It's hot. And few fools are out there baking in it. We rush from cave to cave, and one such nice cave is the movie theater. We went to see X Men III: The Last Stand. It was good. Man, was it good! Okay, if you don't enjoy this type of movie, don't identify with the mutants in some way, it might lose you. But otherwise...

I'd like to sketch many of the characters from this movie. I'd like to get Jean Grey in her raging temper, with the glowing eyes. Oh, yes, and Wolverine is hot. But the character that most intrigued me is Charles Xavier, as played by Patrick Stewart. There's just something in his eyes. He sees much.

Okay, maybe I haven't made him look entirely like Patrick Stewart. I dunno, the face just doesn't quite match. Maybe he just looks a whole lot older. But I like the expression of the eyes, the look of extreme awareness, maybe extreme worried awareness. This fits the character.

This picture was originally colored pencil and ink on computer paper, then I tweaked it digitally.