro/Stockbridge, (770) 210-2700. Barry Jones Barry Jones of Forest Park died on Nov. 11, 2003. He was a member of the South Fayette Church of Christ. He is survived by his wife, Linda Jones; children Bart Jones and Heather Clarke, both of Valdosta; stepfather and mother Charles and Nellie Nelson; sister Brenda Brown of Duluth; and four grandchildren. Graveside services will be Friday, Nov. 14, 2003, with Mitch Davis officiating at The Pine Grove Church of Christ in Jasper at 3 p.m. The family will receive friends Thursday at the funeral home from 3:30 to 5 p.m. and from 6 to 8 p.m. Ford-Stewart Funeral Home, Jonesboro/Stockbridge, (770) 210-2700. Thomas H. Agan Thomas H. Agan, 76, of Hampton, Ga., passed away on Nov. 11, 2003, at his residence. Mr. Agan is survived by his loving wife, Sybil Agan, of Hampton, Ga.; children and spouses Tommy Agan Jr. of Lake Wales, Fla., Bill and Linda Agan of Lake Wales, Fla., Nicky Agan and Nikki Farris of Hampton, Ga., John and Jessica Agan of Tampa, Fla., Jeff and Jen Agan of Minnesota; 13 grandchildren; two great-grandchildren and several nieces and nephews. Funeral services will be held Friday, Nov. 14, 2003, at 2 p.m. in the chapel of Pope Dickson Funeral Home in Jonesboro, with the Rev. Thomas Pearce officiating. Interment will follow at Berea Church Cemetery in Hampton, Ga. The family will receive friends on Thursday from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. at Pope Dickson and Son Funeral Home in Jonesboro, 168 N. McDonough St., Jonesboro, Ga., (770) 478-7211.
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LEUVEN, BELGIUM Roger Vangheluwe, the disgraced former bishop of Bruges, stressed during a Flemish television interview April 14 that he is not a pedophile. With nonchalance and an occasional chuckle, Vangheluwe said, "I don't in the slightest have any sense I am a pedophile."
On April 23, 2010, Pope Benedict XVI accepted the Vangheluwe's resignation after the Belgian admitted he had abused his nephew for 13 years, starting when the boy was just 5 years old.
On television last month, Vangheluwe, 74, minimized his much-publicized sexual abuse of the one nephew, calling it "a little bit of intimacy," and then admitted to molesting a second nephew. His sexual abuse of the first nephew began when Vangheluwe was a priest and professor at the diocesan seminary in Bruges and continued even after he became bishop of Bruges in 1985.
Abuse of the second nephew began in what Vangheluwe calls "the early period" when he had to bunk with the boys and "it also happened a little bit." The second molestation, he stressed, lasted only a short time.
How did it start? "As in all families," Vangheluwe calmly replied, "when they came to visit, my nephews would stay over. ... It began as a kind of game with this boy. It was never a question of rape, or physical violence. He never saw me naked and there was no penetration. ... I don't in the slightest have any sense I am a pedophile. I don't get the impression my nephew was opposed, quite the contrary."
Vangheluwe said, "I knew it wasn't good. I confessed it several times."
The Belgian Federal Police in Brussels announced April 18 that they are considering filing new sexual abuse charges against Vangheluwe and his confessor, who has been identified as 90-year-old Fr. Jozef Legast. Police have received complaints that Vangheluwe and Legast sexually abused two boys at a camp for altar boys in the 1960s, one of whom reportedly later committed suicide.
After watching the interview on Flemish television, Vangheluwe's nephew, speaking through his lawyer, said he was happy the interview was made public so that people could see firsthand what kind of man his uncle is. He went on to stress that he had never been a consensual participant in sexual activity with his uncle and that the uncle's narration of the molestation details is simply false.
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These Death Seasons poems are examples of Death poems about Seasons. These are the best examples of Death Seasons poems written by international PoetrySoup poets
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Now my tendrilled soul,
Has found its pergola-- Christ--
To wind its way up....
Copyright © EMMANUEL SAMSON
Emerald etchings are given birth
to bask their lives in summer's sun,
until brushing brutal winters cheek,
They cower yellow; brown undone.
Swirling down onto concrete pyres,
They somersault to a random grave.
The earth lays claim to copper corpses
But the winter wind is a cunning knave.
It finds and flips the fallen fibers,
then flings them crisply to the street.
The failing sheaves of burnt magenta,
tossed like chaff from harvest wheat.
Now strewn about with playful malice,
and denied the resting place they crave,
for the golden sun is a glint of amber,
but the winter wind is a chilling knave.
