self-promotion

New movie review (Get Him to the Greek) posted at Gargyle Reviews. 

It took a little longer to get to it than I meant for it to, but I finally got around to posting a movie review on Gargyle Reviews.  Check it out.  Leave feedback if you want.  And, hopefully, enjoy.

-M

Gargyle

It's been a while since my last post.  Busy busy busy, and some pretty significant changes over the past several months.  And now, time for a new post.

Those of you out there who know me (or, who have talked to me for more than about 5 minutes) know that I enjoy puns.  I know that they are lame.  I know that most of them are not all that funny (some of you might say "not at all funny").  But, I enjoy them none the less.  And some of you also know that I'm a fan of argyle.  So I was pretty stoked when I was talking to one of my friends a while ago and came up with something that combined puns and argyle.  I don't remember exactly what led up to it, but at one point I started talking about a gargoyle wearing an argyle sweater and I referred to it as a gargyle.  A few days later, I was bored at work, so I drew up the sketch below.

At the time, I was kinda proud of it.  This was around the time that I started doing movie reviews on my blog, and I said that if I ever decided to make a drastic career change and just focus on doing movie reviews, I would use the gargyle as my logo.  Even though I saw plenty of movies over the past year, I clearly have not been keeping up with my posts as much as I would have liked.  Despite the lack of posts, I kept thinking about the gargyle and would share the story of it with those whom I know enjoy puns (and sometimes those who hate them).

Even though I think the sketch isn't half bad, I knew that it isn't what I would want it to be if I ever did actually make it my logo.  From the relatively skinny frame, to the reptilian head...it just ended up looking more like a chic, anthropomorphized pterodactyl.  And something about that didn't quite work. 

What didn't work about it was that it wasn't quite "me" enough.  It was based off of several of my interests.  It was created by me.  And whenever I would tell people about it, it was always in reference to movie reviews...which is another part of me.  So, with it representing so many aspects of me (and from talking about it with a few friends), I decided that it needed to incorporate more of me into the actual drawing. 

So, after a few modifications, I came up with a new sketch.

There is still some work I would like to do on it, but this version is much more like what I was picturing the Gargyle should look like.  I plan on making some minor revisions, but I actually really like the sketched look...so I don't want to make it look too refined.  Plus (as mentioned before), I'm still developing my skills as a drawer, so I probably wouldn't be able to make it look much more refined even if I wanted to.

While I clearly have not been posting very often, and am definitely not making a drastic career change, I have decided to go ahead and start using the Gargyle for my movie reviews.  I'll still be posting here for sketches and random musings.  But from now on, I plan on posting my movie reviews (and, perhaps, reviews of things other than movies on occasion) at http://gargylereviews.blogspot.com/.  

So far, nothing is posted over at Gargyle.  Hopefully I'll be able to remedy that this weekend.