Scotty Newton - All Round Entertainer

History           January 31st, 1996 was the date that Dragonball Z disappeared from TV screens, leaving fans with a Spirit Bomb hole in their hearts that the ill-received, semi-sequel series Dragonball GT and its pink monkey shenanigans couldn't fill.  With the franchise on the rise in popularity thanks to the hugely successful lines of video games, as well as re runs of the show,  two new short specials were created, 2008's Yo! Son Goku and His Friends Return! and 2012's Episode of Bardock , although neither reached the highs or the audiences of the series. Dragonball is better when stretched out over a long series as it's the only way to get its ludicrously epic scales across. For the 25th anniversary came Dragonball Kai , a 'revised', remastered and recut version of Dragonball Z , cutting out on filler and giving us glorious HD, but no new content or sagas. After seeing the success of Kai, Dragonball Z: Battle of Gods the movie was rel...

Ok so I have a million and one things to do. On my to do list is a lot of things to do with filming, a dissertation and graphic design. But none of it involves what I love doing most- drawing fantasy characters for the sheer hell of it! Out of fear that I'm losing myself and my inner interests to the world of work I've decided to take a few hours and just draw. For no purpose, competition or payment, but just to end up with an original picture of a fantasy character, like I used to do daily. Only now I think I've improved =) I chose to draw Neytiri from James Cameron's Avatar for a couple of reasons. Firstly, it was a pastel drawing of Neytiri that was the first picture I ever uploaded digitally (it was on deviantart I think), marking the first time I ever felt confident enough to let my artwork be unleashed on the world. Secondly, I had the piano sheet music of Avatar sitting on my desk in front of me lol I used a few techniques that I learned from my ...