Copyright © Gerard Keogh
Autumn Colors (Death So Bold)
Resting upon cold , hard ground
leaves depleted Autumn's gold
Solid vapors soon are found
in rested spirits of old
colors so bright, death so bold
English Quintain Rhyme Scheme a. b. a. b. b.
No specified measure
Note: Not required but given as reference only...
Syllables Per Line: 7 7 7 7 7
Total # Syllables: 35
Total # Lines: 5
Copyright © Robert Lindley
Under the care of sun and rain
My leaves have unfurled
My buds have burst forth
My own will has been done
This was my beginning
Through the seasons
Spring brought me to life
Summer grew me to new heights
The fall must come sometime
The frost will encase my barbs
And I will return to meditation
Waiting patiently for my rebirth
For your light to peek through clouds
Your moon to hold me within night
When spring returns...
I will dance in the wind
A never ending flower
Copyright © Sam Beloved
Cold Death Savages, So Spring's Life Will Grow
The hills, valleys and flowers are fast asleep
where the river flows winding.
Chills come, furry critters are burrowing deep
cold hardships most are finding.
Old man Winter awaits its rapidly emerging cues
trees shudder in their roots.
Cold comes ravaging to create sweet Spring news
as man puts on deep snow boots.
Rivers freeze and no longer feed the blue seas
some ache hard in the waiting.
All year long honey stored up by the honey bees
tis' wisdom in such anticipating.
The hills, valleys and flowers buried in snow.
Cold death savages, so Spring's life will grow.
Robert J. Lindley, 10-06-2015
Skeletal treetops rake a Wagnerian sky.
like fingertips, chasing Valkyrie's,
through cirrus clouds;
conducting the winter wind,
across the cerulean blue tarp
of early evening.
Bare beds, a mass of fallen leafs, shiver;
above bulbs of tulips and daffodils
which rest like skulls in a grave.
The sullen light of late December dusk,
pierces the scene with shadows,
sharpening the edges of brick walks
to bloody wayward knees
frost crusts, scabbing over the vacant
graves of long lost pets as
the day ends.
Copyright © Debbie Guzzi
The rosebud blooms—makes its grand debut
in joyous spring. Day by day, its
petals open wide—all stages lead to
fullness in the end. When autumn air
delivers chill, its petals drop as life
and death their endless duet sing. It
then awaits new life next spring when
The rosebud blooms—makes its grand debut
© Sandra M. Haight 2014
All Rights Reserved
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Copyright © Sandra Haight
Like the end
Like a death
Like you cant catch your breath
Like it wont end
Like the pain will kill you
Like tomorrow will be full of more pain
Like your heartbeat will stop
Like no one likes you forever
Like you will never love again
Like all you ever known has rejected you
Like your soul is crying
Like your darkest place has kicked you out
Like you will never recover
Like you are the ONLY one
Like you can't go own another moment
Like you are the biggest fool
Like the LIE is real
Like the truth did not set you free
Like she is the only love
Like being ask to live the rest of your life without LOVE
Like there is no forgiveness for you
Like God stop your blessings
Like you have flat lined but didn't die
Like you die every every day every day
Like you are the worst person ever
Like God doesn't love you
Like you won't make it back from the pain
Like you want to weep
Like you want to weep
Like you want to weep
Like there will never be someone who adores you…for you
Like your heart is broken
Like you can't go on
Like you love a love that don't love you back
Like you don't know how to love, so it asks to be excused and leaves
Like your life and your love won't ever matter
Like you want be blessed anymore
Like you have wasted so much time…
Like you want to just die… (Make the pain stop)
Like hope is as hope does…no hope for you
Like they get away ….Free and clear
Like you are left broken
Like they get to live HAPPY EVER AFTER
Copyright © Rokeyai Hassen
Maybe it's unacceptable
Live a life capable of a true fable
True friends never end
But take you back to where it all began
But hey misery gave us something to believe in
Stress became a greater award as we achieved sin
What could I say? Our savior died on a cross tough as pig skin
Never once cried over the loss
Forbidden fruit, Eden garden
Excuse me, my lord, I beg your pardon
And so what if these medics carry life in a carton
But I ain't trippin
Simply because this is me until my dying day
Please stop crying, you know I can't stay
I'm going to be the same until my dying day
Over in that casket is where I'm trying to lay
That's right until my dying day
True lost souls from the dark side
Forever, we as mortals ride
Peace is nothing, I fend for quiet time
Rebels in riot lines
Previous high school graduates
Symbols of an adjective running toward fate
True personality suffer the privilege of inmates
How could you hesitate to ask
There's no stranger under this mask
Lonely and unholy, who's there to console me?
I want to get away, forever restless
You can see my similarities with the ocean
I'm stress less
Because this is me until my dying day
Please stop crying, you know I can't stay
I'm going to be the same until my dying day
Over in that casket is where I'm trying to lay
My son, my friend
We are but pieces of eternity
Mesh on, mesh off
Even at our best times we're soft
Who's to say I'd regret my decision
To lead a sinners life without God's supervision
On a one man mission
And I know I don't come around much
Got my palms in reality
Searching for something softer to touch
Whisper in my ear, death makes me blush
And Hell only flatters me
One and one, through matter the winds scatter me
I ain't trippin, baby girl get off your knees
You're in the arms of a future me
And I can't see heaven from a distance
Fire me over clouds like a piston
Marching through blood
But it's all mud and water to Darkhouse
Stand still let me mark my spouse
Live my life as an outcast
How could you even picture me at my last?
Dear lord show some mercy on my followers
Bless those that swallow dust to follow us
No need to borrow sympathy
Unforgiving sorrow made my enemies envy me
Copyright © Jerry Golden
At last
At last we know
He was not always to be
He was not permanent
Not the everlasting punished
Not the everlasting punisher
Not some northern Prometheus
Caught stealing ice and snow
From a northern God's Olympus
Today I see
See the slush-puddle formed
Where he stood
Where the snowman stood
'Neath roiling blasted skies
Looking out
Looking straight ahead
With cold blue-crystal eyes
Today I see
See the clear puddle formed
Faintly rippling in the wind
Reflecting VICTORY!
Reflecting sky's ultimate
Her searing golden eye
Copyright © daver austin
The trail of the dying sun
told me of your tears
and the west wind
brought me your name
The river spoke
of all our fears
the ocean
felt the same
The earth waits to receive your bones
and your spirit be cradled by sky
all we are is dust and thought
dust and thought until we die
Copyright © Meggan Rogalski
Time And Death Serve The Same Master
Time slowly eats away old people and solid rocks
when heard, comes with hammer and hard knocks
Shadow spirit coming within a dark misty cloud
sparing nobody be they young, old or too proud!
Streams flows from its onward racing unseen head
desperate cries and pleas, food it's gladly fed
Death and Time, ghosts riding the same sad rail
each its own free agent for Heaven and dark Hell
Eternity says that Time over Death is the master
Hope awaits each future,does no good going faster
Man fears both,so often crying sad,desperate pleas
Saddened waters cast upon vast unrelenting seas!
Time slowly eats away old people and solid rocks
when heard, comes with hammer and hard knocks
Shadow spirit coming within a dark misty cloud
sparing nobody be they young, old or too proud!
Robert J. Lindley, 08-12-2015
Immersed in the sound of the low rustling wind
Memories and places they haunt yet again
Passed by so quickly as each falling leaf
Drifting and flowing on an unyielding stream
A current to carry from birth right on through
Filling our moments with cares which ensue
A mind lost in remnants of lovers and friends
Babies and children and time long since spent
Familiar, intangible, just out of reach
Longing for ghosts that my heart doth beseech
Winter is looming and summer is past
A time for remembrance the years gone so fast
Beauty is captured in my last breath of life
The sparkling colors in the warm golden light
Do mimic the glory and wonder be told
In those bright days of autumn and a life to behold
Copyright © Sara Ray
I came here with flowers
held gently to my sobbing chest,
to bring them to my dearest;
I have departed from the living,
to come face to face with my ending...
I lay my flowers at this cold tombstone...
engraved with a name too sweet,
and yet so painful to call it out;
the heat in my throbbing veins
could warm it up with a loving wish before dawn;
but who can resurrect someone from death?
This morning is dazzled by an intense sun,
carnations, flags and tombstones
perfectly blend as the swaying pines
offer their breeze and soothing shade towards noon;
why are the noisy larks hiding,
and melancholically sing?
I rushed here to release these tears
and let them roll from these eyes,
like raindrops falling on this very quiet place:
where tranquility is as eternal as Paradise...
I lay my flowers at this cold tombstone,
feeling a presence so known;
others before me have knelt and cried,
not to forget whom they lost and dearly loved...
Copyright © Andrew Crisci
A single bee
Alone a tree.
A single day in morning.
His slicker sly
Of catching eyes.
His sweeter side of aging.
Like sticky seeds,
These blossom beads.
The winter plants are dying.
A drunken bee
Flies lazily,
Brought down by nectar drinking.
Our springs are wet
With sweet forgets.
Our hearts forever bleeding.
Our summers heat,
These days retreat,
Our only summer setting.
Our summers die
In lullabies.
I wish I wont stop dreaming.
A passer by
I might ask why
Alone a tree in morning?
And possibly
He'd die to be
My only glimpse of fleeting.
