Wow, Brad, that's amazing! I think this is just the inspiration I need to get off my proverbial ass and start drawing more.

I might as well chime in, seeing as how this thread has been resurrected.

Here's a pic of my semi-new cat, Chino. He's less than a year old, and he was very young when this picture was taken. He's grown a lot since then:

Now that I really think about your question, JediMAC, I don't think I've ever actually been what most people around here would call a "collector."

I mean, I started to get interested in Star Wars figures back in '95, with the POTF2 line, but I only had, like, five figures from that whole line. Then, I kind of forgot about Star Wars for a while (*gasp!*) until '97 when the OT was released again in a boxed set. I think, at that point, I picked up a POTF2 Boba Fett and Yoda. Then a few years later, TPM was released, but I had little interest in the figures. What it boils down to is that I only pick up the figures that I think are cool. A completist, I am definitely not.

I think it was a couple months after TPM that I joined the SW.com forums. Hey, they seemed pretty nice at the time . Once the hype surrounding AOTC started to mount, I found Rebelscum. And don't ask me how, because I honestly can't remember. I stayed there for a little while, y'know, when it was a comfortable place to be. After a time, I decided to join a myriad of SW communties, just to get a feel for what they were like. Anyways, yadda, yadda, yadda, JediDefender and JediForce are now my forum mainstays. Oh, and in case no one has noticed, I'm a notorious lurker. I actually visit this forum every single day, but rarely post.


Oh, and I don't consider myself a "snob" in any sense of the word. I say that if you collect SW items, and you truly enjoy it whether you are a member of a forum or not, you're still better off than some people who post like mad in SW forums just to gain recognition, and have forgotten what the hobby is all about.

New figure smell.

I also like the smell of a freshly cut lawn, and clothes fresh out of the dryer.

Woo! A perfect 20/20 for me.

Tell me something, do you use prisma colors? If you've mentioned using them before I've forgotten.

Actually, I think I have a small set of them somewhere. I haven't used them for a while, but I want to get back into experimenting with them again. Those and watercolor.

It looks more like you are painting with the pencil than drawing

That's what I've always wanted to express about Brad's work, but I could never find the words! Your drawings tend to look like paintings, what with your style of shading and blending.

Yeah, but what's the context within the realm of the story? I doubt Palpy spoke Dutch.