SAM'S PROFILE

You've still not played Fenrir: First Operation and you promised me a lot of times you'd get round to playing it.

Aye, it's a shame when you can't find the actual art books, but when you don't have any way to get the book it has to do. Though I did recently get the first Dragon Ball art book (I still like Toriyama's style) and even though I'd seen 90% of the stuff online, it felt so much better to have it in my hand and the images look so much crisper and more vibrant in print.

As for the large piece there, it's pretty good. I love how the hair's been coloured, all the colours go together really well and you know how to transistion from one shade to another. I particularly like the bottom lip, the highlight gives it a sense of moisture that most people forget about. The face seems a little long for my personal tastes, but that's really just a little niggle. The eyes look quite emotive.

Art teachers commonly hate anything that resembles comic art, that includes American and Japanese comics. I found in high school and college I got marked down for using a comic style, but at Uni, they honestly don't seem to care what style you use. It came up once with my course leader and all she said was "If it feels right, suits you and you can do it well, go for it. All art teachers are prejudiced against comic art because all they see are a million Spider-Mans and Cloud Strifes, it's a real shame they're so ignorant."

What the fuck musta bit me last night. I woke up this morning and had tons of red lumps and bite marks on my arm. Whatever bit me seemed to leave Jo alone, either that or she didn;t react to it anywhere near as badly.

The difficulty makes it addictively fun. It's got that "one more try" appeal to it. Many games which try to emulate that simply wind up being frustrating to play.

How do you levitate? Seriously, your a fucking rock with two arms and you can fly! An ability you lose when you evolve and grow legs. It's madness I tell you, madness!