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 But not linked to the holidays!



I finished coloring the cover for Namesake's 3rd chapter that should start during the holidays. I kinda wish I had more free time to draw during the holidays, but I just have 2 days off :( So i'll be working while many of the people I know party. Party for my, you guys!

Cover's lineart can be seen here. THIS took 3 hours to ink.

This cover Shows the princess of Oz, Ozma and the Wicked Warlock of the West, Warrick. There's also skulls. The skulls are there because the upcoming Oz storyline kinda plays with how inconsistent death was in the Oz books. Sometimes people died, sometimes not, sometimes you had to literally obliterate someone for them to be considered dead. In the later Oz books, no one can die. One of the books assures us that while you are in the Land of Oz, you can not die. Unfortunately, this information comes after characters in the books have been chopped into pieces, beheaded, melted, and so forth and it is mentioned that you could be transformed into an inanimate object, turned into sand, and buried. Even so, you would still be alive and presumably conscious.

Baum puts it this way in the third chapter of The Emerald City of Oz: "No disease of any sort was ever known among the Ozites, and so no one ever died unless he met with an accident that prevented him from living." It's also mentionned that what keeps the people alive and not aging is a spell. So we are going to play with that in the story. 

Really, I just want an excuse to draw skulls :D

Oh, man, I am so broke right now.

I went to the eye-doctor. Turns out, my glasses were not giving me a headache because my eyesight went down. No, it improved. The lens' were TOO STRONG. Thus causing constant headaches. So, since I needed to change the lenses anyways, I bought a new frame to replace the frame I hate. That poked a nice hole in my savings, lemme tell you that. I think i'm going to cut back on spending for a bit, you know, so I can pay for glasses/doctor bills/dentist/christmas stuff. Oh well. I never though not having insurances would be so expensive, but I guess it is! *laughs*

- Isa

Date: 2010-12-20 10:26 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] spankingfemme.livejournal.com
Aw! Warrick cover! XD Yay! I can't wait until he comes int the story! :P And 3 hours? I can totally believe that with the amount of detail you put into that background! 0o *rubs your sure to be aching wrist!* The color job is very nice as well.

Interesting tid bits on Oz. I honestly didn't know it was a book series.

Awesome to hear your sight is improving! How does that happen? Either way, aces for you! Gives a good reason to buy new frames as well ;) It seems like everyone around me including myself is strapped for cash these days.

How is your one friend doing these days? Is she coping okay?

Date: 2010-12-20 02:24 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] secondlina.livejournal.com
Oz is a book series of about 50 books. The first 15 are what most people consider the "true" series, since it was written by the original author. The rest was written by various other writers. Ruth Thompson's (the second writer) are also considered as part of the Oz world. My favorite books are the first 6 or so. After that, I find it derails a bit. While still enjoyable, some details kinda come of as odd as heck.

Date: 2010-12-20 05:49 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] snapdragon76.livejournal.com
I have the first 15 on my kindle which I was able to get for free because they're in the public domain. It's awesome!

Date: 2010-12-22 11:11 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] spankingfemme.livejournal.com
One of those series where it starts to beat a dead horse then? :/

Date: 2010-12-22 02:29 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] secondlina.livejournal.com
Well, yes and no. Many of the books are really enjoyable in the older ones and the new ones. Once in a while, you get a bad book though. It's kinda like long-running comics. Sometimes it's good, sometimes the writer/artist is horrific and fully derails the characters.

Date: 2010-12-22 10:18 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] spankingfemme.livejournal.com
*nods* I know that dance well! :P

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