Minutia
A character for a thing, maybe. Not sure I like working with gray, but I think this looks ok? I like big collars. Her name is Min, short for Minutia.
A productive day so far.
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Nocturnal people
I have been trying to figure out how these guys should look for a while now. Not happy with it yet.
Not Overside-related.
Started working on a big drawing to be a new convention banner and a print and some other things. I am taking a whole lot of process pictures and I’ll keep you updated…
These are a few of the thumbnails; the second one is the tightest I got it before starting the drawing.
Gandalf
It is Gandalf can you dig it. My tiny contribution to the huge number of images of this hugely iconic character; the archetypal Aged Magic Person. I think he should look much more like a homeless person than popular interpretations usually show him. I really enjoy drawing these characters; eventually I would like to draw Every Single One.
Updating Order of Tales in an hour or so of this posting, here.
More Achewoods
Magnolia is drawing 50 Achewood characters in 50 days and that is very admirable but unfortunately I can only manage to put out King Philippe and Leon Sumbitches before giving up.
Perdido Street Station
Finally finished this drawing! See it larger. It’s Isaac Dan der Grimnebulin, a central character of China Miéville’s novel Perdido Street Station. I highly recommend the book, it is fantastic in every sense of the word! I think I’ve been talking about it incessantly and for that I apologize. I’ll move on to another of his books very soon… The Scar has been recommended to me a few times.
PSS is a very visual book, and one that deals at length with some pretty outrageous creatures and inventions. After several false starts, I decided to draw something that focused more on the feel of the book than on any representation of any of those visual elements specifically. I almost feel that rendering the Slake Moths, or Mr. Motley, or the constructs would put too fine a point on them, and spoil the strange, psychedelic nature of them– for myself and for those of you who haven’t read the book yet!
Twelve of those creepy writhing creatures I have been drawing are now available in a little digital book that you can have for one dollar or more. I hope you like them!
Ringworld
This is a Pierson’s Puppeteer, which is an alien from Larry Niven’s Ringworld, which I have been listening to while drawing recently. I’d heard a lot about the book before reading it and was very excited to start it, but it has become almost difficult to sit through.
Ringworld kind of reminds me of Arthur C Clarke’s Rendezvous with Rama and Stanislaw Lem’s Solaris- all three of these books deal with people trying to understand massive, mysterious artifacts in outer space. But where Rama and Solaris convey a clear sense of the enormity of the discovery and its strangeness, Ringworld dampens any sense of wonder by its bland writing style and frequent and embarrassing attempts at humor. There’s some pervasive sexism in the treatment of the main (only) female character, which seems particularly out of place in an invented setting distant in so many other ways from the 1970 America in which is was written. I really don’t like this book very much but I will probably finish it because it’s an audiobook and it is easy to listen to while drawing.
But anyway I wanted to draw this alien because I thought it looked cool.
Legolas
Hard to keep up with this project, apparently! Here’s Legolas, another of the Fellowship. More will be coming soon.
I’m finishing 2 pages a day of Order of Tales pretty regularly, now; that is taking up all of my drawing-time.
Eddard Stark
This is a warm-up drawing from a couple of weeks ago that I finally colored! It’s a character of George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire, the first book of which I’ve been listening to recently. Really heavy, believable fantasy… I wanted to do something with the costume that didn’t immediately suggest Tolkien Tolkien Tolkien.
Sunday night! https://www.twitch.tv/evandahm/