Jeez, I'm out of it for a little while, everyone gets delusions of grandeur!

I'm fucking in.

My brand new Røde NT1-A. It's a fucking beast.

I also got a Røde Videomic Rycote, if it's at all relevant.

PS3.
The CtOS Mobile application is for iOS/Android, and isn't a second screen. Instead, it's pretty cool. You can challenge people playing the game in real time, where you play as the cops, and they try to escape. You get the map view of the city, whilst commanding a helicopter. You get to dispatch cars and hack traps for the poor bastard. Give it a go, it's really, really fun, especially if you challenge someone who's in the same room as you.
I'm also at level 24 on that thing

Now that Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft have all wrapped their E3 press conferences, anyone up for joining in on tonights Gaming Edition? We'll be talking E3 and games of E3. We're on in two hours from now. (9pm my time, 8pm england time, 1pm LA time)

Yeah, definitely start out with something that can lift a GoPro. GoPro's are quite the durable bunch, so if your copter falls, at least the camera survives.
Also, GoPro's aren't that bad. A Hero 3+Black can shoot in 2.7K at 30 frames per second, and using ProTune(Kinda like RAW. Not nearly as great as RAW, but kinda like it), and even up to 120fps at 720p.
On top of that, GoPro's don't weight much, but their weight center is kinda in the center. A DSLR would shift center every time you switch lenses, and you'd probably have to re-learn to fly the damn thing all the time.

And here I was, looking for a "buy this" comment. Forgot the community is a bunch of jokers 

I'll try my chances at reddit.

BADUMSHISH!

I rewatched the entire franchise before going in on DofP.

X-men is a pretty small film. I hadn't watched since around 2006, and I remembered it as being longer and bigger. It bummed me out to watch it now, as it hasn't aged that well, and looks very old, in terms of picture quality and grading, but that put aside, it still hit all the points it did back then, even though Storm's "toad" line is still atrocious.

X-2 is still the strongest of the original three. Wolverine or not(I'm one of those idiots that like him), it's got my favorite X-man in there. Nightcrawler is pretty awesomely done, and while his origin story differs a bit from the comics(which is fine, I don't mind), the film made me want to go out and shoot a BAMF test again, which is nice. The action beats are a lot better, and the general flow is much better than the first one.

X 3 isn't as bad as everyone says it is, but it's the poorest X-men film there is. It's still got lots of cool characters, and some cool action bits, but plot wise it's a disaster, and the whole Dark Phoenix thing just felt forced upon an otherwise decent script to have a sub-plot. Which in turn isn't the sub-plot and it's all a clusterfuck.

Then, naturally, I watched the films in released order, and continued on to:

X-Men Origins - Wolverine. I'm an apologist, and there are some REALLY good parts in this(the war montage, and the lumberjack scenes, for instance), but once it hits act 3, it just makes me want to turn it off and go play in a pool of syringes. If they kept Deadpool out of it, and stopped trying to bring "cameos" from other X-men in, it might've worked, but it didn't.

X-Men First Class. I don't know, I'm still loving the hell out of it. The lack of Wolverine? Maybe. He wouldn't fit in it for sure, but I think Fassbender, McAvoy and Lawrence's performances are really, really great, and potentially what holds it together. It too, screws with the continuity of the series, unless Moira has a daughter or something to appear in X-Men 3.

The Wolverine, is one of the worst films I've seen in recent years. I naturally didn't watch it again for this, as I didn't feel I had to, and also it's pretty new already and I don't like it one bit.

All in all, though, I think DofP was great. It's a major fan-service, if nothing else, and I for one, was incredibly pleased with everything in it.

Does it screw around with continuity? Sure. For starters, Prof. X is in it. Last I saw him, continuity wise, he was disintegrated.

But I don't really care. I liked almost everything about it still. I guess X-men to me is what Transformers must be for everyone else. Great stuff.

(I hate Transformers. Like, with a passion)

Hey.

Yes! That's nice!
I'd like to get to something like that level. It should also be noted that when I said tracing, I'm tracing over this image:

And trying to match it as best I can. The colors used are sampled from averages at those points in his face, hence the blotches.

So while your rendition isn't what I'm going for, you didn't exactly have the image to take anything from, and that's a great job you did!

Yes basic stuff I know. This is where I'm currently at, albeit very WIP.

I'm looking into how to make a realistic-based painting, but not completely photoreal. Trying get those shades correct.

Ultimately, I'd love to just turn off the ink layer and have it look perfect, but I wager that'll take a good couple of years worth of practicing.