The Grey

Talking of wolves I went to see The Grey recently. I'm not sure how Liam Neeson suddenly became the poster boy for aging alpha male action films. Being quite tall and imposing he still gets away with it, especially here where he is swaddled in layers of winter clothing to hide any middle aged spread.
The entire movie seems to have actually have actually been filmed in the frozen wastes of Colarado or some equally desolate environment so I have to give credit for the cast's commitment. Neeson claims to have taken ten minute cold showers every day for a month before filming to acclimatise.
In short a plane crashes (very good scene), and Neeson rounds up the surviving passengers whilst growling orders and snippets of wolf centred wood craft at them to enable them to survive attentions of a pack of the vicious predators attracted by the carnage of the crash site. It isn't, however, as straight forward as that so as their predicament unfolds and we get more of Neeson's character's back story there is enough to keep the viewer interested right to the end.
7/10

Wolf

I love wolves (well, the idea of them anyway!). Somehow don't know if I'd like to meet a genuine one walking in the forest. I used to do a lot of wolf drawings when I was younger but haven't done one for a long time.
So this time using PS I drew a snarling wolf's head front on using a brush with the dual brush function turned on. Even though I plan to clean it up anyway and make the lines as smooth as possible somehow without the dual brush to give texture it feels wrong trying to draw with it.
This is the finished version - I imported it into Inkscape to give all the lines a very smooth vector look. Need a new computer though, my laptop is slooooow running Inkscape.

I plan to try and use this in a design later on