11/13/09 -SketcheS-

[Slechtvalk]

Hay & Hello CA ,

I am left-handed, and usually sketch with a papermate pen.
It was my art teachers and MindCandyMan's thread and that
helped inspire me to draw everyday sometime in
November/December 2006:

http://conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=870


Influences/studies (The usual group):
The Bone Doctor... Mr. Mentler
ccsears
George Bridgman (Human Machine/Drawing from Life)
Andrew Loomis/Haddon Sunbloom/Gil Elvgrin/etc.
Oleg & Matt Stavrowsky
Leon Franks
Merlin Enabnit
Dan Seagrave
Albert Bierstadt
Alfons Maria Mucha
Peter Paul Rubens
Titian
Albrecht Durer
Tintoretto
Caravaggio
Velazquez...
And most baroque and other painters that have the tenebrism look.

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Favorite Songs:

In The Mood
Glenn Miller and his Orchestra

The Glory of Love
Helen Ward; Benny Goodman and his Orchestra

Long Ago (And Far Away)
Jo Stafford

Moonglow
June Christy

She's Got You
Patsy Cline

Vertigo - Prelude
Bernard Herrman

You Can't Catch Me
Chuck Berry

Come Go With Me
The Del-Vikings

A Teenager in Love
Dion & The Belmonts

Searchin'
The Coasters

There Goes My Baby
The Drifters

Book of Love
The Monotones

Mack The Knife/Beyond The Sea/Dream Lover
Bobby Darin

Humbled
Crimson Thorn (Purification)

Eternal Lamentation
Mortification (Scrolls of The Megilloth)

Second Death
Living Sacrifice (Living Sacrifice)

In the Shadow
Living Sacrifice (Inhabit)

Cursed Fires of Gehenna
Sorrowstorm (Onward)

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A few Films I really like (from my collection):

The Ten Commandments (1956)
Ben-Hur (1959)

Out of the 41 hitch films I have:

Topaz
Marnie
The Birds
Phsyco
North By Northwest
Vertigo
To Catch A Thief
Rear Window
Strangers On A Train
The Wrong Man
Spellbound
Notorious
I Confess
Stage Fright
Saboteur
Suspicion
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
Rebecca
Shadow of a Doubt
Sabotage
The 39 Steps
The Lady Vanishes
Blackmail
The Ring (1927)
The Lodger


The Battleship Potemkin
Metropolis
Birth of a Nation
Broken Blossoms
The Kid
The General

Stagecoach
The Grapes of Wrath
The Long Voyage Home
How Green Was My Valley
My Darling Clementine
The Searchers
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

Citizen Kane
The Trial
The 3rd Man

Dr. Strangelove
Paths of Glory
2001: A Space Odyssey
The Bicycle Thief
Two Women
8 1/2
The Train
The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
We Were Strangers
All About Eve
The Body Snatcher
The Miracle Worker
12 Angry Men
Meet John Doe
Its A Wonderful Life

To Be or Not to Be (1942)
Young Frankenstein
Stardust Memories
The Purple Rose Of Cairo
Broadway Danny Rose

Gulliver's Travels
Bambi
Animaland
Spirited Away
Steamboy

Signs
Unbreakable
The Tuskegee Airmen
Memphis Belle