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I'm trying something new with my sketchbook. One of the big reasons why I've never been terribly successful at keeping an actual sketchbook (as opposed to drawing on loose sheets of paper) is because I feel terribly inhibited about what I draw. Rational or not, I feel like my sketchbook drawings should be good, or at least suitable for public consumption, because other people might look at them (and if you're sketching in public, people do totally look over your shoulder; also, friends like to flip through each other's sketchbooks, etc). I feel kind of weird doing a nice artistic drawing of a flower and then having the thing right before that be an entire page of superhero legs.

... so I'm flipping it. The front direction is my "public" sketchbook: flowers, seashells, trees, etc. Then, flip, and the other direction is for experimental stuff, fanart, copying random bits of other people's art, badly drawn stick figures on which to drape Kismet costume designs, pages of experimental eyeballs, etc. Not that I would never ever show anyone the back half, but it'll at least save me from having to show it to curious grandmothers when I'm sketching in public.

I'm not sure if this will work, but I've tried having separate sketchbooks for different subjects and that doesn't really work either - it just results in even more mostly-empty sketchbooks with a few drawings in the beginning. So we'll see how this goes.

In other (comics-fandom) news, I have a brand new tentative prediction for Age of Ultron -- not based on any particular spoilers, just speculation due to the comics and various actors' general caginess about what happens to their characters in the future.

I'm starting to think they might kill Steve in Age of Ultron, then do the Bucky-as-Captain-America thing in Cap3, which would also involve bringing Steve during the course of the movie and being Cap again by the end.

I don't have any particularly good reason to think this, except that Sebastian Stan and Chris Evans are being SO close-mouthed about what's coming up for their characters and, in Sebastian's case, whether or not Bucky's going to be in Age of Ultron. It would fit the comics timeline really well (Steve dying before he and Bucky run into each other again), and spreading the storyline over multiple movies in that way actually makes more narrative sense than killing Steve and then doing Bucky-as-Cap in the same movie.

I'm not sure that's what I actually want Cap3 to be (Steve and Sam road trip with lots of bonus Bucky, that's what I want!) but it's a thought I had that I can't quite shake. I think one reason why it seems so plausible to me right now is because it would fit the general gist of the comics storyline while also being completely different from what people are currently predicting (which is Bucky succeeding Steve as Cap after Chris Evans' contract runs out). So far the movies seem to be drawing elements from the comics but not following them in any kind of specific way, and this seems like it would fit really well with the way they've implemented other comics plots like, say, Extremis.

It's pure speculation, though. Well, speculation fueled by the fact that I really don't want Steve to die permanently and getting this particular plot out of the way NOW would make it a lot less likely that he's going to die eventually to open up this plotline.

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It's a totally intriguing theory! I only wonder how they'd bring him back, since in the comics it's that whole "trapped in a looping alternate dimension of his unchangeable past" thing, and -- it's not that I don't think they'd throw that in there, I just wonder how they'd have already laid the groundwork for such a thing. Like, I feel like the MCU would have planted something so that later we'd all freak out about having missed it. Maybe in Guardians of the Galazy? (Kind of makes me want to rewatch Thor 2 for how they dealt with Jane and the red stuff.)

I really want Steve and Bucky to get to be happy and pals and fighting on the same team again, though. Steve and Bucky and Sam and Nat and all the rest of the Avengers, just hanging out and catching a break. Which... admittedly, does not make for amazing film in the traditional sense. But the people demand it! Or at least I do.

I knowwwwww, all I really want is happy team stuff with Steve-Bucky-Sam-Nat! I would happily watch a whole movie that is just the characters hanging out and being adorable. Or, you know, laundry day at the Avengers tower or whatnot.

Sadly this is not terribly likely from a superhero movie.

I need Bucky and Steve interaction at some point in Cap3, though. NEED IT LIKE BURNING. I will also be terribly sad if Natasha is not in Cap3, although I'm trying not to get my hopes up too much, since my understanding (maybe incorrect) is that ScarJo will be taking a break from acting after Age of Ultron to focus on her family for a little while.

... and yeah, I don't know how they'll bring him back either, but if they're gonna do it, I think there probably are, or will be, clues somewhere. It is, after all, a superhero universe and a character who's already survived death once; there are lots of ways they could do it! Heck, depending on how Age of Ultron goes, it's not entirely implausible that they might end up with some version of the "looping past" thing there too, since the Ultron storyline in the comics involved alternate timelines, time travel and so forth. (it'd be interesting if Steve ends up trapped in his own past and Cap3 is about rescuing Steve rather than - as everyone assumes - Bucky ...)

Ohmyheart, that Cap3 would be OFF THE WALL amazing. Sign me up. And Hayley Atwell too.

Right?! Also, "Steve is in trouble and needs your help" is the best Bucky fishing-lure ever.

Oh, that's a super cool way to do your sketches! I had the same problem back when I dabbled in drawing - a blank sketchbook page was intimidating as anything because I felt like if I was drawing in the book it had to be much better than anything doodled in my margins. Good luck keeping productivity up! ♥

I'm looking forward to seeing if it works! :D Yeah, there is something terribly intimidating about a blank page in a nice sketchbook, while I can draw anything on random sheets of printer paper. I'm hoping this will help give me a place to loosen up and not worry about whether it looks "nice" or not, while still being able to have pictures to prove that I actually am drawing in this sketchbook and I'm not hiding porn or anything. XD

The sketchbook anxiety is worst for me with decent paper ones. If I draw at all, I tend to only use the ones I have with really crappy cheap paper...

Yeah, there's that too ... it's one of the reasons why so much of my art is actually just on printer paper rather than nice heavy paper. It feels like I'm wasting it somehow!