End Chapter One.
Chapter Two coming soon!
Tuesday, June 28, 2011
Slipping Through: News
I am about to post the new first chapter of Slipping Through. This is definitive, this is the last reboot, this is the ONE.
Those of you familiar with the story are aware of only Maggie's storyline which I have always begun with. Finding only frustration and creative dead ends there, this time I'm starting with the Changelings storyline.
An uncertain king deals with the tragedy that befalls his mountain kingdom in a world with a purple sky. However, he may only exist in the dreams of an ambitious magician.
Read, hopefully enjoy, and comment!
Those of you familiar with the story are aware of only Maggie's storyline which I have always begun with. Finding only frustration and creative dead ends there, this time I'm starting with the Changelings storyline.
An uncertain king deals with the tragedy that befalls his mountain kingdom in a world with a purple sky. However, he may only exist in the dreams of an ambitious magician.
Read, hopefully enjoy, and comment!
Saturday, June 18, 2011
Now and Then
As I was working on Slipping Through I pulled up an old piece for color reference. Struck by the changes time and practice has wrought, I thought I'd post the pieces for comparison.
Here we have Benedict, a magician, drawn just around a year ago.
His hat is so . . . squashed? It is supposed to be a top hat, but it looks more like . . . nothing humankind has ever seen before. And his face is funky. All the proportions all wrong and a year ago I couldn't tell, no matter how much I studied it. Also, he was supposed to have curly hair, but it was beyond my skills. His body lacks any sort of definition, he's just a blocky suit. What is his hair even doing?
Here his is as of a few minutes ago, a work in progress,
I notice I'm less afraid of darker coloring. Also, he's not so stiff and awkward. Necks are something I've been trying to give all my characters nowadays. As well, I've got a bit better about hands, not so much hit and miss as it was.
And a glimpse of his redesigned cane.
A lot has changed in a year. I know, in my heart, that a year from now I will be making a similar post pointing out the weakness of the pieces I made today. For the moment, his original hat will haunt my dreams.
Here we have Benedict, a magician, drawn just around a year ago.
His hat is so . . . squashed? It is supposed to be a top hat, but it looks more like . . . nothing humankind has ever seen before. And his face is funky. All the proportions all wrong and a year ago I couldn't tell, no matter how much I studied it. Also, he was supposed to have curly hair, but it was beyond my skills. His body lacks any sort of definition, he's just a blocky suit. What is his hair even doing?
Here his is as of a few minutes ago, a work in progress,
I notice I'm less afraid of darker coloring. Also, he's not so stiff and awkward. Necks are something I've been trying to give all my characters nowadays. As well, I've got a bit better about hands, not so much hit and miss as it was.
And a glimpse of his redesigned cane.
A lot has changed in a year. I know, in my heart, that a year from now I will be making a similar post pointing out the weakness of the pieces I made today. For the moment, his original hat will haunt my dreams.
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