Without a care
Our pulses dare
To reach the height of running.
A gentle sigh,
An open mind,
Holds within each waiting.
His ancient cry
Of reasons why.
His simple song of saving.
I'll never die
He'll say tonight
While other dawns are breaking.
A passer by,
I might ask why
Alone a tree in mourning?
Copyright © Samantha McDougal
The Day My Uncle Died...
I was thinking about the smile on my uncle's face….
This was a before he would "leave this place."
I'll never forget the words shortly before he died.
The more I thought about it, the more I cried.
He said, "you know Jimmy I wish I got to know you better."
I never received another phone
call or even a letter.
A few days later he was ready to go to a funeral.
But it was also him who received a burial.
I was shocked and amazed as to what happened.
The events took place. There was no way
I could "stop them."
Memories I had were from many years ago.
I often think about him. And I do miss him so!
I suppose many don't take the time to realize...
How quickly life passes...
Then someone dies.
Perhaps there's someone in your
life you can think of…
There's been a situation that you're
embarrassed to "speak of/"
A harsh word said, and angry thought was spoken.
And soon your relationship has been "broken."
This may be a good time with this person to spend.
Irregardless if they're what you'd call a "friend."
Everyone is important to God who reigns above.
We need to be filled with his mercy and love.
The person you haven't seen shall one day disappear...
The days are short... Our journey's end is so near!
May God speak to our heart and help us to see...
Where will you and I be spending our eternity???
By Jim Pemberton
Copyright © Jim Pemberton
Why I am thinking of my father
on the topic of white snows
perhaps because he seemed almost Hispanic
in his youth, tanned, dark hair and eyes
but whiteness shone the day
he came home early
worry caught my breath in chest
and only in the morning
did the firemen come, taking him away.
Such heart spasms, clench us all,
yet snow falls so softly, unexpected
and ice rains even less noticed
they drip, drip, coating the roads
and only when we step too fast
skews our vehicle, ends us in ditch
new babies without parents,
stitches in our heads.
The drips spire down the icicles,
coat the roses as buds, never to open,
and yet, sometimes, I wish to be inside
tasting the ice cold water like fire
turning blue to the ends of my limbs
in sleepiness, and setting ablaze
my very soul, like a light, shine out as call
here, with me, all the memories
a blanket of witness to eternity
dripping into us experience's minerals.
Who could do magic with a wand
headed with all of life's power to hold?
Who could accept magic in waves
like the falling of snow, or wonder
that we escaped from death,
that we saw roses, saw the spirals
climb down from the sky as raindrops
and drip, drip, into our thoughts
all that began as white and ended.
Copyright © Sheri Fresonke Harper
Our Ancestors fought to the death,
Just so we can live a brighter day,
So before you light up that blunt of meth,
Think about what you're giving away,
It was a glad day in history when Obama rose to victory,
The first black president was all we knew,
Dark skin is in!
Haven't you heard?
That even in our community,
You can get burned,
It's a sad day when people would rather stay home and "Crank That Amber Cole",
Than get up and run to a poll,
In our community,
Rockin' Luis V is better than having a college degree,
And teen pregnancy is not only a trend,
But the single motherhood that follows should end,
Young girls learn of a wonderful prince to take them away,
Nothing should change thought their mothers prince didn't stay,
And as the tears fade away,
She grows stronger every day,
In our community,
Fighting is no longer a word,
You argue with someone and shots are heard,
Girls showing places the sun don't show,
So how do they expect the community to grow?
Where love is a figment of imagination,
Making a young child question her creation,
Young mothers would rather buy the iPhone 5,
Then satisfy her baby's cries,
While her new man's eye,
Wander up another girl's thighs,
In our community,
Where #team dark skin vs #team light skin,
Makes others not love the skin they're in,
Love, lust, hate, and trust,
Giving a rose on Valentine's Day is no longer a must,
Where bad is good and good is bad,
Who would think to see their grandmother sad?
Her hurt and pain,
Shows how our community has lost everything her parents fought to gain.
Copyright © Nya Johnson
Inundating radiant sunshine beams
down on my face
fervently tracing crows feet
nearing the frown I can taste
obliterating tear streaks
transmitting them
into the depths of outer space
introducing an iridescent spectrum
of piercing waves
golden ears fear in the race
Electromagnetic oscillation
inspiring me to rely
upon solar energy
eradicating unwanted toxins
by chasing them
So on this sacred date of "ONE"…
negative energy is trumped
by the positive tsunami
of the sun
and as she dares me
to stare into her face of grace
ninety three million miles away…
I sigh
as her radiance blasts my face
in such a merciful way
suddenly my shaking knees
give way to an epiphany
that this day is laced with sanctity
the world's eyes feast upon
an auspicious
uniformed alignment
five ones standing side by side
gold adorned
a spiritual aspirant
making change the world will see...
