Sketches – Round 01
I don’t have any completed work at the moment so expect a couple more post in the future of sketches.
Somniumalgia
This is my gift for @yumbledore for the The 2020 Grindeldore Holiday Exchange! The prompt was Either one of them has a fever dream about the other… which I loosely followed. Happy Holidays! Hope you like it.
You don’t have to read the 1st page to understand the story, but it gives some back story. Also, I had too much fun making a fake magical medical journal page.
Random rambling, I was happy with how the colors turned out. So rarely does something in my head come out the same on paper. Also, I enjoyed drawing Albus with a fever a little too much lol. I based the scene of them on the roof on @yumbledore fic Speech Prompts https://archiveofourown.org/works/15943181/chapters/37321772#workskin
2020 Art Summary
This was my art summary for 2020. Tbh, I thought there would be more blank spaces or unfinished sketches, but for all the shit 2020 was I still was able to produce a couple good pieces. Some of these months the one piece is literally all I did, so if you had a struggle being creative in 2020 don’t feel bad.
Goals for 2021, um maybe less straight on portrait shots lol. I think I can push myself a bit more. Also, I have a couple comics that I really want to get done this year.
Rocky
I hope you all had happy holidays and 2021 is going well.
2021 Goals
2020 was a tough year. I, like many artist, struggled to be creative. I want to start 2021 strong and I’m going to do so by bring back my Monday Uploads.
So, here’s to 2021 with the goal to create more and be kinder to myself.
How to Open the Gates of Hell
I worked on a comic back in 2018 with writer Johnny. It originally was called “How to Open the Gates of Hell,” and we submitted it to the “Cthulhu is Hard to Spell” anthology. It got accepted, but only if we changed the comic to fit the Love-Craftian themes.
It was a quick turn around. Johnny and I, along with our great logo artist Nathan Burns and amazing letterer Travis Duba, were able to change the comic. Our new version, “How to Summon the Dark Lord Hastur,” was beautiful and got into the anthology.
But there has always been the original draft neither of us were able to share. Both Johnny and I were always sad that all that work never got used. I’m excited to finally share that comic with you all.
https://globalcomix.com/c/how-to-open-the-gates-of-hell
This link will take you to the comic. You can either read it as interactive, which means it goes panel by panel, or you can read it classic, with the whole page visible at once. I found the interactive feature really fun, but for the last page I would do classic.
Rebel
“The chair draped with an overcoat sits
in the east, the sun is its head
it opens a cloud and says:
here is the end of history
the gods have abdicated, the temples are locked
you are nothing but
a pictograph that’s lost its sound”
Over a year ago I made a short comic based on the Poem “Rebel” by Bei Dao. You can learn more about him and read his poems at:
“The shadow that tries to please the light
leads me to pass between
the aspen that had drunk milk
and the fox that has drunk blood
like a treaty passing between
peace and conspiracy”
Over a year ago I made a short comic based on the Poem “Rebel” by Bei Dao. You can learn more about him and read his poems at:
