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INKTOBER 2023 Day #4: DODGE.

“I believe this is the first time I’ve referenced ‘The Matrix’ in one of these Inktoberings. Such a great, entertaining story with some breath-taking cinematography that pioneered so many amazing visual effects. I was still fairly young in my martial arts pursuit at the time (about four years into my training), and I remember being blown away by the fight choreography. Probably the most iconic moment, though, was when Neo finally starts understanding how to manipulate reality in the matrix and he dodges the agent’s bullets, giving birth to a new phrase in pop-culture and VFX: ‘bullet time’. The movie was such a well-orchestrated hero’s journey power fantasy that still holds up today, in my opinion.

I was pretty happy when my Brain reminded me of this scene as I pondered the word ‘dodge’. I’m also pretty pleased PMD is dodging bananas instead of bullets, because that’s just plain funny.”

Are you enjoying these monkey-filled pen and ink illustrations? Would you like to see even more of them, and be able to hold them in your very own hands? Then grab yourself a copy of my Inktober art book INKLINGS: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1733734716?ref_=ast_author_dp