"The Sun's Seven"
pronouncing a unified spirituality
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an auspicious
uniformed alignment
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gold adorned
a spiritual aspirant"
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As I lay one sullen autumn morn
on pearl dew turf with the day unborn
staring at the grey grimacing sky
with the mood and moment not quite high
sepulchral static wherever I looked
when my dreary dizzy gaze was hooked
at a lone leaf's death-descent down
to join its wilted kin on ground
then a sudden silent slithering breeze
deprived me of my warmth and ease
and the disturbed withered shroud of Fall
hustled revived in a rustling brawl
hurled and curled in the fading mist
till the whispering winds chose to desist
but Nature lies dead once again
until the wind resumes,retrieves restrain
and I know this flight of life is brief
for I'm none other than a fallen leaf.
Copyright © Aseem Alagh
Time goes by so slowly
Life goes by so fast
We are just the sand
In a desert so vast
Time is the reaper
We are the corn
Time is so plentiful
when we are born
When we get old
Time is the same
But you and I cannot remain
When we are grieving
Time is the healer
When we are sleeping
Time has no meaning
When we are dying
Time does no crying
Copyright © Colin James Platt
Comes winter with its icy blast
Across the land thy death shadow cast
Life purged by thy soulless wind
With thy sting of death thou doest offend
Thy snowy shroud upon January's cold ground lain
Bitter tears of crystal ice now rain
Naked branches broken and battered in sorrow doth wail
amid thy northern gales.
Woeful Winter Dirge!
May the southern breeze push back thy artic surge
O Scourge of the seasons release your icy grasp
May the sun shine at last!
Copyright © Lori Lucas McClure
They call me the dying month, the bringer of cold harsh winds from the north.
I sneak up upon unsuspecting late summer well wishers, wrap my cold hands around their cheeks and come forth.
Moving silently across the country side, I graciously give the kiss of death to the once green leaves.
In my path I leave nothing but skeleton shapes twisted and old, they are nothing but shadows of once mighty summer trees.
In death however comes beauty of colour, the brown crispy leaves illuminated by the red autumn sky.
The stage is set and the players cast, the final curtain call is all but nigh.
With a crunch under foot, hat and scarves protecting such delicate pale frozen skin.
The first frost falls upon my deathly hands, I greet winter as my old friend with an honest grin.
Like the leaves from the trees my time is short, but the cycle continues without me and I die knowing my part has been played.
I close my eyes as you do in bed, into winters night will an autumn evening fade.
My time has ended and I bow out gracefully, for the work I've done I feel no shame.
As all things that share a purpose and live with meaning, it's time for us all to return whence we came.
Copyright © Damien Biggs
Nature's wrath supreme
Tearing down humanity
Human grace denied
Copyright © cecil hickman
< life's bare essentials
can become some great assets
in dires time need
predator or prey
endangerment of species
remains that of man
Entry For John Freeman's
Natural And Beyond Contest
G.L. All
Copyright © Katherine Stella
< the sleeping giant once again has been awoke
to the sounds of great thunder and billows of smoke
what has happened his imperial's majesty's sleep
out from the depts of hell a great wavetrain has creeped
tainting soil where once land had been so enriched
brandishing homes businesses left them in a ditch
twisted metals dancing in swirls of stenching air
recovered bodies of beloved this is so unfair
across it's great mountain range somber is now heard
unity becomes one and not forgotten word
rebuild rebuild the sleeping giant request
let our people of japan return to their nest
for there will always's be another tomorrow
where earthquakes and tsunami's will bring such sorrow
for an sleeping giant all nestled in his bed
and his people dressed in five elements of thread
Tribute To Japan
The pain I put in the ground.
For such a precious thing.
The family enjoys their meal.
They plant their leftover kernels.
And wait for me to tend to them.
An endless cycle in which happiness is born.
21 February 2013
Copyright © Smail Poems
< enticing to eyes watching mama's pink roses bloom
fourty years later someone else now cares for them
fresh cut daily and seen in her arms their long stems
tears streaming down face I sit under swollen moon
waiting watching for sun to come up again soon
to catch one more glimsp of mama's planted old gems
unfurling petals before been chopped or condemned
think I'll ask if can take one for my dining room
aroma bursting amidst thy supper's table
bowed heads we come and thank our Heavenly father
somebody still cared though sick and times unable
and answers it's door for which one has come bothered
to let bask in roses empowering fable
and not to be called as it's one's roses robber
French Sonnet is a poem with rhyme scheme
Of ABBAABBA and CDCDCD
Or ABBAABBA and CDECDE
Syllable count is 12 syllable per line.
