Roy Tang

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Archive for February 2016

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Book Review: Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Diamond, Jared
23 Feb 2016 12:00am

Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond My rating: 3 of 5 stars 2016 Book #10: Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond. I actually started this a few years back, thought I’d actually get around to finish it. The book is an analysis of history, of what geographical advantages certain civilizations had that allowed them to triumph over others. He presents a lot of interesting topics covering linguistics, animal/plant domestication and food production that may explain these differences.
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Book Review: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by Rowling, J.K.
17 Feb 2016 12:00am

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling My rating: 5 of 5 stars 2016 Book #9: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. The book starts off with a lot of action before settling into a phase where the three protagonists wander around a lot and sleep in tents and finally into a big showdown at Hogwarts with virtually every character in the series showing up for one big brawl.
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Book Review: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by Rowling, J.K.
17 Feb 2016 12:00am

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling My rating: 5 of 5 stars 2016 Book #8: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. Someone had already spoiled me ahead of time about the death at the end of this book, although I hadn’t known when it would happen. But it started to become obvious as the book went on, so I wasn’t too surprised by the end. This book fleshes out the back story of the series’ villain Voldemort and finally tries to make Draco Malfoy do something of consequence.
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Book Review: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by Rowling, J.K.
15 Feb 2016 12:00am

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling My rating: 3 of 5 stars This is a long book, roughly three times as long as the first Harry Potter book was. That wouldn’t be so bad if it wasn’t so painful to read. Harry here is like a completely different character compared to the previous books, he’s irritable and whiny and keeps worrying about how other people aren’t treating him well.
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Posted by Roy Tang under post at 15 Feb 2016 12:00am #books #harry potter
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Book Review: Triumph of the Darksword by Weis, Margaret
5 Feb 2016 12:00am

Triumph of the Darksword by Margaret Weis My rating: 3 of 5 stars I read the first two books of this trilogy back in high school, and I recently decided to get a used copy from Amazon. I was pleasantly surprised that I was able to dive into the third book without having to re-read the first two, with a general recollection of the events from the first book still intact.
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Book Review: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by Rowling, J.K.
2 Feb 2016 12:00am

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling My rating: 5 of 5 stars The series started off a with rather straightforward stories that made obvious that JK Rowling was new to this business at the time, but Prisoner of Azkaban kicks off the world-building to a larger degree. Many elements of the world are expanded upon and added to and by now we get a better sense of the sort of wonders the world of Harry Potter represents.
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Photos

Goddess of thunder #sketchdaily
(from Thor (2014) #1)
I’m happy with how this turned out. I wish I had a better way to upload the drawings than taking pictures of them with my phone :p

Some girl from /r/usasanime #sketchdaily Yes she doesnt look very anime. The eyes are weird
This one was tough for me, had a lot of erasures. Couldn’t get that mouth/smile quite right too

Jose Marciano Patino paki-explain. Or paki-fix lol. Also, buying: Used copy ng Ultimate MvC3 for PS3

Posted on r/drawme: Draw me please? (I’m the human, not the dinosaur)

Some person on /r/drawme #sketchdaily had a lot of erasures here

Amazing Fantasy 15 #sketchdaily the problem with drawing spider-man is all those webs on the costume

Reference image was a sketch from artgerm’s fb page, but it ended up a bit different #sketchdaily

Drawing babies is tough #sketchdaily I couldnt do this one without the reference image

Weapons #sketchdaily

Rickshaw and Morty #sketchdaily

These are… interesting statistics http://www.ifitweremyhome.com/compare/PH/SG

Jughead mowing the lawn #sketchdaily

It’s hard to guess who I was trying to draw lol #sketchdaily
IDK how to make her look more like the real deal =/

Bill Adama #bsg #sketchdaily

I wanted to doodle the battle scene from the end of the Xmen 96 opening theme, but realized partway thru I wouldnt have room for the bad guys. Kind of a lazy #sketchdaily

Just doodles today #sketchdaily #dawnofjustice

Spider-Gwen #sketchdaily my proportions seem a bit off here

Laura Matsuda from Street Fighter V. #sketchdaily I always find drawing women, especially their faces, harder than men, but the face here came out a bit better than I hoped (still a lot of room for improvement though)

Street Fighter V + Hori RAP PS4/PS3 .fight stick

Rise Up! #sfv #sketchdaily

Why can’t my drafts be like this IRL? #MTGO #OGW

Mario, as drawn by myself and a six year old #sketchdaily

I read Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire today (2016 book #6). #sketchdaily I didnt have a reference image for this one so they look weird. Also, robes are tough

Geese Howard staring at a green pretzel #sketchdaily

2016 Book #5: Triumph of the Darksword. I read the first two books of this trilogy back in high school, and I recently decided to get a used copy from Amazon (special thanks to the courier, you know who you are). I was pleasantly surprised that I was able to dive into the third book without having to re-read the first two, with a general recollection of the events from the first book still intact.

Rurouni Kenshin? Why yes, that makes perfect sense #Netflix #NetflixPHShows