Sgt. James

Here's a ballpoint sketch I did in an A5 notebook (to make up for the lazy Live Traced images in the last post). Whenever we had to do a book report in elementary school my teacher made us draw a picture for it, too. Good practice, I guess.

"Maybe just one thing ..."

Go and watch "The Hurt Locker" (unless you're going to Iraq or know someone in Iraq). Easily the best film I've seen this year. It almost made me forget that Kathryn Bigelow directed "K-19: The Widowmaker".


Jeremy Renner plays Staff Sgt. William James, the newly appointed leader of an Explosive Ordnance Disposal unit in Iraq as they near the end of their in-country cycles. A series of nail-biting turns leads to one of the saddest and most poignant endings I've ever seen.


Also, Anthony Mackie, who plays Sgt. JT Sanborn, does a far better job in this than as Tupac Shakur in "Notorious". Who's responsible for that casting? They don't look the same at all!