Autumn is my favorite season,
The green leaves are turning red,
Falling with no rhyme or reason,
They are crisp, gnarled, and dead.
Lightly they fall in the chilly air,
The leaves are brown, orange, and yellow,
Brightly, they tumble without a care,
Indian summer days are beginning to mellow.
Gray clouds form, you rarely see the sun,
Through tree branches, see the cold wind blow,
The leaves come cascading down, one by one,
And, at any minute now, it could start to snow.
Copyright © Kelly Deschler
This poem is dedicated to those who are suffering from natural disaster
wrote by Mrs.Madhavi Suyog Pagare
Almighty - Shower Your Love !!!!!
Ohh my Almighty, Ohh my Nature..
Everything was alright, everything was fine..
But what made you do this????
That you astringently affected the Life of Divine..
Why you had lend with with no mercy..
You showered your gift in terms of cursy..
Drenching tears of the exciting people..
Pangs of separation happened between lovely couple..
How much it is aching to there pity family..
Everyone got acceleratingly disheartened gradually..
Just now left with the new dawn and the iota of Hope..
Hey nature please try to rudenessly cope..
Mankind struggling for their last breathe..
Please bless them for our sake under your sheathe..
Please endow them for their wellbeing and glorious life ahead!!!!
By Mrs.Madhavi.Suyog.Pagare
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Hi guys,
Here are some of the stuff I have been doing lately. I really would like to hear what you guys think.
Astronaught Girl
Scuba Diver
Surfing Dude
Check out my online portfolio for some 3D stuff I have done too.
Hi guys,
Here are some of the stuff I have been doing lately. I really would like to hear what you guys think.
Astronaught Girl
Scuba Diver
Surfing Dude
Check out my online portfolio for some 3D stuff I have done too.
Last edited by metroeast; April 7th, 2006 at 10:34 PM. Reason: Added new character sketches
Hi man.
Nice and solid start. I like it.
Your strenght is your line work. Clean and controlled. You got that down pretty good. But you should work more on the anatomy - refs and life and stuff. It opens your eyes for strukture very fast - i learn that myself and was amazed at all the mistakes i did before.
For anatomy, check out mentlers threads - thats some hot stuff!
For killer ink and line work check out salarymans thread!
Welcome and good luck dude!
I have to back up Badger and Fellah on the anatomy issue, and you do have a nice clean line work. I also suggest working a little on your line weight. Where it varies it looks good, but it's not consistant. . .push it a little further and be more consistant and see what you think, I hope it helps.
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Thanks for you crits. I really love getting feedback on my stuff.
Fellah - I am honored to have you even look at my stuff. I really like your sketchbook. I am kinda surprised you like my linework over my anatomy. I would have thought the opposite. I checked out Mentler's thread and I see what you mean. The guy is amazing. Reminds me of Burne Hogarth and DiVinci.
Badger - I agree with you. The torsos are definately more tubular. It has been something I am working on. I am working on something right now where I am really trying to thin it up a little more than I usually do. Look below these messages and let me know if this is getting better. I know the girl's expression is a little wierd. I am working on it.
BTW - You stuff is pretty cool too.
rick_hershey - I feel my linework is the weakest in my drawings. I am so afraid of getting the sketches too dark. I used to have a tendancy to over ink my stuff and it got a little muddy. I will post one of my older sketches this weekend to show where I had come from a few years ago.
Keep watching the thread and keep the crits coming. I really appreciate it.
Last edited by metroeast; August 30th, 2005 at 09:10 PM. Reason: Moved to Photobucket
Hey guys,
Sorry it's been a while. I have been working on and off an animation for a while and my car just broke down. Here is one that I did last week I just added some background elements.
Let me know what needs work.
I keep them coming.
Last edited by metroeast; June 21st, 2005 at 08:33 PM. Reason: Moved to Photobucket
Hi man
Thanks for the nice words about my stuff I love these sketchbooks - so much good stuff going on!
Again nice line work and chardesign on the last update. Nice job on the dude holding the girl - the ear closest to the girl is sticking out slightly too much, nice arm - the girls torso and upperleg looks fine, but her lowerleg is very thin maybe? The last dude with guns looks cool too, but the arm leaning on the container is very long compared to the other arm, and since its in the background it should be smaller. See it? The same goes for the frontleg, even tho its bending(bad english) it should be more in front. The hand and wrist on the frontarm are slightly too small too. Sorry for messing up a good inkwork man
This is smalltime stuff really - nice work mate!
Fellah. Wow! I didn't expect such a quick response. I agree about the girls leg. It doesn't really look like there is any weight on that leg. I was too occupied trying to make her look semi-hot and not paying attention to realism. I need to keep it in mind.
