Ian Lemmon With Hobbies

Graphic novels are an interesting approach to literature and books in general. I find it somewhat weird as I feel that an important part of books is that the reader creates his/her own images in their mind when reading. So I wonder why a writer would necessarily take this away and instill their own images on the reader. After reading Fun Home I found it to be an entertaining read and the use of images in sort of a comic. The way images were used in this graphic novel showed a lot of emotion that would otherwise be somewhat difficult to show using words. For example in the image below just the small changes in facial expressions show the awkwardness during this car ride. In Fun Home I found that the only way that the daughter could talk with her father was always through literature and was some of the little common ground that had with each other. This is shown a lot throughout the story as there conversations and interactions with each other always short and their relati...

Warhammer 40K is one of the hobbies I do when I have time. The process to me is interesting and creative to me as you start with only a few pieces of plastic but at the end of the process, it is a detailed and colorful model. Plastic bits out of the box In the beginning, it does not look like much but a bunch of plastic which I then cut each piece out using an X-Acto knife. After all the pieces are cut out and separated I then shave off any extra pieces of plastic that may be hanging off the model piece. The next step is to put all the pieces together using model glue. Built model spray painted Preparing to paint After the glue does its thing I move on to priming the model in a coat of black paint. The reason for this is so the model paint has something to stick to. I use black spray paint as my color scheme is mostly dark colors. After the primer drys, I get the paints I am using for the particular model. I start with a base coat which in this case was another bla...