i should be working on other stuff, but ~

[lookingland]

last night i wrote the opening scene i meant to write for Reconstruction many moons ago when i first started posting it online. but i didn't write it then because i chickened out. i didn't want my introduction to web serial writing to be something so offensive (it's offensive to me personally, so i figured it ought to offend others). it was also hard finding a way to write the scene without convicting my protagonist of being, well, pretty much everything that he is, unfortunately. i think i had forgotten then what i remember now: Lewis Fletcher is a troubled human being with the all the baggage of the worst of the South slung over one shoulder. that was sort of the point of creating the character. i guess i got to liking him so much that i started really softening the edges a lot.

no more of that nonsense. it's about time i got fearless. or at least moved in that general direction. i think it will start something like this:

At first the club was just sport. It was something to do to keep from thinking about starving: scaring the beejesus out of the Freedmen. The war was all their fault anyway, wasn’t it? So it was, the way the Yankees told it. So Lewis, in a continual sot of brandy and morphine, ran with the Kirkwoods that long hot summer in '66, in a mad collective county vengeance against the perceived objects of their apparent ruin.

i had a great time drawing this picture this morning. i really struggled with trying to decide whether he should be wearing his Confederate uniform, though. i decided against it, but i kind of wish i hadn't. it didn't even take me that long to throw it together, so i might try another version with the uniform on. i'm only really sorry that i will have to reduce the picture so much to post it to my website, but i think even in a reduction, it looks pretty nifty.

a prize to whoever can guess what's burning in the background. er...maybe that's totally inappropriate.

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Comments

[sparowe]

Don't know what's burning, but what an incredible drawing!

[lanyn.livejournal.com]

That is an awesomely drawn picture. I love the colors.

And if I had to guess, I'd say people were burning, because you said it was offensive and they're on a rampage, and my mind runs towards that kind of gruesomeness.

[lookingland.livejournal.com]

thanks! it's amazing what you can do when the left side of your brain isn't paying attention ~ hahahahahaha.

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[lookingland.livejournal.com]

thank you! it was originally very blue, but i tweaked the shades in PhotoShop to dull the tones a bit.

as to your answer, you're more gruesome than i, gunga din! it's just person singular, not a whole group ~ hahahahaha

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[gideongone.livejournal.com]

very drawn to that fire. Oh, that was bad. :)

Seriously I like the fire/smoke. Very well done. :)

[dsch.livejournal.com]

I love the lighting in this! Awesome work, gruesome or not...

[lookingland.livejournal.com]

thankie greg!

wanna go toast some smarshmallows? (doh!)

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[lookingland.livejournal.com]

thank you! it was super-fun to do!

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[utter-scoundrel.livejournal.com]

This is great!

[lookingland.livejournal.com]

thank you!

(i missed this comment!)

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