I agree too on the gunman. Foreshortening isn't one of my strong points. I do think the left foot is in the right position to support the weight of the character, but I think it would help to have the knee go out more. No harm on the inks. I wanted to ink more, but I have a hard time doing it on the train. I will certainly work on it and post a new one next week.
In the mean time here is an old one I did a while back. I wanted to do more of a candid scene. I need to find really good reference materials. Got any ideas?
Here is the guy and the stripper inked in. I wish I saw you crit earlier Fellah. Next time I guess. I think the inks went a little overboard. The guys knees suck.
Thanks a lot Fellah. You have a lot of respect from me dude.
Last edited by metroeast; June 21st, 2005 at 08:34 PM.
I love the guy with the stripper, Dave--but I don't think that you went overboard with the inks. Are you going to color it? I supposed that would make a difference on how you inked it.
Hey Tom. Took your suggestion and here it is...
Originally Posted by Tomoran
I also started to ink a little more of the gunman in the alley. I couldn't rework the arm because it was already inked (Sorry Fellah). Let me know what you think.
I am going to work on another sketch. I scene of a girl in a bar (now there is a surprise) Dressed down and having fun. Like a Rolling Rock commercial. I will post when I have something to show.
Last edited by metroeast; June 21st, 2005 at 08:34 PM.
You got some skills bro. Awwesome linework. Not 100% on the colour job (I hope thats not the burn tool) but love the drunk and the last three sketches. The girls at the start look a tiny bit masculine, I think. Maybe their squarish jaws and thick eyebrows? Anyway you shit on me in terms of dynamic movement any clues on how to improve?
Yeah. I agree. My color sucks (as sad as it looks, I didn't burn it).I gotta go the same way you did. I got to do more studies. I definately need to work on the ladies. I got to get a swimsuit calendars or something to work off of.Originally Posted by draw
As for the dynamic movement stuff. I usually do a lot of gestural sketches. You know the old sphere, cube and cyclinder stuff they teach in art101. Looking at a lot of reference helps too. I have been trying to work off of DVDs lately (I haven't posted these here yet). Watch good action movies, like The Transporter, The Replacement Killers, or whatever.
Thanks for the crits
Hey guys,
Here is the Stripper reworked. I took out some of the linework in the guy and a lot out of the girl. The linework on the girl made her more muscluar than I wanted. I also thinned her lips a bit more. I took mostly the line work out of the guys face to make him look a little younger.
Let me know if I am going in the directionyou guys were suggesting. Thanks for the crits.
Last edited by metroeast; June 21st, 2005 at 08:35 PM.
Dude, that looks sweet. I especially liked where your removed the linework in the woman and added the soft shading. Wow. I didn't think that she looked bad before but she honestly looks much better. I also like the colored lighting on her arm and his shoulder--nice touch.
Is there any way you could remove some of the linework in the guy's arm? Don't get me wrong--it looks good. It's just that now the linework in his forearm stands out when next to the shading on the girl.
Nice work.
I didn't think of it at the time but now that you mention it. I gave it a shot. I didn't erase it completely. I changed the opacity of the linework on that section of the arm. It is about 15-20%. This way I keep the detail but I de-emphasize it.Originally Posted by Tomoran
Let me know what you think.
Last edited by metroeast; June 21st, 2005 at 08:35 PM.
Here are two I did this week. I was pretty inspired by Fellah's stuff lately, so I did a roman guard. I think I went too far on the detail. I also over shaded his chin.
The other was an attempt at doing a candid of a girl at the bar after a softball game.
Last edited by metroeast; June 21st, 2005 at 08:36 PM.
Here are a few more studies.
Last edited by metroeast; June 21st, 2005 at 08:38 PM.
Yeah, that looks great. It matches with her body now--nice job.
I like the roman soldier alot. You may (or may not) want to do some more crosshatching on cloth portion of his uniform to make it look darker than his arms. Perhaps a light crosshatch over the entire area, then darken up the wrinkles with more dense areas of hatching. Either way, I like him.
The pencil sketches are very dynamic. I especially like the one of the girl seated.
POST MORE! LOl
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I have no images Bandwidth gone? or is it just me?
Thankyou for the kind words by the way, its very nice of you to say that in a forum with so much talent.
I shall await and edit this post i'm sure....
Thanks for the mail, nice stuff. Good ideas you have (thats sounded sooo Yoda)
I did an attempt of a paint over, i hope it helps to see you art from a different angle
here it is
I'm not very good at anatomy, but i'm ok on perspective so i tried to tackle some of the issues.
I like the green colour job, really nice work their.
this one is great, the minimal tone shows a lot of confidence.
Nice anatomy work... i should prob go do some...
I'll be watching you (in a none hiding in a bush way)
Last edited by Badger; June 24th, 2005 at 04:43 AM.
Here is the Mighty Max redesign I had in mind. Not a huge departure.
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Let me know what you think.
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Latest one is sweet the bird rocks!!
The boy's left arm need to stick up more before it dissapears under the right, unless his arm is made of paper.
The planes that he's on mean he looks like he's falling backwards, you'd need to pull him to the left a tiny bit.
Th guy standing, could lower his sword a bit.
Hope that was ok, not too harsh...
Great stuff. Impressive detail! how even each blade of grass, dedication my friend!
NIce roman mate. Nice ink.
When i start hatching in ink i often - not allways - do some fast strokes on another piece of paper for warm up, to get the hand loose. Often i hate the first stokes i make on a drawing if i dont. Get loose an take that feeling with you to the drawing i guess is what i mean A tip i find usefull is start with inking the face - it is the hardest part to give an organic touch with ink - easy to mess up really - for everybody - and its a shame to have made a lot of work on the costume and not be happy about the face. Believe me i know
Take care man
Execept for the guy on the surfboard, all your other character faces look deformed...
...but if that was your intention, then you dont have a problem.
Should have spent more time on your pencil work before going to the inking stage..
That crit wasn't bad at all. You had good observations that I think I need to work on. You should have seen what this guy said in the finished section (Read his comments here).Originally Posted by Badger
Perspective is a real weak spot with me. I also find myself rushing to have something to show. I should have worked the arms and legs in Max a little more.
I like your paint over of the guy and the stripper. Your layout works much better.
Thanks man. I really value any advice you give me. That is a really good idea. Do you ink the sketches that you post in your sketchbook? If so, what do you use for inking? Quill, brush, ink pen?Originally Posted by Fellah
As always, thank you for your comments. I will continue to post more and look forward to seeing more of your work as well.
Hi man the last many posts from me (except one of the shamanheads on texture paper - btw try using different types of paper sometimes) are all pencils works. I missed that a lot. Still love the cleaness(?) of the ink tho.
I use ink pens mostly(a lot lol) they are a bit stiff in the beginning but your stokes can form them and make you lines very fluid - made sence? I also use brush sometimes and calligraphy pens - often in the same drawing if i want it to look like different textures. Thin strokes, big strokes, dark and light etc. From your work i see you already got a very good sence of inking, so its just refining it and make a lot of experiments.
Thanks for the advice Fellah. I will try other papers. I have been trying to put more variation in my lineweight. I need to slow down. I see how fast and how often you crank your stuff out with the detail you got. I need to sit on this stuff a little more and work the details.
I forgot to attach a sketch.
Take a look at the Street Brawl I am working on in the WIP section Updated 6-28-05
Last edited by metroeast; June 28th, 2005 at 06:48 AM.
Here are a few older sketches I did for an animation I am working on. It is going to be about 3-4 min long.
Surf Dude (main character. Kind of a goofy dude. You can see some previews of him animated on my site here. )
Beach Babe (I didn't use her. She looked more street than beach. I didn't want her to look too sexy, just really cute)
Little Beach Girl (This is what I opted for instead of older and cute. It also plays better in the story)
Let me know what you think of these.
nice work on the animation characters, being animation i imagine the large head was deliberate so i shall go on to say your girly has a few probs....
I kept trying to work out what i thought was wrong with her shoulders but then i realised its the ratio of hips to shoulders that make her look off. I think she should have wider hips, more inline with the width of her shoulders, infact she almost has no hips... Have a quick look at the shape of the pelvis.
Her lower legs are shorter than her upper legs. Hands should be bigger, put you hand over your face and see how much it should cover.
I love the lil girl though, makes me giggle, sweet expression. nice excecution on the flip-flops (shoesy thingys).
Must update own sketchbook...
Good crit. I am going to work more on the hips. It is a real problem with me as you can tell from my others. I am going to start working on some sketches from photos for a while to get my bearings.Originally Posted by Badger
Here is a WIP of a concept of Skullmaster from "Mighty Max".
I wanted to give him a more zombie look, more like a ferryman on the River Styx. The staff has the Crystal of Souls inside the wooden sphere. I was also thinking about putting tattos on him (something like Henna tattoos. I am doing some research to see what tattoo came from Mesopotamia or Ancient Rome).
What do you guys think
Dude, so far--so good. That looks great. Nice details and shading in the face--very impressive. Is his neck a little off? Maybe just a little bit back from the center line? It's certainly nothing huge, I still love the pic.
Cant' wait to see the finished version.
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