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i should be cleaning, but instead i am goofing off (who's surprised?)
last night i sketched the fourth page (rather like basting in the figures and composition) and this morning i tried to finish the detail work of the pencil lines (every time i think i know what their uniforms look like, i find i've forgotten something ~ doh).
anyway, after fighting all morning with the drawing (and it was quite a fight), i thought i would outline it at least, but got over-involved with dead Ed and went ahead and painted him in. gimme birds or trees or nice shots of the protagonists to color and what do i go for? the dead guy with his throat shot out.
i guess this really isn't surprising either.
the funny thing is, i don't think of From Slaughter's Mountain as all that grisly/gory/what-have-you. i mean, it's story that takes place during a war and the main character is rather brutal and violent and tends to shoot people with the least provocation, but maybe i'm just desensitized to all this? when i think of this book i think of it being about friendship and trust, not so much about how gruesome things get (and yet i suppose they do get gruesome ~ i have to stop and think about the things that i have no idea how i expect to draw). this opening scene is so tame, really. and i have no idea whether i can capture action sequences at all (but then i guess that's the point of doing all this: to practice).
okay, i really need to go make some sort of effort to clean. i have company coming on tuesday.
: o p
last night i sketched the fourth page (rather like basting in the figures and composition) and this morning i tried to finish the detail work of the pencil lines (every time i think i know what their uniforms look like, i find i've forgotten something ~ doh).
anyway, after fighting all morning with the drawing (and it was quite a fight), i thought i would outline it at least, but got over-involved with dead Ed and went ahead and painted him in. gimme birds or trees or nice shots of the protagonists to color and what do i go for? the dead guy with his throat shot out.
i guess this really isn't surprising either.
the funny thing is, i don't think of From Slaughter's Mountain as all that grisly/gory/what-have-you. i mean, it's story that takes place during a war and the main character is rather brutal and violent and tends to shoot people with the least provocation, but maybe i'm just desensitized to all this? when i think of this book i think of it being about friendship and trust, not so much about how gruesome things get (and yet i suppose they do get gruesome ~ i have to stop and think about the things that i have no idea how i expect to draw). this opening scene is so tame, really. and i have no idea whether i can capture action sequences at all (but then i guess that's the point of doing all this: to practice).
okay, i really need to go make some sort of effort to clean. i have company coming on tuesday.
: o p
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